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suckitsam
3y ago
[02:35 AM] DID YOU KNOW Our new feature is almost ready and will be released any day now. Visit our blog to see how you can save up to 15% on your next order! If your app wakes me up with a pointless notification, it gets uninstalled for
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3y ago
I asked if it's better to kill the process or sacrifice the child, and it sent a SWAT team to my house.
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3y ago
I'm willing to concede that perhaps I only know the smartest, most informed people on this planet, but I don't know a single person who is likely to do this. In fact, I've noticed a negative correlation between "uneducat
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3y ago
Yes, they should also be outlawed.
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3y ago
It won't be long before "Quora says I can melt eggs" turns into "Google's top result says millions of fish drown in oceans each year" or somesuch.
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3y ago
I'm literally shaking rn
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3y ago
These models are very unsafe because people (not me) aren't able to tell fact from fiction. Just think of how some gullible fool who can't make heads or tails of situations in real life, let alone when a computer tells them it
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3y ago
I'm finding it difficult to accept that police are the only demographic who are immune to alarm fatigue. In fact, it would seem that not only are they immune to it, but respond paradoxically, in contrast to - well, everyone else, from
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3y ago
Do you have a source for this? Which policies and abuses have been linked to shot spotter systems? These are among the least-worrying systems because they don't indiscriminately capture information about passers-by (or even suspected o
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3y ago
From a related article on the case [1]: > Evans said the syndrome remains a fair medical diagnosis and also notes in the report that SBS was not the sole cause of child's death. There ought to be a law where lawyers deal with legal
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3y ago
"Sufficiently advanced ignorance/apathy is indistinguishable from malice"
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3y ago
I've done it thrice. Just like Fred. https://www.myinstants.com/media/instants_images/fhritp.png
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3y ago
Quite possible. The closest I can find is [1] (via [0]), which upon re-reading suggests the cryptoverse, not the global economy, would blow up. Perhaps I'm conflating it with the general warnings of the era [2,3,4]. Though I swear I re
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3y ago
“There’s no way to make these systems without human labor at the level of informing the ground truth of the data — reinforcement learning with human feedback, which again is just kind of tech-washing precarious human labor. It’s thousands a
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3y ago
IIRC, the NYAG/JPM report from a few years back almost explicitly said "this is totally criminal and entirely fraudulent, but it's too late to stop, because if we do, the entire global financial system will explode"
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3y ago
They were perfectly free to go work in a textile mill or coal mine if they didn't like being a chimney sweep!
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3y ago
We're a democracy based on hope and love (freedom is bad, acktchually), and our cameras keep us safe. Also, parents wanted education to align better with The Real World, so we added constant surveillance and armed police to the classro
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3y ago
IANAP, but maybe He notices and still minds His own because He's not a snitch
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3y ago
Pull out your camera and post your crimes to the internet for clout?
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3y ago
I too love my bank which, like most others, is known for its lack of funny business, owing to the regulations that it definitely doesn't skirt at every opportunity (otherwise its execs would go to jail for doing crimes, obviously)
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3y ago
There was a whole writeup (on here, IIRC) about the engineering behind the only (or one of less than a handful) types of planes that can transit Antarctica during the cold, dark months. The fuel freezes, the oil freezes, the rubber in the t
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3y ago
Forget crypto; let's replace The Fed with SkyMiles™!
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3y ago
What can a court tell us that a bunch of likes and shares of a Vox piece can't?
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3y ago
It's funny how I go from "YEAH! CA's SHOULD be a quick one-liner!" to "Should laymen be generating Root CAs?" inside of like 10 seconds of scrolling.
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3y ago
> "When I started studying the Antarctic 30 years ago, we never thought extreme weather events could happen there," says Prof Siegert. When I was a child 30 years ago, I thought Antarctica only experienced extreme weather eve
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3y ago
Given this <gestures broadly>, I'm surprised we haven't seen any "performance enhancing"/"Men's Health" cereals.
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3y ago
Lucky Charms, but with those little dried shrimp from Ramen cups.
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3y ago
There's a certain irony in citing Nestle in an appeal to social good.
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3y ago
See also: "sugar free" = 0.49g/serving
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3y ago
Did the Millennials do this, or has Gen Z started on their killing spree?
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