psychoslave

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by psychoslave 4mo ago
But then we step back a little further and ask what this thing that is called property, why should any human be granted any beyond what actually constitute them as an entity of their own. What matter at the end of the day is not what the do
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by psychoslave 4mo ago
>This is a common perspective on HN, but it's so jarring. Someone violates an open-source license and we grab our pitchforks. Someone pirates books and it's fine - really, the authors should be thanking us. This is only apparen
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by psychoslave 4mo ago
I mean, all in all, most life forms are reproductive unit in some stage, or part of i, from the species point of view. Though some individual prove sterile.
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by psychoslave 4mo ago
And datacenters have impact on everything around them. If at the end of the day to result is a few more yachts and jets and, a lot more of miserable humans starving in ruined ecosystems, maybe that’s not the best go-to direction.
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by psychoslave 4mo ago
Edge cases are hard is not a bad rule of thumb. High concentration, and you have saturation issues. Extremely low concentration, and there is not much active elements to leverage on. Yes, as all rules of thumb, it falls apart in many situat
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by psychoslave 4mo ago
Hmm, mice get much impressive medical results to be linked to here and there, but overall it’s not certain the species benefit that much in happiness and fulfilment.
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by psychoslave 4mo ago
Humans can go very far in exploring all kind of variation in whatever craze they get addicted to, all the more if they get all the room and resources to do so.
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by psychoslave 4mo ago
But explicit terse and leveraging on common vocabulary is often if not always also an option.
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by psychoslave 4mo ago
As things are moving, there's currently no garantee that Trump won't hold his promise US citizen will never have to vote again. And even if the bipartisan system make a small turn over, the issue is systemic.
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by psychoslave 4mo ago
Neither US or EU are monoblocks though. Obviously, on both side (and beyond) they are nice people trying to plan good things without being too naive. But bragging all day through and destroy all that is in your power is both easier and more
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by psychoslave 4mo ago
EU should be more integrated, sovereign, autonomous, making thrive cooperation through all its counties and talented people and with non-hostile extra-European actors. But competition is just a trap of short term view. Competition is for lo
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by psychoslave 4mo ago
Why not? I would happily see a fraction of my taxes go into such a project.
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by psychoslave 4mo ago
You can't purchase a domain, only rent it. If anything, going through a "pay to get a temporary monopoly on some virtual object" is the very opposite of empowering people with more autonomy as the project seems to try to supp
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by psychoslave 4mo ago
Might be a public service? I guess many countries already had such a thing with running cost several order higher than such a thing as a TLD, operating for centuries now.
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by psychoslave 4mo ago
Yes, LLM are thrown through pretty much everyone digital life whether they like it or not, it's not just devs. It might even unlock exploring things that need code that average user wouldn't have dared to do before.
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by psychoslave 4mo ago
Having to shoe a horse never was a general skill. Maybe a more apt analogy would be a skill like making fire without a lighter.
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by psychoslave 4mo ago
Anything done local will likely come at higher cost and at scale with less energy efficiency and commodity, with less possibility to fine tune engineer deeply on wider horizon of issues. That's never the point of keeping local alternat
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by psychoslave 4mo ago
>You might as well throw out half the resumes and tell the the applicants you don’t fuck with bad luck. Hmm, well, maybe a bit with a nuance of elite class structure reproduction (that doesn’t prevent a few transclass to showcase in case
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by psychoslave 4mo ago
Obviously not exactly that, but egalitarian regims in complex societies was apparently a thing, or at least strong evidences back this scenario. https://asiatimes.com/2023/06/mystery-of-missing-indus-valle... htt
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by psychoslave 4mo ago
You forget to mention life and biology, earth and geology, universe and cosmology.
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by psychoslave 4mo ago
As far as we don't know, they might also have operational stargates large enough to let their starships pass through. Actually, every country might have that. But what is impactless to the wider world will always be as significant as s
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by psychoslave 4mo ago
Bhutan didn't release any model yet as far as I know, if the level of care government give to people actual happiness is what are supposed to be concerned about here. Among over countries that are consistent being on top on gross natio
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by psychoslave 4mo ago
In Soviet Russia, one couldn't download a car. In modern America, cars upload you.
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by psychoslave 4mo ago
Let's plan a fire fighter division only once we are actually having some buildings in the city burning down. That people who fear that ridiculous perfectly controlled fire in chemines are ridiculous.
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by psychoslave 4mo ago
Semantic is passé, word models moved to the next generation.
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by psychoslave 4mo ago
So, greed that devoured scientific publication, that's why. Unfortunately, that's nothing new.
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by psychoslave 4mo ago
To my mind the article is excellently written, but it comes with many bigger "if"s than the one it states. That said, taking for granted some of its premisses, indeed saying that cost goes to zero in term of money is no big deal.
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by psychoslave 4mo ago
Maybe because the union role is not to encourage anyone to burn themself down in relentless efforts? Maybe in the union eye, trying to protect people in the working class includes to dodge the traps of the exploiting class and the meritocra
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by psychoslave 4mo ago
Real wages (adjusted for inflation) were relatively flat from 2001 to the mid-2010s, especially for the bottom half of the wage distribution. Since then, there have been periods where real wages grew, but inflation often outpaced wage growt
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by psychoslave 4mo ago
>The major other defense is competition. Yes. As sure as the casino fear the competition among players in games on which they unilaterally set the rules.

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