mcpackieh

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by mcpackieh 3y ago
Countries should be left to handle their own affairs; that's the responsibility that is inherent to sovereignty. The premise of a global hegemon who babysits the world and enforces the rules (dictated by themselves and their allies o
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
> Just over 81 percent of those self-censoring said they primarily held back their criticism of Israel, while 11 percent said they held back from criticizing Palestinians. I read this article a while ago that I think had an interesting
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
> Actual AI doesn't exist. The word "actual" is doing a lot of lifting there. Artificial intelligence has existed for decades. Presumably you mean "artificial general intelligence", whatever that's eve
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
Culling American military bases overseas would also reduce the risk of American politicians capriciously choosing to use those military bases as the staging points for military adventurism; the "War on Terror" was greatly facilita
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
If you tell people the computer program that profiled them as a probable scumbag and denied them credit or a job was using methods from the 1980s instead of the newest neural nets, that won't change how they feel about it. Objecting t
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
"If-else rule-based systems" aka expert systems are an example of symbolic artificial intelligence e.g. "Good Old Fashioned Artificial Intelligence" . Just because it doesn't use the newest most trendy methods doe
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
Developers don't need to test in every distro, or even all the most popular distros. All they need to do is test in one distro. It will probably work in most of the rest and linux users expect that if something breaks they'll
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
Shit entertainment channel masquerading as educational content. If you think you learned something from that video then why haven't you explained it yourself? The simple fact of the matter is that there is no empirical evidence for
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
Shit take, "race" has nothing to do with it. Ethnic Russians living in other countries (of whom there are many ) are not having their contracts terminated. People who aren't ethnic Russians but live in Russia (again, man
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
It's a reasonably logical answer but it's not the simplest answer. The Dark Forest hypothesis assumes that life is so common in the universe that encountering and being existentially threatened by other life is a serious threat.
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
I think that intelligent life might become reliant on interconnectedness, e.g. addicted to the internet. Assuming the speed of light limit to information transmission cannot be overcome, I bet intelligent life will tend to clump up instead
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
Assuming that Earth was very average is a very rational place to start, but the reasonability of this assumption changes when we look elsewhere for life and fail to find it. Earth being average was once the basis for people assuming that o
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
Education and healthcare are more expensive to provide over huge areas with low population density. Particularly with healthcare, the government has to pay professionals to live out there and those professionals serve fewer people than the
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
> Until your country actually implements laws like these and Hacker News starts complaining that it is "business hostile" and "stifling innovation". Literally, so what? I don't understand your point. You can
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
A solution to what? The Canadian government runs very efficiently when you consider their geographic handicap. The UK on the other hand has a serious problem with bureaucratic inefficiency. Their geography favors efficient services, yet
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
Yet the Canadian government provides services across Canada in huge areas with extremely low population densities. This is incredibly inefficient, which is the point.
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
Now consider the area over which Canada must provide services, and the intrinsic inefficiency that entails..
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
Indeed, trying to overcome bureaucratic inefficiency by raising money is like trying to beat cancer by eating sugar.
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
I remember people saying this about XP to Vista, then 7 to 8, then 8 to 10, now 10 to 11... If you're on 10 now then you've gone through this cycle several times already; Microsoft is slow-boiling frogs and it seems to work for t
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
Suppose I trust Valve to be well run for as long as Gabe Newell is around to control the company... how long is that? He's 61 years old, and even if he isn't inclined to ever sell the company he could still kick the bucket with n
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
They probably should try that then.
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
Yeah, I've bought a lot of software that gave me a digital download with no DRM/bullshit. I've bought a comedy central special this way too, as well as dozens of albums and books. It's a perfectly agreeable arrangemen
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
When it comes to Sony, even buying physical media in a store sucks. I'll never forget that Sony deliberately used music CDs to infect people's computers with malware.
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
You give money and your personal information to an advertising company. The advertising company then does god knows what with your personal information and gives some of that money to some of the 'creators' that you watch, in
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
The Swedish model works so well that the majority of Telsa workers in Sweden aren't striking... If they did they'd bring Tesla to the negotiating table in an instant because there would be no way for Tesla to continue doing bu
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
Okay, fair. I should have said: "thinks using fingerprints [to unlock their keychain] is actually a good idea"
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
I read on HN a week or so ago that the majority of workers at the swedish Tesla factory aren't striking because they prefer the stock options offered by Tesla to what the union is offering. But apparently the company offering a mor
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
Cathedrals? Bah, nonsense. Go into google street view and slap down a marker in any random town with buildings built a few decades ago on in the American east coast. Downtown in a random town, not in a modern suburb or commercial park.
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
NoLsAfterMid's comment betrays an entitled attitude (e.g. "Linux should want this because I want this"), he doesn't seem to actually understand how or why things get done in the area of Linux. Linux itself doesn't
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by mcpackieh 3y ago
Make sure to store them very deep underground down a mineshaft, so random cosmic rays don't ever knock a few atoms loose.

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