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by lerpa 8y ago
What's the different between that and plain old structured programming subroutines?
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by lerpa 8y ago
Although I don't think this is some sort of conspiracy, HN front-page is curated content, ranking is not only based on votes.
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by lerpa 8y ago
> Watson got bored of beating grand masters at chess and started refusing to play That's when you reboot it, if that doesn't fix it good old persuasive maintenance techniques can also come into play
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by lerpa 8y ago
It is not a given that any AGI would be a treat. There are plenty of Natural General Intelligences, and I don't fear monkeys taking over the world, or creating faster, better, stronger monkeys any day soon
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by lerpa 8y ago
Aí winters happened because of the hype and that people ultimately realize AGI (not even talking about the Singularity) is not as easily achievable as hyped. So interest dies.
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by lerpa 8y ago
Debt possibly. I personally knew a few people that would spend money they don't have just to show off IRL before social media was a thing, and I can see doing it to a larger audience being much more efficient.
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by lerpa 8y ago
And that's how we went back to book burning, again.
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by lerpa 8y ago
If you're referring to the mission of impressing the girlfriend, success doesn't seem likely.
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by lerpa 8y ago
That's like saying having to pay for any product is extortion, just because it's something you want but don't want the consequences of that, in that case paying for it.
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by lerpa 8y ago
Natural monopolies are like that. Artificial ones are either Govenrment enterprises or Government enforced taking what was initially natural one and making it into law, and tend to overstay their welcome because of that. Monopolies are good
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by lerpa 8y ago
Exactly and they have the perfect excuse: "Well when talking about deleting we mean we do the exact same thing the file system does to a file, it flags it, but doesn't actually erase it's content. Acting like a filesystem del
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by lerpa 8y ago
You accept that when you join.
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by lerpa 9y ago
Exactly. Another example is applications "phoning home" (desltop applications sending information back to the server) that not that much ago was considered a serious abuse. And people on forums would lambast you when you asked how
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by lerpa 9y ago
It's the problem with that kind of speech, it's impersonal and dehumanizing. Let's say it like it is: facebook betrays users expectations giving their data to other businesses. Same for hacking: some people invaded system suc
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by lerpa 9y ago
You're still free to open a competing service, and can leverage the fact that you are better than the other guys as free advertisement basically.
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by lerpa 9y ago
Why would you block access from the EU if your site is hosted elsewhere? If you think complying with foreign regulations is not worth it, or if you're not even aware of it, it's not up to you to block anything. Why would it be? If
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by lerpa 9y ago
In a sane world they shouldn't be liable of anything if a person from another country uses their website.
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by lerpa 9y ago
Yes, it's not just because people are at the moment going through a problem that they know how to solve it. It's one thing to be in a bad situation, how it is and so on, another is to know how to get out of it.
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by lerpa 9y ago
That's also why giving money is a lot of time not a solution. Despite being easy, lazy and making people feel good about it.
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by lerpa 9y ago
What matters is that it ressonates with a common oppinion that smart phones are bad, so as long as it supports that somewhat popular position it doesn't need to be checked. We all have biases, and in fact I don't use a smart phone
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by lerpa 9y ago
If less people use it then less people expect others to also use it.
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by lerpa 9y ago
> It seems like that argument easily ends up in the "educations that require significant debt are always useless" position, which is false. That's not my position. > "Reasonable" is a weasel word. You can have
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by lerpa 9y ago
It did. But didn't have security tied to the fs.
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by lerpa 9y ago
It's a pixel shader. It's widely used for everything involving 3D graphics these days, as most engines require you to implement one, even if it's a trivial one.
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by lerpa 9y ago
The actual problem is people getting into debt without reasonable expectation of paying it, just wishful thinking.
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by lerpa 9y ago
Nah, let's go back to arguing like Facebook owes us some fundamental rights and so on.
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by lerpa 9y ago
The actual problem is not Facebook censoring content. It's actually people trusting them not to, and relying on that. "Oh then it has to be regulated", yeah sure lets trust government to not censor what they don't like,
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by lerpa 9y ago
You don't have a right to post whatever you want on Facebook. As far as we know they can forbid everyone from posting and call it a day, it's their website after all.
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by lerpa 9y ago
Isn't mass reporting done by people a form of activism. Don't know why you want to diferentiate, activism doesn't have to be "good".
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by lerpa 9y ago
No we all know Facebook and Google are both trustfully truth providers, that actually has been their goal all along. And if they don't know, we can always count on Snopes to tell it like it is.

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