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by jbstack 1y ago
I completely agree, but what can actually be done about this? It feels like it's too late.
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by jbstack 1y ago
> If the sanctions weren't effective Russia wouldn't be insisting on the lifting of the sanctions as a part of any Ukrainian deal. If the sanctions were effective Russia wouldn't be offering entirely one-sided deals that i
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by jbstack 1y ago
> Ukrainian sanctions work. The only reasonable definition of "work" is "stop the thing that motivated the sanction from happening". With that definition, sanctions rarely work (or if they do, not in a very effective
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by jbstack 1y ago
> I hope the world gets more decentralised It's not looking too likely. You have Google's planned app developer verification, the UK's Online Safety Act, the EU's plans to interfere with E2EE, EU privacy rules causing
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AI models are trained relatively rarely, so it's unlikely this would be very noticeable among all the regular traffic. Just the occasional download-everything every few months.
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by jbstack 1y ago
See: "Also, when we block an IP range for abuse, innocent third parties can be affected." Although they refer to IP ranges, the same principle applies on a smaller scale to a single IP address: (1) dynamic IP addresses get realloc
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by jbstack 1y ago
I think there's some truth to this (utility is overall more important), but also some falsehood (looks matter too). Aesthetics affect your enthusiasm and therefore your productivity. This is why, for example, most people would rather w
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by jbstack 1y ago
At no point did I ever point to a video and say that it shows genocide, so your first line is invented. Here's a more accurate version: Him: "Here is some evidence that some videos have been faked" Me: "The fact that som
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by jbstack 1y ago
Counter-counter point: if you're going to actively avoid using the majority of a language's features and for the most part write code in it as if it were a different language, doesn't that suggest the language is deeply flawe
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by jbstack 1y ago
So what? The fact that Hamas or its supporters produce fake anti-Israel propaganda doesn't mean that Israel isn't committing genocide. To suggest so is to engage in the fallacy of composition ( https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by jbstack 1y ago
>> Would you categorize all wars and all acts of self defense as genocide? No, only those that fall within the definition contained in Article II of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genoci
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by jbstack 1y ago
For those of us not in the loop, what is PG, SV, and YC (I guess that the latter is ycombinator)?
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by jbstack 1y ago
That's not the point I was making. Both operations need capital. But capital isn't the only barrier to entry. With a LLM, you can spend the money to develop the model, then spend some money marketing it, and if you get enough payi
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But in many cases a server operator doesn't expect any legitimate traffic from that half of the internet, or is willing to block traffic from it. For example, there's generally no reason a customer would use their internet banking
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by jbstack 1y ago
Why not?
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It's not a full solution. I've seen UK sites that, following the Online Safety Act, simply require all users to verify their age rather than bother to figure out whether you are actually a UK customer or not. I guess it's e
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by jbstack 1y ago
At least with LLMs you have more options (Deepseek, Grok, offline models, etc.). It's still far from perfect, but it's not as bad as phones where you basically only have a choice of Android or iPhone if you don't want to have
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by jbstack 1y ago
I had the opposite experience. Really struggled with reading it. Switched to the audiobook and enjoyed it a lot more. The voice acting really brought the characters and atmosphere to life for me and enabled me to pay more attention to what
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by jbstack 1y ago
Sure. But the original commenter's point that whether a government is "good" or "bad" is subjective because it's dependent on people's views. Other commenters objected to that and appear to see it as objec
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by jbstack 1y ago
I disagree strongly with you on this, but nonetheless I think you've proven the point that the original comment was making i.e. that what constitutes a "good" or a "bad" government is subject to people's views.
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by jbstack 1y ago
Consider what would happen if the tax rate was 100% across all tax types, and you'll probably see then how there's an upper limit to how much tax revenue can be raised by a government. Would you get up and go to work if you got to
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by jbstack 1y ago
Ok, so how do you categorise a country like Norway (typically viewed as a "good" country by most people) which knowingly invests money from its sovereign fund into companies which are linked to the Israeli military which (in many
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by jbstack 1y ago
> Since the 1980s, we have been consistently taxing less Who is "we"? We're talking about governments in general ("good" vs "bad" ones), and I have no idea what jurisdiction you are referring to. In any
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by jbstack 1y ago
Aside from the fact that there's a subjective definition problem here (how do we decide what people "need"?), I think this an unrealistic view. By this definition, every government that has ever existed or ever will exist is
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by jbstack 1y ago
> The context of this thread[1], which you replied to, is specifically the US law. That's not correct. I started this particular sub-thread, and in my original comment I specifically said that the answer is jurisdiction dependent. Y
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Realistically, the vast majority of people don't have a "few million" lying around that they can just casually risk on a huge gamble like this. It's likely you have at least several tens of millions but more likely hundr
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Hence why I qualified that it depends on the details and the jurisdiction. I didn't say it is insider trading, just that you need to be careful to avoid that. > There's no insider trading angle at all Such a blanket statement
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You'd have to be very careful not to run afoul of insider trading and/or market manipulation laws. Whether you would or not would depend on all the details and the jurisdiction.
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That very much depends on the topic being studied. I've passed plenty of exams of different levels (school, university, professional qualifications) just by reading the textbook and memorising key facts. I'd agree with you if we a
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It's a tradeoff. After using ChatGPT for a while you develop somewhat of an instinct for when it might be hallucinating, especially when you start probing it for the "why" part and you get a feel for whether its explanations

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