xwolfi

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by xwolfi 2y ago
Yeah but the right to be forgotten is because there's a perceived imbalance between now and 70 years ago: before, people would forget you, and nobody found it weird. Today, you're labelled forever in permanent databases, and it&#x
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by xwolfi 2y ago
The "Dragon Eater Vulnerability", that all managers will agitate about mitigating for the next 4 weeks...
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by xwolfi 3y ago
But you go from the bottom up here, I don't like to describe it that way. I prefer to say that we naturally classify objects around us using fuzzy boundaries like "a house", "a cat", which don't exactly mean an
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by xwolfi 3y ago
I'm French so I'm biased but I always try to take Airbus and fidget nervously when it's a Boeing. I simply dont understand why they're still allowed to operate outside the US: with Comac coming soon and Airbus having a b
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by xwolfi 3y ago
In Hong Kong and France, the two places I pay taxes in, it's been digital, free and trivial for as long as I've been a taxpayer, a decade+, as well. It's just weird when you realize the U.S. is so bloated and backward compare
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by xwolfi 3y ago
Why are you no big fan of the EU ?
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by xwolfi 3y ago
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/12/231201123626.h...
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by xwolfi 3y ago
But why is Airbus so much better ?
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by xwolfi 3y ago
But they provide so little information compared to the DNA you provide. You get stuff like "ancestry" signals which americans love in their quest for racial validation, but they get to connect humans to a point they can find the f
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by xwolfi 3y ago
It's also completely silly: it's marketing for me. OFC OpenAI will not reach AGI, and ChatGPT doesnt ressemble humans as soon as in interactive mode: there is little danger beyond freeing poor copy writers from their miserable tor
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by xwolfi 3y ago
And then some king dies in some country and it's a national holiday the next week, and the data entry guy is in sick leaves and your table isn't updated to close trading... happened to the bank I work in, wasn't funny.
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by xwolfi 3y ago
And those geniuses in the "we" you described, how did they eat, how did they dress, where did they sleep, who gave them the paper they used to write their thoughts ? Who challenged them, by their stupidity even, to go further ? We
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by xwolfi 3y ago
But have we seen that many people calling themselves socialists not ending up with the same problem ? Socialism doesnt work because it doesnt consider greed as a positive force. Starting from there, every sign of greed is suppressed until r
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by xwolfi 3y ago
I was so impressed that I left France forever and Im never coming back. Couch activists like you have no idea the misery those constant distracting productivity-killing micro-movements do to the country in aggregate. I wish you could enjoy
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by xwolfi 3y ago
But that's what the EU is willing to reform. Apple isnt a EU company, hell it may even not contribute much to the tax base, there's less reason to trust them in exchange for gatekeeping against EU companies trying to generate tax
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by xwolfi 3y ago
They are a cash flow generating financial product, like a bond ETF. Apple packages users, resell them to the highest bidder, and interest is collected as return on investment from the payments users make. Ofc, like a bond, a user pays for a
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by xwolfi 3y ago
Maybe think of it more simply, one precedes the other, this much positive charge in one place attracts negative charge of equal magnitude around it: if you send more electrons (and to be honest, talking of positive charge for a proton is a
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by xwolfi 3y ago
In HK we made a deal with China so that our judicial orders regarding Evergrande are considered in their jurisdiction. For now we're waiting to see.
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by xwolfi 3y ago
No it's the financial holding, they fuck the investors and that s it: they can ignore it as long the 3 city judges in China let them (but everyone will run out of patience eventually: nothing can save this dead horse).
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by xwolfi 3y ago
But Japan has a population crumble, a long LONG tradition of home price devaluation (earthquakes destroy everything, why build super high quality stuff and why maintain, after 10 years your protection is more fragile or obsolete) and prices
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by xwolfi 3y ago
There is no life on Mars, so it s probably too expensive to bring useless instruments ?
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by xwolfi 3y ago
I think you're wrong: people who buy a shitty second-hand car to go to work and have little money to spare on it: indeed, really 0 interest in the car as long as it runs long enough to generate profit to break even. But if you are goin
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by xwolfi 3y ago
Well from here in Hong Kong, it still seems well alive: we still see improving knock-offs year on year of US-designed stuff, I got the habit to go to stores, take a pic, get it auto detected in Taobao and pay 10% of the brand price for an e
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by xwolfi 3y ago
Medecins Sans Frontieres
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by xwolfi 3y ago
So let me try to "share" something with on a banking app, see if that returns your balance. And then I'll tell you it's designed that way after I publish it along with 15M other people's balance. Not a leak guys !
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by xwolfi 3y ago
You misunderstand, I have a very unique French email address and I got the email. There is no way they enumerated my email address, there is no way they matched 15M randomly generated first.last@gmail.com emails: mine wasn't even that.
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by xwolfi 3y ago
Well it's not a prison but it's a big group of people reaching compromises to make it safer for everyone else. Look at it this way: if nobody knows your address, not even the people guaranteeing property law, someone could enter y
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by xwolfi 3y ago
You mis-construct law enforcement / crime prevention. First, it's never about solving all crimes committed by "bad people", the first priority is to show a big red lock everywhere sensitive so that your nice grandma does
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by xwolfi 3y ago
Not only the name is matched here in Hong Kong, but the address as well: so many people don't believe it, and I have to strongly insist they just write it better and poof, payment works ! I think it's a sort of option / depen
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by xwolfi 3y ago
Same, but why would others live there ? When you invest in real estate, you expect, I hope, to rent. Sure you can just wait it out and lose in estate taxes, but normally: you expect people to live there. Sadly, since living conditions in

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