Catsandkites

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by Catsandkites 6y ago
Yes, because private companies don't "loot" whatsoever. They definitely don't respond to accusations of obviously unethical and damaging but legal behaviour with "but it's legal!(continues looting)". Doesn
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by Catsandkites 6y ago
Are they really though? I know a lot of some people, who would consider themselves "well meaning" (fair, honest, just, whatever) and they totally do this all the time. When you combine the actually bad people with those people, is
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by Catsandkites 6y ago
Can you point to the legislation that indicates this? (Curiosity)
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by Catsandkites 6y ago
Isn't that a cop out argument? Just make it outright illegal and fine heavily per violation. You have profile information that a user didn't explicitly give you? $10k fine, each. We have (kinda) world wide copyright laws. We have
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by Catsandkites 6y ago
FEAR AI is excellent: https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~jorkin/goap.html
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by Catsandkites 6y ago
Thanks for your reply, it was really interesting and gave me some things to think about. I agree that government intervention is not ideal, as government is also often dumb, evil or incompetent. But that's more our failure to set up a
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by Catsandkites 6y ago
But the free market literally cannot exist? The free market won't bring you back to life so you can "choose a different competitor" if it kills you. That food? Bad. Dead. That tool? Dangerous. Dead. That work on your house? D
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by Catsandkites 6y ago
Use what? The jist of your argument here feels like it's heading straight towards "you are against foo, but you still bar, hmm interesting" meme.
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by Catsandkites 6y ago
My main criticism is unfettered and immoral capitalistic behaviour. That doesn't automatically mean I want to replace it with a different unworkable -ism.
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by Catsandkites 6y ago
I would happily pay for all of the services I use. The problem is that that isn't enough for them and it would still be an capitalistic greed anti-consumer shit show. If I pay I want: No ads, no tracking, full access to my own data in
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by Catsandkites 6y ago
Isn't there an app that lets you take/provide a photo of somebody's face and get their VK profile?
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by Catsandkites 6y ago
Question: Can I write my own assistant on mobile devices that is an actual assistant? As in, can listen for the key activation word in the background? Like the "official" assistants. As far as I can tell, the assistant APIs seem
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by Catsandkites 6y ago
Half on-topic: Is there an API on Android that allows you to write your own assistant with your own keyword set without sending everything over the wire? An app with microphone permissions would obviously work-ish, but is it possible to lis
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by Catsandkites 6y ago
In the same vein, are there not a worryingly amount of adults with actual "adult responsibilities" that think conspiracy theories, failed political ideologies and screaming batshit insanity into social media are "palatable an
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by Catsandkites 6y ago
Yes it does have those impacts, which is why medical intervention instead of criminalisation should be the norm.
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by Catsandkites 6y ago
Hi! Thanks for your thoughts, they are really interesting. Do you have any examples of your Houdini to game content or could you recommend any good learning resources for using Houdini in this way? I've been sharpening my blender skill
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by Catsandkites 6y ago
As another person who mostly wants to be left the fuck alone as well: One of the internet's greatest gifts is the ability to communicate with so many people you would otherwise have never spoken to. One of its greatest curses is that a
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by Catsandkites 6y ago
What would some recommended reading about saving for retirement? For example, I have a healthy amount of savings but none is invested and it sits in an account doing nothing (@ 0.1%). I read the obvious subreddits, have a basic working know
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by Catsandkites 7y ago
So where should morals come from? If not from governance or education? (Honest question).
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by Catsandkites 7y ago
Isn't that article misleading though? For example the motorcycle messengers had "instantaneous communication" iirc.
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by Catsandkites 7y ago
Is that a good or fair argument though? I get paid and pay 20% then 40% on the rest (banded)... Then as soon as I buy practically anything I'm taxed another 20% on top of that. A corporation pays 19% and then those profiting from that
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by Catsandkites 7y ago
Statistically, the older you are in the UK the more conservative you are. It's something like 17% 18-28 but 75% 60-70. The privacy worries are weird. In my experience this is the same group that love to use loyalty/reward cards, c
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by Catsandkites 7y ago
What is the employment market like for Ada?
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by Catsandkites 7y ago
As someone who spent a lot of time in London I hope he is correct about the track capacity released for local trains once the intercity move to the new lines. Two stopping trains per hour between local stations is not enough and if any were
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by Catsandkites 7y ago
That makes lots of sense. Do you have any examples of sprouting plants that so this? I'm guessing ones we consider poisonous?
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by Catsandkites 7y ago
I really tried to use Google Docs for a few years until I felt overwhelmed by the privacy considerations of putting my entire life "in" Google. I know it just works, I even know no-one is really mining the database to see what tim
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by Catsandkites 7y ago
Over my total career I have probably helped safe guard millions upon millions of dollars. How much value did that create or protect? How much of that was I allowed to capture compared to the CEO? A fraction.