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by xvector 3y ago
This was a great read when I was an edgy 14 year old, now it's just kinda cringe. It introduced me to rationalism, and appealed to the transhumanist streak in me, which is cool. But rationalists in my local area are kinda culty. They a
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by xvector 3y ago
Have you actually stepped into a Loro Piana store and felt their cashmere? It is otherworldly. I have some degree of experience in picking out high-end cashmere, telling the overpriced scams apart from the legit ones, and Loro Piana is defi
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by xvector 3y ago
TikTok does it too.
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by xvector 3y ago
Sue the fuck out of them. Hope this company crashes and burns.
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by xvector 3y ago
Edit/remove/retry is just including the whole conversation over again (IIUC this is even how the app works.) It's part of why the API is so expensive
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by xvector 3y ago
There is nothing the EU can do to stop big tech from doing business in the EU unless it wants to spark a trade war between itself and the US. The EU is completely and utterly dependent on US technology and protection, so the measures it tak
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by xvector 3y ago
Sufficiently high fines are no different from a ban. The DMA will never actually fine at 20% because companies would be forced to leave, triggering the above scenario.
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by xvector 3y ago
My statement is very clearly an opinion.
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by xvector 3y ago
This is somewhat a naive interpretation. Yes, the EU can enforce certain regulations, ban Apple, etc, but not without repercussions. We live in a global trade environment. It really comes down to whether the US administration would find the
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by xvector 3y ago
Obviously Apple doesn't hold the EU's values in high regard (few people in the Bay or even the US do), so of course they will try to fight it. It's perfectly rational and even expected behavior.
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by xvector 3y ago
It's obviously an opinion. I have plenty of computers running Windows and a variety of Linux distros at my home. Laptops, desktop, servers, and weird hybrids of the former. Same with mobile - I have tried Android, iOS, PureOS, Graphene
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by xvector 3y ago
> You should not have to police adults on what they're allowed to do with their property. The fundamental problem with this "power to the people" mentality is that adults don't actually know how to use technology. T
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by xvector 3y ago
Because MacBooks are just better. (Have owned both.) I have owned, and continue to own, all sorts of laptops and phones. I could rant about Apple all day long online, but in the end their product is simply superior.
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by xvector 3y ago
Okay. - Jeffrey Epstein (2019, US): no explanation needed. - Michael Hastings (2013, USA): Journalist known for his critical reporting on the US military, died in a car crash consistent with a car cyberattack (maximum speed/brake tampe
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by xvector 3y ago
The man was just about to testify. The timing is what makes this suspicious, not the suicide itself. Let's not be so naive as to imply that these companies and their vested interests would not murder someone to protect a multi-billio
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by xvector 3y ago
Billions of dollars at stake. There are countless interests that would absolutely kill someone over a fraction of that. I would never whistleblow. Losing my life isn't worth it
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by xvector 3y ago
If you can zero someone about to testify in Congress, you can also coerce a coroner to say whatever you want.
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by xvector 3y ago
Thanks for everything you do in security. You're a hero.
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by xvector 3y ago
I almost forgot how annoying Airbnb is until I started staying in hotels again. I will gladly take a smaller property in exchange for dealing with people that have actual hospitality training, daily room cleaning, room service, etc. Hotels
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by xvector 3y ago
> Pixels shipped a massive hardware security feature (MTE) they aren't enabling for the OS to save 3.125% memory/cache usage. It's silly. Heap MTE has near 0% perf overhead in async mode and is cheaper than increasingly i
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by xvector 3y ago
What an absurd article. Now tech CTOs should be sitting with Senegalese tribal elders to evaluate the "environmental costs of AI?" Aside from aphorisms, what new data could these elders possibly provide that the engineers have not
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by xvector 3y ago
> Before a newspaper would publish an article, they would have extensive fact checkers rake the article over the coals, to ensure that no known falsehoods would be printed. What? The news media has literally started wars due to not fact
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by xvector 3y ago
Finally, at least one company has the balls to stand up to the ridiculous rent seeking from Australia, France, Canada. Hope Google follows.
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by xvector 3y ago
> Do you think the first page of Google is good and formed by good incentives and empowerment of the user, considering how much of a cultural force it is (Googling something being just a normal part of your thought process)? Yes. Google
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by xvector 3y ago
There are plenty of topics you can get the gist of in 30-60 seconds. When the alternative is not spending any time learning those topics at all, I'll take the 30 seconds. I'm not going to spend minutes to hours learning somethin
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by xvector 3y ago
I've come across countless great artisans and small businesses I would have never discovered otherwise, all thanks to social media. I've spent tens of thousands of dollars on products from these small businesses. I will go so far
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by xvector 3y ago
There is literally an solar system, galaxy, universe for the taking. We have not even scratched the surface of the resources available to us.
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by xvector 3y ago
> getting mad at the crowd for saying it is not likely to help Except the emperor does have clothes, this pessimism simply isn't based in reality, it's based on a rose-tinted view of the past and a misunderstanding of why peo
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by xvector 3y ago
I'm so done with this ridiculous techno-pessimism trend. > AI [is] costing a whole lot and providing, at best, dubious benefits A wild take. Technology like GPT-4 being available today was unimaginable to us just 5 years ago. Our
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by xvector 3y ago
Perhaps "psychological torture and extortion" also works as a phrase for this sort of crime.

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