sangnoir

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by sangnoir 3y ago
Dead artists copyrights go to their estate, and the estate may choose to donate the works to the public domain if it so chooses - just as the artist could have when they were alive, since they have the same rights.
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> It's hard to call out people for being "exploitative assholes" for disrupting the legacy taxi cartels. It really isn't, if you don't fall for the false dilemma: taxi cartels and Uber both exploit their drivers
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by sangnoir 3y ago
What sort of defense is this? "Your honor, after someone broke in, they left the door open. Since the door was unlocked anyone could have committed the crime I'm accused of."
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by sangnoir 3y ago
This is the reason why Silicon Valley is losing its reality-distortion field image of disruptive innovators changing the world and being seen as the exploitative assholes on par with - or exceeding the cocaine-addled "greed is good&quo
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by sangnoir 3y ago
Do those people not have physical identity documents issued by their non-democratic governments? What is particularly dangerous about having the same governments handle online identity for situations of thr citizens choosing? It would obvio
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> a lot of the movies that people praise the photography of are now using vintage lenses that are 30-50 years old modified to modern lens mounts Isn't this confounded by who chooses to buck the trend? IMO, it's the very skill
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by sangnoir 3y ago
This is a well-timed account deactivation by Apple to prevent Epic from publishing its app store in Apple's app store with iOS 17.4
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by sangnoir 3y ago
With how AI is going, attestation will become necessary for many social interactions we take for granted today by assuming there is a well-intended human in the other end. If you're hiring, or looking for a new job, the odds of you bei
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> I don't like WorldCoin, but I don't like sending internet services my passport and birth certificate to prove to them That's about the least-private implementation one could think of; I wouldn't want to send scans o
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> On the one hand "Proof of humanity" is an important problem and is surely only going to get more important as time passes Governments have been doing this for centuries (see passports, identity documents, birth and death cert
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> we felt it was against the mission for any individual to have absolute control over OpenAI This has to be a joke, right? I'd like to think Altman paused for a second and chuckled to himself after writing - or reading - that.
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by sangnoir 3y ago
It also reflects the ugly realities of the validation data, training process and the people who looked at the final model and thought "Yup - we're going to release this ." I for one, wouldn't want self-driving cars that
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by sangnoir 3y ago
I'm quibbling with the phrasing of the last half of your sentence, as it's a bit of an understatement, no? > that was about the extent of it Apple didn't only sue over patents they already owned: they went out of their w
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> Apple sued for patent infringement and that was about the extent of it. You're massively understating the scope and scale of Apple's war on Android. Apple transfered patents to a NPE that sued Android vendors - possibly Googl
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> I recently needed to fix some issues in something I filled with the government. Email support used to exist but probably cut due to budgets. Chat support used to exist but probably cut due to budgets. With all that said, what makes you
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by sangnoir 3y ago
I have attended conferences that can be described as "scrappy": flakey oversubscribed wifi, lots of interesting talks and multiple "streams" in different rooms over 2-3 days in a foreign country where my visit was too sh
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by sangnoir 3y ago
Yes. Would you rather install a full-on app for a once-off event (concert, festival or conference) or would you rather just install a light-weight PWA or just use the website?
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> He also made a crappy political choice to remove Arabic against the authors very clear intent which hides the true meaning of Dune To be fair, Frank Herbert wasn't his client here, the filmmakers were. Occam's razor suggests
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by sangnoir 3y ago
Unfortunately, too many of the young ones live in Apple's "What is a computer?" world. It's hard to become curious about the boot process when POST screens have been replaced by glossy progress bars and everything is loc
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by sangnoir 3y ago
The TX legislature already socialized the losses due to extremely high spot-prices after that winter storm a few years ago.
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by sangnoir 3y ago
On the flip-side: companies won't give substantial raises to current engineers, but are willing to pay new joiners more. There are also frequent re-orgs: if an engineer that enjoys their current work and team gets re-org'd, why sh
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by sangnoir 3y ago
How many of those cryptocurrency were created by Satoshi Nakamoto, the subject of the thread's speculation? I was speculating on the why a 3LA would have created Bitcoin, specifically.
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by sangnoir 3y ago
Hypothetically, getting those who hate "the feds" to record their transactions on a public ledger would be criminal intelligence coup even bigger than when FBI's "Encrypted Phone" platform became popular with crim
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by sangnoir 3y ago
One probably has to be perfect - not just good with opsec - to maintain anonymity from the government. The FBI has multiple side-channels, such as agents physically tracking if you're home at your "super-secure" 7-VPN compute
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> You're being sarcastic but honestly, I've never found a regression because of a unit test So you've never made a change caused a unit test to fail? If not, how large is your codebase, and is ownership shared across multi
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by sangnoir 3y ago
Is the AT protocol is superior in your opinion?
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> The main benefit is that you can easily figure out what is where! Navigating unfamiliar Go codebases yields very few surprises: things are almost always where I expect to find them, and it's great! This is hardly the case with oth
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by sangnoir 3y ago
The cuff-links would turn into green bubbles when you're near "poor" people (by detecting Bluetooth MAC addresses of non-Apple smartphones)
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by sangnoir 3y ago
Do you also regret not playing the winning lottery numbers, now that you know what they are (or can easily look them up)?
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> If a french company, Mistral, can do it you know the cat is out of the bag What's with the France slander? France is not some technological backwater - it's given us BeOS[1], VLC and Fabrice Bellard. 1. I know Be Inc was an A

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