landl0rd

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by landl0rd 1y ago
Sigh. That old line. Look man, I don't know if it was a crack or a serious comment (this being the internet) but I'll assume it was a comment in good faith. Journalism and academia tend to attract people with more of a liberal ben
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by landl0rd 1y ago
Because you can't do that. Most of the population is at the wrong point on the normal distributions of capacity or caring enough. Even the NPR listeners will still nod sagely when it tells them "akshually air conditioning doesn&#x
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by landl0rd 1y ago
Most frontier LLMs skew somewhere on the libleft quadrant of the political compass. This includes grok 4 btw. This is probably because American "respectable" media has a consistent bias in this direction. I don't really care
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by landl0rd 1y ago
At least they're not thrown in my face and appearing as eighteen pop-ups, notification requests, account-walls, SEOslop, and a partridge in a pear tree.
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by landl0rd 1y ago
Okay I think the question is still how they plan to convert this into cash, because political power can't buy food or pay your employees or be stored and quantified simply, which is why we invented money. Assuming this dystopian scenar
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by landl0rd 1y ago
Most of the time when I find a good answer from search it's one of a few things: - Hobbyist site - Forum or UGC - Academic/gov - Quality news which is often paywalled Most of that stuff doesn't depend on ad clicks. The things
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by landl0rd 1y ago
Is there an appreciable difference between a company that controls what information is surfaced via pagerank and one that does so via LLM? Remember the past scandals with google up/downranking various things? This isn't a new prob
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No, a small group of highly tech-literate people are wary of this. Your personal bubble is wary of this. So is some of mine. "People" don't care and will use the packaged, corporate, convenient version with the well-known nam
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by landl0rd 1y ago
That's awesome man, I'm glad to hear there's a viable competitor. Gl and I look forward to seeing it.
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Exactly. It's not that many people and they still get into a ton of trouble. That seems like an excellent reason to either not accept them, or to enforce that they need to be dispersed widely enough to prevent forming a community and c
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The PLO hasn't even run elections for a couple decades. It is notoriously corrupt. I don't really see how ignoring that out of "solidarity" is supposed to practically help the palestinians.
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by landl0rd 1y ago
Hmm why do many countries not want to accept Palestinians? - Supported Saddam in Kuwait - Supported Saddam in Iraq - Massacred Christians in Lebanon - Tried to overthrow Jordan - Caused chaos in Syria - Destabilized Libya - Aligned with ira
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I didn't say out of its remit, I said outside its original scope. The plain fact is these programs are newer and I don't believe in funding them. UNESCO was previously a body that did some social justice stuff and a bunch of herit
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by landl0rd 1y ago
No benchmark comparisons with Aspera or similar even though they compare pricing? Because my gut instinct is it's probably a good bit slower.
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China has already thoroughly captured most of the whole UN. They would benefit if this weren’t already the case, which means stuff like closing VoA is still dumb. But UNESCO is among those they’ve captured. All removing funding does is redu
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by landl0rd 1y ago
No, they obviously aren’t. I don’t think we’ve had an administration or congress that cares one bit in my living memory. That doesn’t mean I’m going to quit supporting removal of pointless spending any more than it means I’ll support the OB
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by landl0rd 1y ago
American dollars shouldn’t go to things that aren’t sources of soft or hard power for us, and they should be clawed back from things that are sources of soft power for china.
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- nobody was endorsing the OBBBA or saying that it’s good. - some spending is objectively more necessary than other spending. Funding UNESCO is not that important. I detailed why we shouldn’t do so even were we running a $1T budget in anoth
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by landl0rd 1y ago
This is true and correct, but none of it will matter if we keep letting the olds bleed the last drops from our country and continue pissing away the majority of our budget on social security and medicare. Until those are gone and the majori
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by landl0rd 1y ago
The CCP has been lobbying the World Heritage Evaluation Committee for a long time now to increase its number of sites. This directly promote’s china’s false narrative of “5,000 years continuous civilization” with attached mythos (despite mu
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by landl0rd 1y ago
Hard agree on pumped hydro and other forms of grid-scale storage, but can you understand concerns around batteries? There are environmental ones on the mining/metals side, but producing and disposing of them in a clean manner is often
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by landl0rd 1y ago
These are at some level businesses that do well because they avoid regulatory regimes. That risk is built-in from day one and basically their raison d'etre. I happen to think that's fine and good, but it's still the case. In
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Except we're not dealing with one of the web servers running out of reg-shopped countries where you can host just about anything. We're dealing with stuff that's legal as-is in most developed countries, including America. Asi
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I just basically struggle with the concept of "x people form our country chose to talk to your web server (hosted elsewhere, responds to anybody) so we now claim jurisdiction (with possible criminal penalties) over that server (hosted
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by landl0rd 1y ago
America has a similar (if less severe) version of this problem where nobody can contradict any compliance-adjacent function. Because if you get sued, someone will ask you "why did you ignore the guidance of your compliance team??"
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I have also blocked yookayers from my site because I would rather spend my time on GTM for my more valuable markets or have free time than waste it on the tiny chunk of my users who are yookay based. Also I don't know what sort of weig
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Something generally has to be a criminal offense in both nations for one to extradite to the other.
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"hello fellow humans im friendly and approachable lol" Also: > "and honestly? i..." > "this is not just content moderation - it is a..." These are two huge shibboleths of gpt-ese. He had to specifically t
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It's a case study of how you can either work to assume those costs and build them into the price of the product, rather than being willfully blind and claiming they don't exist or should remain externalities, and maintain relation
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It's not country-wide policy though. They aren't deciding what people can and can't buy. They're deciding of what they will or won't facilitate the sale . The American pornography industry has solved this problem b

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