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by unyttigfjelltol 10mo ago
The prose is self-consciously different, makes the reader work a little harder. One can almost feel a literary water ripple or pebble garden, stillness and simplicity. Consider an analogy: the writer knows that a reader readily digests conc
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by unyttigfjelltol 10mo ago
The technology should be resilient against GPS spoofing. If it “knows” it never left the mountain road, it’s not crazy to design it to reject an anomalous GPS signal, which might be wrong or tampered with.
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by unyttigfjelltol 10mo ago
TL;DR: An EU health data firm run by ex-military cryptographers offers a web portal for encrypting documents, which inherently exposes unencrypted documents to the company and US national security laws. The media outlet incidentally also
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by unyttigfjelltol 10mo ago
In the cold. The exercise-plus-hypothermia combo is a bad one. Pick one, not both.[1] [1] https://shine365.marshfieldclinic.org/heart-care/prevent-hyp...
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by unyttigfjelltol 10mo ago
Here is an excellent and HN-worthy writeup of the argument for legality, and the counterargument that it was an improper booby trap.[1] It seems to me most of the polarizarion on this board could have been avoided had the original article r
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by unyttigfjelltol 10mo ago
The problem is, once you start down that sequence of the AI telling you what you want to hear, it disables normal critical reasoning. It’s the “yes man” problem— you’re even less able to solve the problem effectively than with no informatio
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by unyttigfjelltol 11mo ago
What you are observing is the trick the industry used to get approval for changing LED billboards— they “donate” say fifteen hours per month to public service announcements. This kind of concession is gold to an ambitious public servant, th
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by unyttigfjelltol 11mo ago
Manufacturers for 100 years didn’t try to wrap their fridges in ads, or tune the compressor sound to a commercial jingle. They sold mostly honest products to cool your food efficiently. But when they add an LED display and Internet connecti
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by unyttigfjelltol 11mo ago
The combo effectively enshittified swaths of the Internet, which now is full of robo-pamphleteers acting with anonymous impunity, in ways they never would if sitting face-to-face. I love the Internet but it normalizes bad behavior and to th
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by unyttigfjelltol 11mo ago
I don’t really understand the underlying US government program— specifically why in a time of alarm over deficits “we” are enacting new private giveaways of public funds. Cynically, I doubt the folks who enacted this care one whit about fol
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by unyttigfjelltol 11mo ago
Maybe, but their economic role might be more like an angel investor or VC— fund a hundred failed efforts and hang on for dear life to the few runaway successes. The sweet spot would have been an initial term of 14years or something like tha
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by unyttigfjelltol 11mo ago
The analyst is stuck in the past. Genomic solutions are personalized medicine. As long as there are new people, and new combinations of genes, there will be problems to solve. Grow up Goldman.
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by unyttigfjelltol 11mo ago
But imagine all the data, tech and data center companies simultaneously go into receivership. Farfetched, but indulge the fantasy. At that moment what choice would the government have but to conduct a rescue that at least keeps the lights o
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by unyttigfjelltol 11mo ago
If Donald Trump used this OpenAI product to-- who knows-- brainstorm Truth Social content, and his chats were produced to the NYT as well as its consultants and lawyers, who would believe Mr. Trump's content remained secure, confidenti
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by unyttigfjelltol 11mo ago
My guess: they vibe-coded the integrations between the new and old M365 components. Baffling lack of cross-component integration, all apparent only when you actually try to use it as intended.
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by unyttigfjelltol 11mo ago
Not quibbling, but preservation and production of these records has really minimal connection to the public purpose behind sunshine laws. It reveals the fact of suspicionless mass surveillance, but the monitoring is not of or about governme
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by unyttigfjelltol 11mo ago
The website security model breaks down when people constantly try to enter your password. The currently model assumes good behavior by most people most of the time in order for basic web services to function. Seems like an obvious vulnerabi
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by unyttigfjelltol 1y ago
Doesn’t prohibit brainstorming what to ask your doctor, or which professional consultation to prioritize. Does prohibit, for illustration, LLM-powered surgical device. Everything else is “gray area”?
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by unyttigfjelltol 1y ago
We see with trains and jets that the public does not accept deaths with the same benign resignation as automobiles. The question is: will turning all the cars into a collective Borg operated by Big Tech upend our indifference to auto fata
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by unyttigfjelltol 1y ago
Well, there was a human in the loop— the one in dispatch and the one with the handcuffs. Question is, why did they decide to act like bots?
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by unyttigfjelltol 1y ago
Restaurant food is optimized for everything but healthfulness. Portion size, saturated fat, excessive salt, sugar, sometimes alcohol, low fiber— the industry has defined itself as an extension of the junk food industry. Which is ironic! B
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by unyttigfjelltol 1y ago
MS tries to do way too much with M365 Teams. Why is this application concerned at all about the details of my WiFi connection? What if I’m wired? Tattle then? Teams has it’s own bug-addled system-independent audio settings too, and it c
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by unyttigfjelltol 1y ago
Lived in Mass. many years, always thought striped-leg mosquitoes were the native variety…. What did you think the city would do about it?
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by unyttigfjelltol 1y ago
> That timeline you gave a client that you hoped you could make but when push comes to shove was still quite optimistic, and in point of fact slipped by several weeks. The songwriter wouldn’t have faulted a Green Beret for being optimist
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by unyttigfjelltol 1y ago
Iraq, for example, didn’t turn into Cambodia and conditions pre-ISIS in Syria more directly fostered its creation. See a discussion of “proximate cause.”[1] [1] https://legalclarity.org/what-is-the-difference-between-dire...
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by unyttigfjelltol 1y ago
Pol Pot probably was more proximally at fault.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol_Pot
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by unyttigfjelltol 1y ago
>If the US SEC were replaced by 50 per-state SEC In the US, states perform a fallback-SEC role for certain investments. While state-level commitment to combatting fraud may also be questioned— looking at you Kansas— the existence of a ba
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by unyttigfjelltol 1y ago
Because it’s only human nature to complain about the people who aren’t in the room. Insurers are not only absent, they are economically adverse to the two parties making decisions in the room.
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by unyttigfjelltol 1y ago
Turns out there are rational commercial players in these markets if you just go all-cash. The price is abandoning the incantations and local pharmacies, hospitals, ignoring your insurance. Harder to do that with services, but it’s coming as
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by unyttigfjelltol 1y ago
> My refusing to distribute your work is not "silencing." That distinction is a relic of a world of truly public spaces used for communication— a literal town square. Then it became the malls and shopping centers, then the Inte

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