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lossolo
3y ago
> As a Dutch citizen it's scary to watch our government and the rest of the EU go against it's own best interests. We are vassals of the USA and it would appear our elites are completely captured. I'm in the EU too. I don&
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lossolo
3y ago
Is there evidence from centuries of AI revolutions to support this? What makes you think it's the same? I don't see how it's comparable. History shows that low-skilled jobs were typically replaced with similar low-skilled job
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lossolo
3y ago
Taiwan is paying for US protection by securing some of the chips supply for US companies in case China invades Taiwan. They were pressured into doing this because in their interest is keeping most of the fabs producing cutting edge chips on
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lossolo
3y ago
If their product is better than the free government app, and users find the government app not good enough, they will win anyway. If it's not better, then they will not. I don't see a problem here.
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lossolo
3y ago
It's time to regulate these social media companies as utilities. If a platform has more than N million users, and its main feature is communication between humans, then it should be subject to regulation.
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lossolo
3y ago
I have another example of ChatGPT not generalizing but just being a really good statistical model. I needed a solution to a problem that you can't find on Google, and a variation of a problem that also can't be found on Google. I
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lossolo
3y ago
What OP probably means is not releasing benchmark data to the public so you can't train/fine tune your model based on that data.
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lossolo
3y ago
> the biggest change is women achieving independence and being able to completely control when and if they have a child Ye, data seems to support that https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?location...
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lossolo
3y ago
> I suppose what's the most surprising is that it seems it was intentional. This is a surprising conclusion. There was no conspiracy to sink Twitter. Musk just failed, you know, like every mortal human being does from time to time.
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lossolo
3y ago
Well, it seems wikipedia has different definition than yours, it matches to what I wrote before. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_banning > Shadow banning, also called stealth banning, hellbanning, ghost banning
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lossolo
3y ago
> Sorry, but truth ain't always easy to hear. It's copeium. The alternative is to admit that there could be another system, authoritarian, non-democratic, where there is no freedom, yet it's successful and have a chance to
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lossolo
3y ago
You have the option to track the latest update time and, during the minute immediately following this update, direct all reads to come from the leader. Additionally, you could oversee the replication lag among followers and block queries on
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lossolo
3y ago
Which other word do you think would be suitable here? In my view, 'shadowban' aligns with the definition in this context, as you aren't notifying people about it (hence 'shadow') and their actions of upvoting or dow
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lossolo
3y ago
You forgot to mention that you are also shadowbanning the ability of users to upvote or downvote things when you dislike their upvotes or downvotes—instances that you perceive as not contributing to the discussion or that are escalating the
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lossolo
3y ago
> However, there were 767 unique authors who committed code direct to chromium in the last week: This also includes all people from outside the org (Google), right? I found this but I think it's for Chrome? There are also things lik
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lossolo
3y ago
> but I wonder if the v8 team is chasing benchmarks at the expense of real-world code that might not be so perfectly written. Isn't it the other way around? https://v8.dev/blog/real-world-performance I recall t
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lossolo
3y ago
> Relatively speaking. You might not notice it when playing back a single video So like 99.99% of use cases? > but I promise you that you're not going to have a good time if you try to play back multiple high bitrate videos on sl
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lossolo
3y ago
> There are no "instructions to decode H264", there is dedicated hardware acceleration like Intel QSV and AMD VCN, but these gets bypassed just like Nvidia's decoding acceleration from my previous example. All of this is t
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lossolo
3y ago
> Introduces a decryption step, which is slow It's not slow, after you decrypt the AES key, then you are using hardware AES instruction set supported by most CPUs currently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_ins
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lossolo
3y ago
> If you're using a PC with a Nvidia GPU, run `nvidia-smi dmon -s u` and start playing a random Youtube video in Chrome. You'll notice how dec% moves from 0% to at least 2%. Pause, and start playing Widevine protected video and
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lossolo
3y ago
Mógł dać Szczebrzeszyn, ubaw słuchać jak Anglosasi próbują to czytać.
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lossolo
3y ago
23 year old indeed might be too much of a difference IMO + there is a big gap of maturity between 23 and 28 years old, but 28 year old is totally fine in relation to his age (unless he behave and feels like a 50-60 year old). I was with aro
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lossolo
3y ago
That's not true at all, I had multitude of friends that had 5-10+ sexual partners at age of 20, I also had friends with 3 sexual partners at age ~25-28. Number of sexual partners correlate with attractiveness and promiscuousness more t
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lossolo
3y ago
> based on the successful policy in Portugal There are doubts about success of that policy now. Article from a few weeks ago: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/07/portugal-dru...
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lossolo
3y ago
Ah, the same old rhetoric of denying economic disparities and systemic challenges that clearly impact workers bargaining power. You seem so eager to downplay the struggles faced by certain individuals, but let's not pretend negotiating
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lossolo
3y ago
> And to be sure, one can negotiate at every turn to stay on top of that, but that's not terribly efficient for long-term engagements, so workers usually seek a long-standing agreement and renegotiate only as needed, like the Louis
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lossolo
3y ago
Seems like I'm rate limited, couldn't add reply for 45 minutes. I understand your perspective, but it's important to clarify some points: > You can't meaningfully seek positive change and improvement without understan
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lossolo
3y ago
> Are you replying to my original statement or not? This has nothing to do with the original discussion. Yes, I am addressing your original statement, which implies that some companies underpay workers despite making massive profits. My
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lossolo
3y ago
Are you even reading my responses? Or are you just picking and choosing what suits your narrative? You still don't get it, do you? I'm not saying labor costs are the only factor, but it's undeniable that many companies choose
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lossolo
3y ago
> What about it? Are the workers there currently off the job while they wait for more money? No they aren't because it's Asia? You don't work then you starve. There is so much poor people there that you can pay whatever an
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