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by ralfd 5d ago
> humans are social animals. True, but the driver is a stranger to me. Herd animals like cattle/horses, are highly suspicious of, and stressed by, strangers. And imagine how uneasy two chimps could react when meeting for the first t
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by ralfd 6d ago
> The original iphone was full of tradeoffs that made it not a great phone at launch. Hard disagree. It was a great phone. The only disadvantage was battery life, if you were a heavy phone user you needed to charge it to get through the
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by ralfd 6d ago
Zero alcohol
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by ralfd 7d ago
How is a researcher quitting a PR stunt?
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by ralfd 7d ago
https://xcancel.com/hilbertspaess/status/2097476208908972230... From Jacob: > A common response is “if they truly believe this, why are they still building it?” At OpenAI, many have not deeply internalized the
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by ralfd 7d ago
The idea in AI Risk circles is that the first true Scary Intelligence wins, as it can recursively advance itself and exponentially outgrows/hack any following (weaker) B or C intelligence.
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by ralfd 8d ago
No. Public Law 80-242 applies strictly to terrestrial geography. Outer space and celestial bodies fall outside the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior.
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by ralfd 8d ago
This is just intellectually lazy. Do you think Google has a team to maximize law breaking?
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by ralfd 14d ago
> Apple's App Store centralized despite trillions of dollars in ostensible market damage Please. The Androidfication of iOS with malware/scamware would cost quadrillions in market damage.
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by ralfd 14d ago
Quick question: Did you use AI for that post?
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by ralfd 16d ago
Furthermore: The Eiffel Tower was planned to be temporary, it only still stands because it was used as a radio tower.
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by ralfd 18d ago
Even if it is a publicity stunt it was not lobbied by Elon Musk. Also Jeff Bezos Blue Origin got more money for the Artemis program.
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by ralfd 22d ago
That link is from 2022 presumably about the twitter purchase. People like the guy in the link thought Twitter would go offline hard after firing almost all of the company, instead Elon was right and there was so much fat to cut.
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by ralfd 22d ago
That is a modern phenomena though. Classic scifi was optimistic and utopian. But today even Star Trek has to be bleak/gritty/depressing.
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by ralfd 22d ago
Brazil and Portugal being different doesnt seem stable. I guess Brazils usage will win out?
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by ralfd 22d ago
“Squirting” was ridiculed at the time and the word itself scaring away women. Jobs killed it then in an interview with a classic quote: Microsoft = Cold tech and Apple = Humanity. MS scares her away, Apple gets the girl. > QUESTION: Micr
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by ralfd 1mo ago
But other users are not aligned to me, other people are the worst and potentially highly dangerous. Im serious, not sarcasm.
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by ralfd 1mo ago
What sloppy slop is that? > Labor is a resource, like water, and yet we do not drain the oceans with the same fervour as we employ people, trying to find a job for every drop. This analogy doesn't make any sense! It is fake-poetic n
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by ralfd 2mo ago
That is stupid ranting. RSS (and Atom) were too nerdy and the mainstream did and does not care for it. Google did not „destroy“ it
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by ralfd 2mo ago
Yes. The game was already hurt this world cup with the flow destroying „hydration breaks“ to sell more ads.
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by ralfd 2mo ago
There is not much rocket debris in Boca Chica. If you do find something sell it on ebay.
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by ralfd 2mo ago
I dont get the irony. Google respects if one doesnt want to get indexed by the crawler: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/...
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by ralfd 2mo ago
Cant you in this case point out that obviously it is an old twxt and there is no copyright?
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by ralfd 2mo ago
I dont think it will generate much discussion. Maybe if it were Google, certainly if it were Apple, but with Microsoft people will just shrug and go „eh, what did you expect“.
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by ralfd 2mo ago
Context?
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by ralfd 2mo ago
Optimal corporate taxes are zero (or close to it) anyway, same as tariffs. Aside from that the link explains that the BBB traded tax income for „accelerated depreciation of assets“ aka economic growth. Asode from that, even if one disagrees
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by ralfd 2mo ago
> No solar panels required. No need to own your home. You just need a smart meter and to opt in through your retailer to have access to free daytime electricity. The scheme is called the Solar Sharer Offer. What is then the incentive to
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by ralfd 2mo ago
> suggesting an origin from the live attenuated oral polio vaccine Without immunizations that would’nt have happened though?
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by ralfd 3mo ago
This dystopian thought is wrong learning from dystopian fiction. I know it felt clever writing it, surely many found it clever cynicism, but in no way does it reflect real life kidney donations.
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by ralfd 3mo ago
> "goodness of their hearts" (which may be related to avoidance of public pushback) I hate this cynicism in everything. People didnt work there 10 years ago to be millionaires in a far away IPO, they worked there because they a

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