cultureswitch

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by cultureswitch 1y ago
No need for a cookie banner if you don't collect data without consent. Every modern browser supports APIs that answer that question without pestering the user with a cookie banner.
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by cultureswitch 1y ago
To be fair, anyone who genuinely likes React is probably insane? Plenty of great projects are developed by people working at Meta. Doesn't change the fact that the company as a whole should be split in at least 6 parts, and at least tw
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by cultureswitch 1y ago
What makes you think the regulators didn't predict the outcome? Of course the business which depend on harvesting data will do anything they can to continue harvesting data. The regulation just makes that require consent. This is good.
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by cultureswitch 1y ago
Let's see, how many times did I get robo-called in the last decade? Zero :) Sometimes the regulations are heavy-handed and ill-conceived. Most of the time, they are influenced by one lobby or another. For example, car emissions limits
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by cultureswitch 1y ago
It is entirely unreasonable to prevent a general purpose model to be distributed for the largely frivolous reason that maybe some copyrighted works could be approximated using it. We don´t make metallurgy illegal because it's possible
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by cultureswitch 1y ago
You don't need cookie banners if you don't use invasive telemetry. A website that sticks to being a website does not need cookie banners.
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by cultureswitch 1y ago
The article did in fact not make an attempt to demonstrate the claim in its title.
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by cultureswitch 2y ago
Imagine getting fired because you wanted to respect the DMCA of all things. I'd be curious for details, though you probably shouldn't tell.
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by cultureswitch 2y ago
In my experience long time contractors will absolutely "quiet quit" if put into the same catch-22 situations that push employees to do this. The main difference at least in my region is that if you're a contractor then it&#x2
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by cultureswitch 2y ago
It's getting sort of ridiculous how much each party is stuck in an electoral strategy where they have to pretend to be on one side of an issue which is objectively against the interests of the people they pretend to be representing. De
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by cultureswitch 2y ago
I wonder what's the theory of harm behind such law. Employers competing over talent is... illegal? Explains a lot actually.
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by cultureswitch 2y ago
Reminds me of this technically true but still bizarre finding about electric bikes being ultimately more energy-efficient than human-powered bikes.
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by cultureswitch 2y ago
Everyone is ethically responsible for their own actions. As a software developer I don't work for ad companies. Why would a lawyer accept any client regardless of ethical concerns unless said lawyer is a scumbag?
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by cultureswitch 2y ago
Genius idea, though in the grand scheme of things this is probably bad.
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by cultureswitch 2y ago
Stanford doesn't need your money
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by cultureswitch 2y ago
This could also be simply due to the Ivy league institution providing the service being bought. In other words, the parents of Timmy might be fed up and stop being sponsors if he gets bad grades. Of course in rigorous fields of study this i
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by cultureswitch 2y ago
I'm going to have to agree with Scott Galloway here, however much I hate to admit that. The problem isn't so much how admissions are selected, the problem is that admissions went from a fairly normal thing for any educated young a
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by cultureswitch 2y ago
Despite claiming the opposite, teenagers are sponges for whatever floats in society around them. When most of the highly valued voices in society tell them that they should be sad and anxious and traumatized, is it really surprising that it
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by cultureswitch 2y ago
The parallels between real life and Brave New World are positively uncanny. Even the demographic dynamics of the real world suggest that we're on the path to a state-driven reproductive system.
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by cultureswitch 2y ago
Having been on the receiving end of actual real-life bullying from 90% of my peers (the other 10% being bystanders) through high school because I was younger (among other things), I can tell you that Lord of the Flies is in some ways depict
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by cultureswitch 2y ago
Sounds interesting, could you translate to English?
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by cultureswitch 2y ago
The cap and trade principle is sound however legislators have allowed naked scams to legally claim that they are offsetting carbon output. Such as owning a piece of forest land and pinky-swear you're not going to exploit it. This offse
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by cultureswitch 2y ago
Big difference between allowing everyone build nukes and allowing everyone to share the information necessary to build nukes.
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by cultureswitch 2y ago
So you're admitting that an AGI that pipes into /dev/null is harmless even if given the directive to destroy humanity? The danger is in what they're hooked up to, not the containerized math that happens inside the model.
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by cultureswitch 2y ago
I agree with the analysis though LLMs might not be the specific tech that makes it. I think the truly humanity-respecting solution is to figure out and implement a stable and fair-er 50% post-labor society before we actually get there. UBI
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by cultureswitch 2y ago
I don't think your example is very compelling but I completely agree with your general point. I read the Go book by Donovan and Kernighan and I have been working full-time in Go for the last year (my work is otherwise interesting so th
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by cultureswitch 2y ago
I'm hoping you're right but I have yet to see a gas heater that actually heats up the water that cooled down in the pipes since the last usage so that you actually get warm water instantly.
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by cultureswitch 2y ago
I generally agree with you when it comes to learning-focused content but there are definite cases where using an AI summary makes a lot of sense. Imagine searching for a guide on how to disassemble your laptop. Unfortunately, you can only f
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by cultureswitch 2y ago
I think it should always be legal to use the likeness of deceased people. Could it be gross? Yes. But I'd rather have that than the absurdity of copyright be extended to beyond the grave for yet another case where it makes no sense. Th
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by cultureswitch 2y ago
Stuffing explosives into civilian appliances is the definition of indiscriminate. If doing this isn't already banned by the Geneva Conventions, it is only because it wasn't practical to do. But then again, very little that has hap

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