demarq

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by demarq 8mo ago
This is fascinating. How does "pub" not immediately scream British? When I read stories I feel I can pick out US and UK instantly: > Everyone is freaking out about ... - American > ... has been Sacked from - British > The
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by demarq 9mo ago
When he does what we know he is going to do, the optics are going to be an absolute disaster not just for Denmark but Europe
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by demarq 9mo ago
Like to point out, Z image turbo puts out frontier quality images in a reasonable time on a local device. But since it requires less than 16gb, the author is still right.
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by demarq 9mo ago
Thank you for adding context.
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by demarq 9mo ago
Probably not a great idea to run a private vpn. You aren’t hiding your ip. You are only acquiring a second ip, that is still your ip. A private vpn is only good for punching through firewalls
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by demarq 9mo ago
Because once upon a time it was with pride you could point out all the ways your democracy was different than “theirs”. Now you’re just condemning what you’ve already done. Why should anyone respect it? At some point you loose respect and e
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by demarq 9mo ago
> The law was enacted without consulting the Hong Kong legislature and gave authorities broad powers to charge and jail people they deemed a threat to the city's law and order, or the government's stability. The UK throwing a v
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by demarq 9mo ago
The author points out that the sheer scale of what you generate in that 7 seconds is so vast that you’ll have plenty of time to generate the next tile even when moving at extreme speeds. So your only problem is the first tile, which you can
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by demarq 9mo ago
Because in the long book of history, HN wants to look absolutely neutral during this episode. That’s apparently the good look
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by demarq 9mo ago
A lot of that innovation benefits only YouTube . Also these other innovations (recommendation system, translations etc) existed before YouTube. There are definitely innovations from the big companies but not “key” innovations. In the articl
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by demarq 9mo ago
Yes, there are a lot of situations where that is true. And as you say industrial projects, and I assume you specifically mean heavy industries, like building a new type of airliner. I agree. But when it comes to information technology those
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by demarq 9mo ago
Hear me out. What if it’s not capitalism as a whole but one specific facet. Debt. > In the liberal fantasy, spearheaded by Adam Smith, bakers, brewers and butchers laboured within markets so cut-throat that none could make more money tha
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by demarq 9mo ago
If all the kids start pretending to be grownups, they end up escaping all the protections put in place to protect kids in the first place. In football we call this an own goal
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by demarq 9mo ago
Worse still, EU isn’t actually a democracy. It’s an economic union. Which citizens voted for Vonderleyen? What power do EU citizens have over policies tabled in EU parliament? Who made the final choice on chat control? Autocracy is what thr
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by demarq 10mo ago
> of course personal 1:1 messages should And what my undersensationalized friend do you understand by the word chat?
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by demarq 10mo ago
Not a good start. Also don’t reply to this.
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by demarq 10mo ago
Remember all the thuggery and whatever we are seeing now was happening back then. What has changed is we know about it.
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by demarq 10mo ago
> Where AI comes in is as a helper This is where things stop translating well to the real world. Imagine a pocket calculator: 10 + 33 = 44 Clearly incorrect, then someone tells you “this one is different, it “helps” you, like 44 is in th
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by demarq 10mo ago
I made a comment a long time ago explaining this. Tech enthusiast will judge ai based on what it gets right, we’re interested in what “can” do. Everyone else will judge ai based on where it fails, they are interested in what “problems” it “
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by demarq 10mo ago
It’s the new fund raising for an increasingly militarized world
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by demarq 10mo ago
Finally someone does some digging
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by demarq 10mo ago
You do realize the headline matches what you just quoted?
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by demarq 10mo ago
I understand the public and suits falling for this, but cmon
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by demarq 10mo ago
That the EU has these “closed door” processes doesn’t sound very democratic. The frequency, aggression and coordination around chat control, both in the Uk and Eu tells me there is a single entity. It’s not just by chance
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by demarq 10mo ago
- backseat engineer - keyboard princess - Robin to the Batman - meatstack engineer - artificial manager
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by demarq 11mo ago
> But Israelis having previously worked in the IDF doesn’t really provide any signal to me on the motivations or beliefs of that person You know what, you’re absolutely right. But you’d be wrong if it turns out it’s not the general IDF w
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by demarq 11mo ago
I’d like to clarify with a couple of questions. - Are you saying that you believe apple is picking someone who is a real wizz with css, but because of the country’s laws they had to serve with the IDF? - Are you saying the formality of havi
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by demarq 11mo ago
It wouldn’t be a disaster, Apple already donates to the IDF. They literally have IDF among their staff. How is none of this public knowledge
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by demarq 11mo ago
Absolute decentralization is difficult or maybe impossible. But you don’t need absolute decentralization to achieve sovereignty. For example a small group of certificate authorities are trusted by all of us for privacy, however these CA’s a
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by demarq 11mo ago
Hilarious title

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