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by trasz3 4y ago
And there’s no better source than the perpetrators themselves, right?
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by trasz3 4y ago
Tbh even not protecting American war criminals would go a long way. It’s a bit sad that none of the responsible for My Lai got properly prosecuted.
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by trasz3 4y ago
Anything that’s not a glorified copy/paste.
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by trasz3 4y ago
Why? Humans are useful. Razing entire ecosystems isn’t.
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by trasz3 4y ago
It's because the incentives to make money quickly end up being stronger than incentives to build a sustainable open source ecosystems.
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by trasz3 4y ago
Next step is to do the same with music.
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by trasz3 4y ago
How is AI more of a black box than a human moderator?
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by trasz3 4y ago
Also note that all this lacks any kind of transparency.
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by trasz3 4y ago
Remember that HN is first of all a marketing tool for YC. It would be silly for them to allow views that are too inconvenient to their (actual and potential) business partners. And those partners are predominantly from USA.
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by trasz3 4y ago
FAANG-controlled “open source” projects aren’t really Open Source - they release the code licensed under Open Source license, but without most of its fundamental advantages.
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by trasz3 4y ago
The article is FUD of course, but one thing worth noting is how it assumes a dropping pregnancies are because of forced sterilization and not just improving life quality - which is how it works everywhere else.
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by trasz3 4y ago
Car company marketing isn’t working anymore?
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by trasz3 4y ago
>There are practically no religions around anymore that have a god whose purpose is like "this guy brings the tides" Catholic saints are pretty much exactly this, “lesser gods”, just not called that.
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by trasz3 4y ago
>Trivially, you not believing in god is not an absence of delusion or whatever, but necessarily a belief. At, the old “_not_ collecting postage stamps is a hobby too” argument.
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by trasz3 4y ago
Funny you mention human rights, which is something the religion (Catholicism) fought frantically against. There are different kind of beliefs. The author is quite explicit in that he’s describing one particular kind: religious beliefs. Wh
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by trasz3 4y ago
But still only as a 32-bit binary, in 2023.
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by trasz3 4y ago
>tech workers in India care about what they do Are you trying to say the Indian tech workers have much more adult attitude to their employment, as opposed to their western friends who are happy to sacrifice themselves ad maiorem corpo gl
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by trasz3 4y ago
>How to deal with Russia? I actually opt for appeasement and containment. Ie repeating the steps that led to the current war (and a couple of previous ones). You expect a different outcome next time?
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by trasz3 4y ago
Many people in US prisons are there for drug related offenses, which were invented precisely to jail the black population. And while you probably can’t be jailed for praying, you definitely can be put there for rough sleeping or many other
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by trasz3 4y ago
>reform are happening Same as in China. >factually that millions The highest estimates, by Zenz, only go up to a million. And it’s not factual at all. >eradicate the Uighur language I suppose that’s why you have official Chinese b
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by trasz3 4y ago
It wasn’t the ideology behind, sure, but the end result was the same.
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by trasz3 4y ago
>Also comparing anything going on in the US for the last 60 years to the genocide happening in Xinjiang is ridiculous on its face. Indeed - the fact that black people are being killed and incarcerated for their skin colour in USA is well
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by trasz3 4y ago
Yeah, look at all the prosperity the liberal East India Company brought there.
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by trasz3 4y ago
>China has concentration camps. So does USA. It’s called the prison system. Except USA is imprisoning many more people, per capita.
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by trasz3 4y ago
Off support for software written by someone else. That’s the point: it’s much cheaper than selling support for their own software, because they don’t need to pay for development.
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by trasz3 4y ago
>Where is the victory? Here: https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-docum... . Russia already lost about half of its entire available land forces.
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by trasz3 4y ago
We’ve been there - Ukraine was friendly to Russia until 2014, and we know what happened.
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by trasz3 4y ago
GPL doesn’t make you any less an unpaid labour. In fact the whole RedHat business model is about profiting off software written by people you don’t pay.
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by trasz3 4y ago
Which of course brings the question: why is US prolonging the conflict by delaying the delivery of weapons necessary to end it?
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by trasz3 4y ago
American moment: “but it’s silly to consider that something could be more important than income”.

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