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flipbrad

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    Comment #49059451

    I wonder what the failure mode for something like this is (e.g. in bad weather, after a power cut, a car catches fire, etc). Nobody in the country with keys, cars parked so close t…

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    Comment #48870334

    How long until this is handled like human hiring (business case, budget, performance reviews, layoffs)?

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    Comment #48757372

    The point perhaps is that these things enable discrimination based on extremely gross grained and defective criteria - in some ways the least relevant parts of your identity.

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    Comment #48718447

    Should have used a GDPR takedown instead of copyright: in the EU, Google doesn't tell you the identity of the requester, what qas allegedly infringing, or even the affected URl, an…

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    Comment #48716516

    https://avpassociation.com/ and a few key individual crusaders.

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    Comment #48694987

    Donate to his ballroom project, perhaps? Pay for tokens with his crypto coin?

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    Comment #48691418

    "A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the oppositi…

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    Comment #48632108

    This is what the EU has: https://www.eu-digital-services-act.com/Digital_Services_Act...

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    Comment #47597118

    Like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Minab_school_attack

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    Comment #47446487

    Isn't the correct answer to this, lobbying for higher speed limits? Rather than chastizing obedience to current rules.

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    Comment #47320754

    N00b question from me, perhaps, but how easy is it to mount and run Lidar on aerial drones?

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    Comment #46533392

    "we built foundational protections (...) including (...) training our models not to retain personal information from user chats" Can someone please ELI5 - why is this a training is…

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    Comment #46378327

    Something so grim should be accompanied by its citation, just so we can check it's not a windup

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    Comment #46286773

    This perhaps isn't the lind of lethality the DoD has in mind.

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    Comment #46222595

    Hacker News is social media, isn't it?

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    Comment #46055571

    Check out how Wikipedia and the rest of the wikimedia universe is run.

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    Comment #45287623

    EU Data Act will be more relevant here, but will take a while to roll out.

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    Comment #45272880

    Given https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ukusa-agreement-o... , what does sovereignty even mean here? I also wish we were attracting industries that weren't going to signif…

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    Comment #44867991

    This is about the Category 1 duties arriving by 2027, not this year's tranche of rules (such as age gating).

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    Comment #44864045

    A lot of what you are posting is not true. Take for instance your claim that "Ofcom is an industry self-regulation body"

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    Comment #44101137

    Law enforcement / national security. E.g. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/intelligence-serv... Although I can anticipate what you'll say...

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    Comment #43994760

    Douglas Hofstadter would like a word. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter

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    Comment #43591329

    Fake it till you make it (a genuine emergency, that is)