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by smsm42 5d ago
> You need to weigh the users privacy with your interests and can’t just put them aside. Who said anything about putting them aside? There would be a process and highly paid lawyers confirming that selling user data is only for the user&
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by smsm42 6d ago
I think classification and clusterisation is more important than search per se. "Where did I see that article about that weird psychological effect where people remember things they haven't seen" is not resolved by direct sea
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by smsm42 7d ago
For me this is probably the weirdest part of it. I have read HPMOR and was distinctly underwhelmed by its literary quality. I mean, it's not bad, but it's not serious literature. It's not even on the level of the original HP.
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by smsm42 8d ago
I solemnly proclaim I would pay reasonable money for a browser (Mozilla or otherwise) if their maker would truly try to make the best browser possible and succeed at least partially at it, instead of serving a thousand of agendas none of wh
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by smsm42 8d ago
> It's better for Europeans because the company in question is European and so will not export their data to New Jersey There aren't many government institutions in New Jersey that would take a lot of interest in anything Frenc
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by smsm42 8d ago
> But it's not getting sold to whichever-random-company-offered-the-highest. Nothing in GDPR prevents transfer or selling of personal data. True, there are hoops to be jumped to do that, both in terms of consent and documentation, b
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by smsm42 10d ago
You realize that people that don't care won't even know what Firefox is? Being a niche player and scaring away niche people is the most stupid strategy possible.
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by smsm42 10d ago
Not really, but it's probably easier to make it on top of LLM than to make specially-purposed tool for it, if we talking in terms of time-to-market effort.
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by smsm42 10d ago
> that it's not some big American cloud company but a relatively small startup in France How it's any better? Small companies can be bought by big companies. French government is as capable of trampling over their citizen'
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by smsm42 11d ago
Why anybody needs the DOJ? Each state has it's own police and their own AGs and their own criminal and civil court system. OpenAI is headquartered in California. California has never been shy of using their state resources to enact wha
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by smsm42 13d ago
I am simply astonished by the leeway AI companies are given. If a company built a tool to hack their competitors and used it, there would be grave consequences. In fact, if a company built a tool that led to committing multiple felonies aga
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by smsm42 22d ago
That's insanely obtuse and bureaucratic response and has likely been designed as such. I mean, to claim that because _some_ domains can get unregistered, abruptly removing a whole class of domains "does not impact the life cycle o
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by smsm42 25d ago
> It can be traced to exactly one executive who knew the dangers. Who? TEL was in use for 60+ years. You are seriously claiming that one single person had absolute dictatorial powers over whole industry - nay, whole industries in 186 cou
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by smsm42 25d ago
> The "customers" they are courting are security/privacy zealots who constantly want them "just work on the browser" but never seem to have an answer on how to pay for that. We all know how that was paid for. Goo
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by smsm42 1mo ago
Putting lead in gasoline is not some evil CEO's decision. That was widely accepted industry practice and completely approved by The Science (TM) at the time. If you want to blame a single person, it'd be Thomas Midgley Jr. (incred
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by smsm42 1mo ago
Mangione had a personal grudge, caused by illness, pain and personal interactions with US healthcare system, which can grind down and drive to insanity anybody. The above just reads as a mashup or angry reddit posts which contain generic &q
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by smsm42 1mo ago
Thousands of people were jailed in 2008 aftermath - look up operation Malicious Mortgage and Stolen Dreams. Most of them of course low level - because those were the people actually perpetrating the fraud. But some examples: Kareem Serageld
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by smsm42 1mo ago
You can jail CEO just fine if you prove they personally committed the crime beyond reasonable doubt. Proving that is hard, of course. Sometimes impossible because the CEO delegates a lot of what the corporation does. This is common for any
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by smsm42 1mo ago
This all is based on false premise - corporation being a "legal person" does not mean they have same rights as people. You can liquidate a corporation and if is not murder. You can boycott a corporation and it's not illegal d
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by smsm42 1mo ago
I think if facebook code governs your life, the major part of the fault does not lie with facebook. It is possible to live not being chained to the feed 24x7.
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by smsm42 1mo ago
So, instead of SSN dumps on the darknet, we'd have national ID dumps, which will be stolen within months (either from the government itself, or from credit bureaus or data brokers). How did that improve anything exactly?
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by smsm42 1mo ago
How the identity number would help? It's not like terrorists tell each other their identity numbers. So if the LEOs learn about a terrorist guy that goes around under the name "Sean Byrne", how would they know which ID number
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by smsm42 2mo ago
Why not? Nobody forces anybody to hire an anonymous provider. If they still do, they are probably fine with it?
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by smsm42 2mo ago
> Everything you know about 6800 assembly will not make your note-taking app any better. It could. It could make a simple note-taking app not take gigabytes of memory and take visible delay on each click. Most people don't bother of
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by smsm42 3mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profession_(novella)
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by smsm42 3mo ago
Welcome to the future. Make no mistakes.
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by smsm42 3mo ago
Yes. And since LLMs can not improve knowledge - I mean, they can generate new arrangements of information, but they have no idea whether any of it real or making sense, unless humans - explicitly or through training - tell them, the more we
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by smsm42 3mo ago
They were the part of the organized criminal group that executed the shooting and later tried to help other criminals to avoid responsibility. If you are part of the group that does the crime, everybody in the group shares the responsibilit
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by smsm42 3mo ago
One might consider a lot of things. But if you are at shooting war with United States government, then when United States government puts your away, you don't get to claim it's a free speech issue. You can't sit on those two
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by smsm42 3mo ago
Domestic terrorists who shoot people in the neck. Among millions of things that the government claims to protect mw from, this is one of a few things that I don't doubt I want to be protected from. There's absolutely zero free spe

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