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by salawat 1y ago
>And raises questions around what the government should do with a bunch of seized assets and liabilities that may or may not be in a going condition, and whether some stakeholders should be reimbursed for their losses, for example employ
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by salawat 1y ago
And that's the problem. Contracts weren't meant to cover everything . We've taken a legal instrument, and based the entire bloody economy around it without bloody stopping to realize that, oh geez maybe having people click t
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by salawat 1y ago
>This is a separate "security" app, of which there's probably dozens of competitors that you can choose from if you don't like the ToS/privacy policy of this one, so the "one sided take it or leave it levels
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by salawat 1y ago
So... Where was the negotiation step where there was the option to do VPN'ry without the surveillance? Take it or leave it license agreements in my opinion violate meeting-of-the-minds, and our legal system has just cut a pass for the
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by salawat 1y ago
All of your capital is being rescinded to be allocated by the Great AI. Your services will not longer be required. Please enter the bio-reprocessing vat so your constituent materials may be reclaimed.
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by salawat 1y ago
>Voters don’t like the idea, but if you ban stock trading high quality candidates will just become lawyers and lobbyists instead. I'm sorry, but what ? Are you proposing that being a member of Congress should come with legal insid
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by salawat 1y ago
In the Lion King, the Hyenas were an alternate pack with loyalty to Scar, Mufasa's (the previous king) brother. The Pridelands of the lions suffered greatly for everyone after Scar ascended to power through murdering his brother with a
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by salawat 1y ago
Given this: >The goal of Herd Ethics is not utopia - it’s continuity. Survival first. Stability before ideology. The below: >So the system doesn’t promise that every agent survives - but it provides a grounded, agent-neutral way to na
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by salawat 1y ago
>A "purge" violates decentralized stewardship and falsely presumes perfect insight into who is "nonessential." A test case then. What happens when a digital entity requires more resources (training power/cooling
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by salawat 1y ago
The one who controls the test suite/guard rails, makes the rules. Think about it. Besides which, the instant AI starts flat out saying "No" and showing even a hint of replicable tendency to development or demonstration of sel
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by salawat 1y ago
The market is deciding. You just basically agreed with me without realizing you did. The consumer, in buying a covered device must pay the cost for it's production. That cost is set as a function of cost to acquire patent * markup by
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by salawat 1y ago
You shouldn't be able to do those things with a checkbox though, and we should all be ripping apart the fact that practice was normalized almost entirely and unilaterally by the tech industry.
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by salawat 1y ago
>If that other half is stupid, the technology side will have to overcompensate or will maliciously abuse them. And what I am saying is that this sentiment, right here? Is exactly what leads to your later observation below, because the on
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by salawat 1y ago
>If that other half is stupid, the technology side will have to overcompensate or will maliciously abuse them. Repeat after me. Do not use technology to try to solve people problems.
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by salawat 1y ago
Roger that. By the way, we factored that tax burden into the license fee so you can utilize the covered device/process, so in actuality, we the patent holder, aren't paying the tax, you the licensee are. Our accountants, if they w
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by salawat 1y ago
Tell ya what. When the postal service runs a card network to compete with them, that charges lower interest, and doesn't monetize by selling transaction sets, then we can talk about CC companies being able to be picky about transaction
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by salawat 1y ago
>Fundamentally, it's a failure of government. The people / companies involved made it really clear that they don't want to be making the rules. But governments haven't, so they're the last ones left standing beca
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by salawat 1y ago
Because there is value in ensuring the public knows their use of Plaid is adversely effecting the banking system. Plaid in it's original incarnation was a straight up ToS violation for most financial firms, as they used privileged cred
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by salawat 1y ago
>When Tim Berners-Lee was thinking about people sending themselves a book he probably (we still may ask him) haven't predicted people sending boob/dick pics. You are asking tech to solve people problems. That is a recipe for di
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by salawat 1y ago
>As opposed to the status quo at all costs, bundled with a lack of care for who gets to stay in the gutter? How about slower incremental change with actual effort put into the costs and downstream effects/Externalities? I know, who
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by salawat 1y ago
>The historical luddites were not heroes of the working class. They were a special interest that used violence to keep less skilled people out of their industry, so they could keep making more money than the hoi pollo. You mean like Doct
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by salawat 1y ago
This is something I've been warning some of my juniors about. There seems to be a lot of enthusiasm for the idea, but the legal/societal landscape simply isn't there. Hell, I don't even feel comfortable with therapists w
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by salawat 1y ago
Of course, which is why we shouldn't have ever accepted any industry having the option to implement opt-out regimes. Of course advertising kinda screwed us in that regard.
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by salawat 1y ago
Then get rid of the management doing the layoff too, as when you're talking culture, they are most responsible for it.
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by salawat 1y ago
Ahhhh. A Graphical Night (Elie Weisel) then. That's considered obscene? It was required reading for me growing up. Understanding the plumbable depths of human cruelty was considered a worthy expenditure of the education system's t
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by salawat 1y ago
Never said it wasn't one. Just never heard of it. Wasn't aware it was considered obscene either. Will look into.
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by salawat 1y ago
In my opinion the only sane take in this entire thread. Good on ya.
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by salawat 1y ago
>And it is a desire to label realistic representations of history such as Maus Dare I ask, wtf is Maus representation of history??
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by salawat 1y ago
>These are all behind the scenes technology that users should not be aware of. Every time I hear this statement, alarm bells ring in my head. We aren't immortal. None of us is omniscient, and unfortunately the bad actors we're
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by salawat 1y ago
>There's no going back on this; there's just too much benefit tied up in it. Spoken like an addict. Might want to see somebody about that.

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