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by sjw987 1y ago
I work with a few parents who spend the day texting/messaging their children. Their children in school are being distracted and their learning is being hindered. The parent at work is being distracted and their productivity and focus i
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If general government policies adapted to a world with less available jobs, it wouldn't be an issue. As it stands, our governments are continuing on as normal despite the introduction of a technology which has the capability to erase a
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I can think of a handful of people I work with who could be replaced by LLM. The hallucinations would be less frequent than the screw-ups the current humans make. It could at least consolidate 5 of those people into 1 with increased efficie
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Implying "superfluous email jobs" isn't a significant portion of the international job market. Most people that work in offices fit under this definition.
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I think the technology that has had the most impact on modern humans is the computer (in whatever size and format). Our lives aren't worse because of technological development in agriculture, manufacturing and so on. I think that compu
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I'm curious. I don't use social media and am very extroverted. All of the communication, including sharing media, I do through WhatsApp (because it's most popular and widespread) or Signal (preferred). Does Instagram have any
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Self controlling your screen use and media consumption is entirely within your remit. Companies have no power to force you to use their products/services, and despite the millions they spend trying to hook you, you always have the opti
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I get the impression you're just conflating "shortcut" with "progress", based off of the original Plato example. You clearly know what I was implying with many of the examples there and spun them into different dire
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There's a time and place for shortcuts. Health and fitness shortcuts hold more to lose than they do to gain. Sometimes the long way is better long term. A healthy attitude towards eating and fitness can, and usually does, elevate your
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It's fascinating that many of the benefits are the same benefits as just losing weight in general.
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You just haven't got there yet. You haven't failed. It really just comes down to eating less and healthier. Some people have metabolic differences either side, but they don't amount to a great deal. Weight loss drugs suppress
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I think it's because their use comes across for many users as lazy. It reflects poorly on peoples state of discipline and willpower. I wouldn't judge somebody morbidly obese using these to get down to a lower weight to healthily e
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It's an important discussion. We should all be aiming to do better. Instead we're just lowering the standards for everything. Only the morbidly obese should be using these drugs to get down to a healthy enough (overweight) level t
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It does seem to me, British people are very quick to call for "bans" on anything that they don't like. I always believed it comes from the average British person's mediocrity (and acceptance of) and crab-in-bucket mental
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by sjw987 1y ago
I believe the issue people have with the term ex-pat is that it sounds like a fart-sniffing variation of "migrant" (or the derivatives "emigrant" or "immigrant").
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> I see a world divided into two camps: one that does much for little, and one that does little for much I just wanted to say, I really admire this succinct and well written point. And agree with your post in general.
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Perhaps there's drugs which mask the actual performance enhancers now. The women's marathon record was broken last year by Ruth Chepngetich by a considerable margin. Seemed too good to be true, and many of the groups I'm in c
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by sjw987 1y ago
Wouldn't a better version be to take a book and parse the contents into a LLM and create a multiple choice quiz that follows the story of the book? I feel like as soon as you let LLM take the wheel and change the underlying story it&#x
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That shouldn't be much of an issue. I didn't plan on NFC payments going forward. If I use the web minimally and toggle the internet off when not in use, that should be pretty secure, right?
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That's interesting. Thanks for the information. I'll give it an install tonight. I'm curious to play around with it anyway and if I make minimal use of it, it should be pretty secure by it's use case.
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by sjw987 1y ago
Perhaps a newbie question, but since there's a lot of Graphene users here I thought it'd be best to get a human answer. I have an old Pixel 5 which I stopped using because Google dropped Google Pay (tap to pay) on it. I moved to a
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by sjw987 1y ago
Not the OP, but they're possibly referring to hatred of "others", a group far enough geographically or away from social acceptance, that people don't see any issues in the future with holding aggressive / intolerant
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Calibre is very customisable. You can pretty much change everything about the UI.
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All your DNA markers show that you have no markers for any adverse genetic conditions and can therefore have lower insurance rates if one of the worst case scenarios occurs (them selling data to health insurers). I did the 23andme thing yea
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Are you kidding? Most products and services on the market are tat. They serve no real purpose (regardless of whether they happen to have customers). It would be easier to list the few things which actually do have value. If you go into a su
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by sjw987 1y ago
Those are good points. I got a bit carried away in my original statement and undersold data a little bit. I think the point of the statement at the time ("data is the new oil" as an article in The Economist) was mostly hinging on
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Sorry, in my national market. Apple has 51%, Samsung has around 28% and Google 5%. These 3 hold almost 85% of the UK market. Samsung, from what I remember used to side-load tons of apps (some alongside identical stock Android apps), so it&#
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I think, as an outsider, the US faces most of the same problems, but I believe you do have a better starting position and extra cards in your hand than we do. Personally I cannot see how the UK is going to steady declining living standards.
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Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. In hindsight, I really miss using the Pixel 5 and semi-wish that I'd kept using it and just switched Google Pay/Wallet for card. The form factor and size was perfect. I changed to a Pixel 9 beca
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We've been in a bubble ever since people starting believing "data is the new oil". Data has only driven advertising, and it's done it in such a botched way that it's tearing down the whole discipline of advertising.

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