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by pnt12 5y ago
If you live outside the city, you basically are. In my home town, transportation is limited, eg a bus in the morning and one in the afternoon, both which can be late, and the stops are kilometers apart and the sidewalks are shitty. So when
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by pnt12 5y ago
Millions of people installed adblock. When YouTube increased the number of ads, lots of people complained about it. People often complain about TV ads and switch to Netflix. There's no social contract - a company shows ads and gets mon
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by pnt12 5y ago
Well that's economy 101 - something has value if someone will pay for it. In that sense, an entry to a ponzi scheme is also valuable - many people do pay to enter ponzi schemes. But looking at more concrete ways of value: technical mer
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by pnt12 5y ago
These arguments are getting old and tiring. How much crypto is traded to avoid corrupt regimes and hyperinflation? 1%? 0.1%? There's probably a few zeroes in there. Regarding Netflix, it's better for the environment than buying a
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by pnt12 5y ago
I partially agree with the eye of the beholder argument. But video-games, useless? Hard disagree. How about movies, books, theater, paintings? We should not move into a soulless society that only cares about "productive" activitie
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by pnt12 5y ago
Arguably, not all of those consumptions are equal. I'd compare that to paying a supermarket tax because it sells alcohol and alcohol is bad for the health.
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by pnt12 5y ago
The ToS says rent but the UI says buy, what gives? It may be technically correct that it's not a purchase but also purposely deceitful: this has to change.
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by pnt12 5y ago
You're arguing at a strawman with a flavor of whataboutism - many people don't think that's OK, and different problems don't invalidate this one. Other than that: individual boycott doesn't work. For example, I don&
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by pnt12 5y ago
Some valid concerns are: * False positives - the visual hashing algorithm has already been broken and people were able to force collisions. * Dictatorships demanding the addition of "problematic" pictures to the CSAM database, ie
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by pnt12 5y ago
Also that straight forward searches with an exact product or website name get their first result high jacked by the top bidder, forcing you to sell ads to users who are exactly looking for your site!
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by pnt12 5y ago
It's a red-light with a speed warning and a detector - if you go over the allowed speed, it turns red, otherwise stays green forever. But we also have hidden radars which are not announced.
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by pnt12 5y ago
Completely agree. Measurable results go hand in hand with quick reports and pretty graphs, but they fail to capture so many things. I think this is replaced by vision, trust and transparency: if competent people (or at least competent leade
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by pnt12 5y ago
Unlike a paper encyclopedia, a second brain has *your* thoughts. You write down what is useful to you, and in a style that matches your comprehension. My "2nd brain" are mostly scattered notes and scripts: low effort but just medi
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I think the described processes are quite an effort and seem to imply a black and white world: no notes versus a personal intranet of your mind. I'm looking to augment my process but I've started with a simple approach: markdown
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by pnt12 5y ago
Writing notes and organizing your thoughts will by itself solidify your knowledge, even if you never read them later. Also: * when you write something, it challenges you: do you know enough to form cohesive sentences or do you just have sca
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by pnt12 5y ago
Sure but nitpicking does not lead to productive discussions.
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I don't have sources, but I believe that half the sales happen around the first few weeks.
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by pnt12 5y ago
And they'll get new friends. I doubt that shaming individuals works. But having thoughtful discourse about it is probably much better - let people hear the arguments and make up their mind. With this being said, I do find it a waste th
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by pnt12 5y ago
The email would be nicer, but what's the solution exactly? The admin of one project moved it somewhere else - how do you restrict that, if the admin has total control over a project? Are there improvements that could be done to allow t
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by pnt12 5y ago
That's been an argument for non-removable batteries, getting rid of the 3.5mm jack. I find that argument strange: I've never needed my phone while showering or swimming. Some rain has never broken any of my devices. But I've
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by pnt12 5y ago
They just picked a big real file and used it for benchmarking. Apparently it's not even from the same project, why would they comment on it?
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by pnt12 5y ago
The author claims its open source but then explicitly omits a license to the repo, so they are misusing the term.
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by pnt12 5y ago
I wrote a static website for a family business using vanilla html - it has been up and running for several years. I also have an (abandoned) website using a markdown to html converter. I've switched converters two times because they ev
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by pnt12 5y ago
I think that if we ever reach that breakthrough, then we can argue that an AGI deserves more rights than a non-AGI.
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by pnt12 5y ago
I was wondering about this. What happens when someone invents a patent related to their work? It is strange to me if the IP belongs to the company but not the patent.
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by pnt12 5y ago
if we have AGI* Progress has boundaries and hits walls. Such a breakthrough in AI is not guaranteed to happen.
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by pnt12 5y ago
Even though I disagree, this post predates that argument: it shows how easy collisions are,against the one in a trillion argument. Maybe someone sends you some unsuspicious pictures and you get a visit by the FBI, or some apple (outsourced)
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by pnt12 5y ago
He's not a scientist, he's a politician.
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Surely there is one person in the world: that would be the anecdote to the data. We can't disregard something if there is one conflicting data point, unless we're talking about maths or proofs. With that being said: if someone is
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Yes, its very strange to announce the product first and then the research.

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