ratelimitsteve

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by ratelimitsteve 27d ago
everyone believes something different, everyone knows a different set of facts, everyone thinks of themselves as reasonable, and the law depends on what a reasonable person might believe. absent some objective standard of reasonability it&#
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by ratelimitsteve 27d ago
we may have been. the idea that two copies of the same thing are not the same object still applies. you can tell because if you own a PDF and I own a copy of that PDF, and I destroy mine, you still have yours.
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by ratelimitsteve 27d ago
that even if they form the same pattern, one pile of bits on one storage medium and another pile of bits on a different storage medium are two separate things and it's possible for one person to own one of the piles and another person
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by ratelimitsteve 27d ago
This thing where companies can use custom definitions of words in order to intentionally build ambiguity into their agreements is designed to induce just this type of problem. Words have meaning outside these agreements and that outside mea
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by ratelimitsteve 28d ago
I play Tekxit for the same reason. The world feels genuinely alive and surprising. I just love automation as well, and Tekxit hits that sweet spot of "building complex resources extraction and refinement chains" but also "a b
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by ratelimitsteve 28d ago
I think you're on to something here. The problem with procgen is hard because the various things in an environment have to interface with one another and in NMS they don't really meaningfully interface. The geography is generated,
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by ratelimitsteve 28d ago
even as someone who enjoyed NMS as a nightly bowl of oatmeal, a second screen game while I listened to a podcast or a documentary, I can't dispute the accuracy of this metaphor. After a while it became brain off semitainment, and when
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by ratelimitsteve 28d ago
As soon as I saw the title I was like "There's gonna be a long history of abuse before this that has yet to see any consequences." Then I open the article and there's a whole section called "History of Abuse".
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by ratelimitsteve 28d ago
Flock wants people like you and me in a closely surveilled world. Flock cameras will never catch aristocrats committing aristocrat crimes, only regular people finding money in a parking lot.
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by ratelimitsteve 29d ago
the thing about "borderline" and "spidey sense" is that in no way should that ever lead to someone being arrested or forced to register as a child abuser, but it did. the entire point of the article is that these sorts o
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by ratelimitsteve 29d ago
this feature probably began life as "automatically download necessary drivers to make installation easier" and then after some massaging the definition of "necessary drivers" expanded to "anything the manufacturer w
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by ratelimitsteve 29d ago
>there's probably a good argument to not allow random cameras in you're right. there's also an awful lot of very obvious good arguments for allowing recording and public access to recording, such as the incident where a pr
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by ratelimitsteve 29d ago
when terrorism can be defined as "having a book" and can result in indefinite detention without charge or access to an attorney maybe i'm not 100% gung-ho by default on everything labelled anti-terrorism
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by ratelimitsteve 29d ago
"We're proud to announce today that we're rolling out a trial phase of the Torment Nexus, as made famous in the scifi novel and accompanying film entitled 'Whatever You Do, Do Not Create the Torment Nexus'."
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by ratelimitsteve 29d ago
aren't these the same people telling us that AI-powered cameras on every street corner will make everything better for everyone? What do they have to fear from people seeing what they do? Why do the police fight so hard to ensure every
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by ratelimitsteve 1mo ago
there's a really special type of crowd to whom you can say "People staying alive is good" and their response is "SOURCE??!!!"
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by ratelimitsteve 1mo ago
They can't engage with your ideas, so they try to label you as the kind of person whose ideas aren't worth engaging with. It doesn't matter to them what you said, it must be wrong because you said it. Unless, of course, you a
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by ratelimitsteve 1mo ago
I was asked for evidence that energy prices have increased. I provided that. Now you're shifting the goalposts to ask for evidence that the increase in energy prices is solely due to data center demand, pretending you've proven th
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by ratelimitsteve 1mo ago
it's the demand delta, not the total demand, that's concerning. Also not all use cases are created equal: using water to keep people alive is legitimate and using water to build a machine that can automatically almost count the nu
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by ratelimitsteve 1mo ago
>your evidence for increasing energy prices it's my power bill, dude. and everyone else's around me. your paper stops measuring that data right at the time when everyone's bills started increasing sharply.
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by ratelimitsteve 1mo ago
so what you're saying is that the problems people have with new data centers are real and well-documented?
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by ratelimitsteve 1mo ago
>99% of the time 99% is an interesting figure because that's roughly how much my energy bill has increased despite no significant change in my usage due to data center demand on the grid
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by ratelimitsteve 1mo ago
everything in this thread is raw speculation, obv, but if i had to put money on anything i'd say this is a left-pad incident. some piece of something or other that all of these services happen to depend on went down. Second most likely
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by ratelimitsteve 1mo ago
i don't feel like this ever claimed to be exhaustive or representative of a monolith, only that the ideas they discussed did exist prominently.
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by ratelimitsteve 1mo ago
>fish already live in a world of salt, and so I wonder of worms and parasites still survived this proxess. As always, dose determines toxicity. While alive and in salt water fish are pretty good about regulating their internal salinity a
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by ratelimitsteve 1mo ago
Ayurvedic medicine is a similar idea from the indian subcontinent. Foods have different medicinal properties like hot/cold, heavy/light, etc and those foods interact with your body type (which itself is a confluence of three facto
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by ratelimitsteve 1mo ago
atp calling them show-uppers would be a little bit much. perhaps "elected vacationers"?
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by ratelimitsteve 1mo ago
MAM credits you with points that can be used to buy upload credit or to make downloading a given torrent not count against your total bytes downloaded (freeleech) Torrentleech has a point system as well and also automatically makes torrents
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by ratelimitsteve 1mo ago
The aristocrats have had to split their treasure with the thugs since the beginning of time and this represents a very real chance to keep huge swaths of that treasure for themselves. Finally they can automate away doing violence against an
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by ratelimitsteve 1mo ago
a native app's job isn't to parallel the web app's feature set. a native app's job is to get you to accidentally opt in to all sorts of invasive surveillance and allow for a constant stream of attempts to grab your atten

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