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by octacat 3y ago
FB is a result of slowly AB-tested mutated app. By the way, FB is dead. The people I care about I want to keep away from FB. Oh, we have IG, which is an absolute mess right now. But really, the answer is pretty simple, just compare what peo
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by octacat 3y ago
The game the manufactures are playing is to get extra good conditions for them by pressing the government that they would produce abroad. Local manufacturing in any reasonable volume is not coming back. Highly automated - yes, maybe, if the
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by octacat 3y ago
At least real life stores do not check, where you live or which stuff you already have before denying you access to buy something they sell. Online dev world is so wonderful, cannot wait when money would be fully digital. So many opportunit
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by octacat 3y ago
Regulating mining would be a responsible economic policy. Like not printing money. Or regulating speculative markets (derivatives). But we currently doing our best to be least responsible :)
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by octacat 3y ago
We do not know what kind of generation they use. Probably the cheapest one. We do not know who operates them (probably people who have a lot of money). And they do not produce their own panels, driving cost up for other people on the free m
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by octacat 3y ago
I am totally for off-grid generation. As long as people buy their panels without any tax reliefs and incentives. Also, free market is good, if generation is 100% carbon offset which is not now. And yea, you are free to make any economical d
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by octacat 3y ago
yea, it is nice way to break local laws, sure. It is easy to track transactions on the block chain though - everyone sees them. I would say it is least anonymous way of doing transactions. Everyone knows about the transaction forever. Every
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by octacat 3y ago
As long as something legal and makes profit - people would do it. Energy generation does not offset all the climate damage it makes. Efficient: (of a system or machine) achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense. B
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by octacat 3y ago
So call it easy to deploy, not efficient use. Or "ease of utilisation of excess energy generation". The point is that bitcoin would use as much energy as possible as long as it is profitable regardless of fact it is over-produced
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by octacat 3y ago
Energy could be taxed higher, but it would make other users (like regular people) of energy unhappy. So far energy is "cheap", but it does not cover the total eco damage it makes.
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by octacat 3y ago
"Efficient" use is using 2% of all energy just to do 7 transactions a second and allow people to speculate?
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by octacat 3y ago
"Only" 2 percent. Bitcoin mining should be illegal. And usage probably too, because otherwise miners would just move to country without good eco regulations. And eco damage would be just spread across all population.
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by octacat 3y ago
Have you used a library for easing graph?
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by octacat 3y ago
Tiktok has a superpower of injecting random people into your feed, which could be and would be used for manipulation. Or suppressing specific posts. Probably that is why meta did the same (before they could only do it with ads, but nobody w
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by octacat 3y ago
And even in the western world companies would do self-censorship, so they would pass rules of the apple store (reddit case), pass "rules" of payment providers (mastercard/visa for OF) or please the advertisers (youtube/i
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by octacat 3y ago
I still remember google partnering up with XMPP. Could be lead and consume strategy (or lead, make confusing and slow down development). Though tensorflow was made by google and it is pretty good library.
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by octacat 3y ago
I think in this case some antivirus companies from EU could do notarisation. Of course, companies that have a good track record and would actually do the proper job. No need to depend on Apple to do it. We do not have a single SSL CA, for e
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by octacat 3y ago
It is in plans though. I think EU should make alternative notarisation entities though, antivirus companies could do it. If we care about "privacy and security" here.
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by octacat 3y ago
iOS would not run code which is not built and signed by their tools. Unless EU mandates the minimal interoperability requirements. You do not pay if your app is a Web app, so maybe better interop with web apps mandated would be more interes
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by octacat 3y ago
And works with 99.999999% - not true with Win 11.
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by octacat 3y ago
€0.50 for each first annual install per year is extremely expensive for many applications to handle. Especially if people just do installs to check and remove. We had this discussion with Unity already. Could be ok for fortnite though, epic
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by octacat 3y ago
If someone wanna build an XMPP modern open source UI, we could could cooperate with building the missing features on the server side with MongooseIM. The open source clients are currently pretty outdated. Matrix protocol has nice UI clients
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by octacat 3y ago
idk, social networks are kinda brutal to artists nowadays. In soo many ways. And too much ai art would make discoverability harder. Even now sometimes if you google some style/artist/a character, top sites on google are AI generat
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by octacat 3y ago
Virtue signalling AI. Next should be an eco-friendly blockchain...
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by octacat 3y ago
One problem is that many industry companies do not declare that they develop something for "the good of humanity". Otherwise it is yet another "virtue signalling".
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by octacat 3y ago
> OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) is developed safely and responsibly. Oof. It is not AGI, so does not count (sarcasm).
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by octacat 3y ago
The mindset is just follow the crowd to get average results, but to avoid risk of being blamed when stuff goes wrong.
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by octacat 3y ago
Not gonna happen. If other companies say "we are firing people", other companies would do the same (unless you are apple). We've seen it before with hiring. Hire not because we need, but because everyone is hiring.
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by octacat 3y ago
They should reduce the probability for entries, that are submitted multiple times. So, if you apply to several companies, you still have the same chance as if you apply to one company. Or just make companies to pay to win a slot ;)
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by octacat 3y ago
Of course it does. I have noo idea what happens if I press "Save settings" on all these cookie banners. Pretty sure somewhere there is a hidden checkbox that allows everything. It probably still tracks, just makes you happy readin

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