mihaic

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by mihaic 1y ago
Would be fascinating if true, but I'd be very curious what kind of model of "reality" they actually have. The paper itself [1] seems quite compact and extremely high level, so I'm sure some heavy hitters would try to ref
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by mihaic 1y ago
I think you're missing that deviants have to interact with people in the normal sphere for them to count socially, and the fact that you're arguing that the author is in a bubble pretty much is making his case actually.
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by mihaic 1y ago
Well said, this sort of oversimplified dichotomy is used by people to get out of responsability. "We have to choose between X and Y, so I just choose X because it's better". No wonder the author is a Facebook exec that want t
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by mihaic 1y ago
It isn't needed, but third-party cookies were phased out by Chrome specifically to undermine their competitors, all under the veil of doing the right thing, and everyone that was using them for something ok got screwed.
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by mihaic 1y ago
Policing the tools instead of policing what is being done with them is the problem for me. Third party cookies have a valid reason to be used in federated authentication for instance, or a bunch of other valid purposes. Just ban shitty data
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by mihaic 1y ago
Religions like Christianity are the natural development at global scale for that. We're losing that scaling in altruism now, but it doesn't have to be this way.
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by mihaic 1y ago
Before it meant the group that even sometimes risked their life for the children of everyone in the tribe. I think you're discounting natural human altruism, which is well studied.
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by mihaic 1y ago
Human evolution actually escaped the trap of this short term thinking twice: first some 100k years ago, when altruism bloomed (see E O Wilson), and some 2500 years ago with the universal moralistic religions. The group that maximizes their
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by mihaic 1y ago
The needed inovations for any potential new business model of the internet are not technical. Even if some system of making crawlers pay for a content access, how could you be sure it's never used without your permission? It's not
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by mihaic 1y ago
You have absolutely no idea about me or my life, but chose to insult me based on not being impressed by some github profile. Why did you feel the need to say that?
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by mihaic 1y ago
I think the biggest problem in arguing against tech and social media is that it in truth you rely on counterfactual positions, which describe how the world would look without that thing. A world without online dating for instance wouldn&#x2
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by mihaic 1y ago
> you've seen plenty of people that didn't do what he did? Yes, because I've seen them build software that was actually used. And I've seen a few that did just like him, impressive sounding projects that had no usage.
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by mihaic 1y ago
Thank you, perhaps I worded it harshly, but that was my general feeling. Being a good developer already is a high level. Being able to start impressive-sounding projects that never materialize into anything is a luxury for which most compet
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by mihaic 1y ago
I actually have seen plenty of people that could have done something like this, but did not because they simply never tried. Being daring by itself is a skill, but we're talking raw technical ability here. I've actually seen anoth
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by mihaic 1y ago
The problem with Windows 11 is that it's not meant to be a better Windows but a worse MacOS. Why is it so hard for even Microsoft employees to understand that people with complex workflows actually benefit from a task bar where all the
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by mihaic 1y ago
Weather the population thinks that's wishful thinking or not, it's generally right.
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by mihaic 1y ago
It's not just loneliness, it's that by being isolated you can make sweeping generalizations about other people, and fall for the hatefull narative. When you actually and honestly communicate with people different than you, and are
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by mihaic 1y ago
It's pretty nice that EU agreements of free travel apply to it as well.
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by mihaic 1y ago
Keywords usually are quite pronounceable, and some of them are even proper words. How do you read fn?
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by mihaic 1y ago
It's become a pet peeve of mine, but for the love of God, if anyone with input in Carbon is scanning this, what can be done to use "func" instead of "fn" as a keyword? That all-consonant keyword always makes it seem
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by mihaic 1y ago
For a decade now I've been lamenting that git won the source control war. My complaints fall in two main categories: 1. The mental model is too complex: rebase or merge, detaching head, etc. A good UI can hide away some of this uglynes
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by mihaic 1y ago
> someone in the 5th percentile of wealth I find the percentile measure terrible to technically mean 95% of the population, but is often colloquially understood the other way around. It's like German numbers, when people say five an
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by mihaic 1y ago
While that's sometimes the case, those expensive products were the norm, and now no longer exist as an accessible option. For many products, the market went with cheap and crappy, and quality became a niche that is no longer available
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by mihaic 1y ago
While it's something with a myriad of causes, the main one to me is the decrease of real wages for the middle class, not just consumer culture. Some products and services managed to decrease in price to match this, and but the culture
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by mihaic 1y ago
I'm actually for self-naming in general, it's just that there should be some common sense limits to self-naming. There's a reason why we differentiate between common and proper nouns.
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by mihaic 1y ago
> If the platform had been named X from the start, then a language would have developed around it, including what its messages are called, or what verb is used to refer to posting a message. I'm not really sure. Some things don&#x27
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by mihaic 1y ago
Tangential, I still find it absurd people accept calling it X instead of Twitter. While I'd generally agree that most companies can change their name, encroaching on a basic letter should be off limits, like naming your company "T
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by mihaic 1y ago
The question itself is wrong, since it personifies the AI, when in practice there's always a human entering prompts, and at the same time ignoring the consequences of the generated material on the ecosystem from which it was generated
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by mihaic 1y ago
Randolph, I will wager you one dollar that an LLM, if put in a fine suit, could do just a good a job as any of our traders.
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by mihaic 2y ago
The benefit of a random order is that it forces you to actually keep all the packets, which makes upload more likely. Streaming lets you get away with not storing the whole file, which makes bad actors more likely. And, sure, some BT client

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