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by xdennis 4y ago
Better late than never?
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Your argument applies just as well to copying any book and selling it. But that's considered piracy and illegal. But when American tech giants copy it's legal. It should be the same for everyone.
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> However, I often sense that in many places, the country seems to be entrenched in its medieval past. Hear that Italians? If you don't surrender your data and your privacy to American companies you are medieval. According to some o
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> Reportedly some of the happiest people on earth. People who live in countries were you get executed on a whim tend to say that.
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If the US never prosecutes its war criminals, someone has to.
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A major difference is that guns are a precaution. Everyone's best outcome is to not have to use guns. But AI will be used all the time, which makes responsible use more difficult.
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> It said she’d previously taught at universities she’d never even visited. Don't worry. Some of the details will make it to some websites, which will be cited by the press, which will be included into Wikipedia, and it will become
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> It's finding patterns same as anyone studying the code base would do. This is the issue, it's not finding patterns as people do. If I read someone's code, book, &c, that's extremely lossy. I can only pick up a f
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`[] + []` is unlikely to happen except by accident if you don't know that's how array concatenation is done in JavaScript. But wanting to provide default values of [] is quite common in Python. Seeing this workaround is quite comm
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The Wat part is this: print(list1) # [1, 2] print(list2) # [1, 2] Some would expect it to be: print(list1) # [1] print(list2) # [2] The reason it's weird is because Python evaluates default arguments at fu
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That's completely fair, but I FEEL (don't know for sure) that many people who criticize JavaScript don't know it very well and don't pick meaningful things to criticize, but things like its rubbish type coercions (which
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It doesn't matter in the sense that it's a case of "garbage in, garbage out". I have no idea what what `{} + 1` gives you (it's `'[object Object]1'` BTW), but whatever it is doesn't matter because it&
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> Does anyone recall the time HN went ballistic offering proof of how the iPhone's AI interpretation was screwing up a photograph and then it turned out there was a leaf in between the subject and the camera? No, I don't recall
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It's a problem for reality. Let's not bring culture into this. Those faces do not exist in reality.
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It's on a completely different level there. My sister went to a wedding in China and sent me some of the pictures. The smoothing was so extreme I couldn't even recognize her. And they were photos from a "professional" ph
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> It's the cow dairy industry that is trying to appropriate the word. The word milk can be traced back thousands of years to the indo-european form h₂melǵ- which means... milk. Your attempt to re-frame this is ridiculous. > Also,
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You know very well that the purpose of calling it "insect flour" is to mislead and to normalize it. Nobody cares about "stone flour" etc because it not sold as flour on a shelf next to real flour. It's not intended
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Food is tasty and no amount of your religious preaching is going to change that.
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> Italy would not be able to oppose the sale of synthetic meat produced within the EU when it does gain EU approval, because of the free movement of goods and services. I'm not a EU expert, but I think freedom of movement means you
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Lab food presents itself as non threatening because it's not generally accepted. But if it gains a significant majority the vegans will be calling for natural meat to be banned. It's best to stop it before it gains a foothold.
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> it's the enormous amount of land we clearcut and leave basically empty so they can graze. This is typical vegan misinformation to appeal to people who are concerned about global warming (as we should). Land that's used for gr
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It's not an abomination to eat natural food. Any carnivore/omnivore would eat a cow if it could. The fact that you perceive something natural as an abomination is a symptom of a society that's too successful and needs to inve
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Handegg pitches have a fixed size of 109.75x48.8. Football pitches vary in size a lot so it doesn't make sense to use them as a reference size.
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If you're like me, it's probably because of the "Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs"[1] video he did. I think it might be the only long YouTube video I watched more than once. [1]: https://www.youtube.com&#x
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Except for the hands. If you're familiar with the Rick and Morty "what is my purpose" meme ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa9MpLXuLs0 ), it will essentially be the same for humanity in the future. Humanity
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This is childish. People are starving more in non capitalist societies.
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Announcing it damaged their reputation. Reversing doesn't undo that (because there's always the chance they'll do it again), but now they don't even have the benefit of not having to host so many images.
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> The problem is that Google’s core business model is too profitable, that nothing else can ever compete for attention and resources. Interesting, that's essentially Dutch disease[1] for a corporation. [1]: https://en.wik
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Exactly! Fixing /home/<user> is a lost cause. You can't get thousands of applications to follow a common sense standard. It's more pragmatic to not store the files you care about in the dumping ground that's &
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Being like that for a long time is not a justification for terrible defaults.

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