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by lurk2 5mo ago
> a reputation for a strong engineering culture We’re talking about the company that shipped the storage bug?
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by lurk2 5mo ago
> Unlikely anyone in Russia or China would care to offer a service primarily to the benefit of the western world. Russians are huge on the piracy scene and have been for decades, primarily because it’s an effective way for the Russian Fe
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by lurk2 5mo ago
> piratebay continues to be the -to my knowledge- biggest public tracker out there It has been compromised for more than a decade. The site is impossible to navigate without an adblocker due to malicious redirect ads and most of the majo
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by lurk2 5mo ago
They are almost certainly being financed by the AI lobby as they have been open about providing API access to companies training AI in exchange for “donations.”[1][2][3] Having all of this data available online for free gives those looking
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by lurk2 6mo ago
> It isn't reasonable to ask a platform to host content that is literally about suing them Explicit rejection is better than opacity but better still is public accountability. Meta’s properties have a combined userbase that amounts
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by lurk2 6mo ago
Can you explain to me why a farmer with a financial stake in this argument continues to till his soil? Can you explain the benefits of tillage, or are you arguing that it has no benefits?
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by lurk2 6mo ago
Tillage as a practice has existed for around 10,000 years. I’m supposed to believe that 10,000 years worth of people never figured out that the enormous amounts of energy they were investing into tillage was worse than just doing nothing?
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by lurk2 6mo ago
> We no-till farm thousands of acres in the middle of millions more acres of no-till grain farming. 1) Does this practice work in every circumstance? 2) If so, why do farmers continue the practice of tillage? 3) Why did the practice of t
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by lurk2 6mo ago
Do you have experience as a farmer? If you don’t, why should I believe that farmers who continue to till their fields know less about this issue than you do?
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by lurk2 6mo ago
> Tilling requires less cognitive and logistical effort: you just apply calories to drag a blade through the soil and then dump seed in it. No-till requires things like “tracking the soil’s water retention levels”, “planting cover crops
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by lurk2 6mo ago
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by lurk2 7mo ago
What if you used the LLM to generate works that were already copyrighted?
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by lurk2 7mo ago
The original Minecraft EULA did not have any of the usual boilerplate language to support unilaterally modifying the terms. I had a Minecraft account purchased under this original EULA which was modified a year or two after I bought the gam
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by lurk2 7mo ago
> You've yet to answer it. And I won’t. You’re a disingenuous interlocutor. You aren’t asking questions as an inquirer, they are snares intended to serve as rhetorical gotchas. > Pick "tutting schoolmarm" or "inter
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by lurk2 7mo ago
You can just use a traditional search engine for this. I have no interest in reading your LLM output.
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by lurk2 7mo ago
All of Meta’s major properties (Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp) support E2EE messaging.
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by lurk2 7mo ago
> Well, another dodge. I stated my position plainly. > So defeating the Nazis wasn't worth doing, because we had to draft to accomplish it? What you are implying is that condemning conscription as a violation of human dignity wou
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by lurk2 7mo ago
This is the thing that drives me crazy. Most of these phone calls should just be emails; I can usually stand to wait a week or two for the company to get back to me. General support funnels like support@example.com have been dead for most c
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by lurk2 7mo ago
Whenever I interact with them I get asked to describe my issue then regardless of what I write I get asked a battery of questions you would expect are getting fed into a form and then on the off-chance I get connected to a human operator (w
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by lurk2 7mo ago
> Would the citizens of a sovereign nation being forced to violate their Constitution by Putin and Trump be a “violation of human dignity” too? If Ukraine was worth defending they would have no trouble finding men willing to die to defen
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by lurk2 7mo ago
> How do you even securely hold an election during a full scale war? America managed it in 1864.
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by lurk2 7mo ago
> Because that’s what their constitution says. “They have People’s Republic right there in the name, what are you people not getting about this?” > Can you clarify what you understand conscription to be? A violation of human dignity.
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by lurk2 7mo ago
They haven’t had an election since the war started and routinely force unwilling conscripts into vans.
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by lurk2 7mo ago
You are referring to the Black Death and that didn’t occur until around 350 years after the end of what are colloquially known as the Dark Ages.
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by lurk2 8mo ago
I’ve worked with both. Retailers are not generally sophisticated investors; they don’t necessarily lose money, but if they don’t own the real estate, they are usually making less than they could have working a job and investing their earnin
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by lurk2 8mo ago
There’s no evidence to suggest that any of this is true.
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by lurk2 8mo ago
At $30 an hour, $6,000 would cover 10 hours a day for 20 days per month.
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by lurk2 8mo ago
> https://zulip.com/values/ Every word of this page appears as its own line on mobile.
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by lurk2 8mo ago
You don’t necessarily need it to learn during the game, it would be enough for it to learn between games. If you’ve played the game long enough there are behaviors you can exploit that wouldn’t work against a human player. They iterated on

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