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by scandox 5y ago
I'm just quoting the article which attempts to address the issues of terminology you raised. Without discussing his terms your original comment lacked relevance.
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by scandox 5y ago
First of all I think Eugenics would/will quickly lead to something akin to runaway selection: people will make increasingly absurd decisions mainly driven by status markers / perceptual drift and the human race will breed itself i
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by scandox 5y ago
I think parent poster is actually only partially blind
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by scandox 5y ago
> First let us pause to consider our terms: Was Schlissel’s narc a “snitch” or a “whistle-blower”? Whistle-blowers are generally attempting to topple or thwart the powerful, and Schlissel was certainly powerful. But the reported offense
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by scandox 5y ago
Recently bought a domain for a client. Negotiation started at 50k and ended at 8k. GoDaddy are absolute Messers. Take nothing they say at face value.
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by scandox 5y ago
I use All4 a lot and never had a single issue with it. I use it in the Browser. Is there any data to support it being "buggiest"?
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by scandox 5y ago
> At RubyConf 2014 someone in the lunch queue asked what I did before I was in tech and asked me if I enjoyed killing babies when I explained. To some extent your question is in the same category as the above. It decontextualizes the sit
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by scandox 5y ago
> I know some of you will say “Just ignore the status game altogether,” but this is easier said than done. Like many other animals, we are biologically wired to respond to status. Ignorance is not the way out. It's not ignorance to
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by scandox 5y ago
But what would motivate a machine with general intelligence?
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by scandox 5y ago
I've never understood why we assume that AGI will not have many of the problems and limitations that GI has. It's always been my assumption that the development of AGI will probably mean creating intelligences that will: 1. Take a
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by scandox 5y ago
The Enduring Chill by Flannery O'Connor immortalized this error. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Enduring_Chill
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by scandox 5y ago
> Spreading disinformation about yourself takes time, but after a while the tapestry of deceptions will practically weave itself. Where the darknet meets linkedin.
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by scandox 5y ago
No it doesn't. I fully confess the feature set is extremely minimal. But the point here is that running your own infrastructure can make a lot of sense if you know what your precise requirements are (or are not).
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by scandox 5y ago
5 years of a Gogs instance. Zero downtime. I'll come back to you when it goes down.
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I've known a lot of engineers I wouldn't trust to do my books though!
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by scandox 5y ago
All that proves is that people who are messed up struggle to change their lives. The idea that someone is doing those things to make a fortune is daft. Porn is a machine that turns drug addicts into money. It's objectively bad as far a
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For people who want to reduce their natural gas usage in solidarity with Ukraine(old.reddit.com)
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by scandox 5y ago
The last scene makes it pretty clear. "They're scared" Huge cheer.
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by scandox 5y ago
I'm going to have this comment printed as a poster and put on my wall. It will save me many fruitless discussions.
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by scandox 5y ago
Going by history sanctions do tend to entrench authoritarian rulers. I still think there isn't any choice. He used the "Nuclear" word and now I think Europe's policy will be containment for a very long time. Edit: added
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by scandox 5y ago
Postfix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postfix_(software) Seems initially the work of a single person, though I have no doubt others contributed greatly also.
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by scandox 5y ago
The countries of which many of us are taxpayers are actively funding their military.
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by scandox 5y ago
https://savelife.in.ua/en/donate/ Was sent to me by a Ukrainian colleague that I would trust. Ideally you have to send using direct transfer I think. The details for that are on that same page.
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by scandox 5y ago
How generally are people dealing with these coloured logs when ingesting them into a centralized logging system? Is there much overhead in stripping these sort of things out.
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by scandox 5y ago
I think there's a legitimate interest in the popularity and adoption of Rust because a lot of people are curious to see if it will really stick. So I for one find it interesting and it affects my sense of how it will play out.
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by scandox 5y ago
I like the ambiguous Ballardian language of reverence towards the mall and its staff. It's charming and also a little creepy.
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by scandox 5y ago
All I know is that in the years since Mondelez bought Cadbury the quality of their chocolate has gone down the tubes. Despite public pronouncements that they haven't altered their recipes.
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by scandox 5y ago
That's what I love about the Theme Selector there. Every option is passive aggressively the same.
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by scandox 5y ago
> You will need to install Rust Am I right in saying Rust can produce executables that can be run without any Rust runtime etc being on the target system? Why would you need to install Rust in cases like this?
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by scandox 5y ago
Wrong. They are the number one security problem for email in traditional business, state and semi-state sectors. Certainly in my corner of Europe. I always ask orgs to consider a blanket ban on them but almost none can go that far. They are

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