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by jowea 1y ago
Web3 was quite a cryptoassets sector buzzword, but the decentralized part of that is "cryptocurrency". If we take the buzzword seriously, yes there was more to it than microtransactions with cryptocurrency, but without personal wa
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by jowea 1y ago
During the crypto boom days it was more of a fight in the comments, wasn't it?
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Interesting article. It reminds me of TVTropes. It's the most systematizing (as opposed to holistically) way of looking at media, decompose it into parts (tropes) that are shared with other media. It feels like approaching the ultimate
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by jowea 1y ago
As an vim and arch user... Nah never mind I use NixOS too.
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by jowea 1y ago
> It's the most liquid asset that is not issued by a central bank. At any point you can issue a transaction to anyone else in the world, without the possibility of a third party intervention. I've had issues pulling cash out of
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by jowea 1y ago
I have the same opinion, likewise for fantasy. But a lot of scifi and fantasy stories really have similar tropes and plots, even if it is possible to write say, a romantic book with scifi trappings. There are also some books like I, Robot t
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by jowea 1y ago
I liked the audiobook a lot, but I'm a SF aficionado, so my opinion may not be relevant. The other comment may be correct about the "serious literary critic" opinion.
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by jowea 1y ago
It seems it is common in Nigerian English, from where in ended up in AI datasets.
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by jowea 1y ago
Doesn't that significantly increase the need for more meeting rooms?
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by jowea 1y ago
I won't pretend to be deeply familiar with China, but I think of two reasons: China doesn't take IP law seriously, so they can just copy, pirate whatever anyway. And the West has more wealthy idealistic techies with the free time
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by jowea 1y ago
Copyleft isn't antithetical, see how many people are paid to work on the Linux kernel. I believe some other ecosystem software is also copylefted, like systemd. And is building on top of the unpaid labour of SW engineers really a major
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by jowea 1y ago
You want them to pay the server costs to serve content to AI scrappers for free? The alternative is Anubis, which is maybe equally annoying to users in a different way.
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by jowea 1y ago
I'm not an expert on website hosting, but after reading some of the blog posts on Anubis, those people were truly at wit's end trying to block AI scrappers with techniques like the ones you imply.
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by jowea 1y ago
Is it even possible that Cloudfare could manage to block all AI data scrapping? I think this measure is just going to make it harder and more expensive, which will stop AI scrappers from hitting every single page every single day and creati
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by jowea 1y ago
If we're talking about a fork, couldn't a fork just ignore the attack? The normal miners aren't forced to use the attacker's blocks after all.
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by jowea 1y ago
There have some governments outside of the developed world accused of manipulating inflation numbers.
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by jowea 1y ago
ASI test then
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by jowea 1y ago
Actually I may have a theory on why this is so annoying. Most people in Western countries are used to not haggling, and hate dealing with haggling for the two B2C products that are frequently haggled for, cars and housing, and frequently co
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by jowea 1y ago
Yeah sure, but Joel Spolsky does point in this article how it pisses consumers off. And I think this sort of algorithm "pure" price discrimination based on mind reading how much the consumer is willing to pay is much more annoyin
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by jowea 1y ago
Maybe it's trusting a personal connection and word of mouth over mainstream information because of some vague anti-establishment feelings? I also don't know really. I mean, even a small bank CEO fell for one https://www
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by jowea 1y ago
If I understand TFA correctly, what is going on, is that the grocer is going * This person is wearing a suit, I'm going to charge double * This is a regular that always buys the same thing every week, I can charge 30% more without brea
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by jowea 1y ago
There's been some work on alternatives to setuid sudo. For example run0 from systemd.
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by jowea 1y ago
I think it comes from modern mass media technology. If musician A is better than B there is little reason to listen to B, unless you live in 1600 and musician A works in the next town over.
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by jowea 1y ago
Well it's a flat rate on car drivers in Manhattan. How regressive is it really?
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by jowea 1y ago
Maybe it's a bunch of volunteers vs large hierarchical for profit organizations? Even through there are some of the latter working on FOSS.
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by jowea 1y ago
Charging for an scarce resource instead of letting the tragedy of the commons play out does sound like something obvious to come out of a neoliberal economist yes.
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by jowea 1y ago
It's a technical challenge for the script kiddie making their own hacks, but from what I gather most PvP cheaters nowadays are paying (!!!) a subscription for their cheats.
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I read somewhere that their monetization was in WhatsApp Business
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I don't think that's obvious for non-techies
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Isn't the real problem that people are trusting ChatGPT? A human therapist is being paid to be a therapist and therefore gets to be under professional scrutiny.

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