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by ygjb 3y ago
Ending Civil Asset Forfeiture is an absolute mess for legislators because while it makes sense to end it based on past abuses, the reality is that it is a political grenade. Want to end CAF? Why are you soft on crime? Why are you supporting
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Text to movement is highly desirable. There is a long way to go before tools like this are used in AAA games, and blockbuster films, but as much money as is tied up in those areas, even more is tied up in advertising and lower tier content
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These are models specially tuned and sized for near real-time, instant translation. It would be naive to think that there aren't technical creatives building and training models tuned for expressiveness and nuance in a more controlled
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Because of the long history of snake-oil salescreeps, and the ongoing degree of utter bullshit of people selling crystals, essential oils, and other shams to separate desperate and hopeful people from their money? Regulators and regulations
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First time having the curtain pulled back?
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I mean, aside from my current role in Amazon, my last several roles have been at Mozilla, OpenDNS/Cisco, and Fastly; each of those used a combination of cloud, colo and on-prem services, depending on use cases. All of them worked at sc
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Yeah, that's part of it. The other part is that you can move stuff that is working, and working well, into on-prem (or colo) if it is designed well and portable. If everything is running in containers, and orchestration is already con
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> LLM's like GPT are just predicting the next token in a sequence of tokens. It's not magic. It's still just a computer program. Frankly, that approach is problematic, since any computer software that might achieve conscio
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The forms, delays, and fees are because what those financial institutions are doing is providing checks and balances, and de-risking, to the extent they can, performing that transfer. The forms are for KYC activity, and agreements on what t
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> For many people out there open source is a way to legally pirate stuff. Huh? In order to pirate open source products, assuming we are talking about copyright infringement, you have to release derivative products in a way that is not co
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Are you kidding? Have you seen the way that big tech companies use and abuse the legal system to target people, for example, who come into possession of leaked hardware prototypes? Where they could manage private licenses to enforce state p
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Genuinely curious, which jurisdictions is it actually illegal?
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https://www.statista.com/statistics/234488/number-of-amazon-...
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excel isn't just used by finance. I can use any number of command line tools, scripting languages, jupyter notebooks, etc, but sometimes is just faster to throw it in excel, do a little futzing around and send it over to the non-techn
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Do you switch ecosystems and products each time a new threat actor or malware toolkit shows up? If your personal threat model warrants it, you might be better off with a feature phone instead - the attack surface on both Android and iOS are
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You are confusing a digital signature for evidence of anything other than an attestation. If you create a digital record, then sign it, then that signature is only an attestation of may claim you make, not evidence of that claim. That is th
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Wealthy people might be held accountable (at least, that is my read on it :P).
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Despite several rounds of layoffs and a general economic downturn, companies are still competing hard for talented people. You know those nightmare hiring scenarios that keep getting posted on social media sites? Where companies ghost peopl
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That's the point. As consumers we pay the cost of logistics and service, but we also pay for the waste. We aren't paying the cost of a head of lettuce, we are paying the cost of a head of lettuce, plus a fractional cost of waste
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There will always be people who make those choices, but the majority of players don't shop on engine.
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Bill Willingham Sends Fables into the Public Domain(billwillingham.substack.com)
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ChromeOS and Google are super creepy because of how data hungry they are. That said, one of the advantages is that if they have committed to a 10 year lifecycle, and they have a new feature that is awful on an older device for performance
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The implication is that it's not a federal felony to fire a weapon at a flying aircraft? I know that there are different laws in different countries, but I can't imagine that would be legal, even in the United States! Unfortunatel
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Because rising sea levels doesn't get clicks anymore, but if you read actual literature on the topic, there are ongoing concerns and considerations. On a more practical level, it's not a major North American or European city, so
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The comment I replied to dismissed another users comment as politically motivated with a call to "do better"; I made the essentially the same argument and at least presented data to back up my argument. If an opposition to gun con
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Sure, perhaps I shouldn't have been so figurative. The level of endemic gun violence in the United States is deeply alarming to basically all of it's other peer nations and allies. The fact that the level of gun violence is &quo
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I mean, it's not perfect, but is graded poorly (32%, right, mixed quality, low quality sources, and moderately opinionated) by The Factual using their isthiscredible.com service. Part of do better should at least be coming with a basis
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Maybe not, but frequently hiring a team that has accomplished a significant percentage of a goal is a better choice than trying to retask existing folks, or to grow a new product set outside of core competency.
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My kids are both actively playing TOTK on their profiles on my switch with a single digital purchase. There have been other games where this has been problematic (Animal crossing I think limited some features per device instead of per accou
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I think it's more likely that the bulk of folks don't fully comprehend why this would be so important. I would imagine alot of reporters look at the things they could write about and the choices are politics, war, polarizing news

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