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by xg15 2mo ago
> The packaging was actually pretty high quality for a shareware product. On my copy, a sticker on the front clarifies this is the "Shareware version" with instructions to call 1-800-669-9342 (or 1-800-ID-GAMES) to unlock the
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by xg15 2mo ago
> And you also create a significant number of perpetually jaded people who will basically never believe you again, even when you're telling the truth. Yes, but they will also not believe my enemies. Making people not believe anyth
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by xg15 2mo ago
I mean, they have enough real think tanks, I'm surprised they need a fake one...
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by xg15 2mo ago
They're the enlightened few! Your consent is assumed for your own good!
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by xg15 2mo ago
I recently canceled my Google One subscription. You can cancel any time, but Google WILL make sure you're feeling the withdrawal symptoms fast. Because without the subscription I had overstretched my storage space, several Google apps
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by xg15 2mo ago
I also think this is why LLMs were trained to behave the way they do. The people who gave the training objectives and evaluation targets were exactly those rich folks who never hear "no". Hence LLMs are their dreams of a perfect s
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by xg15 2mo ago
Yeah, naively one could wonder why quantum entanglement wouldn't be the obvious route to FTL communication instead of "only" a solution to the key distribution problem in cryptography. What you said is why.
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by xg15 2mo ago
> Okay, so the platform becomes valuable to its users when it's able to suggest things like "based on millions of users, people with cycles like yours typically ovulate around day 16." I don't know much about period
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by xg15 2mo ago
Well, wait until there is the first training algorithm that supports FDE. We promise we won't ever decrypt your data, we'll just train our models with it...
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by xg15 2mo ago
Not even just by the authorities. This sounds like the wet dream of Google itself or any other data mining companies. You can just ship the most sensitive data around and extract signals to your hearts content - and even if it would be prot
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by xg15 2mo ago
Then the app can make a bog-standard encrypted-at-rest backup to somewhere and make all the computations on the device on the cleartext data. I don't see the need to do computations on the encrypted data here, which is what FHE would
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by xg15 2mo ago
Yeah, just become an Uber driver and you can be your own boss... oh wait, suddenly your only customer - Uber - can dictate exactly how you do your job. We've had that game before. Ask yourself why a the capitalists are so eager to make
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by xg15 2mo ago
Ah, that makes more sense. Thanks!
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by xg15 2mo ago
You're aware lots of people are already living on the street again? > and we’ll work to improve it Who is "we"? The people in power (or the dominant opinion at HN) don't even see a problem there.
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by xg15 2mo ago
> The courtyard’s 60 kWh energy system charges during the cheap, off-peak night hours, then powers the TNDF’s two buildings for six hours the following day. > Already, multiple people are charging their phones in the courtyard in t
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by xg15 2mo ago
> And I write the way I talk. I used to spend whole editing passes beating that out of my drafts. What's an "editing pass"?
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by xg15 2mo ago
Why do you need several human/ai iteration rounds and dozens of reviewers for a blog post?
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by xg15 2mo ago
I think you need better companions.
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by xg15 2mo ago
> Using the data they have about my direct interactions with them to predict how I interact with them in the future seems fine. As long as they aren’t charging me extra, why should I be upset that they can predict what I will do based o
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by xg15 2mo ago
Or "living in an apartment with affordable rent"...
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by xg15 2mo ago
I see the brainwashing mostly in instilling the belief that any government necessarily has to become bloated and corrupt.
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by xg15 2mo ago
> MS, IBM, AT&T are irrelevant. In which parallel universe? Also, in addition to the old corpos, we got a whole guard of new corpos now...
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by xg15 2mo ago
I'm amazed the Ayn Rand books are still part of US school curricula. The world view those books promote is straight-up that the only people in society that count are a few Genius Individuals, the rest is dead weight and leeches. (but e
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by xg15 2mo ago
Your government clearly is dysfunctional (at least the part that is supposed to serve the ordinary citizens). But look around the world and you can see that it doesn't have to be that way. Also, in the US, there are a lot of forces
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by xg15 2mo ago
Not just that, the commands also have often slight variations in each new session. They still do the same, but the variations are enough so it isn't matched by the allowlist any more.
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by xg15 2mo ago
> He listed some vague reasons, compressor this, compressor that, costs, etc... which I didn't care to understand. wouldn't part of an "adult-to-adult conversation" also be to try and listen to the other, if nothing
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by xg15 2mo ago
Lame: Fight the war on general computation by spending decades pushing elaborate technical standards for locking down bootloaders, try to convince society why we need device attestation and hardware-bound keys, gradually establish devices w
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by xg15 2mo ago
> you might effectively kill a whole class of changes, like "small refactor" PRs. Or the changes might be "smuggled through" in an unrelated changeset that has to go through the red tape anyway.
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by xg15 2mo ago
> No Two Installs Look Alike > Same install. Your imagination is the limit. Here is a set of things that people have added to bb all by just asking it to build it for them: [...] - A task management system. [...] - A markdown edito
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by xg15 2mo ago
Could someone explain this bit? > many system apps run in the background after being uninstalled, but it's unknown whether they do when disabled. Is this because some real system apps (as opposed to vendor bloat that just got the

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