halestock

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by halestock 21d ago
Meanwhile, https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/fcc-abolishes-gi...
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by halestock 24d ago
Well this is certainly a step up from the "your computer has been infected with malware!" scammy ads. Do you have any other apps that will give my computer more ram?
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by halestock 1mo ago
Pretty impressive to introduce 1400 CVEs in a project that's only ~7 months old.
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by halestock 2mo ago
Brand new account posting ai slop is my guess
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by halestock 2mo ago
A lot of engineer types forget that the law is not code, and reductionist arguments almost never actually work in practice because it's a human interpreting the law.
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by halestock 2mo ago
Just wait until you hear about the underwater turbine that can do far more than generate electricity! https://energiesmedia.com/texas-turbine-under-water-more-tha...
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by halestock 2mo ago
I also took the tour this year and I came away with the impression that he would have fit right in with today's "genius" entrepreneurs and CEOs for all the reasons you stated. He certainly had great ideas and was an excellent
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by halestock 2mo ago
But this isn't about banning those things, it's about banning endless scrolling. edit: I get that you're trying to provide counterexamples to be able to say "here's something that _could_ be construed as coercive&#x
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by halestock 2mo ago
But we're not talking about banning addictive algorithms, we're talking about banning endless scrolling. You're trying to straw man by bringing in completely different examples. Edit: rereading the article, they want to ban &
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by halestock 2mo ago
Ok, but you're just talking about a completely different law. How is that comparable to what's being proposed?
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by halestock 2mo ago
Is your argument that unless we can make a law that is perfect and covers every conceivable use case of coercive design, then we shouldn't bother to make a law that covers any of them?
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by halestock 2mo ago
I'll bite, how's Seattle doing that?
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by halestock 3mo ago
This is all depressing but I had to laugh at "Tolliver Chevrolet"
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by halestock 3mo ago
Huh? Just because you're not going to become the next graphics programming legend you think it's not worth getting into graphics programming at all?
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by halestock 3mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect
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by halestock 3mo ago
Well, call me when any of those things happen and I'll happily eat crow.
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by halestock 3mo ago
Presumably there would be a legal definition of what constitutes public transport, and I would expect it wouldn't include those. But I'm neither swiss nor do I speak any swiss languages so hell if I could find it.
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by halestock 3mo ago
Because it's pretty evident that all these data centers are primarily intended to eliminate jobs and make more trillionaires and destroy democracy, and the positive stuff (like solving unsolved math problems) doesn't remotely just
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by halestock 3mo ago
Hoo boy, welcome to the history of the United states.
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by halestock 3mo ago
Er, there is an excess of teachers because they are paid so poorly. Teaching (like nursing) is absolutely a labor of love and so they are heavily undervalued and underpaid in this country.
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by halestock 4mo ago
The WSJ's target audience is high income earners, so it's more about making a story that appeals to them.
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by halestock 4mo ago
I was being very roundabout, but my point is that AIs are still built, not grown.
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by halestock 4mo ago
I can't predict the outcome of an RNG but that doesn't mean it grows the numbers.
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by halestock 4mo ago
Huh, I wonder what happens when people stop making real music for AIs to train on, then.
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by halestock 4mo ago
What does that have to do with "power begets power"
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by halestock 4mo ago
Why don't unions seem to have that problem in pretty much all of Europe then?
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by halestock 4mo ago
Always?
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by halestock 4mo ago
Nothing I said has anything to do with homogeneity.
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by halestock 4mo ago
Because society functions a lot better when it has people in it who like each other.
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by halestock 4mo ago
> In a letter sent to Wendy Smith, who revoked her donation to UCSD after the Annenberg Media story broke, the school stated: “We will not be responding to factually inaccurate reporting by student reporters who have an agenda.” Pretty e

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