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by valdiorn 3y ago
Things that are destined to fail: * Cryptocurrencies who's sole reason to exist is to justify its own existence. "We need token X to perform operation Y. Operation Y is important to facilitate the trade of token X". Seriously
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But if the 30 small subs I frequent all go elsewhere, my eyeball time on Reddit is going to go down significantly. Each of those 30 subs might be a tiny slice of my overall use, but together they make up the vast majority of my time on the
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by valdiorn 3y ago
the majority of my search results now is just "things I like", that are in absolutely no way related to the content I'm looking for, interspersed with occasional video related to what I'm actually after. For example, I l
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by valdiorn 3y ago
People still claim Prism is a conspiracy theory TODAY, despite Edward Snowden, it's incredible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM The older "Project Echelon", I'm not sure how much has been confir
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by valdiorn 3y ago
> The article also talks a lot about per capita investment. Comedian Ari Eldjarn has a really good joke a bout "per capita". It's an economist term, but in Iceland every five year old knows the phrase, because we, as a nat
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by valdiorn 3y ago
They can, that's how the Concorde used to fly, but it meant that a flight from London to New York was only able to be done at supersonic speed for something like half the trip (measured in time). The aircraft was also incredibly ineffi
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by valdiorn 3y ago
In Iceland, confiscated valuables may be sold, but the proceeds must go directly to the government spending pool, to be distributed like any other government income, like taxes. https://www.visir.is/g/202099179d (sorry
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by valdiorn 3y ago
They have specific laws that BAN them from giving detailed reasons for why they froze your accounts. Giving you a reason, or sometimes even hinting that there might be a problem, would be classified as "tipping off", which is a fe
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by valdiorn 3y ago
This was just the CEO pulling the rip-cord on his Golden Parachute while the company can still make the payout. He knew the company was screwed, and it's entirely the fault of top leadership. they chose to make their own performance bo
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by valdiorn 3y ago
Who buys this stuff, honestly? I wonder what the market size is? TE is the equivalent of Gucci handbags for hipster musicians.
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by valdiorn 3y ago
Gaming industry is HEAVILY bought into text to image. For concept art, textures, background scenes, filler content, etc. So many use cases. Same with web design (for filler images, background art, etc), and design in general; basically, any
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by valdiorn 3y ago
This feels eerily similar to the virtual girlfriend (Ana de Armas' role) in Blade Runner 2049. All the way down to how they just smash her to bits and laugh at K when she "dies".
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by valdiorn 3y ago
If you're building anything more than toys or tinkering; if you're actually trying to design a product or something functional you want to use, a 3d printer. I resisted getting a 3d printer for a long long time. This is coming fro
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by valdiorn 3y ago
funny, because the one thing AI image generators famously can't or won't do is create pornography. Guess which country is super sensitive about porn? It's not China. It's not anywhere in Europe...
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by valdiorn 3y ago
hahaha, welcome to feeling what it's like living in "the rest of the world". Since the inception of the internet and social media, what is and isn't acceptable to post online has been governed by American culture standar
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by valdiorn 3y ago
Exactly this. This is also how gun control in the UK works. In the UK, possessing a firearm is already a greater offense than most of the crimes you could commit with that firearm, shy of actually shooting/killing someone. This is also
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by valdiorn 3y ago
Initially when I saw these headlines I assume this would be for catching moped thieves and replacing police cars and motorbikes in high speed chases. Chasing a fleeing suspect in central London is very, very dangerous for bystanders, especi
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by valdiorn 4y ago
> The plural of anecdote is not data. Except it literally is. How do you think rare vaccine side effects have been discovered and recorded? By collecting thousands of "anecdotes" from individuals reporting anomalous symptoms. H
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by valdiorn 4y ago
most of Europe can already come to Iceland with no reason needed. EEA and Schengen allow them to live and work there without a permit. I moved to the UK under the same rules (before Brexit) - never moved back home to Iceland :)
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by valdiorn 4y ago
Usually things break because you used an external library. A self contained bundle of software with no external dependencies cannot break, because it has no externally changing parts, that should be obvious.
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by valdiorn 4y ago
Yes. Except turns out that the ability to inflict violence (imprison you, and hurt you if you try to flee or don't comply) is still the ultimate power, from which all other power is derived. There is no money, taxes or private ownershi
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by valdiorn 4y ago
I have a need for running GPU capable notebooks as part of a processing pipeline. I want a cloud solution, and noticed that Colab Pro is basically the ideal solution for what I need. Absolutely no way in hell I'm going to make it a cri
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by valdiorn 4y ago
Personally, I think "AI Agents" are going to become a thing. Basically, rather than being just a chatbot, if we can give the AI the ability to make HTTP requests, it can literally interact with the world around it. To me, this fee
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by valdiorn 4y ago
Regarding d) - the whole idea from Cyberpunk that there was an "old internet" that was taken over by rogue AIs who now control it, with NetSec keeping them at bay and preventing them from spilling over into the new internet, is ge
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by valdiorn 4y ago
Cybersecurity is also much more accurate description of the skills/work required to stay safe online. Most computers are not compromised because of flaws in cryptography or the application thereof, they are compromised because of opera
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by valdiorn 4y ago
Den of Thieves as well. In that movie they're actually doing their job as police but they're clearly a gang within the police force who routinely break the law and abuse their position for personal gain. They even very clearly des
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by valdiorn 4y ago
AML rules are sadly very Kafkaesque. Having worked in finance for over a decade I've done enough compliance training to know that, yes, if money laundering is suspected you literally are not allowed to help the customer. You're no
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by valdiorn 4y ago
As much fun as it is to blame the Tories, this is global economics at work, not bad social policies. The UK no longer makes anything. We facilitate and service. But that type of work only works for certain people, with certain skills, in
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by valdiorn 4y ago
tbh, I'd prefer the option of paying for support over literally no support at all, ala. Google. If my Gmail account is compromised, I'd be pretty fucked, despite doing my best to make backup arrangements - it's still the skel
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by valdiorn 4y ago
I just absolutely fail to see the issue with CGI porn, even of the underage variety (because let's face it, that's all anyone is going to care about when it comes to banning it). Trying to argue that fake pictures of non existent

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