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> I have some side projects that I don’t really care about making money from but some people do use and it’s easier for me to just block all European users than worry about complyi…

Sometimes building a new organization is easier than trying to improve a legacy one.

That’s not what the poster meant. What treating this biometric info as public means is that it won’t be accepted as valid proof of identity. Just because you posted a video on TikT…

Why bother with the scan if you can have a perfect guard in place?

> How big and politically connected are you? I’m not allowed to divulge that information. Can you tell me where to apply?

> but this is a can worse than climate change we are kicking towards future generations. That’s just nonsense. Even if we turn a large area into a radioactive waste dump, that prob…

If these things really become good enough to automate software engineering then it’s just a matter of time before they are used to automate all information work. That would be such…

First time I hear about this funding. Where can I apply?

Maybe off-topic but I remember when people were worried about services becoming digital and older users no longer being able to access them without a personal computer. Fast forwar…

Wouldn’t you? If I switch context and interrupt my flow to answer a question I’m losing at least 20 mins to regaining focus, why shouldn’t that be reflected in billing? Knowledge w…

> I think that often theres a difference in ability to put capital to work between the US and europe. It’s because the EU is 27 different countries with different regulations while…

> I recall reading somewhere that, in the Culture novels the Sapir Worf hypothesis was true to start or the AIs re-engineered the people to make it true, and the language of the re…

Eternal or not, right now JSON is used everywhere which means the performance gains of a more optimized Stalin would be significant. Just because we don’t know if JSON is around in…

The EU has a homegrown tech industry that could pick up the slack, though it would be expensive. The real problem is that the US would leave Ukraine and Europe alone against Russia…

Certainly a flawed system is better than an outright broken one? At least the former can be improved.

> I do think the Elon Musk approach (“just let people decide for themselves”) is very naive at best. I thought the Elon Musk approach was to control the algorithm and decide for hi…

Billions of humans did that over hundreds of thousands of years. Maybe it would only take thousands of years for AGI?

> But seriously, I get why free will is troubleaome, but the fact people can choose a thing, work at the thing, and effectuate the change against a set of options they had never co…

Engineering time is money and going through internally the process of building, testing and distributing binaries for every release is a lot of engineering time. Paying a sum of mo…

What has happened when the same thing happens without AI involved?

> but the metaverse taking over did not happen partially because many people still get nausea after a bit and no 10x scaling fixed that. Has VR really improved 10x? I lost touch af…

> It always catches me by surprise that you can get "a cold" in summer. Despite the name you don’t get sick from cold weather but from viruses that make you sick. During cold seaso…

> I'd agree with you with the point that the local right wing ideologies are repackaged old-school nationalism reinventing itself. The most radical right wing governments are in th…

> It’s pretty difficult because my manager is very incompetent and micro manages everything, he has called my personal phone after hours many times asking about things People can o…

> I’m just really burned out and don’t have the mental energy to come home from a 10 hour day and start preparing for interviews. Have you considered not doing 10 hour days? I know…