Gormo

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by Gormo 13d ago
Got any citations for that? The first time I personally ever encountered the term "sideload" was at a Microsoft developer demo for the upcoming Windows Phone around 2010, and another audience member raised his hand to ask what th
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by Gormo 14d ago
> F-Droid is not the answer. Regulation is. > Regulate Google. Regulate Apple. Make our phones free. Result: F-Droid regulated out of existence by government agencies captured by Google and Apple.
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by Gormo 14d ago
> What was wrong with calling periods proper names like Renaissance, Baroque and Romantic? Eras only get these proper names long after they're over. To people living during those eras, they were just "now".
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by Gormo 14d ago
> The CIA liked the former in art because it was bold, challenging, abrasive, and individualistic. And probably also due to it being a counterpoint to the constructivist styles that were being actively promoted by Soviet authorities at t
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by Gormo 15d ago
I'm afraid it doesn't. To the contrary, treating effective security in terms of how it influences the attacker's cost-benefit tradeoffs, and evaluating proposed measures on whether the effort threshold they create is enough
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by Gormo 15d ago
> This feels like the right-wing equivalent of pronoun policing lol. Nothing about it feels "right-wing" at all -- actual conservatism is all about maintaining continuity and avoiding forced changes to traditional conventions
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by Gormo 15d ago
Not sure it's really valid to call this "official". Trump can issue an executive order to the USGS to change names in the GNIS, but the use of USGS/GNIS data as the "official" name of things outside of the fed
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by Gormo 15d ago
Attempts by political states to attempt to nationalize the vernacular should be ignored and rejected in all cases. The examples you're citing are less ridiculous than these recent stunts, but still should be considered in terms of thei
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by Gormo 15d ago
This "society" guy sure has a lot of opinions about other people's affairs.
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by Gormo 15d ago
> But those making the claim are not talking about that Which is exactly the problem. If you're going to make an argument that depends on analyzing one very specific thing detached from its surrounding context, you have to actually
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by Gormo 20d ago
> So in the child porn case you're willing to concede that limits on power don't matter, shouldn't exist, or should be overridden, in order to reduce harm. No, I'm not. I'm not certain as to whether I didn&#x27
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by Gormo 20d ago
I do, although in my particular case, I'm on an individual plan and not part of a group plan. But I acknowledge your point that this is one of the few cases where aggregations are a relevant unit of analysis, since the point of insu
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by Gormo 20d ago
> Have you ever smelled the type of acids and toxic gases that need to be handled before you even get computer chips to build computers with? Yes. These are waste products generated by chip manufacturing , not by using computers that i
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by Gormo 20d ago
Ah, an outlier edge case! I'll go ahead and address this one while taking note that using extreme outlier examples is not a good method for testing general-case principles. In the case of child porn, the legal theory behind suppress
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by Gormo 20d ago
I'm ignoring the entire chess board, in fact, because the stuff that's going out outside of the chess game is much more important -- to me, and to most other people who aren't involved in the chess game.
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by Gormo 20d ago
Specific workers may have had to fight for rights against specific employers, and this certainly happened quite a bit in the past. Conflicts of interest and adversarial games (in the game theory sense) can and do take place in many varied
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by Gormo 20d ago
> As such, a social class is, yes, a lossy abstraction taken from the point of view of any given individual, but it's not like it's failing at being a good category because this is so. That's just, like, how concepts in ge
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by Gormo 20d ago
> So you’re basically against the concept of classes and the act of classification. No idea where you got that from. I think I was fairly clear in explaining that the concept of classes and the act of classification are value-laden an
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by Gormo 20d ago
See point (2) above.
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by Gormo 20d ago
Basically, yeah. Classification in general is a subjective, value-laden activity. At the most granular resolution, everything is fundamentally sui generis -- putting things into classes requires making subjective judgments about what qu
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by Gormo 20d ago
The concept of "class struggle" epitomizes the "group vs. group war" mentality. It's a mental framework that combines ingroup/outgroup dynamics with a Manichean moral narrative, leading to literally every q
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by Gormo 20d ago
The people who think everything is a group vs. group war naturally interpret everything as a move within that war, including non-participants' correct observation that it doesn't really exist outside of the minds of the small segm
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by Gormo 20d ago
> After all what's the difference between a bot showing a layoff notice at 5am or an AI generated message/video from a human doing the very same thing. Of course, any well-trained AI should be aware that the proper way to handl
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by Gormo 20d ago
If that's true, it may bode well for the future. The AI boom creates some strong incentives for Nvidia to develop an intentional strategy for software generally and FOSS specifically, and there's a chance that could influence th
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by Gormo 20d ago
> Your idea of a criminal seems to be hypercompetent and think of everything. No, my idea of a criminal is someone who is motivated to commit crime, and I feel that we've already established in this thread that the approaches we&#x2
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by Gormo 21d ago
> Anything to shift blame from parents, I guess. Shifting blame from parents presumes there is a problem to blame on them, but isn't the determination of whether anything here constitutes a problem in the first place up to the paren
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by Gormo 21d ago
> Which means, IMO: (1) regulation should be limited to what the general public's gut on average agrees with, since science won't be the neutral arbiter we want it to be for the foreseeable future. (2) I personally want to seve
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by Gormo 21d ago
Which ones? The people living near the thousands of data centers that have already been running for decades, the people living near the sites of proposed data centers that include plans for repurposed jet engines to run continuously to powe
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by Gormo 21d ago
> You're the person lumping them all into one confusing mass so you don't have to deal with each viewpoint. Rather, I was responding to the comment that did explicitly lump all of these concerns together in a single sentence
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by Gormo 21d ago
> That reduces the question to a game of definitions though. Sure, but isn't this all a game of definitions in the first place? We're arguing over "consciousness" as understood in different ways, not the same concept

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