mcv

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by mcv 2mo ago
Those people were always there. Just stop oppressing them. They don't need "special protections", just the same rights as everybody else. Why is it so important to have an oppressed class?
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by mcv 2mo ago
What do you mean "by definition"? They do nothing else. Against transgenders, against gay people, against foreigners, against hippies, against black people; it goes back a long time, and always to recruit the support of poor white
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by mcv 2mo ago
The justification is that it's supposed to protect the individual creative from more powerful publishers just taking and copying their stuff. In practice, it seems to mostly protect the interests of the most powerful party.
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by mcv 2mo ago
The two party system is absolutely part of the problem, but there's also definitely the culture war being waged to distract people from the class war that's being waged against them. But the two-party system definitely enables tha
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by mcv 2mo ago
The exact same mechanism is used to keep poor white Americans voting Republican: even if they're poor, they see themselves as the white ruling class over black and Hispanic people, despite the fact that they themselves are kept poor by
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by mcv 2mo ago
I recently came to the conclusion that it was never about copyright. It's about corporate control, about punishing contempt for business model. Aaron Swartz was punished because he disrespected a business model. All the kids sued by th
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by mcv 2mo ago
I think it mostly proves how much you're willing to submit yourself to hard, complex, frustrating and unrewarding work. You don't get the PhD just for the thinking.
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by mcv 2mo ago
There are toy wagons (Dutch: bolderkar, is "toy wagon" really the correct translation?) that are great fun for transporting kids on a beach.
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by mcv 2mo ago
I agree parenthood is underappreciated and undersold. Nothing in life beats seeing kids grow up from helpless infants to well-adjusted, passionate young adults. Lately I frequently find myself wondering if every philosopher who pondered the
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by mcv 2mo ago
My career didn't really take off until I got kids in my 30s. And my wife's took off even harder; she's now director at a Dutch government organisation. I went from fairly average developer when they were born, to self-employe
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by mcv 2mo ago
Ijsselmeer is a different kind of lake; not created by digging out peat, but a (violent) sea inlet that was closed off. The many peat lakes didn't start out as strips of land, but as endless peat swamp. Much of that was drained through
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by mcv 2mo ago
I just got a new bike for my son (he's going to secondary school and needs a better bike), and was surprised to see how many kids' bikes came without fenders. What's up with that? Who wants a serious bike without fenders? Of
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by mcv 2mo ago
It takes a very long time to form, however. It's mostly another source of carbon that gets added to the atmosphere.
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by mcv 2mo ago
Most of Netherland used to be peat, but there's almost nothing left now. From about the 10th century onward, it's slowly all been turned into farmland or lakes. Sometimes both. This is the process that really created the country,
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by mcv 2mo ago
According to the description, that second one is connected to water, electricity and sewage, so that answers that question. No need for a septic tank.
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by mcv 2mo ago
I thought this was fairly obvious. I don't consider any of the AI models I've worked with particularly smart, but they've read orders of magnitude more than I ever could in my entire lifetime. They have far better book knowle
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by mcv 2mo ago
Memory is one aspect of intelligence, but hardly the only one. Making new connections, logical deduction, spatial intelligence and creativity are also aspects. I have fairly poor memory, but I can solve problems that people with better memo
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by mcv 2mo ago
I'm sort of in this boat right now. I wrote an algorithm to solve a problem, and it turns out to be roughly O(n!), which is really terrible, but it works fine in all my test cases because n never gets bigger than 20. Even in real life
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by mcv 2mo ago
I keep forgetting that Americans still use checks. Cashing checks is a non-issue in many countries, and I have no problem accessing or using my bank account from any country. But I have never in my 52 years cashed a check. That's somet
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by mcv 2mo ago
I think FPS skills might translate very well to drone operator.
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by mcv 2mo ago
What about bank accounts from the country they're from?
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by mcv 2mo ago
Yeah, but then they're also wasting my time. Maybe I'd need an app that recognises the scam call, and then lets an AI waste their time.
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by mcv 2mo ago
I think it's definitely important that any AI generated content can be easily identified as such. I think the new EU law that requires that, has too many unnecessary exceptions. So great that Anthropic is doing something about this, bu
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by mcv 2mo ago
Whatever the issue is, they should figure out a system that can't be abused by scammers. Failing that, I'm totally fine with also blocking companies that have their own reasons to spoof numbers.
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by mcv 2mo ago
Even if, they shouldn't call me again after I tell them not to.
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by mcv 2mo ago
From the same company? That's crazy. You'd think they'd get the message, but they're really stubborn. Most Dutch companies seem to obey the rules, but this one (and it's a big one) clearly does not. I still don&#x27
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by mcv 2mo ago
> the French regulator mandated the telcos to implement a complete block of spoofed phone numbers That is really great. I've had a lot of trouble with calls from spoofed numbers a couple of years ago (it ended when I installed a sca
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by mcv 2mo ago
That's great. Netherland banned them a couple of years ago. Unfortunately I still receive them. Sometimes a lot. A year or two ago, I received calls almost every week from a major TV/internet provider (Ziggo-Vodafone; total crooks
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by mcv 2mo ago
I definitely intend to open source eland. The data lineage stuff I'm less sure about. I hope to build a business out of it, and it will probably always require some custom work to adapt it to specific data sets, specific needs, etc. I
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by mcv 2mo ago
I'm working on Eland (Extensible Layered Algorithm for Network Drawing), a graph layout library strongly inspired by Elk, but a complete reimplementation. The reason I need a complete reimplementation is that existing graph layout libr

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