schrototo

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by schrototo 3mo ago
But in democracy you do get to say which government you want.
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by schrototo 4mo ago
There is an incredible (alas unfinished) multipart Grothendieck biography by the German mathematician Winfried Scharlau: Wer ist Alexander Grothendieck? Anarchie, Mathematik, Spiritualität, Einsamkeit. I think an English translation exist
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Nobel laureate invents machine that harvests water from dry air(theguardian.com)
5 points by schrototo 7mo ago|0 comments
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by schrototo 9mo ago
That is simply not true. The details might vary by jurisdiction and the protection might not be under the exact name of “copyright” but there most certainly are comparable legal protections for the contents of databases (“tables of numbers”
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by schrototo 9mo ago
Presumably, being able to use Sora to generate some pictures or videos involving Disney characters does not mean being able to actually distribute those pictures or videos, right? Those are still copyrighted characters.
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by schrototo 1y ago
It wasn’t an election. One of the more prominent youth groups involved in the protests used Discord to organize and decide internally which leader they should endorse and suggest to the president and army leadership. No one was directly ele
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by schrototo 1y ago
This is simply not correct. You absolutely DO NOT need to obtain consent for strictly necessary first-party session cookies (such as would be used by an online shopping cart, for example, or to maintain a persistent login) [1]. [1] https:&
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by schrototo 6y ago
I am absolutely implying that blockchain tech is fundamentally useless, and cryptocurrencies doubly so.
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by schrototo 6y ago
God this is infuriating. Apart from being an obvious scam, NFTs are actively doing harm to the environment. This is not funny, it's just bad. It’s a net negative for humanity. As, of course, are any and all cryptocurrencies and block
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by schrototo 6y ago
The worst effect the GDPR had was on offline bureaucracy. "Data protection" has become the go-to excuse for blocking every single goddamn thing.
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by schrototo 6y ago
Get enough sleep. [1] [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.02544.pdf
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by schrototo 6y ago
The font change seems like a wash to me. Notice how the decimal points and thousands separators for the balance column don't line up in either of the screenshots? A change that would actually improve readability would be to use tabula
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Great White Robot God: Artificial General Intelligence and White Supremacy(medium.com)
1 points by schrototo 8y ago|0 comments
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by schrototo 8y ago
Abstract: This article presents an overlooked case of research misconduct and violations of basic principles of medical and business ethics. When Bayer's Cutter Laboratories realized that their blood products, Factor VIII and IX or ant
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Blood money: Bayer's inventory of HIV-contaminated blood products(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
2 points by schrototo 8y ago|1 comments
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How Bitcoin made right-wing conspiracy theories mainstream(salon.com)
12 points by schrototo 8y ago|5 comments
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Activists Are Already Targeting Google and Facebook Over GDPR(fortune.com)
1 points by schrototo 8y ago|0 comments
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by schrototo 8y ago
Neither of the articles you link to say that unionisation is the reason for the ongoing shift to contract work, or even mention unions at all... If anything, (stronger) unions are exactly what contract workers need. What caused the shift
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by schrototo 8y ago
Why is there a need to reconcile? Worker’s rights trump ROI. If you can’t run a profitable company without discriminating against and exploiting your workers, you shouldn’t run a company at all. Also, look towards more socialist countries (
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by schrototo 9y ago
How about he spend it on paying his workers a living wage?
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What do scientists think about the biological claims in the Google Manifesto?(quora.com)
19 points by schrototo 9y ago|1 comments
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Reclaiming the Computing Commons(jacobinmag.com)
3 points by schrototo 10y ago|0 comments
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Are “Backdoors” Real or Virtual? The Logical Flaw in #AppleVsFBI(uncomputing.org)
1 points by schrototo 11y ago|0 comments
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by schrototo 11y ago
None of this is any excuse if the intent is so clearly to profit illegally off of other people's content. Trying to paint Pirate Bay as this altruistic organization that just wants to distribute some Linux distros is such bullshit. The
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by schrototo 11y ago
I know exactly what the first one does, without knowledge of the underlying API. I have no idea what the second one does. Does it replace occurrences of the first parameter with the second one, or vice versa? I assume it returns a copy of t
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Purifying spoiled randomness with spoiled randomness(mittheory.wordpress.com)
35 points by schrototo 11y ago|13 comments
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Crowdforcing: When What I “Share” Is Yours(uncomputing.org)
1 points by schrototo 11y ago|0 comments
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by schrototo 12y ago
> Austria is a notoriously conservative and very bureaucratic country I would generally agree with this, but just for the record: the city of Vienna has been governed by the center-left Social Democratic Party since 1946. And for the las
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Idris: Type safe printf(youtube.com)
1 points by schrototo 12y ago|0 comments
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Physically Based Rendering: the first literate program to win an Oscar(pbrt.org)
1 points by schrototo 13y ago|0 comments

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