minsc_and_boo

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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
Most jurisdictions copy the main tenets* from each other, to make it easier for actors to enforce in their region - i.e. GDPR -> CCPA.
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
Still have to convert to USD, and most of the reliable exchanges are KYC, meaning they likely need to know your customers' identities. Doable, but probably not good for an adult toy/porn site.
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
Google tried this already, where you could pay $0.02 or something to not see ads on websites. Instead, they would show cat pictures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Contributor IIRC the problem was is that their
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
They were but it was done through trying to push their own crypto on everyone. Realistically for adoption there just needed to be a micropayment using existing currencies.
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by minsc_and_boo 3y ago
>DeepMind has made very impressive demos and papers, but they have yet to add one dollar of revenue to Google's bottom line. DeepMind has researched and developed features that exist in many Google products today, e.g. Wavenet: htt
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by minsc_and_boo 4y ago
GP asked for critical articles and received them. Changing the requirements to be for the last five years is moving the goalposts, by way of a no-true-scotsman.
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by minsc_and_boo 4y ago
Which makes you wonder why it was never applied.
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by minsc_and_boo 4y ago
I just did. Can you elaborate on why they think Wikipedia is lying?
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by minsc_and_boo 4y ago
There haven't been criminal convictions of federal democratic politicians in the last 5 years to report on. Also, it's moving the goal posts.
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by minsc_and_boo 4y ago
Facebook is only up 30% since 2018. Comparitively, NASDAQ and SP500 are up 69% and 55%, respectively. Even GOOG is up 100%. Facebook is performing worse than the natural growth of the markets, so maybe moral is important?
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by minsc_and_boo 4y ago
Are you genuinely asking for examples, or are you just declaring your opinion in bad faith? NPR reports on DNC mishaps and criminals all the time: - https://www.npr.org/2017/11/16/564593737/sen-al-franken
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by minsc_and_boo 4y ago
BBC just had their state-affiliated label removed. https://twitter.com/BBC
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by minsc_and_boo 4y ago
If it's such s small infraction then it should be easy for Musk to say they were wrong and correct it, right?
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by minsc_and_boo 4y ago
>To say that NPR doesn’t receive a significant portion of its budget from the federal government is a lie Do you have any evidence of this? Less than 1% of NPR's funding comes from federal sources, according to wikipedia.
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by minsc_and_boo 4y ago
Hot or Not was a popular site, and Facebook was created to be that but exclusively for college students. It was called Facemash .
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by minsc_and_boo 4y ago
So you're okay with your bank assisting ISIL in their weapons transactions? What about illegal activities outside of the law's jurisdiction?
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by minsc_and_boo 4y ago
Do you though? What's your opinion on abortion? Because every libertarian I've met is pro state-enforced pregnancies.
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by minsc_and_boo 4y ago
Well, yeah, "Cancel culture" is a pejorative - i.e. When people I don't like do it, it's nasty cancel culture. When I do it, it's noble boycotting.
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by minsc_and_boo 4y ago
Political belief is human opinion, and not a protected class. Is your position that there is no human opinion for which de-banking is acceptable?
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by minsc_and_boo 4y ago
And there are movies that make you use your imagination too. They're not that different.
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by minsc_and_boo 4y ago
>It's solitary, sedentary, and passive. People probably said the same about reading at several points in history. It's about how you use the technology, not the technology itself.
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by minsc_and_boo 4y ago
It's the other way around. Google announced two days ago, same day as GPT4 (hence why not many people remember it).
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by minsc_and_boo 4y ago
Outer Wilds is probably one of the top ten video games of the last decade. It's not perfect but it mixes the groundhog's-day mechanic with Myst-like elements, all under a folk space genre umbrella. I almost wish for amnesia to
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by minsc_and_boo 4y ago
I mean, I'm pretty sure DVD players had it when FF/Rewinding first.
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by minsc_and_boo 4y ago
Also the Joi character in Bladerunner 2049.
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by minsc_and_boo 4y ago
Yeah by the same logic we die every night when we sleep.
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by minsc_and_boo 4y ago
You'll have tiered processing, just like today. You can slum it out with limited simulation capabilities, or if you have a job you can afford the premium processor hours.
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by minsc_and_boo 4y ago
And then you'd have the first court case and prison sentence for a non-human consciousness. Which is just one step closer to the simulated hell for uploaded consciousnesses that get naughty, from Surface Detail by Ian Banks.
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by minsc_and_boo 4y ago
I hope not. You can permanently alter (i.e. for decades) the climate in a region by creating an algae bloom.
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by minsc_and_boo 4y ago
>When used in bioreactors* When used in a sealed climate-controlled chamber that produces the ideal conditions on land for an aquatic plant specie. IIRC it's ridiculously expensive to scale algae bioreactors, while trees grow and ma

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