stvltvs

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by stvltvs 8d ago
FWIW I don't agree with Wilhoit, just explaining where the idea came from.
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by stvltvs 8d ago
Which is basically Wilhoit's Law, an attempt to define conservatism. edit: For those who don't want to look it up, Wilhoit's law is usually stated like this: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: The
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by stvltvs 9d ago
Because they know that many of our most intractable problems are primarily political, not technical. Climate disruption and peace in the Middle East for two examples. I don't expect an LLM to offer a workable plan for either. Would lov
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by stvltvs 9d ago
Trump et al. being in control of US government data honestly feels like vikings have been put in charge of the Anglo-Saxon monasteries or Christian zealots in charge of the Library of Alexandria.
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by stvltvs 15d ago
That's not the story the whistleblower tells. The plan, for example, is to reject entire batches of ballots if a single ballot doesn't pass USPS's criteria.
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by stvltvs 16d ago
The idea is to be able to prove that a photo you took was captured by a camera, not generated. That would be helpful in the context of a disputed news story, a court case, etc. Would that ever be relevant for a screenshot?
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by stvltvs 16d ago
Signing the raw image data wouldn't require also signing the EXIF metadata. For privacy, you could later strip out everything except the raw image and the camera's signature and still prove that the image is unaltered.
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by stvltvs 16d ago
To clarify, if the postal service can choose which ballots to deliver, then whoever controls the postal service has a powerful lever to suppress voters they don't like, especially those who have difficulty voting in person due to bad h
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by stvltvs 16d ago
As long as the barcode is not then used to reject delivery of ballots because a flawed federal voter verification system guesses the voters are illegitimate. I have grave concerns about creating a single lever that will allow bad actors to
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by stvltvs 18d ago
You should have told them the required phone was missing from the box.
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by stvltvs 18d ago
Funny I think of Perl as Bash with slightly saner syntax plus robust regexp. (said with love)
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by stvltvs 1mo ago
Censorship of things I don't like or don't care about doesn't count. /s
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by stvltvs 1mo ago
I boycotted with the API nonsense a few years ago and noticed I didn't miss it that much. Haven't really been back since. When a web search leads me back, it seems to have gone downhill with lots of low effort and bot-ish posts.
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by stvltvs 1mo ago
Hengist and Horsa
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by stvltvs 1mo ago
Tell that to the desert-dwelling species that rely on that habitat for survival. Deserts aren't empty wastelands that are valueless without human development.
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by stvltvs 1mo ago
Ideally, but we know that LLMs will get the blame because of course they will.
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by stvltvs 1mo ago
Highly location dependent. This is more true in Europe than in America.
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by stvltvs 1mo ago
The impact is highly geography dependent. For example, the lower Colorado River basin is facing heavy drought, extremely low reservoirs, and federally mandated cuts in water shares. Awkward time to build water intensive infrastructure, even
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by stvltvs 1mo ago
Can you elaborate? It can't express every mathematical set operation, but it does have UNION, EXCEPT, and INTERSECT.
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by stvltvs 1mo ago
I'm getting old, but it seems like we're all more ambivalent about new tech. Maybe I'm projecting, but we don't expect tech to be the solution to human problems as much as we used to. The boundless optimism about the Wor
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by stvltvs 2mo ago
Are these really local businesses or are they employees forced to take on liability as a condition of employment? Tech has been mislabeling employees as independent contractors for years.
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by stvltvs 2mo ago
Maybe I'm thinking too literally, but alfalfa isn't grass. It's a legume.
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by stvltvs 2mo ago
Over half of Colorado River water goes to agriculture, about half of that irrigates alfalfa for animal feed. It's not clear if that's what you meant by capitalism, but lawns are a very small portion of what the water is used for.
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by stvltvs 2mo ago
Even better a single video frame because the OCR is demonstrably fallible.
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by stvltvs 2mo ago
This could be more targeted, like a no-fly list for the internet. Political dissidents, journalists, etc. could be effectively exiled from online activity.
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by stvltvs 2mo ago
I'm not saying age verification is a good idea, just that a centralized government-mandated implementation is a bad way to do an already bad idea.
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by stvltvs 2mo ago
Data ownership is just one area of concern. Controlling our access to the internet is another. If age verification was an open standard, we could hope for competition so that we could jump ship from a bad actor. If one blocks our access, we
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by stvltvs 2mo ago
Anecdotal but my laptop just found 2 open WiFi networks out of 20. One's enough though.
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by stvltvs 2mo ago
They can't delete their accounts after the server hosting the account shuts down.
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by stvltvs 2mo ago
Putting on tinfoil hat... how do we know it isn't connecting to our neighbors' open WiFi?

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