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by taurknaut 2y ago
Why not just call it blackmail? Is there any evidence that Putin has more influence over our government than, say, Bibi does? That seems extremely difficult to believe. This feels a lot like centrist qanon.
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by taurknaut 2y ago
Smartphones at least are absolutely crippled by being locked down by user-hostile app stores and rent schemes. Instead of uplifting us, they've made us angry crackheads. I think the valley is a risk to humanity's survival at this
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by taurknaut 2y ago
Clever. I feel like knowing I'm actually talking to Eliza would undercut significant value here though.
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by taurknaut 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_sofa_problem
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by taurknaut 2y ago
Sure, the issue is the non-free ones they endorse.
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by taurknaut 2y ago
Nah, I just tried and it works fine.
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by taurknaut 2y ago
A) a lot of what is censored ends up being publicly-known information already, so it's not a matter of safety but rather public image (imo), and B) this creates a perverse incentive to associate national security (...or other sources o
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by taurknaut 2y ago
I don't even think half of them are getting paid. They're doing it gratis.
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by taurknaut 2y ago
White nationalism is indeed a major problem in ICE (and law enforcement in general), but I don't think this is an accurate way to paint the situation as a whole. This is what textbook nativism looks like, and many non-white americans a
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by taurknaut 2y ago
Nobody in this thread is blaming ICE for their own existence. However, now that they exist and wield great political power, they probably should get some for their continued existence.
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by taurknaut 2y ago
ICE represents so much currently wrong with america today: a bipartisan-supported, taxpayer-funded gang of thugs that exist to ensure a cheap source of labor. what's actually driving down wages is the fact that a lack of reliable and l
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by taurknaut 2y ago
> Using LLMs to judge correctness It seems their pr is willing to make much stronger claims than you will.
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by taurknaut 2y ago
Many open source licenses are non-free. It's simply not useful to generally conflate the two concepts when they have distinct meanings. I never have nor ever will look towards the OSI as contributing to the free software movement rathe
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by taurknaut 2y ago
To be disruptive you need layoffs. Where is all this labor that can be replaced with chatbots? I, personally, strongly hate cars and think they're moronic. Sometimes revolutions aren't a good thing.
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by taurknaut 2y ago
Sure but i'm many orders of magnitude times more likely to die from a virus than "enemy tanks".
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by taurknaut 2y ago
What would you characterize as more dangerous than a threat like this? What are you seeing that you'd characterize as panic?
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by taurknaut 2y ago
People have pointed out for decades now that the OSI is a corporate alternative to free software. That was always the complaint.
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by taurknaut 2y ago
Most authoritarian countries have been formal democracies(/republics) for a while. There are a LOT of ways to heavily influence elections short of rigging them. (Though, of course, ballot stuffing remains a concern too.)
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by taurknaut 2y ago
No symptoms doesn't imply no side effects. Furthermore the more viruses you're exposed to, the more likely you'll get one mutated to really hurt you. The best way to deal with viruses is to avoid them to the extent possible.
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by taurknaut 2y ago
I think there are many people fine with simply removing federal enforcement over states. One possible outcome of this is the federal government us just a joke and laws are relative to where you live. I mean. This weird-ass country is alread
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by taurknaut 2y ago
Well I certainly don't use linux because it's written in C. Who would? Edit: This seems like more of an indication of a culture that lacks effective conflict resolution than any kind of technical question.
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by taurknaut 2y ago
This doesn't strike me as that different than an enum.
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by taurknaut 2y ago
nobody deserves to be wealthy. The concept is simply nonsensical.
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by taurknaut 2y ago
Tenured teaching positions are also in freefall right now.
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by taurknaut 2y ago
> Rails can become a ball of mud as much as any other framework can. ...but rails can fit this dysfunction on a single slide ;)
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by taurknaut 2y ago
This is actually pretty accurate, except ruby is just slower, not randomly fragile at scale.
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by taurknaut 2y ago
While I like many people have been doing this for years, it's not clear what this will actually solve. What will strategically benefit us is banding together in public, not talking in hushed tones in private.
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by taurknaut 2y ago
> cheats All i see is competition. Companies cheat by relying on ip to begin with and it hurts the consumer.
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by taurknaut 2y ago
> It's an important constituent, but only complete OS-emulation with deterministic scheduling could (at a huge overhead) This does actually exist; check out antithesis's product. I'm not sure how much is public information
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by taurknaut 2y ago
Sorry? What does my post have to do with accelerationism? I am not arguing any of this is good. But what country has ever voted its way out of fascism? I'm sure there's a good example somewhere. Pinochet maybe? Typically the route

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