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by rafabulsing 11mo ago
I really don't see that as a fair comparison. OP wasn't equating individual citizens, they were equating the nations as a whole. And China, as a state, definitely isn't akin to a slave being forced to do this dirty work.
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by rafabulsing 11mo ago
Right. So what was your point when you replied to a commenter saying the US and China are equally bad, pollution wise, with > No the chinese people, most of whom do not have a ICE car, do not produce those carbon numbers That sounds to m
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by rafabulsing 11mo ago
How does that excuse China's pollution? They still chose to do that, no one forced them to. I do agree that other countries are guilty of China's pollution as well, but that certainly does not excuse China choice to do that pollut
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by rafabulsing 11mo ago
Oh man, that looks incredible. Such a shame that it doesn't exist anymore.
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by rafabulsing 11mo ago
One problem I have on the back of my mind to try solving sometime is this, from the perspective of the user. I usually have quite a bit of flexibility when traveling. Exploring multiple options with current tools (at least the ones I'm
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by rafabulsing 11mo ago
If nothing else, I guess one should at least be kinda proud that of all stolen DNAs, yours is the one they end up making a clone army out of.
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by rafabulsing 11mo ago
I use a similar setup, but with Onedrive instead of Syncthing (and, before that, Dropbox). In the almost 10 years I've been running this setup, I think I hit a conflict one single time. I don't quite remember the details, but I th
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by rafabulsing 11mo ago
Again, I don't entirely disagree. Some choices are entirely stylistic: single vs double quotes for strings. Tabs vs spaces. Indentation width. Trailing commas. Those (and others) encode literally 0 meaning, and any time discussing thos
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by rafabulsing 11mo ago
Of course, there are different domains of intelligence, and agent A can be more intelligent in domain X while agent B is more intelligent in domain Y. If you want to make some comparison of general intelligence, you have to start thinking o
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by rafabulsing 11mo ago
If you want a first principles approach, I recommend Rob Miles' videos on YouTube. He has been featured many times in the Computerphile channel, and has a channel of his own as well. Most of the videos take a form of: 1. Presenting a p
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by rafabulsing 11mo ago
> You're going to have to deliberately train it to lie, to be greedy, to hide things from us, to look for ways to amass power without attracting attention. No, that's the problem. You don't have to deliberately train that
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by rafabulsing 11mo ago
I think it's reasonable that bigger companies are under more scrutiny and stricter constraints than smaller companies, yeah. Keeps actors with more potential for damaging society in check, while not laying a huge burden on small compan
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by rafabulsing 11mo ago
In my brief experiments with Flutter, I must admit I didn't enjoy the experience of using the autoformatting. Not knocking the author of the tool at all, I can definitely see how absurdly hard it is to create something that does what i
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by rafabulsing 11mo ago
> The implicit claims are more misleading, in my opinion: The claim that self-hosting is free or nearly free in terms of time and engineering brain drain. Not only is that not an implicit claim in the post, they explicitly say the that i
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by rafabulsing 1y ago
I live in a third world country, and although I'm (by our standards) doing pretty well right now, both my parents come from very little. My mom, as a young woman, at one point even lost everything she had in a fire. I was fortunate eno
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by rafabulsing 1y ago
I don't know, I really don't feel like it is. I think it's pretty clear that the choice of "unhappiness"/"sadness" is to clearly put it in opposition to the popular "money doesn't bring happ
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by rafabulsing 1y ago
How does "lack of money can create unhappiness" downplay the effects of economic stress on mental health?
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by rafabulsing 1y ago
Yeah, I don't think anyone is nostalgic for doing spreadsheets/word processing/etc on CRTs. The utilitarian POV will always look for the best (less noisy/most accurate/most reproducible) medium possible. But when it
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by rafabulsing 1y ago
A land value tax is based on the value of the land only, with no input from whatever improvements are or are not built on it. So, with a proper LTV implementation (i.e., one where LTV is the only tax incurred on real state), there would b
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by rafabulsing 1y ago
It can still be injected to delegate in a different way than the user would expect/want it to.
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by rafabulsing 1y ago
Google does not have a monopoly on distributing apps on Android phones. Microsoft does not have a monopoly on distributing software on Windows. Hell, Apple itself does not have a monopoly on distributing software on MacOS . Really, you cou
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by rafabulsing 1y ago
Chatbots != LLMs. We've had chatbots for a long time before LLMs, and while they're of course much more limited as you have to explicitly program every thing it should be able to do, by that very virtue, hallucinating is problem t
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by rafabulsing 1y ago
Or, arguably even worse, someone whose heart isn't in the right place and can execute.
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by rafabulsing 2y ago
The scale argument is thrown around a lot as a justification for why the US couldn't possibly implement universal healthcare. The elephant in the room that I'm always surprises at how rarely it's mentioned in these discussion
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by rafabulsing 2y ago
I mean, if that's the standard, I've also unfortunately been exposed to more Nazi content than I'd like on Twitter/Reddit/etc. Should they be banned as well?
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by rafabulsing 2y ago
Here in Brazil voting is mandatory, but indeed, you can vote for no one. In fact, there are two ways to do so, interestingly enough: you can cast a "blank vote", literally just not picking anyone, or a "null vote", where
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by rafabulsing 2y ago
There's a 4D mini golf VR game you might be interested in checking out. It's called, uh, 4D Golf. Creative! I've not played it myself, but it's on my list. I hear it's pretty cool!
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by rafabulsing 2y ago
D'oh, yes, thank you! Damn German loan words always get me.
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by rafabulsing 2y ago
This video (which might be my favourite from her) on a particular church annual theater productions is positive. Still poking fun at it and taking it apart, as she's wont to do. But I do believe she genuinely enjoys how kish and over t
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by rafabulsing 2y ago
Brazilian here. We get a minimum of 30 days/year by law, across every industry, plus a handful of holidays.

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