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by vladms 10mo ago
A clear definition is definitively hard to come by, but I will share what I see as rather large issues that impact society: minimal spending per children for education to allow a good service for most (this will imply that smart kids are se
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by vladms 10mo ago
I do not think free is attainable for everything due to thermodynamics constraints. Imagine "free energy". Everybody uses as much as they want, Earth heats up, things go bad (not far from what is actually happening!). I would sett
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by vladms 10mo ago
Depends what your times scale is for "being built". 50 years ago the centralization and government control were much stronger. 20 years ago probably less. "cannot do anything" is relative. Google did something about it (
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by vladms 11mo ago
I think too much "caring" can also be negative. I do not want employees so "loyal" to the company that they don't consider changing for another. I do not want companies so "loyal" to all employees such tha
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by vladms 11mo ago
You mean the failed persuasions were "crackpot talk" and the successful ones were "status quo". For example, a lot of persuasion was historically done via religion (seemingly not mentioned at all in the article!) with se
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by vladms 11mo ago
It is about the practicality of convincing people to do something. Many people I know are inert and would say no to change. Even those that want change have a favorite topic. So, personally, when discussing economic topics I discuss the tax
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by vladms 11mo ago
If I would need to choose only between UBI and high taxes on the rich I would choose the latter, because it would reduce the risk of entrenching the differences or giving too much power to a few. I find more important what is the society&#x
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by vladms 11mo ago
Was there an analysis of flawed, low-effort reviews in similar conferences before generative AI models? From what I remember, (long before generative AI) you would still occasionally get very crappy reviews (as author). When I participated
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by vladms 11mo ago
Digital can probably be fixed easier. Energy independence on the other hand was a more stupid thing not to target (like Germany closing nuclear reactors, then buying gas from people that thought they could do whatever they want...).
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by vladms 11mo ago
It's more a risk management issue. A country that wants to do everything by itself (from food, to shovels, to cars, to computers) will not be the most efficient and will loose a lot. Before '90s communist countries were "prou
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by vladms 11mo ago
> It would be great if we could engineer our way out of this situation, but we can't. I think it would be much more honest to say we don't know so we shouldn't bet everything on one approach. Humans care about survival and
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by vladms 11mo ago
People changed environment even before these optimizations. I think now it's more a problem of fast enough "catch-up and converge", for example for CO2 : https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-pe
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by vladms 11mo ago
> Is hate, fear, or envy by themselves wrong, or only wrong when misdirected? I think they are natural feelings that appear due to various reason. People struggle for centuries to control their impulses and this was used for millennia in
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by vladms 11mo ago
During history, people did lots of horrible things and/or felt miserable without social networks. Yes, amplifying or rewarding does not have a positive effect, but I would like to see further analysis over the magnitude. Think of slave
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by vladms 11mo ago
Tbh I prefer to read/skim the comments first and only occasionally read the original articles if comments make me curious enough. For now I never ended checking something that would seem AI generated.
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by vladms 11mo ago
My view is that they are just exposing issues with the people in the said societies and now is harder to ignore them. Much of the hate and the fear and the envy that I see on social networks have other reasons, but people are having difficu
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by vladms 11mo ago
Each time someone says "we" without asking me I find it at least insulting. With this mindset the next step might be to tell me what I need, without considering my opinion. Yes, the current system seems flawed, but is the best we
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by vladms 11mo ago
I think that the ratio of weirdos doing stuff remained constant through the population, it's just that the whole population is now on the web, so they are harder to find. Not to mention 20 years ago I personally (and probably others my
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by vladms 11mo ago
The yolk (used directly in the embryos development) is generated during 10 days ( https://www.purinamills.com/chicken-feed/education/detail/ho... ). This could give the opportunity to pack a lot of "indire
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by vladms 11mo ago
There is still a big discussion of nature vs nurture. Did not follow the subject you mention but many things can be in fact just learned. Also, as mentioned previously, there is more than the DNA at work - like at least epigenetics, but I g
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by vladms 11mo ago
The problem is the "root of trust". Someone has to decide if it was "malpractice" or not. The doctor (and the insurer) have the interest to say "it was the best service we could provide", and even if you involv
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by vladms 11mo ago
I find the name "housing crisis" misleading, because if I look at average floor area per capita, I think we should call this "expectations changed faster than buildings". For example https://doi.org/10.29
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by vladms 11mo ago
Using the same idea, are you personally for legalizing all drugs as well or not requiring doctors to be licensed? Because I think there are lots of things forbidden/regulated across the world, mostly because people do not to make (or a
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by vladms 11mo ago
Yes, using USA based services with user data is against GDPR. But sorry, saying "literally everything" is a gross exaggeration. Debugging a program with the help of ChatGPT is not using user data. Editing a logo is not using user
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by vladms 11mo ago
Maybe what you say is correct, but without a reference can also be an opinion influenced by your domain of activity. What I see though is many shops closing, because more and more people buying online. What I hear is people buying crap from
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by vladms 11mo ago
> allow you to save your login if you come back later. Again, is there any browser nowadays that doesn't save the login? I don't know any, personally but I do not know all of them. And if they are, how much market share they ha
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by vladms 11mo ago
> The gdpr.eu website literally says that a cookie that allows the website to remember "what your user name and password are so you can automatically log in" is a functional cookie rather than a strictly necessary cookie. But o
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by vladms 11mo ago
> "lawbreaking" (as defined by you) What do you mean? The original post mention 1000 cookies and no button to reject them. The sites you mention do have only two buttons (accept/reject). So they are following the law and n
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by vladms 11mo ago
No, preferences are not strictly necessary, check https://gdpr.eu/cookies/ I would on the other hand ask if I should really set my "preferred language" on every device I log in ?! Why not store it server side
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by vladms 11mo ago
> but if you want to do an actual "stay logged in with no password" Wouldn't that be a session cookie (which is a strictly necessary cookie for accessing a secure area) with no expiration? > or just not forget the user

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