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by tivert 2y ago
> None of those obviously correlate to the kinds of websites you’re allowed to visit. They don't have to. > The issue is that it’s awfully close to the kind of speech you are “permitted” to be exposed to, which is a slippery slop
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by tivert 2y ago
> Calling people stupid who leveraged an unrivaled technology to build a community and/or a business feels particularly anti-human. I'm not calling them stupid for that, I'm calling them stupid because they didn't hav
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by tivert 2y ago
>> Many American civil liberties organizations think that the the ban is a free speech issue: > Honestly these "civil liberties" orgs have lost the plot a long time ago, or are just at "useful idiot" mode Exactl
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by tivert 2y ago
> If only we knew what happened in that classified briefing that made them vote together across party lines. I don't know about any classified briefing, but TikTok publicly shot itself in the foot badly during the vote, though a
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by tivert 2y ago
> those people are probably concerned about their future As they should be, because they stupidly made their lives dependent on a single platform that anyone with a brain could see was likely to run into trouble sooner rather than later.
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by tivert 2y ago
>> I love the us vs them argument. Because it's baseless. Why don't you stop buying everything that's made in China. Let's see how far you get. > Because that would be harmful to US consumers. Lack of short vide
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by tivert 2y ago
> I don't think America has faced a political rival like China since the Soviet Union; not sure if there were any restrictions on the distribution of Soviet software in the late 80s. I doubt there were, because it would have been mo
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by tivert 2y ago
> how can the US government just ban an app? has this ever happened before in US history? what gives the government the right to tell US citizens what apps they can and can't use? Being a government. They also get to tell you want k
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by tivert 2y ago
> lmao, it's just exactly what cpc said at the time they banning Google and Facebook The CCP is not some weird thing that's wrong 100% of the time, so the US must always do the opposite thing. The CCP banning Google/Facebo
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by tivert 2y ago
> Apparently, American users want this? Approximately 700k users have joined RedNote, a Chinese platform. It's out of the frying pan and into the fire for Americans. There are 335 million Americans, and a lot of them are stupid and&
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by tivert 2y ago
> Treating their rulings as the best or canonical interpretation of a case doesn't make much sense. It does, because the Supreme Court's ruling is the legally binding interpretation. The EFF are just some people with an non-l
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by tivert 2y ago
Stupid bill. They need to require that all 3D printers in the state run government provided monitoring software to prevent unauthorized gun parts from being printed, with a year in prison being the penalty for unmonitored prints.
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by tivert 2y ago
> It's hardly limited to Nobel laureates. See also: Engineer's disease. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease I'm kinda not a fan of the list there, since it tries to tar a few early-20th c
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by tivert 2y ago
>> And the second level, for some reason, includes (among others) a bunch of countries that would normally be seen as close US allies - e.g. some NATO countries (most of Central/Eastern Europe). > Yeah, this is really a bit in
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by tivert 2y ago
> Something like: 10^26 FLOPS * 1.5^n where n is the number of years since the regulation was published. Why would you want to automatically increase the cap algorithmically like that? The purpose of a regulation like this is totally d
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by tivert 2y ago
> Even if future amendments try to address test-time compute, the proposed regulation seems premature. There are too many unknowns in future AI development to justify using a fixed compute-based threshold as a reliable indicator of poten
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by tivert 2y ago
> Rebuild the republic instead of wasting everything on hopeless adventurism and imperial expansion. Reducing risk from Chinese influence is "rebuild[ing] the republic" and is not " hopeless adventurism and imperial expa
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by tivert 2y ago
> Brand new site with no user gets 1k request a month by bots, the CO2 cost must be atrocious. Yep: https://www.energy.gov/articles/doe-releases-new-report-eval... : > The report finds that data centers consumed a
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by tivert 2y ago
Those screens look like the stupidest thing ever, and just another example of tech industry brain-rot. We already have excellent tech to see what's inside a cooler: it's called a window . Why replace a simple, functional solution
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by tivert 2y ago
>> Then China gains control over TSMC without a fight and much of the American economy is at their mercy. > Much of the American economy is already at China's mercy, due to the $500,000,000,000+ in goods we rely on from them a
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by tivert 2y ago
> We will see, but I would think if they gain 2-5 Million Users, it wouldn't but of much concern for the feds. Unless they gain access to a specific vulnerable group. The way the law is written, any adversary-controlled social netwo
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by tivert 2y ago
> No, the law doesn't give a users threshold It does have a threshold: > (ii) has more than 1,000,000 monthly active users with respect to at least 2 of the 3 months preceding the date on which a relevant determination of the Pre
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by tivert 2y ago
> In English, it seems to be called rednote. I know someone who speaks Chinese and uses that app. The name in Chinese Xiaohongshu clearly translates to "Little Red Book," and they're confused how anyone got "Red Note&
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by tivert 2y ago
Now for the important question: which children's cereals will be changing color?
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by tivert 2y ago
> Beyond the fact that we have access to all kinds of technology that did not exist 70 years ago even for the richest people on the planet This is a standard element of conservative/libertarian gaslighting: "Do not complain abo
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by tivert 2y ago
> If anything, the Dutch government has been telling people to have cash available in case of emergencies after "geopolitical tension" (read: the Russian invasion into Ukraine). Not that anyone seems to listen, but they encoura
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by tivert 2y ago
> But if you blame your parents or guardians' overly restrictive dogma for your outcast status then it will likely turn into lifelong resentment. Would you want your kid to resent you? That's not a good reason. Would you let yo
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by tivert 2y ago
There are "very hard problems" that don't need to be solved, or are far lower priority than other problems. Hard doesn't imply being "productive, useful and beneficial to society."
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by tivert 2y ago
> If you owned a small business you'd be singing a very different tune. The problem with advertising is that a little bit done honestly is actually good and fine. What we actually have way, way too much, and it's often dish
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by tivert 2y ago
> You're misunderstanding the point of the great firewall, which is to create an isolation effect on the Chinese net. Obviously a bunch of American e-refugees foils that. This absolutely is a massive change to the status quo. I thin

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