giaour

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by giaour 4d ago
Well, the government can use Flock camera footage, and YouTubers can film with personal devices on public property. So I guess their capabilities are already pretty different
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by giaour 4d ago
Yeah! Nobody should be able to track your movements along public roads.
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by giaour 4d ago
> It's worse for the technician in this case, because he really was being followed --- that's not unlawful but it's unnerving. The technician was in public, bearing a company logo, performing an activity in which there is
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by giaour 16d ago
No, I didn’t say anything of the sort.
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by giaour 17d ago
I, too, often think of the early 2000s as the peak of humanity. But I find it's important to recognize when your judgment is being clouded by nostalgia, especially the extremely well-known and extensively documented bias to see how t
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by giaour 17d ago
People were definitely building bomb shelters and doomsday retreat bunkers in the aughts, although they were signifiers of adherence to a particular political outlook. There was definitely a sense that US hegemony would not be contested by
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by giaour 17d ago
I don’t know the author’s age but suspect this is an entry in the “<my teenage years/early twenties> were the peak of humanity” genre.
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by giaour 18d ago
Where exactly is the imminent threat of deadly force in that example?
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by giaour 1mo ago
Was this reported and quantified somewhere, or does 95% reflect your experience? My experience was the opposite -- everybody I cared to follow left and never went back -- but I'd be willing to believe I'm in the 5%.
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by giaour 1mo ago
5G towers are typically much smaller and less conspicuous than the towers they are replacing. One of 5G's hallmarks is its "small cell" architecture.
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by giaour 1mo ago
The introduction of mechanical looms (is this what you mean by "modern"?) was famously terrible for workers. Weaving went from a high-skill, safe task to a dangerous, low-skill one and was largely responsible for the rise of fac
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by giaour 2mo ago
You may recall that the DMCA was originally written to protect music and movies. It does in fact apply to creative works. If you have ever purchased an MP3, eBook, or streaming movie, you will also be aware that you purchased a license to
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by giaour 2mo ago
> I doubt these will have worse protection than software does, which has far better protections than copyright Software is protected by copyright. Some software may also be protected by patents, but last time I checked, AI generated ou
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by giaour 2mo ago
Many are openly working to create AGI with the aim of harnessing it to solve humanity's problems. Do you really think being able to command an entity with human-level intelligence would be morally equivalent to using a tractor?
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by giaour 2mo ago
You could tell from tone and polish how much effort someone had put into writing an answer. That was a pretty good signal for some topics on forum sites like Stack Overflow. There were always nuts and cranks who would happily spend an hour
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by giaour 3mo ago
> Also keep in mind if your site is better indexed by crawlers you can literally influence future LLMs Ah, what a glorious fate to aspire to. Most people I know who have maintained blogs do so to build their personal brand, normally beca
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by giaour 3mo ago
Most state legislatures work under a similar model -- being a legislator is full time work for a couple months of the year, and the rest of the time, delegates/senators are expected to have other jobs. (This is "enforced" by
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by giaour 4mo ago
I'm sure there is a way to use a step debugger with a specific unit test in Neovim or whatever, but it's one of the things heavyweight IDEs do with no setup or configuration.
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by giaour 4mo ago
It's been a few years since I worked in this space, but HIPAA doesn't really work under the same kind of legal framework. Oversimplifying here, but basically HIPAA defines what constitutes personal health information, how such inf
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by giaour 4mo ago
> - can run individual tests seamlessly This is the main one for me. If I am working on a large project with decent unit test coverage, the feedback loop in IntelliJ or Visual Studio is just much quicker than the alternatives because you
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by giaour 4mo ago
By statute, an organization can only exist as a non-profit in the US if it is "organized and operated exclusively for exempt purposes"[0], and non-profit hospitals specifically must operate for charitable purposes. It may not be w
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by giaour 5mo ago
I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hotdog today (if you want to get a circular investment bubble going)
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by giaour 5mo ago
> So what was valued? Physical robustness. Strength, perhaps brutality. Competence in physical tasks. Honesty. Parentage. Birth order (see primogeniture.) Those matter in per-technological societies, and they matter in failed societies n
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by giaour 5mo ago
Data & Society put out a paper on this role back in 2019 but used the term "moral crumple zones" since they were focusing on how to assign blame in autonomous vehicle crashes: https://www.researchgate.net/publi
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by giaour 5mo ago
Yep, that's why substitute teachers' interests are more zealously guarded by Congress than the interests of billionaires are. Teachers have wielded the enormous power they hold to get a <= $250 deduction for school supplies the
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by giaour 5mo ago
> consider how much lobbying money is coming from CEOs and companies who know the domain best and are agitating for better financial and social safeguards for all. To hear Marc Andreessen tell it, the US tech industry's rightward tu
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by giaour 6mo ago
There are more recent versions with better names, like the Restore Trust in Congress Act[0], and one introduced a few days ago to ban congresspeople and the president (as well as their immediate family members) from betting on prediction ma
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by giaour 6mo ago
The $580MM transaction described in the article is already 1,000 times larger than the alleged congressional insider trading by Paul Pelosi that caused Sen. Hawley to introduce the PELOSI act.
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by giaour 6mo ago
You're right, but I think everyone is looking at second-order effects where causal links are impossible to prove. [0] is recent research on how expanding housing stock (even just at the top end) will "expand affordability," a
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by giaour 6mo ago
> Do you believe that small drop is a result of new development or just a blip in the market? I don't know, and I don't believe it's possible to know in a specific instance. Like I said above, I believe that in the long te

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