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by jacquesm 6mo ago
I wonder if Donald Trump is aware that he is asking for a repeat of Pearl Harbor.
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
There was this silly 'weird nerd' meme about someone jumping in front of him every time someone fired a bullet at Elon Musk. This feels similar. Billionaires are apparently what we should all aspire to, even though it is extremely
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
Indeed, the cold-turkey effects are already starting to be more visible. Until November traffic here had recovered to > the pre COVID levels, but since then it has dropped considerably, enough to notice, and we're only a few weeks i
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
And have either a small population or a very low per-person energy budget. But: 7 isn't the number that matters, what matters is that next year it will be 8 or 9. That would be worth documenting.
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
Indeed, it is pathetic.
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
The interesting bit to me is that everybody just plays along. Rather than that he gets thrown off his perch and replaced by someone sane. Trump is an idiot, no doubt about it. But all those that voted for him and that continue to enable him
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
This is a fantastic point.
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
I'd say JS Bach was one of the fruits of our labor, so were Newton, Einstein and van Gogh. Olympic Athletes are a combination of luck in the genetics department and a lot of effort, but ultimately do not seem to be sufficient to help t
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
Given enough people enough guns and school shootings are inevitable. Allow a handful of people that grab the economy and all means of production and violence will be the result. At this point in time it is simply cause and effect, the surpr
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
You should read that comment again, they're not putting any words in Swartz's mouth, they are lauding his accomplishments.
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
Pet peeve of mine: accounts less than 3 months old telling people to go to reddit.
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
7.5' tall robots it is then.
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
You have cause and effect mixed up.
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
It would have been better if they didn't bootstrap it off the outright theft of a very large amount of IP only to lock it behind a paywall.
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
He would have designed something a lot nicer. These guys are worse than the nazi's in all but one aspect, but give them some time.
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
They'll just replace him with the next stooge.
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
In a way that might have been preferable. It would raise the bar a bit. No doubt Trump is aware of what happened to Nixon and thought 'ok, so you can get away with it' and then realized that in this situation he could just complet
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
There is a massive difference in outright transformation of something you created yourself vs a collage of snippets + some sauce based on stuff you did not write yourself. If all you did to use your AI was to train it exclusively on your
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
Oh sure, AI is a fantastic protection against copyright law. You do realize that if you're not going to be able that you wrote something you're wide open to claims of copyright infringement, especially if your argument is going to
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
Exactly, but, sooner or later the cost of support overcomes the need for security, that's what is driving this. Popularity is the main reason signal is now less secure than it was in the past.
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
You only control one side of any conversation.
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
Any time after a user switches it off on purpose is too aggressive.
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
People keep pushing signal because it is supposedly secure. But it runs on platforms that are so complex with so much eco system garbage that there is no way know even within a low percentage of confidence if you've done everything req
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
You missed the management factor. And even if managers don't explicitly ask you to build insecure stuff they will up to the pressure to the point that you have no choice or leave the company for someone who will do just that. So the en
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
The fact that it's a box with a plug and a state that can be fully known. A conscious entity has a state that can not be fully known. Far smarter people than me have made this argument and in a much more eloquent way. Turing aimed too
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
This article would be a lot more digestible if we didn't have actual scary data rather than just stories. Not a day goes by without some prompt injection oopsie, security gotcha, deepfake or some sandbox escape artist demonstration a
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
Are you suggesting the US invade the Vatican?
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
That's another attack vector to them: the latency of the courts is such that you can essentially stall and get away with something for years. Companies do the same thing.
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
Yes, what an idiot. Oh, wait, I already said that ;). Seriously, this guy has mental issues, there is no way this is a proportional response.
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by jacquesm 6mo ago
> What about No, that doesn't work here.

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