telmo

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by telmo 19d ago
Very good point. I just learned about twitter.now.
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by telmo 21d ago
Free speech right? We can call it whatever we want.
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by telmo 1mo ago
Indeed. My point, however, is that Congress cannot pass legislation to compel European governments to share data with the US if/when they decide not to. OP is making a weird claim about the practical impossibility of escaping US data c
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by telmo 1mo ago
I am pretty sure that European states are already storing data that is out of reach for the US government, and I don't understand how Congress could legislate against this, short of an act of war.
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by telmo 6mo ago
> Yes it's always the evil Russians and the stupid people are influenced by TikTok so we need to tell them what they should vote! I didn't call anyone stupid. I have been deceived many times in my life. It happens to all of us
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by telmo 6mo ago
Yes, it sure did. Read my comment on your original post.
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by telmo 6mo ago
What actually happened was that former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton publicly stated on French TV in January 2025 that if the AfD won in Germany, elections there could also be annulled by the EU "as was done in Romania". That was
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by telmo 7mo ago
I am old enough to remember variations of this conversation from 20 years ago. If you scratch, you always find ideology underneath: an antipathy for regulation that puts people before money and for sharing the cost of social safety nets. I
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by telmo 8mo ago
IANAL, etc. but this risk is usually exaggerated by people with a political agenda. EU legislation takes into account the size and purpose of websites. I have never heard of any small website being targeted by such legislation. Do your own
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by telmo 8mo ago
If the actions and beliefs of a group are fundamentally morally repugnant to me, I think that it is reasonable to not expect me to be able to find "something positive" in it. We are not amoral automata with grocery-list style util
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by telmo 1y ago
> Maybe not psychologically healthy for the individual, but likely provides some social benefits. I never understood this line of reasoning. What good are "social benefits" if the happiness and well being of the human beings th
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by telmo 1y ago
I was raised catholic and I now consider it a form of abuse. Someone close to me was raised evangelic and thinking about this makes her want to puke. The psychological damage from this sort of thing is probably so prevalent that it looks li
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by telmo 2y ago
Did you even read the declaration? It is precisely about commitments to spend more and buying a string defense. Also, despite what some sources in the US claim, Europe has been contributing quite a lot to the Ukraine war effort, in fact sli
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by telmo 2y ago
Singapore has not managed it by being a "much smaller state", it managed it by being a highly repressive and authoritarian state. Myself, I prefer the junkies on the streets. I actually grew up in another relatively small state th
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by telmo 2y ago
Introspection is "looking within". Why should science not be interested in that? It is an aspect of reality. It is not more or less real than galaxies or atoms. I know that it is a very perplexing one when one holds a physicalist
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by telmo 2y ago
> Consciousness seems to be a word that is poorly defined. I will give you my favorite definition, given to me by my friend Bruno Marchal, a brilliant mathematician from Brussels who spent his life thinking about such topics: "Consc
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by telmo 2y ago
Bathrooms need icons because they have to assume users who can't read, or don't know the local language. None of these two problems apply to language selection 99.9999% of the time: if you can't read, you can't use a sys
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by telmo 2y ago
Come on now. Can you point to one single case of something close to this scenario having happened in real life to a small self-hosted WordPress blog? Or even a big one? Governments are not that stupid, they are not that malicious and they d
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by telmo 2y ago
I wonder if advertisers feel the same way. If I was buying ads on YouTube, my least favorite audience would be the people who go out of their way to not see them.
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by telmo 2y ago
To be clear, I didn't tell OP that he has a bad personality. I don't know OP, how could I know that? What I told him, and do know, is that in my set of experiences this is usually the problem. And I include myself in that set of e
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by telmo 2y ago
Try to find out why, and please avoid Internet "red pill" stuff. I'm not telling you this as any sort of political statement nor am I trying to fight any culture wars here. This is just the advice of a middle-age guy with per
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by telmo 3y ago
My somewhat snarky point was that there is no magic distinction such as: > These were not AIs but rule-based systems with if elses. I believe I already made my point with the ReLU example, if you don't want to concede it that is als
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by telmo 3y ago
It's almost like a chose the example on purpose ;)
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by telmo 3y ago
You mean functions such as: if x > 0: return x else: return 0 ?
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by telmo 3y ago
> These were not AIs but rule-based systems with if elses. What is fashionable to call AI these days are ultimately rule-based systems with if elses. It just so happens that it's a bazillion of those, and they are created by gradien
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by telmo 3y ago
> This is something I often tell my friends who complain about Calibre: his project his rules. It is hard to imagine that anyone would disagree with this. I certainly don't, nor did I say anything to the contrary. > If you think
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by telmo 3y ago
> If releases weren't frequent people would have to build their own from the master branch. But why??? What in the world of Calibre demands such urgent updates? I use a variety of software (some quite complex) that do a great job wi
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by telmo 3y ago
I love Calibre, and I am very thankful to the people who work on it. It's a shiny example of an open source project that creates a common good. I just wish it didn't have updates so often. Since you have to do it manually, I feel
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by telmo 3y ago
> Lack of religiosity is the default state On the contrary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_irreligio... > and with it you get the default discontent with death That is a huge assumption. There
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by telmo 3y ago
> they are too far away The USA and the EU have comparable size. Is Washington DC too far away for the USA to work? > too diverse The USA is widely regarded as a cultural melting point, and it's ability to attract immigrants from

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