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by schoen 3mo ago
I really believe in technological progress and would strongly defend and advocate for it. I'm also very distressed by the idea that we have an absolute ratchet of more surveillance (and registration, monitoring, and licensing of people
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An extreme example is Xinjiang, where solar time can be more than three hours off from civil time (due to the PRC policy of having only one time zone for all of China).
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Does it effectively achieve God's Algorithm (minimum theoretically possible sequence of moves to solve each position)?
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Those cases are going to implicate significantly different legal doctrines (e.g. the former might be covered by the CDA immunity and the latter is probably not), but I imagine EFF would historically have preferred to protect the services fr
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There is some clear disapproval of Grok's capabilities in the end of the second section: > X Corp.’s flagship product since its identity change—a generative AI model called Grok—has created shocking amounts of child sexual abuse mat
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by schoen 3mo ago
The novel thing for EFF here, as I see it, isn't the idea that some uses of computers are illegal. Rather, it's the suggestion that tech companies have a duty to police or restrict users' use of their technology. When I worke
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by schoen 4mo ago
I appreciate the balance here. Some of the smartest people I know have worked on fighting NSA, but they had a drastically smaller budget than NSA itself, and the mental availability bias is skewed by the fact that the "fighting NSA&quo
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by schoen 4mo ago
I worked on these cases at EFF and I'm skeptical of the automatic "NSA has access to everything" intuition. What we learned from that era includes things like (1) spy agencies are incredibly aggressive and pursue tons of diff
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by schoen 4mo ago
Same here. Also, I studied Latin and Greek in school and have kept studying them in various ways since then. I think this test is significantly biased toward vocabulary with these origins; dozens of tested words are directly recognizable as
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by schoen 4mo ago
Ultrasound can also detect (some) kidney stones before they start moving and become painful, allowing an assessment of whether a medical intervention is useful or necessary. When I used to get kidney stones more frequently, there was a year
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by schoen 4mo ago
This debate has spawned many Internet memes! I would strongly suggest searching for both "sandwich alignment chart" and "cube rule of food" if you haven't seen those before (classic Internet memetic attempts at sand
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by schoen 4mo ago
I asked Grok what it thought of tacos and it told me: > Tacos are one of humanity's greatest inventions—right up there with the wheel, electricity, and whatever genius first decided to put cheese on everything. [...] > If I could
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by schoen 4mo ago
Is anyone formulating prediction market questions asking AIs to brainstorm about edge cases in order to leave fewer of them uncovered by the market definition? We do have humans brainstorming about such things, but this feels like something
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by schoen 4mo ago
For (3), the word you're thinking of is "mane" 'in the morning', which looks very much like an ablative but which doesn't have any other forms. There are definitely other words like that, such as "fas&quot
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by schoen 4mo ago
Latin is beautiful, but its purity and regularity may be overstated because of its prestige. There are irregular verbs, sometimes with complete suppletive replacement of principal parts by what used to be other verbs (e.g. sum, esse, fui, f
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by schoen 4mo ago
> We all get the same services from the state. I agree with your intuition, but this is often contested based on the idea that one of the state's services is protecting property, which scales up in cost in some way with the amount o
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by schoen 4mo ago
That must be why there is exactly as much wealth now as there was in the year 600. We've all just been stealing it back and forth.
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by schoen 4mo ago
What does the etymology theme do? Allow you to add the etymologies of place names?
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by schoen 4mo ago
I have also wondered about this when boycotting companies for reasons that I suspected were not the most common reasons. If they sent out a survey about "why you're no longer a customer" I suppose it would provide one channel
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by schoen 5mo ago
Just one correction: Clinton wasn't president yet in 1986. That was signed by Reagan. Clinton signed the 1996 Telecommunications Act which also had problems but which didn't change this specific legal norm.
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by schoen 5mo ago
Prior discussion of the restrictions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48123198
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My friend Rainey Reitman's new book about this phenomenon came out last month: https://raineyreitman.com/2024/06/11/transaction-denied-my-u...
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Which part of my comment do you relate this to?
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Alongside " 1984 wasn't an instruction manual" we may need the slogan "'The Right to Read' wasn't an instruction manual".
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There is a theory that some skeptics of tech optimism have advanced for a while, that governments like Internet freedom and widespread availability of ICTs in rival nations because it either (1) makes people there hate and fear each other,
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by schoen 5mo ago
I was a great admirer (and later friend) of Barlow, and I'm still very deeply influenced by the Declaration and many adjacent phenomena. I agree with some fraction of this post in terms of seeing many people shelving these principles w
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I don't have a family or a mortgage.
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Like other people, I first missed that this is a game where you have to choose your connections, not just a demo showing off the developer's solution. If you want to optimize this with software you can apparently get machine-readable t
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by schoen 5mo ago
Thanks, that's an important point. I guess that branch prediction attacks are an analogous phenomenon, although slightly less physical.
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Google Translate suggested "preme hic" which is plausible to me (I've spent a lot of time with Latin but haven't thought of this particular question before). It literally means "press here".

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