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by vladms 8mo ago
The original comment was saying: > If you are not in good standing with Google, you cannot bank!! > I cannot stress how inane it is, to have Google or Apple as the gatekeeping to identify verification. How not having an active, in goo
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by vladms 8mo ago
As far as I remember, last time I needed to use Google play on a shared phone I could just create a random Google address (I mean, completely invented name, etc.) and it allowed me to do anything, just as my normal Android. I am too lazy to
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by vladms 8mo ago
> It would not be a good idea because the goal of companies are not to get you to consume only what you need, they want you to consume more. This regulation is not about consumption but about production. Yes, this would not solve the pot
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by vladms 8mo ago
Isn't this the normal sales anyhow for many products? One attracts a customer with unreasonable promises and features, makes him sign a deal to integrate, then issues appear once in production that make you realize you will need to inv
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by vladms 8mo ago
I think what matters are the percentages. Out of the 16mn users where there more or less than in the general population? I think it is reasonable to think they were as many percentage wise, if not more - because internet provides anonymity
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by vladms 8mo ago
> but the internet today has a lot more pedos and groomers online than in the 90s Without some data analysis I honestly don't know. Even before Internet (ex: FidoNet) there was plenty of very bad stuff out there, I don't see an
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by vladms 8mo ago
Why should you use only bikes and walking? Cars/trucks have a role to play, it's just not the most efficient to move the majority of the people from one point to another. Simple examples: ambulances, firefighters, police, cranes.
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by vladms 8mo ago
If I understand correctly many organizations will not develop original stuff internally, because nobody internally wants to be the one is shouted at if something goes wrong.
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by vladms 8mo ago
Let's not mix "emotions" with "think". If I am afraid (emotion) about something happening, I will be afraid where the maximum damage can be done - in the queue before the security check (think). Most airports optimi
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by vladms 9mo ago
Good they moderate. Most interesting is that they report a 60% increase user increase, up to 41M users. Considering how bad I heard "the other network" is now I wonder why so few. I have a look at Bluesky from time to time and the
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by vladms 9mo ago
I tried to check a list of literary devices (Wikipedia) and couldn't exactly map to a specific category - would be interesting to know if there such a category. The problem I have with this literary device is that I think it works if m
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by vladms 9mo ago
> If Tesla was valued fairly I think it's a wrong mental model to think of stock market value as "fair" or "unfair" (or maybe it's just me thinking of "unfair" when I see the word "fair")
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by vladms 9mo ago
Quoting from the article "But here’s a question about Papua New Guinea: how many people live there? The answer should be pretty simple." That sounds a very strange expectation. Most of my life post university I realized most of qu
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by vladms 9mo ago
What is the heuristic though? Not giving "normal data" still makes you an outlier, yes, probably they are not very smart, but at some point someone will say "let's round up people that gave us too few data, they are susp
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by vladms 9mo ago
Looking back I think allowing more centralized control to various forms of media to private parties did much worse overall than government surveillance on the long run. For me the problem was not surveillance, the problem is addiction focus
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by vladms 9mo ago
I think the ideas was to try to explain why is a problem to choose something, it is not a comparison of the intensity / importance. I am not sure you can make an argument of "other people are doing it too". Lots of people do
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by vladms 9mo ago
Try Mistral (works for the examples here at least). Probably has the normal protections about how to make harmful things, but I find quite bad if in a country you make it illegal to even mention some names or events. Yes, each LLM might giv
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by vladms 9mo ago
So you think if would give a pencil and a paper to the model would it do better? I don't think SVG is the problem. It just shows that models are fragile (nothing new) so even if they can (probably) make a good PNG with a pelican on a b
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by vladms 9mo ago
Nitpicking, many on your list are not part of the EU : NHS UK, UK Ministry of Defence, NATO, Ukraine, UBS, BP. Plus, the EU is 27 countries, out of which 5 are listed on their wiki page, with various institutions.
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by vladms 9mo ago
My interpretation: advocating for privacy without making effort to avoid a large part of the society goes "crazy" will not protect you much on the long term. I do like "engineering solutions" (ex: not storing too much da
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by vladms 9mo ago
I think as an employer you would prefer not to hire another person that is not productive. Your customers would prefer to have the enterprise doing stuff rather than hiring and firing.
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by vladms 9mo ago
So what do they say actually in aviation? There was a pilot suicide with the whole plane Germanwings Flight 9525, I find it more important the aviation industry did regulatory changes than the fact that (probably) "they blamed the pilo
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by vladms 9mo ago
> But One-drive is essentially a mass-surveillance tool. There are plenty of people that post clear positions on multiple social networks. I personally doubt that One-drive files will provide much more information for most of the people
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by vladms 9mo ago
I am not a lawyer, so can't propose the best way to implement this, but the Berne convention contains provisions for "anonymous and pseudonymous works", see Art 15.
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by vladms 9mo ago
> As they scaled, it became impossible to compete. To compete at offering infrastructure maybe, but what I would like is more capability to build solutions. And I think that today one has much more open-source technologies that one can d
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by vladms 9mo ago
Why no go the other direction and make it hard to identify a user, so people do not do it for fame. Open source worked before people were using it as self advertisement. Might even be good for Microsoft - they would be the only one knowing
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by vladms 9mo ago
> the default expectation that authors will be promptly responding to new GitHub issues, bug reports and provide patches for free is insane. I think there are many insane expectations out there, open source or not, so I don't perso
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by vladms 9mo ago
> That said, I'm not sure "they've always been wrong before" proves they're wrong now. I think a better framing would be "abusing (using it too much or for everything) any new tool/medium can lead to ne
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by vladms 9mo ago
I hope someone talked with lawyers that know what can be done. I would love a (more) unified system (tax, rules, etc.). Multiple organizations/think-tanks recommended more unified systems for the EU on this topics. The problem is if it
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by vladms 9mo ago
> - Standardized investment documents All investments I took part of implied a lot of back and forth on conditions adapted to the specific case, preferences, fears, etc. I have doubts that "standardization" can be reasonable ac

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