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by sjy 6y ago
Rather than “network you attach it to,” would it be more precise to say “repository it can automatically install software from”? What I think of as “the network” has very little control over my devices, and some of them even work without ne
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by sjy 6y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. I usually rely on the default settings in Arch Linux to handle stuff like this in the default package configuration, but it seems that the nginx package’s [1] systemd service [2] is not set up that way. Maybe i
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by sjy 6y ago
Thanks for the reference. ‘Emergence of scaling in random networks’ (1999) seems like a good starting point, and the author is sharing a copy of the version printed in Science on his website: https://barabasi.com/f/67
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by sjy 6y ago
The author of this article, Samo Burja, also gave a great lecture in 2018 called “Civilization: Institutions, Knowledge and the Future” ( https://youtu.be/OiNmTVThNEY ) which was mentioned in Jon Blow’s popular 2019 talk on s
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by sjy 6y ago
The actual report is available here. It's worth noting that, unlike the recent news media bargaining code, this is not an official government policy (yet): https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/theausinstitute/page
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Social media run by Australian national broadcaster proposed to take on Facebook(theguardian.com)
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by sjy 6y ago
The article advocates for this, calling it “competitive compatibility,” but noting “it’s not enough to legalize competitive compatibility, since the platforms have such an advantage in technical resources that serious competitors’ attempts
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by sjy 6y ago
Similar experience here – I tried desktop Linux in 2003, 2008 and 2013 but couldn’t handle it and switched back to either Windows or macOS as my main OS. I tried again in 2018 after upgrading my Windows hardware and being told yet again tha
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by sjy 6y ago
You can tell them to go to the Microsoft Store, search for Ubuntu, and click Install. I have used this to coach non-technical Windows users over the phone to run software packaged in Ubuntu.
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by sjy 6y ago
The world has already realised this – while Windows remains popular on the desktop, the desktop is dying, and Windows has had a small and declining share of total new devices for quite a few years now [1]. As the large pool of workers who l
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by sjy 6y ago
“The single most important fact about television is that people watch it, which is why it is called ‘television.’ And what they watch, and like to watch, are moving pictures—millions of them, of short duration and dynamic variety. It is in
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by sjy 6y ago
I don’t think so – Excel has felt significantly slower to me ever since they introduced the GPU “accelerated” interface.
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by sjy 6y ago
I must have misunderstood your earlier comment then. I thought you were saying that Searle responded to ”the system does understand” argument by saying “OK, but it’s still not conscious.” Now I think you are saying his response was “no, it
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by sjy 6y ago
That’s not a firm, it’s just a person participating in the economy. There is a whole field of economics that asks: “having regard to the fact that if production is regulated by price movements, production could be carried on without any org
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by sjy 6y ago
The fundamental difference is that GPT-3 can only read text. Humans can see, hear, feel, taste, move, and socialise. Both systems learn by ingesting data, but human brains get a lot more input of a much wider variety over a much longer time
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by sjy 6y ago
I’ve not heard this argument before. Isn’t saying “there is no entity that would experience anything” begging the question? If the system is capable of understanding, why wouldn’t it also be capable of experience? That is what we see in ani
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by sjy 6y ago
Isn’t Searle’s argument based on the equally far-fetched axiom that a program could be written which (a) passes the Turing test, and (b) could be executed by a human using pencil and paper, with sufficient speed to not fail the Turing test?
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by sjy 6y ago
Minimum wages are inconsistent with the idea that people should be paid strictly according to their productivity. If society becomes more productive overall, as a matter of fairness I think that “should” result in the minimum wage being inc
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by sjy 6y ago
The article argues that “the minimum wage should keep pace with productivity growth,” not “pay should keep pace with productivity gains.” Suppose a business with a profit margin of 20% increases its revenue by 10% without increasing labour
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by sjy 6y ago
It is as simple as “X is available more cheaply from a third party supplier.” But in the case of services that depend on low-skill labour like room cleaning, there are no presumed economies of scale. These companies don’t get the same work
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by sjy 6y ago
Could you explain what you mean here? I assume from your reply to 'rayiner that you are criticising recent decisions limiting Chevron deference and applying the nondelegation doctrine. It’s confusing, because big business won the c
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by sjy 6y ago
From the article: “Twitter's primary goal is to ensure that the subpoena not be used to chill anonymous speech that does not rise to the level of defamation.”
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by sjy 6y ago
Because Twitter has evidence that may be relevant to one or both sides of a defamation lawsuit, and civil litigants can use subpoenas to get evidence in the possession of third parties into court. > The identity of the user is directly a
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by sjy 6y ago
This is mentioned in the article (“attorneys for the social media giant claimed such a disclosure would violate the First Amendment rights of a user to be anonymous”) and further explained, with citations, in the court’s decision: > “An
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by sjy 6y ago
It is a First Amendment case though, in that the discussion is all about the principle that “non-party disclosure is only appropriate in the exceptional case where the compelling need for the discovery sought outweighs the First Amendment r
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by sjy 6y ago
I always store data in tables for this reason, but last week I ran into a problem because someone else had added new data to my sheet somehow without the table range being automatically adjusted. The table looked visually correct but when y
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by sjy 6y ago
What makes you think that Reddit post actually created a significant burden for Blizzard, or that posts like this present a realistic threat to smaller businesses?
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by sjy 6y ago
Yes, and the same applies to virtually all other research databases. I’d forgotten this until you mentioned it because I’ve become so habituated to going direct to PDF.
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by sjy 6y ago
The EFF is running a First Amendment challenge to the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provisions. In June 2019 the government lost a bid to have the case thrown out for lack of jurisdiction [1]. The court accepted that the anti-circumvention prov
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by sjy 6y ago
Yes, iOS jailbreaking is a good example of this. Clearly it involves circumventing a technological measure that prevents some kinds of copyright infringement, but that’s not its sole purpose. In the US it now seems pretty clear that it’s le

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