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Insurers balk at paying out settlements for claims against AI firms(arstechnica.com)
6 points by worik 1y ago|0 comments
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by worik 1y ago
I am mildly disappointed I was hoping that "vibe engineering" was going to be designing g bridges in the same way people think they can build apps with vibe coding That would be alarming
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by worik 1y ago
As to the legality of ICE: The law suits are not being heard yet, time will tell Legal or illegal what they're doing is wrong As to capitalists and cheap labour: that is what drove the rise in the population of the undocumented communi
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by worik 1y ago
That these consulting firms are still in business is a damning indictment of capitalism. Back when I paid close attention to business news a week would not go by without a story about incompetence, laziness and or other malfeasance by them.
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by worik 1y ago
I do not understand.
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by worik 1y ago
> It is very hard to understand how people who have been alive more than a couple of decades can believe that there is a system which can objectively determine everyone’s needs and capabilities. What is the relevance of that comment? Obj
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by worik 1y ago
Revolutionary Socialists (e.g: USSR, China - both back in the day) and Democratic Socialists might seem the same from a distance. But the nature of violence is to lead to more violence, and both the USSR and China have great deals of state
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by worik 1y ago
> who, do you believe, the perpetrators are Masked, no ID, claim they are from ICE. Thugs. > the crime of those perpetrators is ( again, be as specific as you can )? Assault an kidnapping. > who or what is, in your mind, ultimatel
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by worik 1y ago
Blame the perpetrators.
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by worik 1y ago
> My mom would not have placed herself in a position where there is a gun in her face. There you are blaming the victims. That is not cool
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by worik 1y ago
An activist investor, hopefully for Tesla's sake
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by worik 1y ago
Democratic Socialism has a long history, and is easy to understand in a wider political context It is transforming society to socialism (a system which is based on needs and capabilities rather than ownership of private property) by using
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by worik 1y ago
> We are working to ensure these changes don’t have an impact on your day-to-day workflow Lies The workflow of Free Software developers, developing consumer software (a vital part of the software ecosystem) will be entirely jammed up and
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by worik 1y ago
> Sideloading is still possible if the developer key is registered To all intents and purposes it is not allowed, then. Google becomes the gate keeper by controlling registration "Trust us"
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by worik 1y ago
Apple's "transparency" website is a website, but adds very little transparency
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by worik 1y ago
> we are fully aware that Russia and China are not free countries Pot to kettle....
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by worik 1y ago
In New Zealand there are rules, and more extensive guidelines, on "disabled access". (Probably called something different now) But it means that access to publicly accessible places is possible for a wide variety of disabilities
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by worik 1y ago
> But what the article misses: We can just rearrange our environment... The article does discuss this... change how things are done in order to automate them away from human labor What boosters of humanoid robots specifically do
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New Zealand's Institute of IT Professionals Collapses(theregister.com)
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Universities must Comply with federal rules for funding(arstechnica.com)
4 points by worik 1y ago|1 comments
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by worik 1y ago
> Tenure is not how people gain notoriety Being over looked because of your gender does not gain you notoriety either, otherwise notoriety would mean something completely different! There are so so many But fighting back as Digg did, su
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by worik 1y ago
Correct, but.... "No reasonable person would ever believe us"
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by worik 1y ago
> What's false about it? Mathematics. IEEE floating point arithmetic gets it wrong! Another example of why we should use integer algorithms where ever possible.
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by worik 1y ago
>>> 0.2 + 0.1 > 0.3 True That is false. What is it that is "...is much harder to demonstrate in other languages? I am missing something
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by worik 1y ago
I agree. But I can hear the defense: > Telling users that your platform will allow them to run any software they like That is mere puffery, no reasonable person could belive it....
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by worik 1y ago
Surely there is some implied right, as a user and developer on Nix to take part in the forums? Should the quality of your opinions, outside the forum, be considered? It is a difficult problem when dealing with notorious assholes. If they ar
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by worik 1y ago
>> our dominant paradigms were based on racist and sexist assumptions > I don't think they actually were. Open a book! The dscovery doctrine In the USA there is westward expansion, both genocidal and racist Women have only bee
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by worik 1y ago
> but in many contexts two-faced is considered default. How is it possible to do anything, in that case?
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by worik 1y ago
I am on a Samsung Android tablet
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by worik 1y ago
Has anything changed for the better? Ten years ago the cleaners in the labs at The University of Otago had job security most of the scientists could only dream about. I was in the business school (very low rankings!) and I was amazed at th

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