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astorsnk

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    Comment #33328367

    > Regulated how? I don’t have the knowledge to decide this on a whim. > How can regulation address what you mentioned? By limiting the companies creating these models. Eg, you can’…

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    Comment #33328026

    Disagree completely. I’d much rather have a link to a trustworthy source than a random person writing “Tell HN: WhatsApp is down”. The post you think should be frontpage is useless…

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    Comment #33321332

    Most of the comments I've seen on HN have been personal opinions or legal questions rather than legal opinions. Copilot may be 100% legal - that doesn't make it 100% ethical (depen…

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    Comment #33307721

    That it be regulated and the people that create the tech act responsibly.

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    Comment #33307196

    If someone can use the tech to produce realistic images of someone they can use those images to harass and abuse that person. That’s a horrendous position for someone to be put it.…

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    Comment #33307144

    You’re assuming these restrictions are enforced by others. That’s not necessarily true. If I was building these tools I wouldn’t want to know that they’d been potentially used to c…

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    Comment #33306158

    Exactly! What features do we really need? Many “feature” suggestions I come across are people trying to make podcasts something they’re not so that they suit the person writing.

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    Comment #33281149

    They're likely pricing in further changes. Better to assume things will get worse and price that in once, than have to reprice every few months.

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    Comment #33277144

    It's not like they did it out of spite or greed - both the EUR and GBP have plummeted against the USD over the last year. One area they could look at though is outrageous storage p…

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    Comment #33259595

    Anecdotally I see this with my friends who’ve had kids. A bunch of them all had kids roughly the same time (all within a year) and it’s fascinating how differently they all react. …

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    Comment #33188827

    The British government disagrees with you. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/cross-border-portability-of-onli...

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    Comment #33081339

    >> Last year I was in the UK visiting family and was unable to watch races there, despite havng already paid for them, as the geo restrictions were different. Yep, thank sucks. You…

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    Comment #33080192

    >> You buy a bunch of iTunes movies in Canada, then move to the USA, and you no longer have the right to watch them anymore due to licensing. Maybe this is true from the perspectiv…

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    Comment #33080127

    >> How do you find 1 thing you are really good at and stick with it? Maybe if you stick with one thing you'll become really good at it. Most (maybe all) people aren't inherently re…

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    Comment #33079193

    Is it really skilled? I feel like it's just throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks. You have an idea, write a prompt, and then edit and re-run that prompt repeatedly until yo…

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    Comment #33079163

    Legal or illegal, there's a big ethical debate to be had. Swallowing up the work of others and using that to generate derivative/new work that _a lot_ of people (I've seen half a d…

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    Comment #33035689

    What a terrible take. Yep those 8000 people have been coding an edit button for the last decade. You can’t be serious?

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    Comment #32952680

    Really? The clothes are my least favourite of the swag items. Send me it without the company logo and it's a great gift. But if I have to walk around looking like I'm in uniform th…

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    Comment #32952375

    >> > Pichai was asked, in a question that was highly rated by staffers on Google’s internal Dory system, why the company is “nickel-and-diming employees” by slashing travel and swa…

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    Comment #32914021

    >> At the moment, the only thing that really and truly matters is your wife/partner's health and your baby. Maybe it’s just the phrasing of this and it’s intended differently, but …

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    Comment #32857505

    Over 100 cancelled flights and the legal entitlement to compensation won’t apply because of “extraordinary circumstances”. This is in addition to cancellations yesterday also due t…