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by oldkinglog 2y ago
> The decision was either to avoid them entirely or resign and buy into the ecosystem. An easy choice that you somehow managed to get wrong?
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by oldkinglog 2y ago
What is "the message"? The video doesn't say.
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by oldkinglog 2y ago
Invoking Popper's paradox of tolerance is misjudged IMHO, because the PSF doesn't aim to maximise liberty. Instead it aims to create a welcoming environment for everyone, and that involves adding restrictions that go beyond what i
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by oldkinglog 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(slang)#Concern_troll
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by oldkinglog 2y ago
> Boneless is a convenience, not an absolute guarantee. It's a guarantee in any jurisdiction with adequate consumer protection law.
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by oldkinglog 2y ago
In the UK we've labelled things made in factories that also handle nuts since forever. I assume it's an EU thing that we never got rid of.
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by oldkinglog 2y ago
This comment neatly explains why the LLM bubble will burst as soon as prosecutors remember that the DMCA doesn't have a carve-out for AI.
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by oldkinglog 2y ago
> I think the worst possible outcome is a licensing regime that means that Disney or Paramount or Elsevier or whoever all get to have a monopoly on training large models within their niche. Why is this the worst possible outcome? Compani
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by oldkinglog 2y ago
Monopoly leveraging is illegal, not mundane.
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by oldkinglog 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_Directive > According to one version, it says that "the kidnapping must be stopped by all means, even at the price of striking and harming our own forces."
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by oldkinglog 2y ago
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation A reform of the US voting system would make elections much more competitive and greatly reduce the risk of electing another Biden or Trump.
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by oldkinglog 2y ago
Left wingers complain when journalists don't hold powerful people to account. Right wingers complain when they do.
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by oldkinglog 2y ago
Why can't "dampen" be applied to oscillators? It means "To lessen; to dull; to make less intense" in this case.
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by oldkinglog 2y ago
> The world is chock full of vampires looking to exploit helpers. Don't let them get you. More importantly, don't let this dissuade anyone from helping. Some caution is needed yes, but cynicism is the greater foe. A life of pub
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by oldkinglog 2y ago
> This is a remarkable situation. It’s like if you hired someone to redo your kitchen and they started building a boat in your driveway. Sure, the boat gives the builders a place to relax, lets them practice tricky plumbing and finishing
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The Disconnected Letters in the Holy Qur'an (2008)(thedisconnectedletters.wordpress.com)
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by oldkinglog 2y ago
If you also take a wage, then you're also a class traitor by any reasonable definition, because denying the existence of class struggle only benefits capitalists - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_conflict
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by oldkinglog 2y ago
"class traitor" has a specific meaning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_traitor
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by oldkinglog 2y ago
The Spectator harps on this issue, but do they ever offer their own definition of "woman"?
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by oldkinglog 2y ago
This is quite a misleading comment IMO. You don't "pay" donations, you make them. There is no exchange and no debts are settled. And wikipedia isn't a "product" in the usual sense of a commercial product.
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by oldkinglog 2y ago
> Suggesting that Junio isn't infallible is a violation? Junio never claimed to be infallible though
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by oldkinglog 3y ago
Paper can't provide binaries as it would infringe Mojang's copyright. Users must "build" the server by downloading the official binary and applying local patches. This is well-automated for users. Licensing wasn't s
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by oldkinglog 3y ago
Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, s
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by oldkinglog 3y ago
Monty Hall problem is a classic one, if that's the sort of thing you mean?
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by oldkinglog 3y ago
> For my part, what I’d really love to see is something completely honest. Scrape all the data in the world and tell me the truth. This author considers "all the data in the world" to be the truth. Yet what society considers tr
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by oldkinglog 3y ago
I'm in the process of trying to delete my reddit account, but they do not honour GDPR deletion requests. Not sure why they're operating in the EU?
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by oldkinglog 3y ago
I didn't mean to imply that people choose to have gender dysphoria, sorry if it came off that way.
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by oldkinglog 3y ago
In the UK, the Equality Act (2010) protects: age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership (in employment only), pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation. Pregnancy, maternity, marriag
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by oldkinglog 3y ago
> What license requires attribution to read and understand the code? BSD, MIT, several others. Without a license you cannot read the code.
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by oldkinglog 3y ago
For years I've complained about how the MPAA, RIAA and big tech lobby politicians to wreck copyright and force all culture through an ownership sieve. But I might forgive them if it happens to prevent the commercialisation of all remai

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