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by stubish 1y ago
Is this just an anecdote, or are you claiming that having a military would somehow reduce the homicide rate? How would this work in practice?
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by stubish 1y ago
> So it sounds like they definitely scraped the content and used it for training, which is legal It certainly seems legal to train. But the case is about scraping without permission. Does downloading an article from a website, probably v
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by stubish 1y ago
I wonder if you can download the copyrighted material without permission though? The article specifically states 'the scraping has been used by Perplexity to reproduce the newspaper’s copyrighted articles in responses to user queries w
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by stubish 1y ago
If you don't rewrite the headline to include 'in mice', we have to scroll past pages of people throwing shade on the study by repeating 'in mice', as if this is something new or insightful about how medical research
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by stubish 1y ago
Keep employees in the short term. After 2 years, employees can retire comfortably. When the salary becomes irrelevant, you can hang around for more beach homes doing what the boss wants and keeping your work proprietary to the company, or q
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by stubish 1y ago
Semiconductors are not fungible. Using US alternatives also means dropping all the AI plans and subsidies, at least on US soil. The big AI data centers would all end up in China, owned and managed by subsidiaries and leased back to the pare
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by stubish 1y ago
Have Visa and Mastercard ever not acted in tandem with this sort of block? Is it time for the duopoly to be prosecuted as a cartel?
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Chemical process produces critical battery metals with no waste(spectrum.ieee.org)
237 points by stubish 1y ago|31 comments
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by stubish 1y ago
No. it pretty specifically prohibits the establishment, support or promotion of particular movements. It does not mention discussion, or even discussion of specific ideas that happen to be part of a prohibited movements ideology. You can sa
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by stubish 1y ago
Chemo poisons the whole body in an attempt to destroy the cancer before the treatment kills the person. Not something you would want to do precancerous I suspect. Many of the targeted treatments we now have would also not be suitable, as th
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by stubish 1y ago
I doubt I'll see it in my lifetime. Designing the reactors, building the prototype, building the real power plant... 30 years minimum. Then waiting another 13 years for the gold to stop being radioactive (although maybe radioactive gol
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by stubish 1y ago
It reminded me a lot of many video game cut scenes. It is still hitting uncanny valley a lot. eg. Voice acting recorded phrase by phrase with limited context and odd pacing better suited for the stage. Acting by puppets with somewhat inhuma
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by stubish 1y ago
Will Australia make use of this resource, or NIH their own design with the expected outcome? Social media age checks rushing forward, and it seems impossible to meet the legislation requirements (no ID required etc.) unless the government p
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Pensioner takes NAB to Supreme Court over $1,338 in fraudulent transactions(abc.net.au)
5 points by stubish 1y ago|2 comments
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by stubish 1y ago
Article does some detailing of the Google Pay fraud industry behind this
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by stubish 1y ago
Privacy is required for the mental health of many people, perhaps everyone except the extroverted and naive. Anxiety and fear over people watched, caught, punished, especially innocently. Anxiety and fear over their lack of privacy being ab
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by stubish 1y ago
Ethos of the very early Internet . It was mid 90s when people started thinking the Internet was a great resource for kids, and various blacklists arrived for DNS and email and this cool Netscape web browser thing, and Internet providers
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by stubish 1y ago
They do staged rollouts, maybe a-b testing. It seems to generally be region based rather than platform.
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by stubish 1y ago
Switch to v3, and not notice as adtech slowly starts leaking through, such as people have already started seeing on Youtube. The key is to slowly crank up the number of ads that get through, boiling the apocryphal frog.
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Australians to face age checks from search engines(ia.acs.org.au)
139 points by stubish 1y ago|262 comments
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by stubish 1y ago
Using the data provided to Google for search to train AI could open them up to lawsuits, as the publisher has explicitly stated that payment is required for this use case. They might win the class action, but would they bother risking it?
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by stubish 1y ago
Machines were still being sold without TPM modules when Windows 10 was 'last Windows', so no.
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by stubish 1y ago
Specifically violent crime. Poor areas had more violent crime. These areas got dumped with more lead pollution. The rise percentage wise correlates almost perfectly with lead levels, with poor (and now polluted) areas rising more than well
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by stubish 1y ago
Industry and highways and other high sources of lead pollution were built in the areas with higher juvenile delinquency. Not in rich, privileged areas. I think you can also correlate the rise in violent crime to amount of lead contaminati
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by stubish 1y ago
It seems a key part is identifying how much heat you will need in what time frame, which would be really hard to do for a single dwelling. But much easier to predict for a large number of properties.
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by stubish 1y ago
I would like a residential scale one, assuming it is more efficient than using solar generation to charge a regular battery to power a reverse cycle air conditioner at night. I guess it isn't more efficient?
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by stubish 1y ago
This particular form of mosquito control seems to be untargeted and will affect all species. Which also makes it that much more likely that it will be evolved around (but that could still be a win, if Aedes Aegypti got replaced with a fungu
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by stubish 1y ago
This might become moot if the push for 'community batteries' I see over here takes hold. Rather than giant battery arrays 200km away near a solar farm, smaller arrays in your postcode soaking up rooftop solar and offpeak grid. May
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by stubish 1y ago
So, an specialist with ketones published a study related to ketones.
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by stubish 1y ago
It is even a common marketing trick to upsell. If the mid or upper tier isn't perceived to be that much more expensive, people choose it. Just like supersizing a happy meal.

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