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by zyx321 10y ago
For an apple to apple comparison, how about last year when Facebook promised to help Germany censor any criticism of their immigration policy under the guise of 'stopping Hate Speech'? Facebook aren't taking a stance against
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>If you run a bookstore in the US and a German comes and buys Nazi material, are you running a store in Germany? No, but if she buys via mail order and the package gets confiscated at the border, don't whine about losing business.
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by zyx321 10y ago
That was more intended as a defense of conservatism in general, since the post I was replying to gave the impression that "conservative" was synonymous with "wrong, evil or stupid" - maybe I'm reading too much into
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I would like to posit a variation of the anthropic principle: We are currently alive to have this discussion, therefore the things we've done to get here are not the worst we could have done. I recognize that's not the strongest a
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by zyx321 10y ago
You do have a point. It's conservative in the sense that it has been this way for a long time and that it's been working out well enough. Why do we need to change it? And no, rehashing the old ">2011" meme for the m
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by zyx321 11y ago
>if training progress required sexual interactions with humans and there was brutal competition between bots Most realistic scenario: A new startup releases a 100% neural net based OS. Microsoft and Apple are implementing their own NNs b
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There's no reason an AI would attach any particular significance to human nudity unless it was specifically designed for a sex bot. Things that turn on and distract an AI would be things found in their positive training data. Nudity wo
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by zyx321 11y ago
It seems much more commercialized these days. Even a cursory background check into any of the big names will reveal a Patreon/Kickstarter/etc fundraising campaign. Being outraged is outrageously profitable.
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by zyx321 11y ago
HN doesn't really seem to appreciate humor or sarcasm very much.
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Brutalism is not supposed to be painful or unpleasant, just brutally honest. Brutalist buildings look like giant blocks of raw concrete (béton brut), because that's exactly what they are and no effort is wasted on hiding that fact.
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>but you have to install it and I think even accept a licence in a graphical window You can -accepteula from the command line and the "installation" is downloading and extracting a zip file. If there's an internet connecti
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>If you have a real-name, real-data policy, you can use this as a pre-screening to see if the information entered is plausible. If people want to lie, they are going to give you a fake gender to match their fake name. What you're su
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by zyx321 11y ago
So it's similar to Sasha? Female in the US and other English language regions, Male in French and German language regions, unisex in eastern Europe.
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Approximately 99% of biologically male people identify with a (predominantly) male gender identity, and approximately 99% of biologically female people identify with a (predominantly) female gender identity. Of the remainder, approximately
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by zyx321 11y ago
It's ARM, using a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820. You're effectively limited to Windows store universal apps (which are usually pretty terrible), plus MS Office.
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by zyx321 11y ago
HP aren't using their own OS. MSFT demoed their continuum technology at the Surface event back in October, so there's a good chance HP will beat Canonical to the market.
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On the other hand, "turn it on and let it do its thing" is a terrible idea from a forensics standpoint. You want to lock the account down ASAP to prevent potential accomplices from remote wiping your evidence.
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by zyx321 11y ago
Maybe they were busy fighting such heinous evils as meritocracy and inappropriate language.
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by zyx321 11y ago
>So the drivers need to make at least €1,250/month I'm not sure if you could survive long in Paris on a 1250€ fixed wage. Self employed with 1250€ gross revenue, you're not gonna make ends meet.
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by zyx321 11y ago
Yes. Really, REALLY impractical. "Disassemble phone, desolder security module, dissolve the outer layers in hydrochloric acid, cut the silicon into 16nm slices, scan each layer with an electron microscope" impractical.
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by zyx321 11y ago
The capital-O Other is our capital-E Enemy. They stand for everything we don't stand for. Jokes aside, it seems that has been a growing awareness for the concept of "othering," as in emphasizing the difference between your in
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by zyx321 11y ago
If you're using a Surface Pro, try pressing Fn + Arrow keys instead.
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by zyx321 11y ago
Yeah, from the title you'd expect an article about Chinese politics. Turns out it's just an Effectiveness Engineer using fancy phrases without understanding their historical significance.
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by zyx321 11y ago
>I've also noticed an increasing amount of apps that now also use the notifications for ads. Definitely not what I like to see on my lock screen. Once again, Apple is lagging behind by several years ;) This kind of Ad used to be inc
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So, how do you get people to accept the consequences of such games? How do you explain to Japan that one of their inhabited islands belong to China now, because the Computer says so? And what do you do when it turns out the initial simulat
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>In your example, your ISP has allocated you well over half the bits in an address. The reason for that is because as of IPv6, DHCP is is no longer the standard way of getting an address. With IPv6 autoconfig each device assigns its own
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by zyx321 11y ago
There's also a lot of sites that package adware without the developer's consent. See for example the semi-recent Sourceforge controversy: SF approached devs asking if they'd be interested in using their new download manager t
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by zyx321 11y ago
Is it standard practice not to disclose to anyone that someone was fired at all? Is it standard to fire your main community manager and not replace her, to just stop replying to the community's emails? Is it standard to not cancel a te
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In addition to the safety concerns: Larger planes, and "larger" passengers.
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Elfen Lied was one of the first fansubs I watched, and it was a good example of translators going too far. The version I watched used different text colors for the alien characters depending on whether their human (mostly sane) or alien(ins

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