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by wvenable 1y ago
This time bomb was created because the bill slashed the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%. Maintaining the status quo would mean taxing big corporate America more than this bill does.
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by wvenable 1y ago
The article is pretty clear that the law was from 2017 had a scheduled start date of 2022. Although probably not the actual intended effect, it does have the effect of confusing who would be responsible for it by those who don't read
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by wvenable 1y ago
That actually reinforces my point: there is no affirmative right to privacy, only reactive liability structures. If someone hacks Safeway, they’re prosecuted not because you have a constitutional or general right to privacy, but because the
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by wvenable 1y ago
So you've entirely given up your argument about the legal right to privacy involving private businesses?
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by wvenable 1y ago
> The common law torts I cited can apply in the context of a business transaction, so your statement is also incorrect. I completely disagree. Yes, the Prosser privacy torts exist: intrusion upon seclusion, public disclosure, false ligh
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by wvenable 1y ago
Yes there is. They don't want ChatGPT to have access but they don't prevent access by ChatGPT. Technically they're actually giving everyone free access. By actually legitimately preventing access they would completely mi
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by wvenable 1y ago
The paywall news sites want to have their cake and eat it to -- they want web crawlers, like Google, to read the full contents of the article but hide it from site visitors. If they simply put all their content behind a paywall entirely and
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by wvenable 1y ago
You're conflating the existence of specific privacy protections in narrow legal domains with a generalized, enforceable right to privacy which doesn't exist in US law. The Constitution recognizes a substantive right to privacy, bu
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by wvenable 1y ago
Roe v Wade refers to the constitutional right to privacy under the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment. This is part of individual rights against the state and has nothing to do with private companies. There is no general constitutio
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by wvenable 1y ago
> "There is no right to have your interactions with a company remain private" is essentially equivalent to saying "there is no right to privacy at all". Legally that is a correct statement. If you want that changed, i
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by wvenable 1y ago
I don't use AI to crank out complex parts of projects -- I use to crank out the tedious straight forward stuff that takes a lot of time that is necessary but low-value. Then I'm freed up to work on the hard and interesting stuff.
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by wvenable 1y ago
If work can meaningfully be done by a machine, why should we be fighting against that? For jobs? If life is all about doing pointless work a machine can do, we've got problems as a species. The problem is capitalism not LLMs. Fighti
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by wvenable 1y ago
What's the environmental cost a human doing the same thing?
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by wvenable 1y ago
I literally pasted these two lines into ChatGPT that were sent to me by one of sysadmin and it told me exactly what I needed to know: App1: requestedAccessTokenVersion": null App2: requestedAccessTokenVersion": 2 I us
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by wvenable 1y ago
Yeah reading this I couldn't help but think how irrelevant all their plagiarism detection code is now. There's no misspellings, suspect white-space, esoteric naming in any cheater's code now.
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by wvenable 1y ago
Who said anything about truth? We're talking about usefulness.
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by wvenable 1y ago
If I do research, I get an answer. If that's the answer, or even the best answer, it's impossible to tell. When do I stop looking for the best answer? If ChatGPT needs to, it will actually do the search for me and then collate t
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by wvenable 1y ago
I don't know how someone can legitimately say that they're useless. Perfect, no. But useless, also no.
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by wvenable 1y ago
Weird. I used to have that happen when it first came out but I haven't experienced anything like that in a long time. Worst case it's out of date rather than making stuff up.
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by wvenable 1y ago
I almost never bother using Google anymore. When I search for something, I'm usually looking for an answer to question. Now I can just ask the question and get the answer without all the other stuff. I will often ask the LLM to give
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by wvenable 1y ago
This likely isn't so much "security through obscurity" because it's not really about security in the traditional sense but instead about anti-griefing measures.
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by wvenable 1y ago
Sounds like you need to write a CSS translating proxy server.
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by wvenable 1y ago
I think statistically I'm still right. Complaints are always more frequent than positive comments -- and more unsolicited. I always factor that in when reading, for example, product reviews. While there are always people willing to
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by wvenable 1y ago
People who are happy about something have no reason to post. You're talking about two entirely different groups of people even though they're all on HN.
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by wvenable 1y ago
A simple language can make written in it code complex. A complex language can make code simpler. It's not a perfect rule or anything but it's been my experience that attempts at making simpler programming languages just put more
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by wvenable 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_UNIX 1997 to 2001 (IE 4 to IE 5 SP1)
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by wvenable 1y ago
The worlds don't really cross. If I'm using WSL to develop software using a Linux toolchain I'm not using any other Windows tools, other than VS Code, in that environment. I could but I just don't find the need. I cou
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by wvenable 1y ago
I use it all the time but then I've never run a GUI application in it.
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by wvenable 1y ago
> But when organizations get hijacked I haven't seen any reasonable evidence on this. I'm not saying that evidence doesn't exist, it's just everything that I've heard so far as been debunked. The current admini
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by wvenable 1y ago
There's now an entire generation now that believes "Intellectual Property" is a real thing. Instead of the understanding that copyrights and patents are temporary state-granted monopolies meant to benefit society they are ins

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