jimlongton

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by jimlongton 3y ago
> it’s worth noting what they’ve accomplished in getting to a place where they can afford to worry about that as one of their primary concerns It's probably also worth noting the long history of military dictatorships, murderous su
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by jimlongton 3y ago
It's okay. You can complain to your union (which is run by your company) or work for a competitor (which is also owned by the same conglomerate as your company). At least your leader is no longer brainwashed by a shaman who channels he
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by jimlongton 3y ago
I would imagine integrating North Koreans into the South would be far more difficult than the reunification of Germany. The technological and health gap alone is huge and even their language has started to drift apart.
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by jimlongton 3y ago
Are there major micro/restaurant payment apps in China other than WeChat? I imagine it's difficult to compete with an app that's preinstalled on every phone, integrated with every bank and used by every restaurant and street
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by jimlongton 3y ago
The history of the island is pretty much a condemnation of the modern the world - massive environment devastation, money laundering hub and finally a concentration camp for refugees.
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by jimlongton 3y ago
Related: Revealed: Exxon made ‘breathtakingly’ accurate climate predictions in 1970s and 80s https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jan/12/exxon-clima...
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by jimlongton 3y ago
It feels like we are finally at a tipping point of mass surveillance. The explosion in the prevalence of high quality street/traffic cameras, door bell cameras (that Amazon gives the police access to) and the growth of self driving car
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by jimlongton 3y ago
No mention in the article of false positives. I wonder how many people they stopped and searched to get a result. I also wonder if the areas the suspect was visiting also overlap with poor or minority neighborhoods and what that means for t
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by jimlongton 3y ago
Smart businesses use the government to build a moat for them. [1] [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65616866
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by jimlongton 3y ago
The people who could instruct such AI and evaluate its outputs would be domain experts. Without them how would you even start to approach those problems?
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by jimlongton 3y ago
Science was once the domain of Catholic monks and wealthy gentry because they were the few literate people with access to books. Monoculture is not a sign of merit.
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by jimlongton 3y ago
> The technological center of world continues to be a hundred square miles in Northern California If your definition excludes the likes of the entire semiconductor industry for example.
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by jimlongton 3y ago
> A new UCL paper has revealed that the wide-spread belief that the British have poorer teeth than our American cousins is, in fact, a myth. > The research led by Richard Watt, Professor of Dental Public Health in the Department of Ep
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by jimlongton 3y ago
> The alternative is real human drivers who make all kinds of mistakes every day. From a European perspective I would say that in a city the real alternative is a functioning public transport system. Trams, light rail etc are infinitely
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by jimlongton 3y ago
The bill has been criticised by representations of the UN Human Rights Commission and TDs from different political parties. As an Irish person I find it infuriating that the Irish Council for Civil Liberties would approve of a bill which cr
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by jimlongton 3y ago
I campaigned to end the Blasphemy law in Ireland. This law is hoestly sickening. We all know if will be weaponised to fight culture wars and target political dissent. I cannot wait until someone asks for the Archbishop of Dublin or the Chie
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by jimlongton 3y ago
2. The majority of the public do not want these laws. There is a lingering distrust of such things due to the decades long heavy hand of the church on Irish life. There is also no epidemic of 'hate speech' or any such extreme situ
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by jimlongton 3y ago
I have to admin that the inclusion of an "AI" feature makes me less likely to use this tool. While it warns that the AI suggestions may not be correct (i.e. they could be hallucinations) there's no warning that using OpenAI w
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by jimlongton 3y ago
Never going to happen. Aside from the ethical objections, that would be a great way to injure or kill already immunocompromised people.
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by jimlongton 3y ago
(Possibly naive question) This is marketed as open source. Does that mean I can download the model and run it locally? If so, what kind of GPU would I need?
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by jimlongton 3y ago
The author is in on it - "it" being a cynical PR managed portrayal optimised to garner sympathy and disassociate her from her crimes. The tactics are so blatant - introducing her as a "mom", the homely photo, focusing o
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by jimlongton 3y ago
The investigative Youtuber 'CoffeeZilla', Stephen Findeisen, often emphasises the human cost of scams, including bankruptcy and suicides. His description of these scams as a type of "financial murder" may sound extreme b
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by jimlongton 3y ago
I eagerly await the sympathetic PR-optimised Bankman-Fried NYT article.
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by jimlongton 3y ago
This is just a repeat of the recycling scam [1]. It's almost abusive - making people feel responsible for a problem almost entirely out of their control. [1] https://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/the-passionate-eye&#x2F
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by jimlongton 3y ago
I work in the industry. It's not a "vehicle" any more - it's a "platform" to "engage" with customers, i.e. sell your data and lock features behind ridiculous monthly fees. That is now the mantra of th
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by jimlongton 3y ago
Microsoft cloned Slack (poorly and got sued), used existing corporate agreements to entice companies to force Teams on unhappy employees and got lucky with COVID. It really think it has nothing to do with features. Of the dozens of teams I
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by jimlongton 3y ago
> Trust me, the development team that fucks up performance with Electron will absolutely fuck it up with native too. Microsoft is celebrating a "massive" performance improvement which means Teams, which mostly renders text cha
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by jimlongton 3y ago
Our only hope is that politicians and celebrities get sick of their voices and likeness being used to scam people or sell crypto or viagra and get laws passed against this type of impersonation.
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by jimlongton 3y ago
> More impressionistically the Irish, British and Australian press don’t talk about deaths of despair. While that phrase is uniquely American, it certainly has been used to describe decreases in living conditions in the UK. [1] It's
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by jimlongton 4y ago
This reminds me of the time Irish bishops stopped sending trainees to Ireland's priest training seminary because of how active it was on Grindr [1]. [1] https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/martin-removes-priests

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