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Nice one! I agree

Most cameras already produce metadata. You can remove this metadata. Can you not also detect and remove watermarks?

Right back at ya

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48064334

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48064334

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48064334

They acknowledge this in the article as well, surprisingly enough. > Corporate law experts say while there is nothing illegal about housing a business inside a shell company, the p…

I'm really bad at it for things that aren't novel or really interesting, especially repetitive tasks, like doing illustrations for a customer for example, I know what to do, I've d…

Pretty good. I don't find I get derailed by other tasks but I do find others related to what I'm doing like "Oh, dishwasher's done, let's empty it, but oh wait let's clean the coun…

I find similar behaviour in myself, particularly that dreading a task makes it significantly more difficult to start. I find that if I can manage to do just a little bit, even just…

Someone ought to try feeding the BTC whitepaper in and share what comes out

Even if they reset to several days ago and lose, say, thousands of edits, even tens of thousands of minor edits, they're still in a pretty good place. Losing a few days of edits is…

That's a total mischaracterization. OP is saying there are no safer fireworks, so some damage will be done, but until someone develops safer and better fireworks, people will conti…

How is intent relevant to this? Or is it not? If you did happen to play out your scenario, your intent would clearly be to insidiously confirm delusions. What is OpenAI's intent? T…

That's a nice trick. What we do is use a reversible magnet that says "dirty" on one side and "clean" on the other

I understand your confusion. If you clean off and rinse your dishes before you put them in the dishwasher, it can sometimes get confusing

Banning substances naturally decreases use, that's obvious, but prohibition criminalizes use, which will always persist. You cannot stop drug use. Drug legalization so far has resu…

I like your libertarian approach. You're right the line can move a lot. Of course, my support/interference would (hypothetically speaking) be different on a situation to situation …

Cheers bro!

What happens when he goes to school? Moves out? You die? Who will be there to block TikTok on the LAN?

I'd rather have my heroin addicted son do it at home, where I can be there to take him to the hospital, talk to him about it, etc., rather than make him go out into the streets alo…

What was the McDonald's ad? Could you drop a link, perhaps?

The assertion is not that something will inevitably happen because of this other than the further normalization of government authority over individual autonomy. That is an inheren…