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by mu53 2y ago
> the world's biggest payments network, saying it propped up an illegal monopoly over debit payments by imposing "exclusionary" agreements on partners and smothering upstart firms. Is it the size of the US or the exclusion
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by mu53 2y ago
Trump wants a peace deal in ukraine that could involve land concessions. Kamala would likely continue the policy of continuous, slow escalation. The most recent escalation is Ukraine shooting long range weapon into Russia, what's next?
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I am convinced that these many of these proclamations and scary AI videos are more of a marketing gimic for people to get excited and fund more AI. AI is prohibitively expensive. LLMs can take millions to train, and for Chatgpt 4, I wouldn&
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by mu53 2y ago
Copyleft licensing doesn't protect against cloud hosting competition. It mostly applies to modifications to the source code, but not hosting for revenue. As long as their contributions are also open source, the license is satisfied. Yo
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by mu53 2y ago
Permissive licenses give mega-corps (AWS,GCP,Azure) the ability to use software projects without contributing to it. This mechanic in the market is going to dramatically shorten the runway for open source projects turning into mature compan
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Considering this story, this 18 year old was in a robbery and a fight. Nobody was murdered. He got 18 months and has been in for 18 years. The article makes no mention of justification for the board's decision to keep him in prison or
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by mu53 2y ago
The data shows that violent crimes are lower today than they've been in decades. Ever recorded, technically in the US. Crime is enormously politicized. Whichever politician is in office can be attacked with any crimes that happened in
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I am leaning towards fewer developers. There is a crunch in the job market and companies are finding rate of progress as being similar before, so don't feel inclined to hire more
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what country are you from?
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While it does a much better job, public providers can be become political targets for budget cuts. The NHS probably has a much lower approval these days and in the past, and the NHS failing to provide care has become a political topic in En
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You are giving me flashbacks back to 2008. "THeY aRe Gonna KILL GrandMA" Healthcare companies are entrenched politically with expansive lobbying efforts and advertising dollars.
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If you took a list of every open source project that FANG-type companies depend on, there are small libraries that don't draw benefit/attention from large companies. Outdated, less optimal, almost-famous code/libraries/f
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I have been stalked and harassed by an Apple employee using data they were able to glean from their access at Apple. The impossible part is proving the abuse. All of these companies keep their database, access controls, and everything they
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Google pixel with grapheneOS is where I ended up as well. I think there was more interest in privacy focused OSes for a while, but it died out. The community has coalesced around google pixels and other phones/manufacturers have harden
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Theoretically feasible, but practically impossible. Please go to the CIA/DoD/FBI/(whatever the relevant chinese agencies are called) and tell them how to do their jobs so it will "never again" happen.
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by mu53 2y ago
2/4 US Intelligence agencies agree that is was most likely a lab leak[1]. Unfortunately, it is impossible politically to police this area of research. All that would happen is it would happen in more secretive government labs. The only
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Looks like FB has learned from MS. Extend,Embrace,Extinguish
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I think the weapon is tested and understood. The value is in disruption. Headaches are not just headaches, but also intimidation and harassment. When there is a person working a case important to a state actor, if that person is delayed a w
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by mu53 2y ago
Browser fingerprinting is insanely sophisticated, and I am sure that apps have sophisticated techniques as well. When you pool the data together, it’s easy to correlate. Plus, IMEI numbers can be used by carriers, and that is a very solid i
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Haskell is so alien that coming from javascript/ruby will feel like knowing almost nothing. It's rigid and forces you into a way of thinking about problems with the single/strict paradigm approach. Very difficult to program i
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I agree that the education system would be better with this kind of arrangement, but it doesn't happen because of economics and american independence. What certifying body would administer the exam? A university that would miss out on
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I think the only reason this doesn't happen is economics. If someone were to "fix" the education system and start giving out bachelors for less money, the value of bachelors degrees would go down. In part, because more people
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AI is trending right now. The most important thing for new companies is finding investors, and those people have been throwing cash at any company with AI. Customers are also more interested in AI products. The tech industry has stagnated f
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Its really easy to point out that these systems exist. The cameras are often only slightly hidden. The problem is knowing what is being done with the data. Where the data goes and how it is used. You don't know who has pictures of your
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I think a likely and hidden contributor to the BigTech layoffs of 2023 is the development of AI. I know there are other reasons, but it didn't hurt that they had labor saving AI systems built that could handle the load. After hiring a
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that was 30 years ago? New Java developers have been born after the original inception and learned the language long after. Reputations change over time. Core Java was staunchly against incorporating any functional features while the rest o
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typescript is still evolving in dramatic ways. The 5.0 release has some really good improvements
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The HTMX hype vastly underestimates what a good SPA can do. Instead, HTMX re-allocates most responsibilities from the front end to the backend. Its a good tool for teams/individuals with a high proficiency in backend tooling, and doesn
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I think this type of harassment and stalking happens way more often than LE and tech companies want to admit. Another instance[1] happened in Miami with a cop using a database to stalk a woman, another deputy, for pulling him over. The real
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A human is always in the loop too. From what we've seen with other AI systems is that humans will start rubber stamping targets left and right to reduce their work burden.

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