Frieren

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by Frieren 5d ago
> time the gasoline price shock right to the midterm elections. Donald Trump can end this at any time if he wants. It would have been better to not have started it, thou. Less killing of innocent people, less spending on weapons, better
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by Frieren 5d ago
For me the reason is economic.
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by Frieren 5d ago
Shame is only effective in a society of equals. If one day you may become my boss better treat you well. If one day anyone may become my neighbor better treat anonymous people well. If my kid may end married with yours then I better treat y
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by Frieren 5d ago
What technical implementation will be used to verify the user age? - Taking pictures of children seems something that will go horribly bad - Government verification is not implemented, even in countries were it is possible to verify your id
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by Frieren 7d ago
> Large corporations getting special exceptions from it didn't start with LLMs. The root problem is inequality. Copyright makes sense to allow authors to profit from their work. But it was warped to give more power to big corporatio
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by Frieren 8d ago
> The problem is not vibe coding. Except that it is the enabler. Without AI there are no 5K lines of code that no human has ever seen. AI introduces a new category of problem that did not exist before.
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by Frieren 9d ago
> how can that same right be denied to a group who have decided to speak together? Corporations are not people nor behave like individuals. Money is not speech. > “speech” in this context has always been interpreted to mean any act b
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by Frieren 9d ago
> Taxation will not solve this before the global society collapses Taxation can and must solve it before "society collapses". And many people are working to solve the problem. It is difficult and requires effort but nothing tha
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by Frieren 9d ago
This is why wealth should be less concentrated. A few people has their hands in all businesses and that will end badly. Taxation is not just about paying for the costs of the country, it is also about making sure that nobody has enough powe
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by Frieren 9d ago
> it has to actually do something wrong. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/... It is not reputation, it is committing actual crimes...
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by Frieren 9d ago
> Amazon... The company that looks like a medieval food shop with meat warming in the sun and a big sign that says "caveat emptor" and manned by a slave with very dirty hands. The fact that it still operates in the EU is prove
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by Frieren 9d ago
As a not American, why does freedom of speech include corporations giving money that are not citizens nor talking. But even that Congress has the power to spend "to provide for the common defence and general welfare" given by the
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by Frieren 9d ago
> Intent requires at least that you were deliberately doing the criminal act So, they did something that benefits them by mistake. I would like to see a person would be judged in that situation. I can imagine that the bar to put someone
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by Frieren 10d ago
> That all relies on American platforms. Totally true. The EU needs its own platforms, I hope that better regulated than their USA counterparts. Linux started in Europe, it should have been promoted more for internal usage. But privatiza
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by Frieren 10d ago
> two years, we will be all writing and talking like this I have seen kids talking like youtubers: the top 10 things I like, or what I need to do before I die (the kids is 9 years old), ... not great (like repeating ad tunes or slogans)
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by Frieren 10d ago
> Yeah, but do you control international banking the way they do? This is why Europe needs to detach itself from the American banking system. It used to be very practical to use it. Countries renounced to some sovereignty in exchange for
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by Frieren 10d ago
> Intention matter a lot in US law. They hacked a competition company. The intention was implicit when there is economic gain to be had. > People are not charged with hacking when their unsecured box is taken over by a botnet and doe
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by Frieren 19d ago
> Even when humans have a friendship—or something that feels like it—with a crow, the relationship happens on the wild animal’s terms. They visit when they want to, and they may disappear from our life suddenly. It goes also the other wa
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by Frieren 19d ago
> "oh, you're drowning?? but you're IN WATER.."? I laughed so hard at that. Best argument is good argument but funny.
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by Frieren 23d ago
AI coding is for my lazy days. If I do not want to do a task I will use AI. I tell it what to do and I wait. I have to put less mental effort into it even if takes a few re-tries and several times the amount of time. Is it addictive? Yes. L
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by Frieren 23d ago
> no consequences Usually if you are extremely poor or extremely rich there are no consequences for you. The extremely poor are desperate and have nothing to lose, society already took everything from them. The extremely rich are above t
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by Frieren 23d ago
Anna's Archive is what TV told me in the 2000s that the future was. An online database with all published books one click away. Far from the dystopian reality than the corporate internet has become.
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by Frieren 25d ago
> it encourages a sense of hopelessness and disregard for laws and civility. That is true. I hope that people sees my comment as a push to do better, not a reason to give up. Things are never perfect, anywhere. And that's why we sho
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by Frieren 25d ago
> "criminal's have rights, victims doesn't" Straw man argument. Everybody has rights in the EU, including people suspected of being criminals, and of course victims. Arguing that in the EU victims have no rights is in
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by Frieren 25d ago
> ... and autistic obsession with detail ... Why do people glorify autism? I have seen this mostly on CEOs that want workers that are hyper-focused, intelligent and do not complain. The ideal employee from which extract value and a minim
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by Frieren 25d ago
> They literally cannot comprehend what living in a corrupt and mostly lawless society is like. I doubt that most Americans comprehend what is living in a well managed citizens-first country were people are represented and many laws are
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by Frieren 25d ago
> I think we need to accept that AI causes cognitive decline That is catastrophic because I heard several CEOs that said that we cannot do anything about it and that the technology is here to stay. So, I suppose that we will just need to
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by Frieren 25d ago
> prevent the sale of lots of US products Not only USA products. Most countries with low safety standards and known for dangerous products are barred from trading with the EU, or at least many of their products. Recently, even big Chines
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by Frieren 26d ago
> I think the same will happen with tokens. As the cost of tokens comes down, these models will just consume more tokens. That sounds a race to the bottom for AI companies profits. I do not think that LEDs are high profit margin items.
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by Frieren 28d ago
> Legislators squashing monopolies and making rules to keep competition intact You need both. Even restaurants are heavily regulated to avoid making people sick. To let restaurants make people sick until they go out of business seems a q

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