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by trickstra 3y ago
> It tells you that your money is now stuck AFTER you've sent it to them. Do you know any alternative which doesn't do this? Because I've seen the same trick in all of them.
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by trickstra 3y ago
But at least I know if I'm ok with it, so it can't be exploitation. If I wasn't ok with it, I could change it. The hardworker doesn't even know he's getting paid less (because I made sure of it in contract). See the
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by trickstra 3y ago
If I pay one guy X and another guy half as much, but the second guy works much better, I know it's not fair, they don't need to tell me. Doesn't matter that they both agreed to it.
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by trickstra 3y ago
I'd say that people who read about LIGO and quantum limit, also understand quadrillion.
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by trickstra 3y ago
I'm not trying to become an international lawyer. The thread mentioned terra nullius, so I'm just pointing out what that definition says and what are the real-world examples, where these lands are clearly mentioned. Not sure why s
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by trickstra 3y ago
I expected this comment. The same wikipedia page also says: > There are currently three territories sometimes claimed to be terra nullius: Bir Tawil (a strip of land between Egypt and Sudan), *four pockets of land near the Danube due to
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by trickstra 3y ago
> Wikipedia: In international law, terra nullius is territory which belongs to no state. Sovereignty over territory which is terra nullius can be acquired by any state by occupation. that sounds to me exactly like a third party coming an
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by trickstra 3y ago
I'm surprised nobody here mentioned the copyrights yet. By building it, you are gaining the copyright. By buying it, you are gaining a vendor lock-in.
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by trickstra 3y ago
Why are we even trying to suck it out of the sky, if we could much easier suck it out of the oceans, where it is 150 times more concentrated, and then let the oceans suck it out of the sky as they have done for the whole time. This paper h
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by trickstra 3y ago
> where we obsess about longshot disasters we can't control Wait, you seriously think a comet impact in the next 100 years is much more likely than mass extinction from warming planet? Comet impact IS the longshot disaster we can&#x
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by trickstra 3y ago
Ok, but at least we didn't manufacture that comet.
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by trickstra 3y ago
> If it could scale up and still operate the same way... Once they scale up, they will be encountering more other Waymo cars on the roads, eliminating a lot of the accidents where someone else crashed into Waymo, or made an upredictable
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by trickstra 3y ago
That is unless they sell it to Philippines who promptly dump it into rivers, which is exactly what happens. https://www.dw.com/en/german-plastic-floods-southeast-asia/a...
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by trickstra 3y ago
Well if we are talking about the point of open source, then really, the lack of restrictions is the point. Some commercial entities wish to redefine the term because it benefits their marketing, but is that the line we want to draw in the s
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by trickstra 3y ago
Let's not call it open source. Even Llama2 doesn't think that Llama2 is open source: https://imgur.com/AZFOzWk
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by trickstra 3y ago
You can add them. And I don't mean it as a knee-jerk response, this is open-source, anyone with skills is welcome and if you send a pull request here https://github.com/GrapheneOS/grapheneos.org with the screensho
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by trickstra 3y ago
I don't think Google will use those secrets to look into your other accounts, but they can be politely requested by some governments to divulge the secrets, and not tell you about it. Then those governments would have no problems looki
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Pussthecat.org Nitter instance has been shut down permanently(pussthecat.org)
4 points by trickstra 4y ago|5 comments
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by trickstra 4y ago
the goal of these tasks is not to provide the most correct answer, but to show how you think about problems. Even the fact that you googled the right answer after may set you apart from candidates who just don't care, and that's r
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by trickstra 4y ago
someone should ping Pleasant Green and all the other scam-baiters. If they talk about it, more banks might implement it, and it could actually save a lot of people. Then they need something like this also for AnyDesk
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by trickstra 4y ago
Travel. I've done it when I was lost and it started a new phase. Avoid tourist attractions and guided tours, go slow, go cheap.
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by trickstra 4y ago
Ok but the argument is that the people who don't need that bit of guidance are probably better hires than those who do need guidance.
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by trickstra 4y ago
> Resumes like that will be sorted out even if she might be brilliant, intelligent, and just needs a chance. That sounds like exactly the core of the broken hiring processes. Shouldn't a good hiring manager try to create a process t
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by trickstra 5y ago
I have almost exactly the same setup. I can recommend motion-project on the Pi for taking the pictures and MotionEye android app for real-time watching. Works fine as a security cam too.
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by trickstra 5y ago
Floris keyboard (also on f-droid) has copy & paste buttons directly above the letters. Faster than swiping.
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by trickstra 5y ago
I really don't think Microsoft Copilot is relying on a local exception.
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by trickstra 5y ago
It's literally the first search result for "data mining exception": https://www.copyrightuser.org/understand/exceptions/text-dat... This is about EU and UK, but think about it, Microsoft Copilot is
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by trickstra 5y ago
There is a "data minig" exception from copyright law, saying that you can use any available code to feed your AI and don't have respect the license. And the output of your AI is yours. So TikTok could claim they either use
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by trickstra 5y ago
And now they can also claim it was just autocompleted by Copilot.
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by trickstra 5y ago
Would you argue that voyeurism should stop being a crime then?

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