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> it’s worth noting what they’ve accomplished in getting to a place where they can afford to worry about that as one of their primary concerns It's probably also worth noting the l…

It's okay. You can complain to your union (which is run by your company) or work for a competitor (which is also owned by the same conglomerate as your company). At least your lead…

I would imagine integrating North Koreans into the South would be far more difficult than the reunification of Germany. The technological and health gap alone is huge and even thei…

Are there major micro/restaurant payment apps in China other than WeChat? I imagine it's difficult to compete with an app that's preinstalled on every phone, integrated with every …

The history of the island is pretty much a condemnation of the modern the world - massive environment devastation, money laundering hub and finally a concentration camp for refugee…

Related: Revealed: Exxon made ‘breathtakingly’ accurate climate predictions in 1970s and 80s https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jan/12/exxon-clima...

It feels like we are finally at a tipping point of mass surveillance. The explosion in the prevalence of high quality street/traffic cameras, door bell cameras (that Amazon gives t…

No mention in the article of false positives. I wonder how many people they stopped and searched to get a result. I also wonder if the areas the suspect was visiting also overlap w…

Smart businesses use the government to build a moat for them. [1] [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65616866

The people who could instruct such AI and evaluate its outputs would be domain experts. Without them how would you even start to approach those problems?

Science was once the domain of Catholic monks and wealthy gentry because they were the few literate people with access to books. Monoculture is not a sign of merit.

> The technological center of world continues to be a hundred square miles in Northern California If your definition excludes the likes of the entire semiconductor industry for exa…

> A new UCL paper has revealed that the wide-spread belief that the British have poorer teeth than our American cousins is, in fact, a myth. > The research led by Richard Watt, Pro…

> The alternative is real human drivers who make all kinds of mistakes every day. From a European perspective I would say that in a city the real alternative is a functioning publi…

The bill has been criticised by representations of the UN Human Rights Commission and TDs from different political parties. As an Irish person I find it infuriating that the Irish …

I campaigned to end the Blasphemy law in Ireland. This law is hoestly sickening. We all know if will be weaponised to fight culture wars and target political dissent. I cannot wait…

2. The majority of the public do not want these laws. There is a lingering distrust of such things due to the decades long heavy hand of the church on Irish life. There is also no …

I have to admin that the inclusion of an "AI" feature makes me less likely to use this tool. While it warns that the AI suggestions may not be correct (i.e. they could be hallucina…

Never going to happen. Aside from the ethical objections, that would be a great way to injure or kill already immunocompromised people.

(Possibly naive question) This is marketed as open source. Does that mean I can download the model and run it locally? If so, what kind of GPU would I need?

The author is in on it - "it" being a cynical PR managed portrayal optimised to garner sympathy and disassociate her from her crimes. The tactics are so blatant - introducing her a…

The investigative Youtuber 'CoffeeZilla', Stephen Findeisen, often emphasises the human cost of scams, including bankruptcy and suicides. His description of these scams as a type o…

I eagerly await the sympathetic PR-optimised Bankman-Fried NYT article.

This is just a repeat of the recycling scam [1]. It's almost abusive - making people feel responsible for a problem almost entirely out of their control. [1] https://www.cbc.ca/doc…