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by pessimizer 1mo ago
All of the comments on this page serve to expose things that were surviving by flying under the radar. It's delusional to pretend like they're somehow bulletproof when their survival has been due to being infinitesimal in size, an
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by pessimizer 1mo ago
Really important for you to mention this. People just love to tell when they know something no one else does. Does "cut into my own flesh" mean that you only think you'll be affected by this becoming common knowledge?
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by pessimizer 1mo ago
This is a silly fact that doesn't matter, because nobody knows where they are anymore. Even worse, this goofy gloating post ensures that these are about to taken down, too. Nitter can literally be run for a single user, so if a hundred
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by pessimizer 1mo ago
This should be the law but it will never be. If your vicious dog murders someone, you will get a ticket. When you intentionally break a traffic law and kill someone, it's involuntary manslaughter (at most.) It's a mitigating circu
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by pessimizer 1mo ago
add a different ID check to the MFA if that doesn't work, then add more MFA to that new ID check. Eventually it has to work, right? It's definitely worth doing infinite security in order to avoid regulating social network algorith
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by pessimizer 1mo ago
All previous systems avoided this. The government issued me an ID in the past, yet had no record of when I used it, or for what. I am so much more afraid of monopolies invading my privacy than roving hackers, or my corner store. Governments
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by pessimizer 1mo ago
This is the answer. The more failures, the more justification for more draconian restrictions of civil liberties. I can hear the defense now: "Oh, yeah, you blame the honest, good, handsome people trying their best to protect you and y
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by pessimizer 1mo ago
They also tend to be carrying 5-25x more people than cars, so there are far fewer of them. They also tend to be driving in the city on the busiest streets, whereas arbitrary cars are more often driving on vacant streets and highways. so try
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by pessimizer 1mo ago
> asking, "Is that legal?" to scraping posts. Here. In HACKER news. The capital letters don't make this astonishing. The padmapper vs. craigslist debate was nearly 15 years ago, most people were on craigslist's side (
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by pessimizer 1mo ago
This isn't a matter of courage. They're doing what they want to do. Clinton's deregulation, especially of telecommunications, is what lead to our horrible present (he appointed this judge.) The judges that Obama appointed lit
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by pessimizer 1mo ago
Nah. AI is anything that can often solve inexactly specified problems, often through the use of a combination of probabilities and deductions. Your problem is thinking that "artificial intelligence" has to be whatever you think &q
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by pessimizer 1mo ago
I assume by forcing them to validate their citations with a deterministic tool.
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by pessimizer 1mo ago
You also have to go to the DMV anyway, no matter how much you hate it, so nobody cares about how frustrated you are. The only people who will suffer your anger are the other people waiting at the DMV. This is just another symptom of a lack
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by pessimizer 1mo ago
> it's been pointed out that you are holding the two companies to two different standards. Stop making things up. Apple is garbage, too. This isn't an Apple thread.
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by pessimizer 1mo ago
> Lina Kahn had the mandate but took too long. She didn't "take too long," she did all she could as long as she could, and is still doing it. The problem is that she was opposed by both political parties and the administra
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by pessimizer 1mo ago
Having a theory of power that doesn't unrealistically imagine a control over government which one demonstrably doesn't have is not "defeatism." Limiting yourself to only one impossible way of doing things is more insidio
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by pessimizer 1mo ago
> Many of the things you're listing are the exact things the platforms would have to be banned from doing by the regulation you're proposing because they're the mechanisms used to exclude competitors. And they should still
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by pessimizer 1mo ago
Absentee owners should be taxed out of existence. The distance between an investment and the people who understand it is a law enforcement liability (it encourages fraud), a public liability (it inevitably concentrates ownership who can eas
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by pessimizer 1mo ago
"You" is 10-20% of the US population. The rest will never actually be able to afford retirement, and have no investments. 50% don't have an extra $500 in case of emergency. ----- edit: Financial literacy is not alchemy. It wi
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by pessimizer 1mo ago
And it's so far from where it should be. I don't want a bunch of recommendations of Nazi videos even if I watch a Nazi video. I don't want endless recommendations of Nazi videos even if I spend the entirety of one day of
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by pessimizer 1mo ago
I'm astonished that the tactics are still so dumb. I buy a dining room table and forever after the site is recommending dining room tables.
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by pessimizer 1mo ago
A delay wouldn't change that. You're talking about the difference of the site being up for a half day or not at all, which is admittedly infinity times longer, but not enough to make any sort of difference (as opposed to putting t
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by pessimizer 1mo ago
Some of it is very good, although you have to dig to find it. They use real wood in many pieces; it's not all disposable. I don't think that the good stuff is popular, though, and it certainly isn't highlighted. When a durabl
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by pessimizer 1mo ago
This is in a thread about them having to be beautiful and modern . "Modernity" seems to boil down to actually being a bit afraid that your AirPods could have a near-monogamous relationship with you, and that this would mean tha
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by pessimizer 1mo ago
> Programmers wouldn't stand for a language that pops up a modal dialog when you type incorrect code I have no idea why you think this. The only reason I wouldn't like it is because I might be doing something that requires inco
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by pessimizer 1mo ago
It was written for them by very smart people to quiet resistance to these laws, and to make sure there's no possibility that there's a price to be paid by anyone at the ballot box. Most of them probably neither understand or even
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by pessimizer 1mo ago
> In addition, lawmakers inserted a new provision prohibiting anyone from requesting an age signal from an OS provider or app store unless required by law. That closes off potential abuse of the age API that could have led to it being us
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by pessimizer 1mo ago
An LLM has no special insight into itself and has no reasons. It will come up with something that is convincing, and it will change based on the word choices you used in the request. You can observe this by asking it why it did something th
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by pessimizer 1mo ago
Debian gives attribution to every single open source project in existence that is capable of running on Linux, and is Free Software. It is exactly the project that shouldn't worry about copyright. The "moral" argument I haven
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by pessimizer 1mo ago
Ah, "icky gatekeeping." I'm convinced.

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