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by tivert 2y ago
> Why is the goal to get people to quit their jobs and get a nice apartment? > Isn't it supposed to be a minimum base level of support? Why do we keep moving the goal posts? Ultimately, the whole point of UBI is to head off pol
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by tivert 2y ago
> Poisonous Frogs I'm surprised they didn't point out the extra toes in the AI image and the other hind-leg anatomy that looks weird. Though the biggest tell to me was the more static and stereotypical pose. > Students Doing
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by tivert 2y ago
> I think the reason is different. Some languages have official bodies that decree how a language works. For example the French have the French Academy. Well, they like to pretend they have that kind of authority, those languages don&#
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by tivert 2y ago
> In Physics, we graduate an order of magnitude more Phds than there are posts for Phds. There are few remunerative fields which hire Phd physicists. IIRC, that's even worse in the humanities in both regards. I'd kind of think
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by tivert 2y ago
> I think you have the priority backwards. We shouldn’t be relying on trusting the QA process of a private company for national security systems. Our systems should have been resilient in the face of Crowdstrike incompetence. I think you
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by tivert 2y ago
> I believe at least in the UK, after the Tavistock scandal, people started asking questions. I mean, you mention taking do no harm seriously... I think that's a good reminder/example that you you can't really reason from
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> The OS doesn't matter, the question should be why is critical infrastructure online and allowed to receive OTA updates from third parties. Not exactly. I think the question is why is critical infrastructure getting OTA updates fr
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by tivert 2y ago
> Frequent updates, in the old days, meant that a vendor had poor QA. I think that's probably still the case most of the time today, too. The internet has normalized poor QA. The bosses don't give a shit about QA anymore becaus
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by tivert 2y ago
> Myanmar is ranked 179 out of 230 countries ranked by gun ownership rate IIRC, the only guns that were legal there for civilian ownership there were single-shot hunting rifles. If you read the reports, the resistance to the junta had a
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by tivert 2y ago
> I'd be fired if I caused enough loss in revenue to pay my own salary for a year. I'm not so sure. I know of a major company that had a glitch, multiple times , that caused them to lose about ~15 million dollars at least
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by tivert 2y ago
> No, we expect phone locking to work, even against state actors But that's an unreasonable expectation because software is universally such garbage. Some is just less garbage than others. State actors have the resources to find the
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by tivert 2y ago
> 1 -> AI is awesome and perfect, if it isn't, another AI will make it perfect 2 -> AI is just garbage and will always be garbage 3 -> An awesome AI will actually predictably be a deep negative for nearly all people (for mu
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by tivert 2y ago
>> should be operated purely at cost, if not banned outright > This sounds like a quick route to prisons with no working phones. I don't think so, and it certainly wouldn't be with sufficient oversight. > the prison-sp
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by tivert 2y ago
Honestly, I think universities took their good reputations for granted, and so chose to pursue other goals than maintain them. I don't think any institution can maintain the confidence of the general public without being scrupulously n
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by tivert 2y ago
> You'd first have to drop the pretence of neutrality that most voting advocacy efforts lead with. I bet there are legal and practical requirements for that. For instance, a lack of a pretense of neutrality would probably undermine
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by tivert 2y ago
> This is what happens when customers don't understand the separation between product manufacture and product fulfilment. > This was Amazon's fault (for re-selling a returned product as new) but it was also the reviewer&#x27
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by tivert 2y ago
> Good point. Wisconsin is known to drive people to drink. I think you're misinterpreting that article. It's purely an observation that Wisconsinites self-reported more of what some team running a survey classified as "e
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by tivert 2y ago
> Not sure how this is self-serving or a reference to human learning. An argument I frequently see made to defend companies who take all kinds of people's content to build LLMs (which then compete with the people's whose stuff
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by tivert 2y ago
> I hadn't realized that it was well settled that scraping from youtube isn't legitimate. How ironic that would be. Does that mean that google search results aren't legal? You get full images back from that and google make
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by tivert 2y ago
> This Tesseract project is such an interesting study in what it takes to build a computer from scratch. But it's not really from scratch. IIRC, Amiga's used a lot of custom ICs, and it looks like those were scavenged for this
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by tivert 2y ago
> 2. Autistic people are more likely to spend a very large amount of time online. And I think that's a poorly-acknowledged asset to whatever political ideology that adopt (or are more likely to adopt), given our extremely online cul
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by tivert 2y ago
> Doesn't antitrust already deal with this kind of thing? Theoretically, but as a sibling comment mentioned, enforcement of that has been lax. That's why I'd like to see some defense-in-depth. If there are multiple ways t
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by tivert 2y ago
> Negative caloric delta requires no capitalism. But it does require a lot of effort and self-control.
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by tivert 2y ago
There are more problems with being fat than just stigma. I'm sure a lot of people would like to be able to sleep without something like a space helmet on, for instance.
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by tivert 2y ago
Honestly, I think it would be pretty good law to treat any private entity that amassed too much power or control under the same kinds of restrictions as the government. It's not like only the government is capable of trampling on pe
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by tivert 2y ago
> On HN I've seen the reading that Culture humans are pretty much housecats to the Culture Minds. Is that a mainstream reading, or fringe? I think it's a pretty mainstream reading. I've seen it a lot, and, IMHO, it'd
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by tivert 2y ago
[replying to both the parent and GP] >> so how would you define the previous memetic position that led to children as a regular part of life? >> Further, what is the new memetic position on children that is being implemented? I&
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by tivert 2y ago
> I suspect part of the problem is a generation of people raised with just enough economics knowledge to be dangerous, with life viewed through lenses of cost, profit and risk instead of joy, experience, and sentimentalism. IMHO, I think
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by tivert 2y ago
The OP looks like it's just capitalist/libertarian talking points. Honestly, I'd like some discussions of the real fallacies of capitalism, like "you can tell what people really want by what markets make" (often dep
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by tivert 2y ago
>> A significant part of the problem seems to be one of ideology colliding with reality. I think you should read that a little more expansively that the things I explicitly commented on. Some examples of ideology: "children shoul

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