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by lores 2y ago
I suppose it depends if you think taking sexy Instagram photos in Auschwitz, organising a paintball match around the 9/11 memorial, or tagging a fresh grave is disrespectful. In the abstract no one is hurt, but it's an important s
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by lores 2y ago
You respectfully skated over monuments to the dead? What culture do you come from, if I may ask?
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by lores 2y ago
It's starting to be the case. Patients with terminal cancer can opt into experimental treatments.
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by lores 2y ago
Many hackers are now old enough to have reflected on dystopian science-fiction and come to the conclusion regulations are useful, sometimes. And many hackers realise most people are ignorant most of the time, us included, and do not trust a
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by lores 2y ago
According to this recent NYT article, the ruling corporation raised $120M: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/magazine/prospera-hondura... Or, in other words, Thiel et al. are bankrupting one of the worl
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by lores 2y ago
Indeed. And more context and Israel's reaction to it: https://archive.is/F3iOl
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by lores 2y ago
France has taken a stance on the Israel/Palestine war that is well short of condemning Israel, but is still seen by them as hostile. I doubt they would cooperate in such a high-profile manner. If there is a political goal, it's mo
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by lores 2y ago
Players who play for one team in the Champions League are even explicitly barred from playing for another in it in the same year. It avoids players getting poached in January, and perhaps shenanigans with loans and recalls.
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by lores 2y ago
The glue people are the cross-domain experts, the ones that stop the really deep one-domain experts from doing something bone-headedly naive and tie everything and everyone up coherently. They're infrastructure, so get no glory, but ar
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by lores 2y ago
Seems like an overlook, although the Express is a bit of an odd duck. Relatedly, TFL's pedantry about Underground vs other rail is driving me batty. No one cares about rail gauge when they travel. Calling the Elizabeth "Elizabeth
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by lores 2y ago
You brought a tear of joy to my eye.
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by lores 2y ago
I really don't see what's in it for them to brag about a non-existent feature that's not in their commercial interest when its non-implementation can be turned into a stick to beat them with, so I believe they have something,
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by lores 2y ago
You should read the original article... OpenAI say it doesn't downgrade quality.
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by lores 2y ago
Open AI literally said they have a semi-resilient method with 99.9% accuracy. It will become full-resilient for practical purposes if all LLMs implement something similar.
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by lores 2y ago
To be fair, data protections in UK ministries are pretty extreme and taken seriously. At least, that's the case at Justice, I would hope that HMRC manages to do at least that.
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by lores 2y ago
HMRC is a disaster, as an organisation. They opted out of the oversight of the Cabinet Office IT team that massively improved other ministries' software teams. When I was working for one, I heard they had spent hundreds of millions on
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by lores 2y ago
A config file IS code. And yes, even a post can theoretically break a site (SQL injection, say), so if you're pushing data to a million PCs you'd better be testing it.
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by lores 2y ago
Then that's 3-4 decades of massive incompetence, isn't it? "Testing before pushing an update" is basic engineering, they have a huge scale so huge responsibility, and they have the money to perform the tests and hire peo
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by lores 2y ago
There is a big difference in most people's minds between talking to/helping individuals and machines. One establishes a human connection, the other... well, quite the opposite when on top of it they're owned by a megacorp. I
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by lores 2y ago
Thanks!
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by lores 2y ago
I don't think you copied the right link.
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by lores 2y ago
Foucault (and others) wanted to be rid of the law because (a) it seemed incoherent to hold minors to be responsible for crimes while denying them agency in matters of sex, (b) he did not think minors were automatically unable to give consen
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by lores 2y ago
Er, do you have any sources for Sartre and de Beauvoir raping young girls? I can't seem to find one.
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by lores 2y ago
Northern Europe is not poor, it has one of the highest standards of living in the world, and individual countries regularly top happiness rankings to boot.
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by lores 2y ago
That's the dye from Hexaplex Trunculus, but it's more of a bluish purple than a true blue. There seems to be modern ways to turn it into a true blue, but whether the ancients had an unknown method is debated and unproven. It'
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by lores 2y ago
The administration in many countries (northern Europe, say) is both competent and not corrupt. If the only way to get competence is bribes, you end up with neither competence nor a functioning society.
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by lores 2y ago
What are you doing posting this on Hacker News? Don't you know it's majority-owned by Jon Danilovsky, the son of the moon landing movie producer? Oh god they have your IP now, you only have hours.
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by lores 2y ago
Residents would largely not have to pay, if they follow the London model. The London congestion zone covers ~150K residents, but above 1 million commuters, not counting trade and tourists.
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by lores 2y ago
It's a fraction by area, but it's by far the densest and busiest part of the city. Comparisons to half of Manhattan are not unwarranted.
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by lores 2y ago
Is a crime boss saying "kill him" to his henchmen not responsible too for the killing? Unless you disagree with that, we're only to argue where the line is, not that there is a line.

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