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by pfortuny 8mo ago
One of the things about slave coups in ancient times was that they really believed there are things more important than life.
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by pfortuny 8mo ago
Privacy of your image, not of your voice, at least as regards recordings.
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by pfortuny 8mo ago
You seem to not have known the Altavista/Yahoo/Terra/AskJeeves/Lycos/InfoSeek era of search engines. There was enough market competition to not allow for ads to appear on every search. And then, BANG!
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by pfortuny 8mo ago
The continuum. Connectedness.
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by pfortuny 8mo ago
Shit happens :D
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by pfortuny 8mo ago
mmmhhhhh 800mm2 ~= (30mm)2, which is more like a (biggish) thumb drive.
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by pfortuny 8mo ago
Problem is: you have chosen an orientation (x rightwards, y upwards). That makes your choice of i/-i not canonical: as is natural, because it cannot be canonical.
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by pfortuny 8mo ago
Exactly.
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by pfortuny 8mo ago
Actually, that is also a way to surrepticiously abuse you: not even your toilet time should be "yours".
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by pfortuny 8mo ago
Exactly. That is why the "forgetful functor" seems at first sight stupid and when you think a bit, it is genius.
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by pfortuny 8mo ago
There is no way to distinguish between "i" and "-i" unless you choose a representation of C. That is what Galois Theory is about: can you distinguish the roots of a polynomial in a simple algebraic way? For instance: if
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by pfortuny 8mo ago
With my bank (bankinter) you can bizum from a browser (just checked). Sorry: This is Spain (to clarify).
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by pfortuny 9mo ago
It is impressive what people find "delightful, "a joy", "fresh air" these days.
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by pfortuny 9mo ago
"Take this card, son, you can do whatever you want with it." Goes on to withdraw 100000$. Unauthorized????
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by pfortuny 9mo ago
But then Clawd gets capitalized...
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by pfortuny 9mo ago
Well yes. People have gone missing since there were people on Earth. The fact that something has some good side effects does not make it good or even reasonable.
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by pfortuny 9mo ago
As long as they keep other people’s money, they make money on it.
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by pfortuny 9mo ago
Yes, blameworthy, but not “bad”. Not the same thing. At all.
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by pfortuny 9mo ago
Never qualify the person, only the deed. Because we are all capable of the same actions, some of us have just not done them. But we all have the same capacity. And yes, I am saying that I have the same capacity for wrong as the person you a
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by pfortuny 9mo ago
It was always the only resort. The best, the worst, the first, the last, the richest, the poorest. The only one.
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by pfortuny 9mo ago
> Hi, write me a prompt to ask Gemini how to SEO ChatGPT with my Claude Code plugin. Be short, brief, to the point, and smart.
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by pfortuny 9mo ago
Quoting Simon & Garfunkel: > And though my lack of education hasn't hurt me none I can read the writing on the wall We shall be good. Pinky promise.
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by pfortuny 9mo ago
I use Quicksilver and I have Spotlight disabled.
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by pfortuny 9mo ago
Mmmmhhhhhh it depends on what the engineer knows about the realistic uses of the tool. As a sibling comments, fixing the railroads to Auswichz might me morally wrong. Eichmann knew what he was doing and, in any case, forcing dozens of thous
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by pfortuny 9mo ago
There remains the issue of responsibility, moral, technical, and legal, though.
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by pfortuny 10mo ago
Then you look at the desktop backgrounds folder in your Mac and say: WHAT THE FUCK! There are 4k videos there... Just unbelievable.
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by pfortuny 10mo ago
International Law predates Nuremberg by at least 300 years (see the School of Salamanca). I am not trying to nitpick, honestly, it is that the rights of other nations and peoples were recognized well before the US even was an idea.
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by pfortuny 10mo ago
Only names are allowed, of long-dead people.
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by pfortuny 10mo ago
Happy Christmas, may we all keep this forum peaceful (but nonetheless compelling)! Thanks to @dang!
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by pfortuny 10mo ago
When you only have a hammer...

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