CrossVR

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by CrossVR 6mo ago
The problem is that you're comparing numbers from before Trump's presidency, but the understaffing of FAA ATCs goes all the way back to when the Reagan administration fired all ATCs to break up the union and forbade the FAA from r
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by CrossVR 6mo ago
You're supposed to feel the superiority, not taste it.
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by CrossVR 6mo ago
If I were asked to give up 10 years of my life I would rather choose to give up the final 10 years than 10 years in the prime of my life.
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by CrossVR 6mo ago
There's one elephant in the room that's not being addressed: Training an AI on GPL code and then having it generate equivalent code that is released under a closed source license seems like a good way to destroy the copy-left FOSS
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by CrossVR 6mo ago
> If robots/AI work out and we do have 100% spare time then you’d hope there would be more of this sort of thing. If robots/AI work out we will need to use 100% of our spare time to work what few jobs are still available to hum
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by CrossVR 6mo ago
That money is better invested in providing affordable family housing. Even if IVF is available no one is going to actually have kids if you do nothing to make it economically sustainable to start a family. Do we really want to rely on IVF t
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by CrossVR 6mo ago
It's always a good idea to disguise your identity collection as "age verification".
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by CrossVR 6mo ago
In fact in sectors like the game industry the pandemic resulted in a massive hiring boom. The layoffs only materialized after the pandemic was well and truly over.
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by CrossVR 6mo ago
Security just isn't their vibe, that's for nerds.
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by CrossVR 7mo ago
This isn't a simple operation, killing a foreign head of state is about as clear of a declaration of war as you can imagine. The law was introduced to put a check on the president's use of military force, it didn't give the p
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by CrossVR 7mo ago
> Trump has no structured paramilitary militias like the Squadras or the SA. The January 6th was mainly a crowd movement, participants were a heteroclite bunch with very different political ideas. The black shirts were no different. >
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by CrossVR 7mo ago
The dramatic difference is that Biden had Congressional approval to ship weapons to Israel and Ukraine.
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by CrossVR 7mo ago
> I'd suggest you read about fascist Italy to get a sense of what fascism is. So far I haven't seen Democrats repeatedly kicked out of cars in Times Square after drinking a bottle of castor oil. January 6th had all the hallmark
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by CrossVR 7mo ago
> Let's not waste the meaning of words by throwing them at any occasion. Honest question, but if this is not fascism, then what is? Aren't you also wasting the meaning of a word by refusing to acknowledge any application of tha
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by CrossVR 7mo ago
> Dario Amodei published an essay warning about potential dangers from powerful AI — including domestic mass surveillance (which he brands “entirely illegitimate”) Why is only domestic surveillance by an AI dangerous? I guess Europeans a
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by CrossVR 7mo ago
So you have a fudiciary duty to put the company's interest first and you have no legal duty to put the public interest first (as long as no crimes are being committed). What do you expect to happen in such a system?
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by CrossVR 7mo ago
So the reason companies act against the interests of society is just a personal moral failing of the CEO and nothing else?
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by CrossVR 7mo ago
You're absolutely right, but the line between acting in the interest of the company and acting to maximize profits is so thin it might as well not exist. It can be in the company's interest to act for the good of society and a C
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by CrossVR 7mo ago
I do, but that's the unfortunate reality we find ourselves in. It's why you should never trust a publicly traded company that promises to self-regulate, it is impossible for them to do so. If a CEO consistently passes up large pro
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by CrossVR 7mo ago
Why should a well-behaved AI company be singled out for continued access? If the industry can't regulate itself then none deserve access no matter if they're "well-behaved". Receiving a response from someone's webse
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by CrossVR 7mo ago
Europe actually has quite a few independent cities with their own little micro nations that are democratically independent.
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by CrossVR 8mo ago
> That's how two party systems work Fixed that for you. There are democracies with proportional representation out there. Those have their own problems in forming coalitions, but the parties themselves are much closer aligned with t
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by CrossVR 8mo ago
That assumes the bubble will burst, which it won't if they succesfully corner the high-end compute market. It doesn't matter if the AI is any good, you will still pay for it because it's the only way to access more compute po
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by CrossVR 8mo ago
I believe that eventually the AI bubble will evolve in a simple scheme to corner the compute market. If no one can afford high-end hardware anymore then the companies who hoarded all the DRAM and GPUs can simply go rent seeking by selling t
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Scientist who helped eradicate smallpox dies at age 89(scientificamerican.com)
313 points by CrossVR 8mo ago|125 comments
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by CrossVR 8mo ago
> Not necessarily - how is a kid paying for a VPS server? The same way the kid is somehow paying for a VPN apparently.
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by CrossVR 8mo ago
It's a lot easier to write code than to make sure it doesn't break something you didn't account for.
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by CrossVR 8mo ago
> If an attacker can't even name a resource they're not allowed to access, that's quite a strong security property. This is entirely incorrect. An attacker can still name a resource, it only has to guess the right port num
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by CrossVR 8mo ago
The risk associated the vaccine is less than the risk associated with Covid. The vaccine doesn't have unique risks that aren't also associated with Covid. The only scenario where the risk is lower is if they won't get Covid a
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by CrossVR 8mo ago
I never had any problems with QD-OLED and never saw any color fringing. But it turns out I'm red-green colorblind, so I probably just can't see enough contrast between red and green to notice the fringing.

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