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by xbar 3y ago
Societies expect that people who violate laws to endure some amount of reciprocal suckage to balance the suckage they inflicted in their violations. That is called justice. Prisons, generally, suck. Are prisons good schools or preventers of
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by xbar 3y ago
True. Unlike some other things that don't love you back, corporations are actively abusive relationship partners. Whether an employee of or customer of a corporation, you are being misled and taken advantage of. There are benefits, of
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by xbar 3y ago
I am sorry for your loss. Thank you for writing courageously during this impossible time.
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by xbar 3y ago
Phew. I was getting scared that someone would use it to cause instability.
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by xbar 3y ago
After my account started getting bills this month for pennies for which there was no obvious accounting, I slashed my AWS costs by 100%. I'm back to managing my own systems. So much cheaper and less chance of nonlinear bills.
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by xbar 3y ago
Sounds like an agile application of scrum.
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by xbar 3y ago
Terribly Ugly might be the lifestyle that those Lifestyle Delivery Vehicles are delivering. Seriously, I would be happy to see those quirky things on the road.
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by xbar 3y ago
Phew. I was afraid that this was going to be some attempt to be not about Milton. My best friend gave me this book a few decades ago. I hadn't read it during my literature course years. I read it and we discussed it for months. A worth
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by xbar 3y ago
Oh. This one is easy. ChatGPT a commercial software product that generates wealth for its owners, so allowing commercial products to steal and promote others' content on their own is an agreed-upon violation of rights. Let's look
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by xbar 3y ago
I am more impressed than you. A general purpose robot can learn new tasks in a modest amount of time. As you argue, fluidly chaining sequences of learned tasks together is tricky, but current AI technology is capable of solving nearly all t
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by xbar 3y ago
Great start!
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by xbar 3y ago
How does addiction operate in other markets?
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by xbar 3y ago
I knew it was good because it felt exactly like home....er, work.
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by xbar 3y ago
2:15, and I even tested my fix first.
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by xbar 3y ago
Let's go round again!
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by xbar 3y ago
Will it host my Discord server?
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by xbar 3y ago
Velcro that. I intend to velcro velcro for the velcroing future.
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by xbar 3y ago
I do not pretend to have any idea what the sum total of NYT content is worth, but we will see what a jury/judge decides.
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by xbar 3y ago
It is her goal. She will spend a lot of time explaining to you why it is a good idea. At the end, you will still have bo idea.
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by xbar 3y ago
Crap. If this ruins 2024 like it ruined 1987, I am in deep trouble.
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by xbar 3y ago
That is an irrelevant comparison. This is theft and monstrous profit from theft. For actual justice this should be a class action suit of the world vs. OpenAI/Microsoft and the financial consequences should be company-ending for OpenA
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by xbar 3y ago
This feels like a 1996 "music is too expensive for kids so they HAVE to pirate it."
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by xbar 3y ago
I was using Visual J++ in 1998. We did a bakeoff of Eclipse, NetBeans and IDEA upon its beta in 2001. IDEA won hands down and is still the IDE of choice among the developers who work on our codebase.
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by xbar 3y ago
I feel like Firefox already wins on all the privacy dimensions, so what's left but small stuff?
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by xbar 3y ago
Yes, for some things.
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by xbar 3y ago
Right. Stanford IP promotion/marketing crew.
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by xbar 3y ago
There does exist a large subset of tech/crypto/ai entrepreneurs that operate as you describe. It is not the same as the definition.
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by xbar 3y ago
Maybe it would be more accurate to say that they that there is no way for them to make a product that will steal Figma's market for less than $20 billion. Adobe's despised reputation in business practices makes it hard for users t
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by xbar 3y ago
Undocumented, non-standard, life-threatening software automation is bad?
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by xbar 3y ago
Their pricing model seems designed to make you leave. I wish you well.

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