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by sealeck 1y ago
It may well come to that (and the fact that Wikipedia ends up being banned in the UK will potentially bring people to their senses).
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by sealeck 1y ago
> Sadly she used the knowledge gained to hack the website of the deputy leader of Labour Party. If by "hack" you mean she guessed the password, then yes.
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by sealeck 1y ago
> Unfortunately, California is a terrible benchmark. It is as close to ideal for Solar as it gets. Most places are not going to see this kind of performance We can also build power lines! Between different places! Such as the places with
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by sealeck 1y ago
I think that's because the announcement there actually told you something technically interesting. This just presents a result (which is cool), but the actual method is what is really cool!
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by sealeck 1y ago
Sure, but why worsen the situation by using more languages?
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by sealeck 1y ago
Much more efficient for us to all speak the same language. Trying to create fragmentation is inefficient.
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by sealeck 1y ago
I'm unconvinced Twitter is a very good medium for serious technical discussion. I imagine a lot of this happens on the sidelines at conferences, on mailing threads and actually in organisations doing work on AI (e.g. Universities, Anth
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by sealeck 1y ago
The Putnam and IMO are quite different. I would suggest the IMO is probably harder...
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by sealeck 1y ago
My claim is that at a system-level, judges in the US have more power to interpret laws. Your claim is that "in each individual case, the median amount of interpretation is lower in the US than the EU". But you also concede that th
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by sealeck 1y ago
> I judge people's trustworthiness individually and not solely by the organization they belong to This is certainly a courageous viewpoint – I imagine this makes it very hard for you to engage in the modern world? Most of us are ver
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by sealeck 1y ago
> I've been reading this website for probably 15 years, its never been this bad... all the actual educated takes are on X Almost every technical comment on HN is wrong (see for example essentially all the discussion of Rust async, i
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by sealeck 1y ago
> This is European law, not US. Reasonable means reasonable and judges here are expected to weigh each side's interests and come to a conclusion. Not just a literal interpretation of the law. I think you've got civil and common
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by sealeck 1y ago
https://ln.ht/ isn't bad
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by sealeck 1y ago
When was the first ETF released? (Hint: late 1900s).
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by sealeck 1y ago
Credible reporting based on what institutions the banks have tried to offload the Twitter debt to have said.
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by sealeck 1y ago
Have you considered why investors were bidding something like 60 cents on the dollar right until Trump's election? (Hint: because Elon has been using the US government to press companies into buying his ad product, despite the fact tha
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by sealeck 1y ago
> Elon dumped 80% of Twitter staff and it didn't collapse. Have you looked at a graph of Twitter revenue and profit recently (hint: it is very low). Nobody has ever claimed that you cannot fire all the employees and keep Twitter onl
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by sealeck 1y ago
You can also just... not use any of these features. It won't be pleasant, but it's doable. And some projects _do_ do this!
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by sealeck 1y ago
It doesn't have a great ecosystem of libraries, but it _does_ have a good way to manage them: https://dune.build/ , which as I understand it was developed at Jane Street (lots of code and dependencies) and is now open s
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by sealeck 1y ago
> What we need isn't Rust without the borrow checker. It's C with a borrow checker, and without all the usual footguns. Which would look a lot like... Rust!
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by sealeck 1y ago
Even then, this isn't actually what you want. When people say deterministic, at one level they mean "this thing should be a function" (so input x always returns the same output y). Some people also use determinism to mean the
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by sealeck 1y ago
I agree that they can get the data through other means. Not so sure about > There are so many different players who have access to most or all of the data it would hard to prove it came any one source at all. Because a prosecutor can obt
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by sealeck 1y ago
At some level this is true, but I'm also 98% sure that if you do that, you get far fewer donations. Fewer donations = less money to do good work. This means you can't provide money to support foundation projects (these are quite v
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by sealeck 1y ago
The US government doesn't really take kindly to other states trying to reign in its companies. This is something that has bipartisan support. Even American politicians who support regulating Apple, only support _them_ doing this. Is th
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by sealeck 1y ago
> why would countermeasures destroy trust The countermeasures won't destroy trust - it's the fact that you can't just pick up the phone and work out if you're speaking to a real human. Or trust that posts on an intern
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by sealeck 1y ago
The thing that was most disillusioning for me here was SVB -- failure to apply basic principles of banking (i.e. they never really had a plan for central bank interest rates to change more than +-1%). Not just that the VC types running a ba
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by sealeck 1y ago
We will have a mountain of GPUs!
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by sealeck 1y ago
Yes and no; there is a tipping point, past which hardware/software vendors will be forced to adopt countermeasures and new ways to verify identity. We will lose a lot though; the most prosperous societies really rely on high levels of
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by sealeck 1y ago
> it is clear that Apple only moves exactly as far as the EU forces it to I don't think this is a secret - Apple publicly opposes these kinds of laws. > And within the limits the law allows, they're doing everything they can
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by sealeck 1y ago
> The simple fact that they restrict this to the EU, where they are forced to provide the option, shows that Apple is not serious about this. They're barely fulfilling the letter of the law here. Apple may or (more likely) may not b

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