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by oarabbus_ 4y ago
>Wingstop and Thighstop for instance are incredibly close and not enough to trigger regulatory enforcement. There is the side note that they are owned by the same entity, but do regulators know that for a fact before they decide no to en
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by oarabbus_ 4y ago
Right, just like the essence of a car and a horse-drawn carriage is the same: travel. While we're at it, carrier pigeons and telegrams are essentially the same as text messaging (communication), and using the same logic leads us to con
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by oarabbus_ 4y ago
Isn't that a bit overly reductionist? Cars - I don't really see a significant change. Cars are like [trains, horse carriages, boats] of the past. They provide seating for people to travel. People wanting to travel is nothing new e
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by oarabbus_ 4y ago
>If Facebook claims to know more about the world than Wikipedia, it should factcheck itself. This seems like a misunderstanding of what the AI is doing. It does not "know about the world" or assert knowledge of any kind of trut
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by oarabbus_ 4y ago
The article states the training set included 134 million only webpage/URL citations. Since it is open-source, I'd imagine some researchers with computer vision expertise and skilled with document/text digitization could great
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by oarabbus_ 4y ago
There's nothing in the article about a machine which identifies suspicious information, or information control, or an apparatus of repression. Perhaps you're referring to some other thread? There is however, an open-source AI, and
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by oarabbus_ 4y ago
This is an odd statement I'm having trouble following on basically every level. 1. the article clearly states the FBI did not specifically mention the Biden story. 2. It's odd to then claim they followed the FBI's suggestion
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by oarabbus_ 4y ago
That indeed sounds dangerous, but this article is about an open-sourced AI research project, which I'm not sure qualifies as that.
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by oarabbus_ 4y ago
Humor me as someone without much web development experience - but what's to stop websites from displaying unclosable ads/popups? As in the "x" does nothing, or maybe doesn't appear at all?
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by oarabbus_ 4y ago
Many of the comments in this thread seem to not have anything to do with the content of the article, or the researchers' blog post cited within the article. There also seem to be some mistaken assumptions about the purpose of this AI.
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by oarabbus_ 4y ago
From the article and the cited Meta blog post, the AI is trained on millions of wiki citations. As for what it's attempting to do: >Automated tools can help identify gibberish or statements that lack citations, but helping human edi
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by oarabbus_ 4y ago
But wiki article citations == sources.
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by oarabbus_ 4y ago
Got it, I see what you mean, all fair points. >Totally agree. Lukas Eder has some nice presentations about it. Thanks - I googled him and instantly recognized the JOOQ blog, quality stuff.
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by oarabbus_ 4y ago
There was a time that doing exactly this (fixing, updating, or modifying existing queries) was a significant chunk of my day-to-day work. It certainly can be painful and tedious, but that's quite universal - certainly not specific to S
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by oarabbus_ 4y ago
>SQL as a language is subpar to say the least. SQL is really unergonomic, it's difficult to reuse SQL code On the DML side I've found SQL to be very reusable at any company I've worked for - grep/search repos for the
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by oarabbus_ 4y ago
I didn't downvote you, but I did find it interesting that Bovada, which was originally a bitcoin sportsbook and casino, achieved Visa/Mastercard integration for deposits several years ago.
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by oarabbus_ 4y ago
I agree the characterization isn't very useful, as you point out - but that's the tricky thing with infinit(ies), isn't it? When discussing human behavior and introducing an infinity concept, the final result is the same for
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by oarabbus_ 4y ago
>When crossing the street, there's a tiny risk of death, but a fairly good chance of a somewhat desirable outcome (getting to the other side.) If you considered your death to have negative infinity utility, and the desirable outcome
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by oarabbus_ 4y ago
I think the point being made is about banned by your region's major payment processing corporations, not specifically Visa or Mastercard. Any statement about a "majority of the world" would need to apply to India, China, and
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by oarabbus_ 4y ago
>(If death truly had negative infinity utility, it would overpower the benefit of everything and we couldn't do anything.) It's true death has utility in an economic sense, as one needs not look further than the funeral/de
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by oarabbus_ 4y ago
Not a js/frontend dev, but what I see is "47.12 percent of respondents reported to be using Node. js, while 42.62 percent were using React." Don't know if that qualifies as having the "crown".
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by oarabbus_ 4y ago
>The Marxist definition of working class (i.e., the proletariat) had nothing to do with income distributions. You're essentially summing up the flaws in the author's attempt to apply Marxist theory to a modern, capitalist socie
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by oarabbus_ 4y ago
If you're upper-middle class (which describes the majority of tech workers), you aren't part of the working class, by definition. Most definitions of working-class include individuals in low-paying, unskilled and/or manual la
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by oarabbus_ 4y ago
Did you try to search Lebanon on localcryptos or localbitcoins? The former has no listings which transact in LBP, only one which requires Western Union (USD). And the latter has no listings at all in Lebanon.
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by oarabbus_ 4y ago
>It would be centralized if there were a third actor that mediated all transactions between two parties, e.g. a FOREX exchange or bank that processed the transaction the comment I responded to specified a "money changer". I don
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by oarabbus_ 4y ago
Nope. But I'm also not the one claiming a new model I've invented will work and should replace the current system. Your claim would be more convincing if you could point to an existing business or platform that uses the linear pay
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by oarabbus_ 4y ago
No, I mean the local centralized entity that would need to have sufficient LBP available for exchange for BTC to solve this man's problem. He needs to pay a hospital, not trade crypto with an anonymous counterparty.
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by oarabbus_ 4y ago
>can be useful in an emergency situation as shown here. Clearly holding Lebanese currency in a bank may not be useful for holding emergency funds. But I do not believe that it's been shown that at point in time an asset which can dr
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by oarabbus_ 4y ago
Do you have sources or evidence that this linear payout system can work? Any businesses, platforms, or countries that have successfully used this type of model?
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by oarabbus_ 4y ago
Once he finds a local Lebanese money changer willing to exchange LBP for bitcoin (for how large of a fee?) and sends the BTC, he now finds himself in the exact same situation as the bank - having to trust a centralized entity. And inflation

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