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> The 'reasonable claim of ownership' extends to restricting transmission, not use after transmission. It's not even clear you're correct by the apparent (if limited) support of your own argument. "Transmission&q
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Let's shift your risk of immediate assault and death up by a few orders of magnitude. I'm sure that you'll see that as "just" something that was always a risk, pretty much status quo, right right? Oh, life & dea
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Absolutely this -- and in many (maybe most cases), there was no consent for the use of the work in training the model, and quite possibly no notice or compensation at all. That's a huge ethical issue whether or not it's explicitly
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Do you have any specific suggestions for resources for exercising grid & shadow dom knowledge/chops? I'm updating my CSS understanding after having left the front end for ~6 years (but having done a lot of front-end work for
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Any conversation in which someone can say "I think you need more banana training" has arguably gone well by some standards.
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Not sure we've ever had a supply shock quite like this one? The OPEC/energy crisis played a big role in the 70s, but that doesn't seem nearly as broad as the last two years...
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It's kinda hard to tell exactly what the /s applies to, but... The weird rural inferiority complex presented as the pretense that outsiders are looking down the country folks seems a lot more common than any actual down-looking. I
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> Menus are constantly broken, back button is a game of roulette, caching is constantly a problem showing stale data, xss and other vulnerabilities are ubiquitous. So… what’s the difference between this and SPAs using frameworks again? B
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Everyone wants "politically correct" AI. Wanna keep it from turning murderbot or paperclip maximizer? Welcome to the arena of politics of correct values. Wanna use it for longevity research? Same. Some people also would like to ma
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Yeah, I went looking for one about two months ago and decided it wasn't worth it. The value calculation has always been a bit iffy vs "let's see what small-factor desktop machines people are dumping in the local classifieds&q
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Blackrock is, of course, free to start making things, or to increase their assets by buying from people who are.
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Technology tends to magnify one dimension or another of the human condition and it's rarely just your favorite dimensions.
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> I know some people aren't going to like reading this, but this is the reason I got an office job after working 2+ years remotely. Nobody dislikes reading about how someone finds value for themselves in going into the office. Some
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USDA, EPA, make policy that are reflections of US culture, as you'd expect in a representative system. This includes Iowa farmers, who probably do have extra margins of influence regarding practices in their industry in the same way so
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> any critique towards pornography and you're treated like you're Amish. If you're finding that people react poorly towards your criticisms of pornography, you might want to do a little introspection about the bad faith
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I mean, I guess your pithy comeback is a sentence someone could say if they were all in on posture and casual in their nihilistic contempt for semantics and substance.
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If you're equating the elaboration of difficulty with the declaration of impossibility, then the nihilism is inside you.
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Postmodernism is the reckoning with the problem, not the problem itself. It recognizes epistemological difficulties and how different power interests or ideological preferences are often tied up with claims of "the truth." The p
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I'd accept "Nobody should be out in this kind of weather!" or "Nobody can play the oboe!" as a kind of colloquial hyperbole that works in part because people know it's hyperbole and there's a shared sentim
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> UK/Nordics/Eastern Europe, unsurprisingly they are countries that have left-wing education systems built for the social justice goals of adults, not learning outcomes of kid Learning outcome rankings are commonly pretty high
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Not nearly as pathetic as assuming that the 8 billion are (a) essentially fungible from a relationship standpoint (b) equally eager to engage in a relationship with anyone who likes (c) within reasonable proximity and that's just a sta
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Find people with non-small thoughts, or at least positive-if-small-value small thoughts, same as any other avenue of connection with other human beings. Social networks are a tech/tool. Like most other tech/tools, they're mor
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Amazon gets a ton of criticism for how it treats warehouse, delivery, and tech employees, as well as how it mixes inventory and treats 3rd party vendors. You can't hardly have a thread here on HN without all these topics coming up. &
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Negotiation is a form of politics, not a separate thing from politics. Good faith negotiation is a principled and often relatively productive form of politics, but it remains politics nonetheless. > out of self-interest It's importa
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Understanding politics that way is common and understandable. It's also an unfortunate cultural construction of the term, because this understanding is deeply incorrect. Politics is what happens when people disagree about what should b
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Oddly, was just browsing in a library today and that title was one that caught my attention. Will have to check it out!
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> the possible loss of sensory+cognitive function that comes with simply learning to read and write in the first place. I don't doubt this is possible but I'd love a cite to find out what the case looks like.
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LOL. If you think that progressives are generally friendly towards corporations then you've never actually talked with a progressive, have you? And corporations are not generally progressive in outlook either, there are too many valu
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Nowhere was a claim forwarded it was progressive or ideal. The claim is more or less that advertisers have some of the same concerns that elected representatives do because consumers have something like a vote. But then again, if you'r
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If that's it's business model then sure, that's how it works. A "de facto public square" would be public in conception, construction, and support from the start, which is one of the ways we know that Twitter is no s

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