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by nerdponx 1y ago
Considering that they already reversed a major precedent that specifically applies to the regulatory authority of federal agencies, I don't see why we wouldn't expect them to do it again.
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Also modern infrastructure is literally built on concrete. Whereas the broad benefits of AI are dubious by comparison.
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> Maybe desperation is warranted, or maybe social media has distorted reality. Some parts of the country never really recovered from 2008. Obama took the smug liberal approach of telling people it was all over when it clearly was not all
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It's a matter of historical fact. When has this not been the case. Can you think of any serious examples? Everyone everywhere all the time is just responding to the incentives in their environment. "Make a lot of money" is a
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The American electorate, especially the group that voted for Trump, has been abused by their federal and often also state governments, sometimes for decades. Not everyone is a good person and not everyone can be "saved" for lack o
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They are kind of different statements. For-profit institutions will almost always act in the interest of profit for the people who have an ownership stake and a claim to the prophet stream. That's definitionally why they exist, and we
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> My only question who is pushing the messaging and who does it benefit? You get 0 "both sides gotcha" points for this one because there is a clear answer when it comes to right wing messaging, and it has been the same since th
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by nerdponx 1y ago
Remember when the FCC botted their own comment page in order to make it look like the public was split and ultimately against a policy change that the public is clearly in favor of? Funny how they only did that under President Trump, but Bi
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by nerdponx 1y ago
It's inaccurate to blame Trump. He is a greedy egotistical idiot. Blaming Trump is like blaming a rock that hit you in the head. Look up and pay attention to who threw the rock. Blame them. The Trump presidency is the culmination of a
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This line of reason is actually becoming more frequently used to justify things. For years, the right wing propaganda machine has been establishing the concept that conservatism and America as a whole is besieged by authoritarian leftists a
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That's clever, but it's not a common perspective so the behavior you propose might be quite surprising indeed. And moreover it only applies to this one particular function. The general principle still applies in general.
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It doesn't help that container images typically require you to "opt in" to sharing a cache with the host system. Docker even has a special file mount type for it. I find that people on average don't have a lot of interes
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It wasn't controversial, but this is literally the textbook Manufacturing Consent model. The small number of people in positions of power at the network are either overtly aligned with the president that he just talked bad about, or
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I've often advocated for inverting Hanlon's razor whenever money is involved. The more money is at stake, the more likely it is in fact due to malice.
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by nerdponx 1y ago
To be fair I don't see what the FCC has to do with it. This is classic Manufacturing Consent behavior.
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I don't think listening to or watching something entertaining while doing something unpleasant or boring or uncomfortable is an example of dopamine stacking. It's just a distraction technique that helps you take your mind off the
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by nerdponx 1y ago
What's stopping supply chain attacks like this from happening in other languages like Python, or even in source repos via compromised forge accounts like Github? Artifact/commit signing is optional, so while 2FA fortunately is bec
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by nerdponx 1y ago
You're right, and you aren't the only one correct me on this. I was responding to the implication that it's OK for him to be arrested regardless of how, because he did bad and criminal things. The premise of the article being
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by nerdponx 1y ago
Totally valid. And I also didn't check into the warrants themselves. I was responding to the implication I keep seeing here that it's OK that he got arrested because he did bad things, regardless of how the arrest came about.
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by nerdponx 1y ago
And yet fraudulent warrants, if they are indeed fraudulent, are still illegal and immoral and a violation of this criminal's rights.
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The funny thing about rights is that you have them even if you've done other bad things. The thinking on display here ("the guy was a criminal anyway") is the primary slippery slope to tyranny that we have seen in the past 10
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by nerdponx 1y ago
Pretty sure Twitch on iOS does this now. Screen recording still works though.
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The special properties extend into statistics, where you have the Gaussian distribution which feels both magical and universal, and is precisely the exponential of a (squared) Euclidean distance, i.e. exp(-(x - x0)^2). I have the same feeli
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Bring a cloth bag to put the apples in after checkout.
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The problem we are seeing in suburban MA right now is that they're building the wrong kind of housing to address the greatest shortage, and doing it in a way that does not promote the long-term community well-being. Developers are jamm
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The problem is that the people who want small phones also don't like buying new phones. Also last I checked the "mini" phones weren't particularly mini, phones just got bigger.
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by nerdponx 1y ago
It blows my mind that this is legal in any developed nation. The whole PE playbook seems like embezzlement carried out in broad daylight.
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The problem with vaccine skepticism is that the wingnuts make it impossible to be a legitimate skeptic. And yes, skepticism is warranted. Are we all such severe sufferers of Gell-Mann amnesia?? Vaccine manufacturers are not special. The
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If there was any lobbying incentive, it would be anticompetitive suppression of smaller companies that can't afford the tax increase.
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It's not about the downloading of the data, it's about its use in training models, which is dubious from a copyright perspective.

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