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by watwut 4mo ago
Facebook pitched itself to China on the grounds that it will help China to survey and coerce toward social harmony better. Facebook targetted teens who posted self deprecating comments for beauty and weight loss products ads. It was no rand
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by watwut 4mo ago
> This is not just "these companies are evil and should be stopped". It is: there is a market pressure to do these things. They are evil tho, on top of there being market pressure. Their executives are incredibly comfortable wi
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Why would dutch doing something make you cast doubt about Spain announcement?
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> For a few weeks one summer I woke at 4am to rewrite code my employer had already paid someone to write. I mean, if you do it at 4am, you are sleep deprived by the day two and thus unable to stop yourself from something stupid.
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I suggest personal responsibility for high profile managers and CEO for once. And for those who enable them.
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The actual reason for China success is a lot more red tape, whenever an American or European company wants in. Oftentimes, allowing them in only if they give up trade secrets and technologies. To be like China, EU needs to go harder against
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I mean, techbros are the curse on humanity regardless of where you live. That part is 100% true. But also, blaming boomers and childless people is mostly an American thing as far as I can tall. So like, you got only the immigrants right, bu
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Smart.
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The world can change both toward better and toward worst. The countries go from peaceful to war obsessed, from autocracy to genocide and from peaceful democratic to pogroms. Women or minorities can gain rights and loose rights. The algorith
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by watwut 4mo ago
> The issue here is that there's no practical way to ever update the Bill of Rights in the 21st century. Bug or feature? Of course there is, it is just being done - the constitution is being rewritten out right now by supreme court.
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> From my experience reviewing, most contributors never read the policies, especially those making a "quick AI PR". I don't expect the new policy to change this much. The policy allows the reviewer to reject it on the &quo
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> continues to be, their boring advertising on consumer apps That is where the ugly shady stuff is. > AR ventures That is the corporate hobby stuff.
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I think it is the shady stuff that earns them money. They cant survive without that. The rest is a corporate hobby, basically.
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> The counter claim that LLMs were special for some reason has never been supported. And a lot of its proponents have other axes to grind, like UBI, Socialism, Communism etc. No, they are mostly right wing capitalists. LLM is not a left
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Startups failed because they cound not untangle own code after 4 months. Literally true stories (plural).
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They were not asked to leave by organizers. > We also only have their word for it that that's what they told the cops This part is about what cops told to them. They cops were told they are active threat, the cops disagreed with tha
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They were not an active threat. It was simply a lie. They were in fact invited.
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1.) The journalists were invited. 2.) The ambassador told the cops the journalists are an active threat. That was straightforwardly a lie. This was not "trespassing" event at all.
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by watwut 4mo ago
I think that they don't care. They wont go bankrupt. They will keep what they have, which is a lot already. A stagnant world with few rich who can do whatever and many poor does not bother them, it is the goal. They already got theirs.
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> The officers, we later learned, had been told that Samuel was an ”active threat.” The ambassador does not have the right to lie about someone being an active threat. > A few days before the event, Samuel had published on his Instagr
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by watwut 4mo ago
> The US supreme court is correcting the lies Nah. They are simply giving more power to Trump, power that he did not used to have and should not have. That is it. Supreme court is are advancing their own ideological goals and rewriting p
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by watwut 4mo ago
If it means "be strategic and start making necessary long term adjustements without entering useless temporary pissing contests" I agree. If it means "wait and change nothing long term, hope it will be better" I dont.
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> Everything could change in a presidential election A lot can change, but not everything. Trump won twice and republican elites are fully behind him. Even if he looses, the same ideologies will continue. It happened twice, it is not a f
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by watwut 4mo ago
> More people have died in the EU from heat waves due to lack of air conditioning than gun violence in the US. People in Eu died due to global warming which EU actually tried to deal with. Meanwhile, USA is major contributor to the warmi
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EU companies are creative. Their economy does not create large monopolies functioning on debt. It has nothing to do with innovation. It is economic structure. SV works on dumping prices they accuse Chinese of - sell under price until you de
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If GDPR is an issue, you are planning to abuse peoples data. DMA has nothing to do with small apps.
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Of course there is not zero percent chance executive said it. If you dont believe so, you never listened to what people including executives actually say in practice. Trying to insult OP does not make an argument.
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My point is, the "what happens when federal agents kick down your front" thing is already happening and happened. And curiously, tech libertarians ranting about the freedom were facilitating every single step along the way, active
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I did not said Armstrong was the first cyclist to dope. I said he made a real innovation in the world of doping. There were computers in 1975, but can you agree with me that several people brought in innovations between then and now? It is
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> I really don’t think people should water out words like that over what is essentially tiny political differences. I really don’t think people should minimize actual historical and current events for political purposes. Knee jerk "

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