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by qualeed 1y ago
> what about drawing a picture of your mum getting bukkaked? It's really weird that you chose to make your point this way instead of the hundreds of other ways you could have phrased it. I mean, it's obvious you're just
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by qualeed 1y ago
> it's a pretty reasonable position for someone to think "a company now sells a service that lets you generate fake porn of any human" is a bad thing and shouldn't be allowed, There is a surprising number of people h
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by qualeed 1y ago
You can dislike what AI/LLMs are doing in the software development field, but be excited about their medical applications, as an example.
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by qualeed 1y ago
The standard of what?
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by qualeed 1y ago
That is not the only channel of value on YouTube. Not all of them have a website with their content available.
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by qualeed 1y ago
They explain what they do pretty much immediately on the home page, I'm not too sure where the confusion comes from.
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by qualeed 1y ago
> we aren't at a level where a LLM can truly be relied upon to teach topics across the board. You can replace "LLM" here with "human" and it remains true. Anyone who has gone to post-secondary has had a teacher
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by qualeed 1y ago
"Keep paving forward" can sometimes be fruitful, and at other times be an absolutely massive waste of time. I'm not sold on LLMs being a replacement, but post-secondary was certainly enriched by having other people to ask que
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by qualeed 1y ago
> In the case of the underage kid, they are actually gaining something by using a fake ID to buy smokes for which they otherwise would not be able to buy. The scenario I was comparing is an underage kid visiting this website, generating
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by qualeed 1y ago
> Those numbers mean nothing without the baseline. What if before it was 1 person and now it’s 18x more, totaling 19 people? They obviously don't mean nothing . Knowing absolute numbers would be much better, but knowing that the d
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by qualeed 1y ago
> But majority of the people (as seen with China, or Russia) do not care about VPN and won’t care The article that our comments are under are about an 18x increase in sign-ups from the UK for one provider, a 2.5x increase for another pr
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by qualeed 1y ago
Sure. However, the effort spent vs. what is gained has to be considered. Not all games of whack-a-mole are created equal. VPNs are incredibly easy to spin up, gambling groups are not. Within a week I could probably spin up a dozen or more s
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by qualeed 1y ago
That's a forever lasting game of whack-a-mole. You either need to firewall the nation (which I imagine would be pretty unpopular) or it's just a waste of resources.
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by qualeed 1y ago
> Service providers might be of fault if their verification practices are not compliant with regulations, but I don't know if the law puts any requirements on users to verify their identity. As I mentioned in another comment, I&#x2
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by qualeed 1y ago
> It would be Discord in this case having to make the legal defence. There's no rule that only 1 entity can get in trouble. If I use a fake ID to by smokes while underage, I will definitely get in trouble for that and the store t
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by qualeed 1y ago
> they didn't write their documentation with HN in mind The programming language documentation wasn't written for an audience primarily composed of programmers? That would be an odd choice.
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by qualeed 1y ago
I certainly agree! However, I doubt that's a strong legal argument.
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by qualeed 1y ago
> The only way you'd ever get found out is if the affected MP was lying to the public and the identity documents do indeed get retained... I'm more talking about the developer of the site rather than the users. And the develop
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by qualeed 1y ago
I like the spirit but wouldn't this run afoul of one or two laws? Identity fraud or some such? I'm not in the UK, so I don't have any idea about their laws, but I'd be shocked to find this was above board. Your FAQ claim
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by qualeed 1y ago
My original comment was more highlighting that framing it as "unable to buy porno games" was obviously bad, and there are certainly better ways to frame it (and offered an example, off the top of my head). However, someone smarter
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by qualeed 1y ago
For sure. Which is why my re-framing removed the gaming aspect.
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by qualeed 1y ago
While this specific issue began with games, I'm not sure why the underlying issue is only a problem for gamers. There's comments here talking about other industries and goods that have been affected by similar decisions as well. I
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by qualeed 1y ago
Then it should have only been removed from the Australian storefront, rather than the payment processors forcing its removal worldwide. The payment processors shouldn't have been involved at all. Wherever a good or service is legal, a
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by qualeed 1y ago
That article and case are about child sexual abuse material. Steam is not distributing child sexual abuse material. No one is arguing that Visa/MC should be forced into processing illegal transactions.
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by qualeed 1y ago
If that's how you choose to frame it, you're absolutely right. If, instead, you frame it as " Duopoly of payment processors are deciding which legal content you are allowed to purchase. ", surprise, you'll get more
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by qualeed 1y ago
> if payment processors are going to be charged in criminal cases that involve the use of their systems for purchasing things that are illegal > sued each time someone uses them to purchase something that may be illegal The removed
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by qualeed 1y ago
I am not aware of any situations, no. But this is getting a bit into the weeds, I think. The point is that as it stands right now, today, Visa/MC is what Steam runs on. It would take a long time (months, if not years) for Steam to roll
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by qualeed 1y ago
The "Stop Killing Games" movement is a lot more palatable to the general public. (It can be boiled down to "I should be able to play the thing I bought and paid for") As soon as you mention to someone uninvolved what sta
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by qualeed 1y ago
It would mean some bad PR for Visa/MC for awhile, and it would absolutely decimate Steam. If I were Steam, I would not call that bluff.
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by qualeed 1y ago
I'm not sure. I live in Canada, we have a system called Interac, but it is not an accepted payment method on Steam the last I checked.

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