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by Permit 1mo ago
> Just because it's all public doesn't mean you want the cashier from the supermarket following you around to your family picnic. This has never happened to me. Out of the space of “bad things that can happen to me” I don’t hav
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by Permit 1mo ago
Yes I agree.
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by Permit 1mo ago
> Despite this, those in power refuse any environmentally aware energy policy nor water policy. Can you tell me how much water a data center uses? If you have strong opinion on the construction of data centers I hope you can answer this
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by Permit 2mo ago
I searched one other comment of theirs in their history and see the same thing. On mobile so I can’t easily tell if this account is the bot account or if the ones on Reddit are. HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47934
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by Permit 2mo ago
The housing shortage has nothing to do with a lack of electrical engineers or plumbers. It’s entirely self inflicted and cheaper electricians will not change that. More directly: I doubt there will be a meaningful increase in housing in sta
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by Permit 2mo ago
> I dont know why apple, samsung and google are not getting it. I know nothing about smart watches other than the fact that the Pebble company failed and that I see Fitbit/Apple Watch everywhere. I’m not convinced that Apple/Go
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by Permit 4mo ago
>The cynic in me thinks this will go down in history alongside asbestos, leaded gasoline/paint, and the opioid crisis. Can you elaborate? Leaded gasoline is estimated to have contributed to the deaths of like tens (hundreds?) of mi
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by Permit 4mo ago
Doesn’t that mean we have an insufficient number of cameras?
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by Permit 4mo ago
This is not the only possible outcome. Another approach would be not to offer software within the affected region. U.S. local news is often not available to European visitors now due to GDPR. Similarly, Canadian news outlets are not availab
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by Permit 4mo ago
> But if someone claims that the trend toward increasing AI capabilities will never reach some particular scary level, then the burden is on them to explain either:… This is not the context in which I hear about sigmoids vs exponentials.
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by Permit 4mo ago
Would you work for free?
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by Permit 4mo ago
Blendle, Scroll, Flattr and several others have attempted this. It turns out no consumer actually wants to do this, it’s primarily an idea that’s invoked on HackerNews to defend not subscribing to journalism while using ad blockers, it’s no
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by Permit 4mo ago
> it's very, very much more bad than it is good Is it? I don’t have a clear picture in either direction. What does an environmental impact assessment for a housing project typically result in?
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by Permit 4mo ago
> The piracy comes first, and it's exactly the same thing. GenAI Corp. can't train models on illicitly obtained media before illicitly obtaining said media. My contention is that this is not happening. Most generative AI compan
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by Permit 4mo ago
> where infringing copyright is legal as long as you're rich. This isn’t true. A rich person and a poor person can train LLMs on copyrighted material in 2026. How they acquired those materials matters. Wealthy corporations hold no l
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by Permit 4mo ago
It looks like archive.is uses recaptcha so I don’t think that’s the fix you’re looking for.
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by Permit 4mo ago
They also seem to be one of the few countries that won the war on drugs, no?
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by Permit 5mo ago
> It's basically the leading reason why quantum computing is being funded. What? Can you provide any evidence for this claim?
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by Permit 5mo ago
I haven't seen this. Can you give some examples?
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by Permit 6mo ago
Can you elaborate on the collusion aspect? Is the implication that OpenAI and Anthropic are coordinating their purchases in such a way that they target the hobbyist market? What’s the collusion angle here?
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by Permit 6mo ago
> because they create an instant exploit where the machine can be as bad as it wants as long as it hides behind the cogs. The exploit is already there whether or not you blame the cogs. Did blaming the cogs in this instance solve anythin
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by Permit 6mo ago
Isn’t this decision in exact opposition to the point you’re trying to make?
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by Permit 6mo ago
What’s the point in providing a rebuttal to these points (e.g. that Meta doesn’t actually sell data to anyone) if the OP can simply say “that’s not what I meant”? They are taking a position that cannot be argued against or even discussed be
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by Permit 6mo ago
By intentionally hiding their position (and simultaneously acting as though it is completely obvious) the OP shuts down any useful conversation that might follow. Do they think Meta will sell the user's data? Do they think different pe
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by Permit 6mo ago
> Their actual reason? You can figure that out. This is unfalsifiable. Just say what you think it is explicitly.
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by Permit 6mo ago
We’re just replaying the CGI debate from the 2010s. It was popular to hate on CGI because it was obvious and bad and low quality and practical effects were better because of… We learned two things from this debate: 1. What most people hated
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by Permit 6mo ago
I feel like in several years we’ll have much more capable video generation than Sora was capable of and we won’t look back at all.
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by Permit 6mo ago
The owner of archive.is modifies contents of articles already so I hope you’re not actually depending on it as an archive. It’s a paywall escape hatch not an archive site.
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by Permit 6mo ago
You are attempting to perform a rhetorical sleight of hand here. You are well aware that linking to a Stack Exchange post and running WHOIS is not grounds for a DDoS as a measured response. In light of this fact, you attempt to portray it a
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by Permit 6mo ago
> Being left beaten and bleeding in an alley to get a small taste of what life has to offer would do him a lot of good This is unhinged.

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