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by m0zg 5y ago
Performative virtue signaling, as practiced in the US is wrong IMO. It is aimed at extracting social approval out of like-minded peers without effecting any positive change. Indeed it's getting to the point where _the mere absence_ of
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by m0zg 5y ago
This kind of thinking can go quite far if taken to its logical conclusion. The question therefore is, do _you_ want to live in a world where everyone is fighting everyone else over the most irrelevant of actions or even wrongthink? I know I
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by m0zg 5y ago
So would I. I'd gladly and voluntarily pay, say, $10/mo for a family subscription, paid with crypto. I'm not sure why they aren't offering that.
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Doesn't matter how "cushy" it is or how big your paycheck is if you're depressed and going insane. That's the point.
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Anecdotes aren't data: https://search.brave.com/search?q=polls+on+abolishing+police...
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You need to put some dressing on this word salad.
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The founder of Brave was canceled by the left for his religious opposition to calling gay unions "marriage". FWIW, I voted to call it that in my state, but I have no problem with someone holding a different opinion. That's so
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by m0zg 5y ago
It's not even this for me, as much as it is feeling "trapped" in a situation. I like to keep my options open. When I feel trapped, I move on. "Rewards" can't keep me sane, and without sanity everything else los
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by m0zg 5y ago
Why would anyone pick FastMail over, say, Proton Mail which is in a far less compromised locale? Really, I wouldn't trust the output of my /dev/random to an Australian company at this point just on the basis of their hostile
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by m0zg 5y ago
They're probably in Moscow or something. The vast majority of my folks aren't. Moscow and Saint Petersburg are only 10% of Russia's population - they don't matter much when it comes to electing the president.
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by m0zg 5y ago
I regularly see on this very site liberals outraged about things "private" companies are fully within their rights to do. You can't be for and against something depending on the political affiliation of the affected party. Th
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Really makes you think why a trillion dollar corporation would want to severely undermine its most important asset, its brand, over something like this. It ain't "children" I can tell you that.
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They also run the only decent, independent search engine that has _its own_, _uncensored_ index. DDG was perceptibly worse than Google, but Brave Search is about on par, and the latency seems to be better as well. I maybe have to go to Goog
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by m0zg 5y ago
Your opinion will change pretty quick once they start banning "your" side. Which they will, if you start speaking too much about the kinds of things that go against the official Uniparty narratives. Such things exist on both sides
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by m0zg 5y ago
Are there any good hosts in the United States that won't cut you off on ideological grounds? This shit should be plainly illegal, IMO. If it's in compliance with US law, I should be able to host whatever the fuck I want. I'd
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by m0zg 5y ago
I actually have quite a few friends and family there. They all support him, some begrudgingly (as in "we know he's a crook and a thief, but comparatively speaking, he's doing a pretty good job"), some enthusiastically. S
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by m0zg 5y ago
What I don't get is why these "standups" need to be in-person as well as every day. One of my current clients insists on doing them, wasting about 6% of my (very expensive) billable time on this. I don't mind, of course,
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by m0zg 5y ago
I respect Thrun. He's a brilliant researcher and a very smart man. I've read his "Probabilistic robotics" book. I can also tell you right now that he's _wrong_. There will not be purely optical FSD on non-modified c
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by m0zg 5y ago
"Soros" figuratively speaking, although I would not be surprised - good ol' George tends to have his fingers in a lot of pies worldwide, and this is a tasty one. Navalny had to declare himself and his fund as "foreign ag
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by m0zg 5y ago
> Do you mind sharing some of your "Deep Learning Research" work? To what end? I value my anonymity here. I wish there was a way to anonymously bet money on these outcomes. I'd bet you $10K (the cost of the thing) that the
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by m0zg 5y ago
Apple is only starting to play these games (with "CSAM", which is fundamentally designed to circumvent E2E encryption and will be inevitably expanded over time), but Google, Facebook and Amazon are fully onboard. Jen Psaki admitte
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That's why the federal government is trying to centralize power here. Federal voting bills and abolition of electoral college are just two recent examples. It sure would be more comfortable _to them_ if a few moustache twirling lobbyis
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by m0zg 5y ago
Don't know about other countries, but even if Putin did not rig presidential elections (which he does), he'd still be winning overwhelming majorities. He enjoys strong popular support. So we can quibble about whether rigging an el
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by m0zg 5y ago
Freest country I've ever seen was Russia in the 90s. When Americans talk about "freedom" they have not a foggiest clue what it is. The US is a borderline police state in comparison. In fact, all in all, I think it currently h
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by m0zg 5y ago
"This person" is a deep learning researcher who knows they aren't going to be able to do it with cameras alone. I want them to learn some humility and refund $10K to people, not deliver it per se. I myself didn't pay for
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by m0zg 5y ago
Hey Tesla folks, if you're reading this, when's that "full self driving" coming along for real? Or will it always be "later this year"? I'm baffled there's no class action lawsuit by now, especially b
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by m0zg 5y ago
> Distributed system & big data knowledge is table stakes for Google engineers True, but observe that knowledge is very different from _experience_. In anything sufficiently complicated there's tons of stuff you won't find
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by m0zg 5y ago
Sure, but this is all _very_ early. You should see the kind of AI "techniques" some of those papers are using. It's not Imagenet, but people just take "academic" models from papers (sometimes from prehistoric times,
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by m0zg 5y ago
Yet Shkreli is still in prison. Probably just failed to pay off the right people. In contrast, Epstein who quite literally trafficked children to the elites was on "work release" during his first stint in jail, and if the powers t
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by m0zg 5y ago
Huh? 6% of the systems outdoing a human who spent years training for her profession is supposed to be bad news? That's awesome! Especially considering that these are not supposed to replace radiologists (yet), but merely to augment exp

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