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Wouldn't we be just in the first phase of the long-term effects of the removal of copyright restrictions? The second phase being copyright claimed on the model itself, and its derivative works thus further expanding copyright paradoxic
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These type of projects can easily get sidetracked without a overarching goal. Are you looking to do something specific? An app (that requires remote infrastructure), seems a bit overkill and if your going through the hassle of doing that yo
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This is the problem with this type of reasoning. How much hindsight is sufficient? 2 years, 5 years, 10, 20, 50... Wages for the past 50 years have been trending down in terms of real purchasing power regardless of career/job. The numb
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These things don't actually think. They are a product of the training imposed. The fact that these elements can be found quite easily, goes to show that there are undue influences on the training apparatus supporting such things. Anthr
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I know a person that did this, 25+ years in industry. He was forced into retirement after half a decade of what sounded like tortured politics, gross mismanagement and fiscal waste. Many times they said they wanted something, he would do th
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In many respects, the industry is destroying itself right now, it is a rotten system. Blind people have taken hold of the reigns, and they believe that they can do whatever they want because you don't have a choice. This continues righ
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Interesting project. Do you have any plans to blog about your experience on things like the setting up of your own ASN? Are you planning, or already have rolled RPKI, monitoring, or other methods so your traffic doesn't get attacked (
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People stop using things which don't work or stop working on the regular. Its not a marketing problem, its a market problem. The only money in the current market is in ads/surveillance and that's basically a requirement to co
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This assumes the conclusion that AI would solve the lack of resources interaction issue. Unfortunately the data has been in on this for quite a long time (longer the LLM chatbots have been in existence) if you've worked in IT at a larg
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You'd have to first properly define 'vaccine' objectively. Opposition occurs because of negative outcomes, and adverse risks where existing establishment incentivizes deception. Taking the opposite of your argument, is there
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Informed consent is the cornerstone of modern medicine, and when its no longer given because information is withheld evil things happen. I've worked in pharma too, and I'd rather have the final say regardless of what some expert m
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Quite a number of people are sticking to State job boards where they require posters to submit that the information provided is accurate and correct under penalty of perjury. LinkedIn/Indeed are incentivized to keep ghost jobs up if th
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What you describe is called in engineering, a whipsaw, and when whipsaws get too chaotic they tear the machinery apart. When you stop taking it personally, and ask yourself how and why these business leaders were able to do this and continu
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Well with the latter, all you have to be is blind to the consequences for that to be true.
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With respect, there's a big difference between "could close your account" and have "closed people's accounts" temporarily based on unlawful complaints. I probably won't be responding after this or in the f
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> The job market is broken. There's no real job market left, its become so distorted from financial engineering that its basically all collapsing without anyone seeing the objective reality until its too late. > Then if you actua
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The job market labor supply for IT right now is supersaturated to the point that extremely competent people with the experience have been looking for several years and are now cutting bait and leaving the field for retraining. Quite a lot o
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This is the natural consequence of what happens when you fail to enforce security liability on device manufacturers. Two+ decades of insecure IOT devices network connected that enable this type of collection, and other bad bad things.
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I kind of cringed reading this article because there is also the cost in downtime which doesn't seem to be considered along with the RTO timelines. Hetzner has had issues where they just suddenly bring servers down with no notice, some
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The short term benefits and ramp up time for production for an industrialized nation are quite substantial given an external threat and limited time. It also removes the funding concerns that would normally inhibit perpetual war, and its we
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It leads to a world of rapid recoveries, less concentration of wealth in few hands, higher production and competition, and a strong disincentive towards moral hazard, financial fraud, and corruption.
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With regard to the meat buyback program this was seen at a limited number of grocery stores owned by Cerberus Capital Management not too long ago, and confirmed by employees when asked why there were no meat sales for expiring product. Bait
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The Wildcat banking era was still fiat currency, and you are right that era wasn't an improvement. Having no fiat currency would be an improvement compared to the economic instability we've had today. Fiat currency forces a boom b
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Unfortunately, the problem doesn't originate with banks, and in reality classical banking doesn't really exist anymore. Fiat money printing has debased and saturated a number of things to the point where there is no real market an
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Except with Effective Altruism (EA), its not pure logic. Logic requires properties of metaphysical objectivity. If you use the true meaning of words it would be called irrationality, delusion, sophism, or fallacy when such things are claime
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The reason we are here and exist today is because of great rationalist thinkers that were able to deduce and identify issues of survival well before they happened through the use of first principles. The crazies and blind among humanity tod
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> There's already nothing preventing it with paper signage. This is mistaken. There is the cost in labor to replace signage, and the delay in time for that replacement to completely occur, as well as the regulatory required related
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There are many ways to invest, and I'm not a financial advisor so I suggest you read up from people who are, or who are well known in such areas like Benjamin Graham, or David Dodd. The rules I mention are their rules, and this is not
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With what you've said, the only options are you either invest it in something that will appreciate above the inflation rate with manageable risk, or you invest it in a small business with return cash flow. The idea is to diversify in r
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> The first thing any big technical revolution causes is suffering for a lot of people. This all assumes that such revolutions are built on resiliency and don't actually destroy the underpinning requirements of organized society. It

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