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by ygjb 3y ago
Because when you remove the financial incentive that leads to outright exploitation, there still remains the case where self-harm can be a moral action. Donating a kidney, for example, or bone marrow, is harmful to the donor, but the trade-
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I think that any country that wants to consider legalizing the sale of body parts from living people should probably illustrate how they have effectively eliminated human trafficking for other forms of exploitation first. Generally speaking
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We are paid exorbitantly to work hard to maintain the illusion that the computers are operating correctly. Any reasonably competent software developer or engineer should know that just because the customer dashboard is green and everything
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If you are starting from scratch? https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html Do those, then come back to this and it will make more sense.
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Note that this may not, and probably does not include customer location data in most jurisdictions. They sell the locations of the equipment they own, which more or less effectively correlate with customer location as I described in my p
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ISPs routinely sell/share geolocation data for fixed infrastructure; there are many factors that could impact why this is more accurate. In a sparesly populated area, using microwave, point-to-point radios? You very well may be the onl
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Sure, I consider calling users lazy and incompetent very hostile because I have spent nearly 22 years building, testing and securing systems starting with ecommerce apps in the early 2000s, through government, finance, browsers and supporti
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That is a shockingly user hostile take, especially considering you call out the reason why so many people still use it: it is the only solution for most users that consistently works. The main reason people still use it is despite the issue
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Ideally, as a consumer, in a market where commodity computer hardware is not arbitrarily restricted to extract the maximum attainable profit from consumers? It has been shown time and again that both volunteers and competitors can quickly a
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They are not being censored. I just think they suck and, imho are need of a rough education of why we got rid of Nazis a long time ago. What exactly are you complaining about?
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There is nothing stopping someone from training and using a model that impersonates whichever historical person you want it to impersonate - except for resources and skill. That is always the huge differentiator in the availability of tech
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No one is stopping you from making your own decision. The only roadblock is that you need the resources and skills to train your own model. If you lack either the resources, or the skills, you are absolutely entitled to complain about the
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Aside from conventional rate limiting and bot protection technologies, how would you propose protecting a site from being scraped for a specific purpose through technology? I would argue that there isn't an effective technology to pr
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I don't usually do 100g portions for these, but below are some recipes that are super easy and delicious. I make each of these quite regularly, and make it a few times and you will be able to eyeball it so you don't have to precis
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That's a level of responsiveness that doesn't exist for the vast majority of organizations. If your customer is aware enough to notice they are being hit with a DOS or legit traffic while it is happening, then great! They can resp
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Why was it unethical? Did the activity violate the contract?
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Well yeah, but that is not a new problem either. Piracy is a profession as old as sailing, and frankly has always been tolerated by states (piracy against our enemies? ok, don't bug us, pay your taxes, and we will ignore you), if not o
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I wonder why that solution hasn't solved piracy (or any other form of violent theft) in the history of humanity. It's literally an arms race, and non-combat measures reduce the risk of loss of life, cargo, and vessels, which makes
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There is a big difference between "logged out" and "private mode" - paid VPN services offer privacy by (purportedly) not tracking or logging traffic from their users. They still get paid using traceable payments systems
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https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/entertainment/prime-video-u...
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Not just closing the loopholes; specifically imposing consumer awardable penalties for failing to support a product - something like treble damages for willful infringement should do the trick. Can't provide a part within a specific ti
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Meh. I don't think your position makes sense. Your assessment of the estimates is basically MBA talk. They designed the helicopter for 5 flights. It is very likely the case that the requirements that a rotary wing aircraft can operate
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The problem is that the current crop of google assistant devices (excluding current and upcoming gen cell phones) are woefully underpowered for local models, meaning that supporting the existing install base will be expensive. I expect that
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It's not web specific, but when Alexa changed the pricing on the list, our team pushed for Cisco Umbrella to publish the top 1M domains here https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/umbrella-static/index.htm... - I don&
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I agree with you, with one proviso. I hope there is a proliferation of camp grounds and sites with rules forbidding things like projectors and speakers over a certain volume level. The number of projectors I have seen in use at campgrounds
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BTC ATMs are still wildly popular with scammers.
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Yep, except when was the last time the prime minister of Canada wasn't the party leader of the party invited to form a government after a federal election? Saying that Pierre Poilievre isn't the CPC front runner when polling indic
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> My fellow Canadians need to feel the impact to remind them of how awful this government is. That is a pretty general blanket statement. I don't agree with alot of the choices the current government has made, but I also don't
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I don't know the solution, but if there was going to be a committee formed to evaluate acceptable media organizations, I don't think the committee should be staffed by the government - there should be an appointed ombudsman who ha
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I think there are trade-offs. Small local media is vitally important, but the problem implicit there is that biasing towards small, local media also means diverting funding to small teams that may or may not be high quality. For every Indi

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