faidit

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by faidit 27d ago
This narrative has been popularized all over social media for the last couple years. Obviously it's true and not a surprise to anyone familiar with the history. But no one is asking more complex questions: why is it being pushed by alg
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by faidit 29d ago
Union rules cause double time (2x pay) to kick in at lower daily and weekly thesholds than at non union jobs.
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by faidit 1mo ago
Reusing the content without consent, attribution or compensation
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by faidit 1mo ago
The rare qualifier is used to highlight the destruction of rare items. It is still stealing even if the book is common.
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by faidit 1mo ago
On the contrary these companies should be publicly listing the name/info of every book they destroy and use as training data. If the books are really worthless as you say then their case would be proved transparently. This article pres
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by faidit 1mo ago
How many AI companies are doing this? Say there are only 5 copies of a book left out there but 100 different companies want to shred it. Rare items could effectively vanish from the market. "Rare" meaning inclusive of high-quality
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by faidit 1mo ago
Thanks I had edited my post once I saw that - buried deep in the discussion. I don't get why they couldn't just say what they did instead of disingenuously implying that article content had been "tampered". Given the bre
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by faidit 1mo ago
It looks like the "tampering" was mostly just removing the username of the person submitting the links, so they wouldn't get banned by paywall sites, and archive.today has always done this: https://en.wikipedia.org
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by faidit 1mo ago
Reminded me of the tech in this https://calebhearth.com/dont-get-distracted
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by faidit 1mo ago
Looks like a clever little psyop to discredit him.
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by faidit 1mo ago
Or they wanted it to happen again. Worst case outcome, the US Congress spontaneously grow backbones, spite their sponsors and unite in a bipartisan effort for effective regulation because a few people got hacked? Likelihood low - the hacked
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by faidit 2mo ago
In day-to-day work life or a meet-and-greet, yeah. But this was an executives-only retreat where they were apparently encouraged to drink and made a big deal out of getting everyone to open up to each other.
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by faidit 2mo ago
The world war helped via wealth destruction and redistribution. Polybius' theory also has Arabic (Khaldun) and Chinese analogues. In China it looks like a 300-ish year cycle driven by wealth/land concentration and elite corruption
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by faidit 2mo ago
> Laughs in unlimited money -Also Sergey and Larry, probably
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by faidit 2mo ago
The man is a polymath.
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by faidit 2mo ago
Playing a lost 2000 year old game is awesome.
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by faidit 2mo ago
> The majority common law rule among the 50 states is that the owner of a stolen vehicle will not be held liable for damages when the vehicle is stolen and then involved in an accident that causes injury or property damage. This is becau
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by faidit 2mo ago
An allegory here would be someone stealing an easily stealable car (e.g. doing the Kia Challenge) and causing damage or injury. The thief would be liable, not the owner
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by faidit 2mo ago
We know from email leaks that billionaires' spelling ability is worse than Roblox players. Don't see why their chef would need to have perfect spelling
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by faidit 3mo ago
> Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s CEO, told employees that “AI models learn from watching really smart people do things,” and the “average intelligence of the people who are at this company is significantly higher” than the average contractor wh
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by faidit 3mo ago
Now you're just straw manning, and misrepresenting history, Kent State led to a huge increase in protests and troop mutinies which forced the US to leave Vietnam. If the US was fascist it would have sent tanks into the streets and drop
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by faidit 3mo ago
Steam is also a child gambling company that sells loot boxes to kids but it could be a lot worse. From the perspective of someone getting ripped off it doesn't matter whether it was Gaben who scammed you, but he and his empire could st
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by faidit 3mo ago
Eh, Steam is kind of like the liberal democratic US empire. It may be evil in a lot of ways but it could actually be a LOT worse. We may actually historically be very lucky to have had a non-shittificationmaxxing games platform for a couple
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by faidit 3mo ago
We have to normalize being on silent all the time and making people wait hours for a response. Return to the primordial monkey of 1800s-era high-latency comms. At first, some people will be offended. "Why didn't you let me ping an
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by faidit 4mo ago
Someone has been trying to hack into my MSFT account for years. I constantly get the notifications. I can not see where they are trying from (unlike some other services that give you info about failed login attempts) nor add more security m
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by faidit 4mo ago
USSR tried to digitize economy (OGAS) under Khrushchev but project was killed by pen and paper bureaucrats scared for their jobs. They barely would have had the resources to set it up though. Chile under Allende tried a similar short-lived
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by faidit 4mo ago
Hyperreality is a bogus concept altogether, inasmuch as it's supposed to be something new in human history that only happens because of computers. Prehistoric/ancient humans also had fashion trends and myths and symbols and deep c
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by faidit 4mo ago
How is the Trump or Obama article not neutral? You can literally correct them yourself if there is anything untrue or biased.
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by faidit 4mo ago
Some racists built a village and it's doing well, therefore centuries of colonialism across continents was good? Is that sound logic? So if Scientologists or some other cult built a potemkin village in Wyoming and pumped it with invest
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by faidit 4mo ago
>9 men hunt and 1 man eats free, so the 9 men are carrying the weight of the 1. You just described every non -union tech company I've worked at but maybe ratio reversed. Full of lazy entitled takers, not a shop steward in sight. If

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