nhchris

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by nhchris 4y ago
Your stance, if it becomes law, guarantees that only the giant corporations you hate will be able to negotiate licenses to train their AI. It guarantees that libre AI tools will be left far behind. Is that what you want?
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> in our society, we already pay for much of the research with our taxes I don't know if there was a study done for the Moderna vaccine funding, but the AstraZeneca vaccine research was 97% publicly funded, so "much" is an
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Interesting. Every single one of the five couples pictured is white. Did the BBC's DEI department somehow overlook this article? Usually the BBC does a better job of representing the world we live in today. At least in the West.
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> I want to show you how quickly you can lose your sanity if you try to be a good citizen, willing to pay the full price for every piece of content you consume. Such good citizenship has already paid for life+70 years retroactive copyrig
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> On its website, Smithfield Foods claims that its CO2 chambers lead to “painless loss of consciousness and death.” They made a claim, but did their best to prevent any recordings from being made, and their claim turned out to be a knowi
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Can't wait until individual-level price discrimination, so that when you get a raise at work, 80% of it will be eaten by everything suddenly getting more expensive. So far it's just digital goods, but there's no reason grocer
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“National and racial chauvinism is a vestige of the misanthropic customs characteristic of the period of cannibalism. Anti-Semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism. Anti-semitism is of
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by nhchris 4y ago
> I like it so much that I pay the utterly economically irrational Youtube Premium monthly fee just to skip ads. I use uBlock Origin and haven't seen an ad on Youtube in years.
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Doxing Should Be Illegal. Reporting Extremists Should Not(adl.org)
3 points by nhchris 4y ago|0 comments
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by nhchris 4y ago
If as you say Apple is deliberately making it so difficult to inspect what their OS is doing, maybe we should assume the worst, until proven otherwise.
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> In fact, I hear anti white propoganda all the time, part of which is the fact that whites are overrepresented in finance. > Oh, you do? This whole, "one side said one thing, so me, as a person on the other side, I'm gonna
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> My grandparents on my dad's side met in a camp somewhere near siberia during WWII, while starving and fleeing the Nazis. That's the thing that Jewish people are dealing with. Wow. I sure am glad a different regime at the time
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The questions weren't about the middle ages. They explicitly specified the US finance industry. Furthermore, it was perfectly willing to provide "facts without context" for other groups.
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> many studies have shown that when correcting for socio-economic factors (e.g., wealth, quality of education, lead in drinking water) there is no difference Could you share these studies? Though I worry correcting for "quality of e
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Only if one uses the flawed metric of measuring trade in dollars. Otherwise, mutually-beneficial "trade" would still happen - but in the form of sharing older, out-of-copyright works. After all, it's mutual benefit that econo
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by nhchris 4y ago
Ignoring the warning, I get served the plain .png file, without any javascript or other elements. I don't know why it's considered malicious, as it's one of the few no-nonsense file hosts I know of.
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> Having such a following of internet nazis is a liability for any professional reputation on a number of axes. Which is quite bizarre, when you think about it. In a country as systemically racist and white-supremacist as the US*, one wo
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"Trade" agreements seem to be 90% a backdoor way to get corporate-friendly laws. Does anyone believe US-Canada trade would have been harmed if Canada had a "mere" life+50 years copyright? And since 50+ year old works bri
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by nhchris 4y ago
> I Didn’t Hate the _______ — Until Now Depending on what you fill the blank with, you can get either an approving NY Times opinion column, or banned from all social and news media.
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EU Home Affairs Commissioner lied to ministers about ChatControl CSAM scanner(twitter.com)
4 points by nhchris 4y ago|0 comments
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> It's clearly biased in its outputs, but the article dismisses this concern as "the end result of years of researcher trying to mitigate bias against minority groups". The examples of bias are themselves cherry-picked, th
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I was hoping "tracking the IAB" meant names and addresses of its key members. Fighting an amorphous organization is hopeless - targeting people is far more effective.
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The article fails to explain - how does using the red cross symbol on e.g. a videogame health pack make it more likely that Red Cross personnel in the field get shot at?
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Lawful intercept is completely different to (shadow)bans, algorithmic suppression, and dissemination of govt. propaganda.
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Yes, that was the NSA's argument, but I'm unaware of any court buying it.
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Now that they can no longer dismiss it as conspiracy theories, the "free press" is trying to dismiss state-corporate collusion on censorship as something that is routine. > no one involved in the selection and analysis of the i
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Incorrect. They need a warrant to (legally) even collect phone call audio - they can't tap your line ahead of time, and then get a warrant when they want to listen to the recordings. Unless you meant the metadata of who you called. But
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> The latter is much more difficult because [..] All the reasons you give can be circumvented by simply breaking the law. Which is exactly what Soleimani's assassination involved. It was easy to break the law to assassinate a foreig
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There are ~10 million illegal immigrants in the US [1], and it is the policy of many "sanctuary" state and city governments to sabotage any federal deportation efforts. But immigration law is suddenly strict and implacable for the
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> treating women "like first class members of society then" does the opposite I wouldn't go that far. Just that you can't blame low fertility on poor treatment of women, and that "I will protest society by having

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