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by rectang 6d ago
I will die on the hill that "SOME PIG" from Charlotte's Web was merely an existential determiner.
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by rectang 7d ago
Instead of asking AI to write something substansive for you, ask it to critique your writing. Then use your own judgement as to which bits of advice to follow and which to ignore. The LLM will always give you a full rewrite — don't
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by rectang 8d ago
It's childish of me I know, but if this actually goes through I will feel a twinge of delight at the refutation of all the HN commenters who have argued that such enforcement is unrealistic.
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by rectang 10d ago
> Let's start with crimes that actually cost lives. https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-texas-el-paso/news/20... "According to the Identity Theft Resource Center’s 2023 Consumer Impact Report,
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by rectang 11d ago
Then such businesses should not exist. What right do they have to gamble with the wealth of 150 million people unrelated to their enterprise?
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by rectang 11d ago
The socialized losses vastly exceed 300% of earnings - they're analogous to a company mishandling toxic waste and ruining everyone around them. The way they are running their business is catastrophically irresponsible, and if they can
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by rectang 11d ago
It's perfectly reasonable, and if something perfectly reasonable is "unrealistic", then the system is corrupt.
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by rectang 11d ago
Fines exceeding 100% of lifetime compensation might actually do something. As it stands, clawbacks are ineffective — for example, Carrie Tolstedt of the Wells Fargo scandal wound up money ahead to the tune of tens of millions of dollars: h
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by rectang 11d ago
Fines on the scale that it might be reasonable to reserve escrow funds for are just "cost of doing business" fines.
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by rectang 13d ago
Ohhh, has anybody used AI to generate delicious statistics about how many ads served by various ad networks will get you hacked / violate the ad networks own policies?
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by rectang 20d ago
Fully agree. Humans are social animals who behave differently in different contexts, and the corporate context statistically ensures that the humans inside of it behave in all sorts of lamentable ways.
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by rectang 21d ago
The potential damage is all to users bound by terms and conditions, who are unlikely to collect damages successfully from a vendor. Structurally, vendors don’t have to care. Therefore, vulnerabilities have little direct financial value to
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by rectang 24d ago
The concept of memories blending together resonates after watching a recent Kurzgezadt video entitled "How Are Memories Stored Inside Your Brain?". It makes the point that the very act of recalling a memory changes it: https:&#x2
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by rectang 24d ago
> Let's hope the LLM model continues to be paying for credits LLM vendors make this hard because you can't trust them with your session data. Yesterday you were opted out of training, then suddenly today you're opted in.
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by rectang 24d ago
I pay for a subscription to Duck.ai mainly because I don't want to be constantly fighting my vendor to protect my privacy. Microsoft already did a rug pull on me and opted me in to training months after I signed up with Github Copilot.
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by rectang 25d ago
Money from confused seniors getting scammed is a critical revenue stream. Without scams, ads are far less viable.
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by rectang 26d ago
Forming every paragraph of dialog into perfect rectangles is way more extreme than just avoiding "widows". The usual term for this is "full justification" and typographically when it's done it's typically
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by rectang 26d ago
"No widows" on its own isn't enough to create a distinctive dialog cadence. "Widows" (alone at the top) and "orphans" (alone at the bottom) are single lines cut off from the rest of a paragraph by a column
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by rectang 1mo ago
Why not start with a brownout? Make the data temporarily inaccessible, but don’t actually delete it immediately.
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Darth Vader defends Flock to San Diego: 'This is what the emperor needs'(thehill.com)
7 points by rectang 1mo ago|0 comments
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by rectang 1mo ago
Completely wiping all computing devices in advance every time you pass through a border checkpoint seems like the only defense against the government getting all of your personal data. As we can see from the Tunic case, providing a "du
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Don't Wipe Your Phone at the Airport [video](youtube.com)
3 points by rectang 1mo ago|5 comments
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by rectang 2mo ago
It’s been a while, but I recall finding The Plague more compelling than The Stranger . While I agree with Camus’s philosophical points about the absurdity of existence and the indifference of the universe, within the scope of our tiny
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To understand the experience of life, don't look to the mind. Look to the body(theguardian.com)
3 points by rectang 2mo ago|0 comments
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by rectang 2mo ago
I’m as uninterested in debating someone who denies the existence of fossil fuel subsidies as I am in debating climate denialists. I recommend that interested parties perform a trivial web search.
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by rectang 2mo ago
Geoengineering proposals are often unserious because the point is to give the appearance of doing something while the root cause goes unaddressed. "No need to reconsider those fossil fuel subsidies because [fanciful geoengineering pr
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by rectang 2mo ago
Geoengineering proposals spring from the same impulse as climate denial — anything to avoid consequences for those contributing to the crisis.
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New Jersey governor signs law banning surveillance pricing to protect shoppers(theguardian.com)
45 points by rectang 2mo ago|8 comments
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by rectang 2mo ago
When I was a child, I imagined that books and the ideas within them lasted forever. The shock is not in how quickly the written word dissipates, it's that it dissipates at all.
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by rectang 2mo ago
The current generation cannot bear the accumulated weight of all past generations. Loss and compression are inevitable. 99% of an individual's life experiences are lost when they pass. 99.99% of what's left moves from distinct me

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