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by goku12 5mo ago
I'm unfamiliar with the subject. What's the problem with BBC Future?
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by goku12 5mo ago
You are still ignoring the only distinction I made - the one between nurturing and nursing. I always understood them as having widely accepted distinct meanings, and the author of the article seems to follow it too. You can either argue tha
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by goku12 5mo ago
You're conflating nurturing and protection with birthing and nursing. I also don't understand why this opinion is so controversial. Humans, including men are one of the rare species that nurture and protect babies (consciously and
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by goku12 5mo ago
> It’s probably unnatural for adult men to spend much time with tiny children in the first place. Sorry, what? The framing of this sentence alone has a very creepy vibe. I can't speak for all of us, but most us have strong protectiv
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by goku12 5mo ago
> I can't speak for the person you're responding to, but my default reaction to people who say things like this is that they probably don't have kids,... I don't have kids and it still sounds nonsensical. As a man, my
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by goku12 5mo ago
I'm not the author and I can't find what you're looking for. But you could make it easily if you prefer it. The documentation [1] seems to be in texinfo format that's commonly used for making info files used distributed
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by goku12 5mo ago
Absolutely agreed. These two big corporate players with the biggest market-share are actively ruining the email ecosystem for their profit. I wish people would drop them and stop choosing them. Hopefully, the EU may soon do so.
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by goku12 5mo ago
You are making the exact same defeatist argument that I consider harmful. The reasons are further down my comment above. There are better answers than 'it's doesn't work'.
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by goku12 5mo ago
I didn't name any single AI. But who is providing the AI used by the Pentagon and Israel to plan the mass killings in Iran and Palestine respectively? I'm surprised that people can't see the obvious danger.
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by goku12 5mo ago
As of when I'm writing this, three stories on the front page of HN (17, 18, 19) are about two bigtech companies dissing (for the lack of another polite word) their customers and third party vendors. I don't know how long it will t
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by goku12 5mo ago
> And this is what's informing the thought-leaders in the US administration. More like them choosing what to listen to. There are a lot of pacifist preachers around. Why don't they ever catch these people's attentions? The
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by goku12 5mo ago
> about a person that, say what you will, is nowhere near the list of planetary "really bad guys". Even if we limit it to tech, the list starts with someone way richer, then goes through four or five way-shadier people. You rea
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by goku12 5mo ago
All of those are false equivalences. Let me give you a few better analogies. Selling an axe that's known to be so defective that it breaks upon use and impales anybody nearby. Even worse, it is sold as great for axe murders. Or a big t
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by goku12 5mo ago
'Source Available', not Open Source. It says so right in the README. The distinction is very important, since there are some who intentionally try to cause confusion between the two. While I prefer open source over source availabl
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by goku12 5mo ago
Yes! Moar Wars! That's what we now! I couldn't read the entire article due to the paywall. But you have to hand it to the WSJ for publishing such an opinion piece when the entire world is suffering from an energy crunch caused by
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by goku12 6mo ago
The writing was on the wall when they tried to implement invasive telemetry on users, following an investment offer. They did walk back on it due to community backlash and boycott. But if history has shown us anything, corporate retreat hap
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by goku12 6mo ago
Are you not aware of the techno-authoritarian ambitions of the silicon valley tech bros? It isn't much of a secret these days, after they published a few books detailing their aspirations, a bit like Project 2025. There are even public
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by goku12 6mo ago
I'm curious. Are they in the market in large enough volumes yet? I've been waiting for ages for something better than Li-Ion and LiPo tech to become widely available. We need much higher energy densities, and preferably without th
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by goku12 6mo ago
As much as I dislike gatekeeping measures like UK's age verification, you can't deny the genuine problem that exists in this case. But it isn't 'machine bad'. There is no good technology or bad technology. It's
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by goku12 6mo ago
Just FYI. Almost every launcher that offers commercial services has such a user manual. I was involved in preparing one such manual. A collection of these manuals can be quite entertaining for 5 year olds. You should be able to easily find
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by goku12 6mo ago
Their solution to every problem is to take away more control of the smartphones each time from the users who own them. Meanwhile, I have much less problems with scam and security issues and more freedom with software off FDroid. Makes you w
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by goku12 6mo ago
Two steps forwards and one step backwards in the never-ending march to dytopia and you celebrate it as a show of your generosity and benevolence! I don't know who you're trying to fool. But I'm certainly interested in finding
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by goku12 6mo ago
Says who? The fanbois? What makes you think that ordinary people are any happier with Apple's abuses than Google's? This is not a worthwhile justification for what either one of them does.
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by goku12 6mo ago
This is as pro-consumer as cutting off one's nose to cure a cold. Let me say this for the... I don't know how many times, that security, child protection, scam prevention, terrorism, miniaturization, sophistication, etc are all li
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by goku12 6mo ago
And how much grift happens through Android side loading? (BTW, I hate that weasel word used to vilify a perfectly reasonable activity.) Practically all grift on Android happens through apps on the Play Store. People who know how to 'si
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by goku12 6mo ago
Absolutely! Never had one problem with apps on FDroid. Not even when tbe Simple Mobile Tools suite was sold to a shady company without a heads up to its users. And that safety isn't an accident.
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by goku12 6mo ago
That would be like Full Self Driving Supervised. However, they're not taking about an organic brain here. They're talking about memristors that mimic our brain. But memristors is a technology that has been giving us frustrating fa
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by goku12 6mo ago
> These papers are as relevant to engineering/product stage as every other "new battery" or "new cancer" treatment are at the moment. The growth of battery and a few other technologies have been frustrating in th
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by goku12 6mo ago
This may not seem like an appropriate forum to say this, but this is a relevant and serious issue to neglect. With the current political climate and this relentless push for hundreds of these massive datacenters, everyone seems to have comp
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by goku12 6mo ago
> I don't think this is necessarily that the advice is getting worse. > but I don't think that telling people to break up more is less accurate advice. Those are subjective determinations based on personal experience. But br

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