flagrant_taco

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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
> Of course the very real benefits of this can be abused by the gov and there are some conspiracy types using that to push their own agenda but on the whole I'm largely positive about the smart grid stuff. There is usually a bigger
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
> If you notice high energy use while cooking, are you going to start eating more salads instead? Of course, why wouldn't you? If the assumption isn't that effectively unlimited power is available on demand you adjust use accor
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
The biggest benefit by far in my opinion is having the opportunity to learn how to listen to one's body again. Most of us aren't very good at recognizing the signals our bodies are sending us, from low blood sugar to adrenaline. R
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
If civilization collapsed, it seems reasonable that anyone predicting it wasn't wouldn't be remembered. Anyone left standing after a collapse would have bigger things to worry about, and the medium in which predictions where publi
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
> The response is to the authors conclusions, which are wrong. How have you come to the conclusion that the author's conclusions are wrong? Many in this thread have rightly pointed out that the author is speaking of the future whic
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
My proposal was simply that data-driven decisions should be made based on accurate data. Nepotism and bias aren't the alternative here. If you require that decisions are driven by data and you don't have access to accurate data, y
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
The data should be accurate though. Any data-driven decisions can easily miss the original intentions if they're made with bogus information. Looking at browser usage data from GA when Firefox specifically blocks it quite often is usel
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
"appears to have 2%" is doing a lot of work he. If the earlier comments are accurate, the government stats are based on Google Analytics data that is specifically blocked or obscured by Firefox. That 2% kind be breached, but the d
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
> You say groupthink bubble, I say place where I don't have to brace as much for racist or sexist views being expressed. There is a real risk that avoiding topics or people one finds offensive can make a person less resilient. Its a
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
I'll see if I can find the links, it's been a while since I last saw them, but there was a very active GitHub issue on the main Mastodon repo back in 2017 or 2018 related to search. It came down to concerns over content that is co
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
I assume it's better these days, but Mastodon avoided adding proper search for years because the core devs knew there was plenty of questionable content or there and making it discoverable would put many hosts at legal risk.
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
Another example of why the EPA and similar regulatory agencies shouldn't be trusted blindly. The idea that the EPA would quietly agree to this is completely ridiculous. Dupont literally poisoned the water, denied and hid it, spun off a
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
Years out from an expected production run, I would be surprised to see any binding agreement. A letter of intent to buy is plenty for the chip manufacturer to be able to shop that around for funding if needed.
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
There is something unique in web development connotation to the other fields I've worked in. The industry has made a habit of reinventing the wheel in every more complex ways. My best guess is that this is a side effect of web being a
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
What I am saying is that if the US dissolved, similar to the Soviet Union in your example, there isn't anything technically preventing Germany from being able to take over the nukes. Do you not see a difference in comparing post-USSR U
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
It's hard to predict how that game of chicken would have played it. It seems likely that Russia may not have invaded of Ukraine had nukes, if they believed Ukraine would use them. The entire scenario rewrites 30 years of history, every
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
US nukes in Germany are actively controlled and operated by the US military. If the US dissolved you better believe Germany would have the technical know-how to begin operating those facilities and weapons themselves, if they wanted to.
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
The GP didn't specifically call out Russia, seems reasonable that they may very well have had Russia + allies in mind. It is worth noting that many countries have poured money, weapons, training, and in all likelihood special forces co
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
Idelaly we wouldn't have to put limits on companies from the state level at all, users should decide not to use a service if they don't approve of how their data is used. Given that we're no way close to this and the power
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
The public doesn't pass laws though, our elected representatives do. Without diving down the rabbit hole of how well our current system manages to select for representatives that actually align with voters' views, there isn't
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
It sure seems like the average person doesn't care that children use Facebook and similar online services. Why should we give more power to state regulators when the public doesn't even want the regulation in the first place?
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
How would you define or recognize a level of intelligence or autonomy that is sufficient to raise concerns? Would you be able to recognize it before its too late? An early GPT-4 test ended up with GPT successfully solving capchas by trickin
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
The default position should be based on risks and unknowns, I don't think the GP was making any recommendation based on personal feelings. The fact is we don't know how current ML actually does what it does, we don't know wha
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
If the original reasoning of Sam's lack of honest communication with the board was an indication, it would make more sense if that comment tipped the board off to a breakthrough they weren't made aware of. That's not to say i
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
My comment here was actually meant to talk about AI broadly, though I can get the confusion here as the original source thread here is about OpenAI. I also don't expect the government to do anything about the OpenAI situation, to be cl
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
I don't expect the government to regulate any of this aggressively. AI is much to important to the government and military to allow pesky conflicts of interest to slow down any competitive advantage we may have.
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
Not sure that I quite follow. Are you arguing that we should ensure that boards are always aligned with the exact same financial motivations as the investors themselves for fear of a disagreement of direction, morals, etc?
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
I think you're agreeing with me, if I'm understanding you right. > Why you call him an evil shill? It sounds like he actually believed it. > It's not evil to be wrong. I was responding to this and making the point that
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
There are a few important limitations, Tailwind can't fully support logical properties for example because `mb-8` could mean margin bottom or block. Any use case that requires styling one element based on another gets a bit hairy too.
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by flagrant_taco 3y ago
I'm not sure how that line could be drawn. If a person does something that most would consider evil, but does it for reasons they honestly believed in which side is right? Some of the Nazis may have honestly believed that Jewish people

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