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by gitrog 2y ago
The scale at which LLMs can do this and how convincing they can be means it can potentially be a much bigger problem. We won't keep the bottle corked forever though. It's like we're just buying ourselves time to figure out ho
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by gitrog 3y ago
Capitalism doesn't have desires outside of those of the people who participate in it that hold the most power. The desire of those people is more power. Not resource allocation as an ends, but as a means to more profit. It has been sho
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by gitrog 3y ago
This claim is baffling to me. Are you saying without state intervention Amazon wouldn't just buy out every potential competitor or drive them out of business using currently regulated tactics?
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by gitrog 3y ago
They do mention monetary policy. Is there something specific about monetary policy that you believe contributed to rising inflation? I don't know if they're suggesting that corporations became greedy but rather that they unilatera
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by gitrog 3y ago
Just need to mention that Echidnas and Platypuses are also mammals and they lay eggs.
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by gitrog 4y ago
> Companies want to grow and compete, and that's good, since it's resulted in literally all human progress I'm sorry to go in a tangeant here, but, what? That's an incredibly strange statement to make.
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by gitrog 4y ago
Could someone explain how this "breaking" works?
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by gitrog 4y ago
I mean the line needs to be drawn somewhere, right? It's not that a band isn't "metal enough", it's just that they have a bunch of rules interpreted by mods and if it doesn't fit those rules they make the edito
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by gitrog 4y ago
I wouldn't take that list too seriously. Metal-archives genres tend to not delve into "styles" as much. But there are certainly many distinct sub-genres and one can't exactly argue that Black Sabbath, Dimmu Borgir and
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by gitrog 4y ago
If there is anything like the Metal Archives for electronic music or rock music (actually any genre) out there, I'd like to know about it. It's simply the greatest music encyclopedia I've come across, albeit entirely focused
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by gitrog 4y ago
I'm sorry but your answer to Q1 is extremely naive. There is no way that activity from renters will even remotely approach the power of those who own property in politics. The latter group can lobby and make campaign donations, the for
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by gitrog 4y ago
It seems to me that the first two are statements, and the final one is a conclusion, which is the only one that's productive to focus on.
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by gitrog 4y ago
> see a stabilized crypto that could act as an amazing tool for people in poor countries to lift themselves out of poverty Would you mind explaining to me, or linking to some resource you find convincing, how crypto would succeed in this
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by gitrog 4y ago
London != Europe
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by gitrog 4y ago
Hi, thanks for the offer, I caved and provided Dropbox support with a copy of my passport and that seemed to be enough to resolve the issue (I hope, I really really hope). If you work at Dropbox I think it could still be useful to raise som
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by gitrog 4y ago
Does the law also state that you can't fix the date afterwards, or that once entered verification is required? It's a paid account, they've already got my credit card details. And how does it make sense that I was born 2 week
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by gitrog 4y ago
I don't think this holds true as generally as might seem obvious. Personally I become much more productive and much more creative when I have serious pressure on me. I think art history also speaks to this if you think about all the ar
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Tell HN: Dropbox user age verification feature can lock your account
119 points by gitrog 4y ago|93 comments
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by gitrog 4y ago
Prot is one of the most well spoken, humble, deliberate and wholesome people I've ever come across. Absolutely crazy to think that he came to Emacs and Lisp without any technical background and just started contributing. Cheers to you
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by gitrog 5y ago
How are the devtools in Brave?
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by gitrog 5y ago
Or you could catch a hint and let go of the discussion of a product you deem potentially "worthless".
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by gitrog 5y ago
In what way was the group "Marxist"? Are you trying to say they hired the entirety of a workers co-op?
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by gitrog 5y ago
Traditional currencies aren't advertised as being decentralised.
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by gitrog 5y ago
What the hell: boom, bang, kaboom, ahoy, yippee ki yay.
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by gitrog 5y ago
> Oh, and Shakespeare would have spoken with an accent more like an American than I do. Would you explain what you mean by this, I'm very curious.
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by gitrog 5y ago
It should be, but Bitcoin's influence on other crypto currencies will still outweigh their own growth vectors for a little while. If Bitcoin stabilises a bit from here I think we'll see Ethereum continue to grow a bit again.
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by gitrog 5y ago
They're his posts?
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by gitrog 5y ago
I don't particularly believe BTC is the messiah, but if the internet in your country goes down, how do you imagine you're going to get the money in your bank account? You might rush to an ATM before they get swarmed, but you'
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by gitrog 5y ago
I would love to read the academic material on "Cancel culture" being an objective thing. Would you point me to that?
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by gitrog 6y ago
I believe you don't have that archive because it doesn't exist. Ultimately people who are "supporters of cancel culture" most likely aren't explicitly that, they just don't agree with your definition of cancel

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