_w1tm

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by _w1tm 10mo ago
> I have some side projects that I don’t really care about making money from but some people do use and it’s easier for me to just block all European users than worry about complying with all the random laws and regulations. GDPR fines s
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by _w1tm 10mo ago
Sometimes building a new organization is easier than trying to improve a legacy one.
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by _w1tm 11mo ago
That’s not what the poster meant. What treating this biometric info as public means is that it won’t be accepted as valid proof of identity. Just because you posted a video on TikTok shouldn’t mean that a scammer can take out a loan in your
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by _w1tm 11mo ago
Why bother with the scan if you can have a perfect guard in place?
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by _w1tm 1y ago
> How big and politically connected are you? I’m not allowed to divulge that information. Can you tell me where to apply?
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by _w1tm 1y ago
> but this is a can worse than climate change we are kicking towards future generations. That’s just nonsense. Even if we turn a large area into a radioactive waste dump, that problem pales in comparison to the massive external and inter
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by _w1tm 1y ago
If these things really become good enough to automate software engineering then it’s just a matter of time before they are used to automate all information work. That would be such a radical societal transformation that I’m not sure we woul
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by _w1tm 1y ago
First time I hear about this funding. Where can I apply?
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by _w1tm 1y ago
Maybe off-topic but I remember when people were worried about services becoming digital and older users no longer being able to access them without a personal computer. Fast forward a few decades and now the old users are on desktop and we’
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by _w1tm 1y ago
Wouldn’t you? If I switch context and interrupt my flow to answer a question I’m losing at least 20 mins to regaining focus, why shouldn’t that be reflected in billing? Knowledge work is knowledge work, no point belittling colleagues in a d
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by _w1tm 1y ago
> I think that often theres a difference in ability to put capital to work between the US and europe. It’s because the EU is 27 different countries with different regulations while the US is 1. Some work is being done to fix this but rem
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by _w1tm 1y ago
> I recall reading somewhere that, in the Culture novels the Sapir Worf hypothesis was true to start or the AIs re-engineered the people to make it true, and the language of the regular biological citizens is designed to control how they
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by _w1tm 1y ago
Eternal or not, right now JSON is used everywhere which means the performance gains of a more optimized Stalin would be significant. Just because we don’t know if JSON is around in 10 years doesn’t mean we should settle for burning extra co
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by _w1tm 1y ago
The EU has a homegrown tech industry that could pick up the slack, though it would be expensive. The real problem is that the US would leave Ukraine and Europe alone against Russia which has a real chance of turning into WW3. Most likely th
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by _w1tm 1y ago
Certainly a flawed system is better than an outright broken one? At least the former can be improved.
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by _w1tm 1y ago
> I do think the Elon Musk approach (“just let people decide for themselves”) is very naive at best. I thought the Elon Musk approach was to control the algorithm and decide for his users what they see. Or just ban journalists he dislike
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by _w1tm 1y ago
Billions of humans did that over hundreds of thousands of years. Maybe it would only take thousands of years for AGI?
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by _w1tm 1y ago
> But seriously, I get why free will is troubleaome, but the fact people can choose a thing, work at the thing, and effectuate the change against a set of options they had never considered before an initial moment of choice is strong and
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by _w1tm 1y ago
Engineering time is money and going through internally the process of building, testing and distributing binaries for every release is a lot of engineering time. Paying a sum of money to make the problem go away is a reasonable solution.
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by _w1tm 1y ago
What has happened when the same thing happens without AI involved?
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by _w1tm 1y ago
> but the metaverse taking over did not happen partially because many people still get nausea after a bit and no 10x scaling fixed that. Has VR really improved 10x? I lost touch after the HTC Vive and heard about Valve Index but I was un
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by _w1tm 1y ago
> It always catches me by surprise that you can get "a cold" in summer. Despite the name you don’t get sick from cold weather but from viruses that make you sick. During cold season we stay indoors more which increases our like
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by _w1tm 1y ago
> I'd agree with you with the point that the local right wing ideologies are repackaged old-school nationalism reinventing itself. The most radical right wing governments are in the former communist countries where the communism was
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by _w1tm 1y ago
> It’s pretty difficult because my manager is very incompetent and micro manages everything, he has called my personal phone after hours many times asking about things People can only take advantage of you if you let them. Why are you an
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by _w1tm 1y ago
> I’m just really burned out and don’t have the mental energy to come home from a 10 hour day and start preparing for interviews. Have you considered not doing 10 hour days? I know it sounds silly but nobody is forcing you to do that. I
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by _w1tm 1y ago
Some countries want this to block social media from kids: https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-paves-way-to-ban-social-m... Porn is not such a big deal but social media flooded by Russian/Chinese/American propa
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by _w1tm 1y ago
How does that work? I don’t have a kid but can imagine a ban on internet until they are 18 might not work.
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by _w1tm 1y ago
Your question makes no sense. It’s like asking why do we need dog food if we ignore the existence of dogs.
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by _w1tm 1y ago
That seems odd considering that the extreme right is the one using social media most to influence the voters with disinformation. I would expect the extreme right to be completely opposed to age controls on social media.
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by _w1tm 1y ago
That’s peak production, without battery storage the fluctuation during the year will likely be too much to keep the “lights on”. Would be cool to have a smart home that prioritizes the electricity supply to different systems based on how mu

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