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by salawat 8mo ago
As mentioned above, it's not a micropayment. It's just a payment. You can transact in whatever amounts you want, and backend systems will bump the numbers around just fine, even for fractions of a cent. Hell, that's how inter
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by salawat 8mo ago
Well, there's OFAC, for one. In the U.S. alphabet soup, that's the Office of Foreign Asset Control, and they maintain the master sanctions list operated by the Federal government. This is a list, that as a matter of law, must be
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by salawat 8mo ago
That's called starting a bank, or financial services company, and lots of places do it, but the bar to do so, and remain able to do so is fairly high. The margins, however, are exquisite. The middlemen eat fat off the percent they skim
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by salawat 8mo ago
Goes like the following: Google/YouTube have a userbase to track accounts for; they go to a bank (licensed money transmitter, with OFAC/KYC/AML programs implemented). Google gets paid by people looking to advertise, and that
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by salawat 8mo ago
There isn't so much hate, as it's fundamentally DoA based on the financial system architecture of the United States, which creates strict liability, and a licensing requirement for digital money transmission. You do not get to op
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by salawat 8mo ago
Incentive problem is technically the same in the U.S. You might think there's ownership conferred by taking risks and such to the individual worker, but it is much more akin to the feudal sharecropping arrangement. You are delegated a
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by salawat 8mo ago
>What is it about FSD that results in this valuation though? Are you willing to accept the ugly answer? Because the point of FSD isn't what they pitch. The replacing human drivers to save lives yada yada... That ain't it. The p
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by salawat 8mo ago
Might as well not even talk about anything with the Oracular kiss of death.
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by salawat 8mo ago
Defending Poetteringware. With a straight up call to respect the branding to boot? Shameful display.
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by salawat 8mo ago
Would you believe I said the same damn thing after initially joining here almost a decade ago, and got karma bombed at the time for even suggesting the possibility. Funny how times have changed.
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by salawat 8mo ago
Given the success of copyright cultures in fending off the most blatant, unambiguous case of copyright violation in human history, (AI), I would not put your money there.
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by salawat 8mo ago
Rather poignant actually. By replacing people with LLM's, you've just made the economy as a whole something which can be owned.
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by salawat 8mo ago
Yup. Same here. Combo of car infotainment systems and smartphones are what did me in. Every bit of software made these days seems designed to produce maximum anxiety or friction to the elderly. It's one thing when you're developin
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by salawat 8mo ago
Oh, I felt attacked there for a moment. I have a circa 2015ish desktop that's actually got hard drives in it that consist of a Slackware15 install, a partial Kali, and I think an incomplete Linux From Scratch tool chain. I've nuke
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by salawat 8mo ago
I often wonder why on this forum of alleged hacker types, there seems to be such an impetus to push what all VC's are desperately bought into at the moment, whether it be crypto, or AI nonsense. Oh wait... Right. Asking for resources o
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by salawat 8mo ago
Not with the assholes we have running the tech industry right now trying to groom every nation state into letting them help them morph into a technocratic hellhole, no.
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by salawat 8mo ago
>The suggestion is not to depend on AI for privacy, but to use it to build products like signal which guarantee privacy. Uh huh. No. You use their system to do it, they have your prompt, and the output on hand. Even more so, they have th
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by salawat 8mo ago
Using AI to do anything isn't going to liberate one. It's just going to shift the dependence from one company to another. Your new feudal lord will be the people running the Santa Claus machine you're running. Don't keep
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by salawat 8mo ago
Absolutely don't, and I've argued since day 1 that by refusing to try to contract for training before they just ripped it, each and every one of them should be saddled with so much legal liability as to not exist. The capitalist
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by salawat 8mo ago
To hell with contempt of business model. Business models aren't sacred. Besides which, with business models owners capture the newsroom anyway.
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by salawat 8mo ago
LLM's at best asymptotically approach a human doing the same task. They are trained on the best and the worst. Nothing they output deserves faith other than what can be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt with your own eyes and tooling.
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by salawat 8mo ago
It was. Advertising is incompatible with accurate data retrieval/routing. We've also implemented "obligation to deindex". So providing an unbiased index of the web as she is is essentially (in the U.S.) verboten.
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by salawat 8mo ago
Ever watched Psycho-Pass? Great anime. Setting is a sort of an AI coordinated Panopticon in which the Psycho-Pass system equips it's enforcers with firearms capable of either paralyzing a "reformable" latent criminal, (namely
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by salawat 8mo ago
...and the people who train the AI will have been entrenched as the de facto rulers of the realm. No. No, thank you.
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by salawat 8mo ago
Which is never realized. Price points don't decrease. Profit taking increases.
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by salawat 8mo ago
Some couldn't vote then broskie. In particular because of things like age, and school, and parents being spoonfed propaganda and having the desire for vengeance stoked for dat Middle East invasion and things. So since that couldn'
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by salawat 8mo ago
When Europeans wonder why the U.S. is so backwards and barbaric about not implementing a National ID scheme. Look no further, ladies and gents, because at least once every 200 years, the population has a day of supreme brain off and puts s
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by salawat 8mo ago
Completely inappropriate, technically foolish, and also, a proxy metric to avoid non-AI using candidates. Not a protected class per se, but could easily leak into age discrimination under the right circumstances. Furthermore, they should ab
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by salawat 8mo ago
Fuck the Kremlin. Corporate America calls the same damn thing marketing, advertising, sales, and public relations respectively.
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by salawat 8mo ago
> Deliberately creating the conditions for an illegal act to occur and deliberately closing your eyes to let it happen is not a defense. Explain Boeing, Wells Fargo, and the Opioid Crisis then. That type of thing happens in boardrooms an

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