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If HN was under the control of the Chinese Communist Party and its algorithms and moderation were manipulated in order to influence the narrative on China, then absolutely yes HN should be banned completely. Hostile foreign powers do not have any right to publish content within our borders.
Fuck them.
This includes Chinese national security law which is far more invasive than the US law. The party can order a company to do anything they want, or make any physical places they want available to them, and everything is kept under permanent gag order.
There is no cloud… it’s just software running on someone else’s computers that you don’t control. And that someone else is usually a megacorp like Microsoft or Amazon.
Instead I get Uber drivers who refuse to come to my pickup spot and drive around in circles hoping I’ll cancel the trip first so they can still get paid something.
Business class is rarely worth it, it’s not priced for mere mortals. Most people have a corporation buying their tickets, or are using air miles to reduce the price, or they are 1%ers, etc.
ChatGPT is a machine built and operated by humans. If ChatGPT infringes copyright, then it is those humans who own and operate it who are infringing.
The fact that they built a complex obfuscated system that stores many copyrighted works in a novel way (model weights) and reproduces them incompletely or unpredictably when asked, doesn’t change the fact that they have built a system whose purpose is to infringe copyright.
It’s a little bit like saying I started the car running and let it drive off on its own accord in front of a huge crowd of people, I’m not responsible for the deaths because it was the car that ran them over and the car doesn’t have agency. The car wasn’t designed to kill and never intended to kill. But it’s still me who operates the car and should have foreseen the obvious consequences.
I don’t buy into any of these arguments that just because ChatGPT is very complex or mysterious that somehow the humans who built or are running it aren’t responsible for its actions.
Tech salaries aren’t too high. It’s many other salaries that are far too low from decades of stagnation.
No, because the speed of light is constant for all observers. From our frame of reference on earth, light from distant receding galaxies is always moving towards us at exactly the speed of light, c. Those galaxies also observe the light moving away from them at exactly c.
That seems contradictory and unintuitive, that two observers moving away from each other both measure light moving c relative to themselves, but that’s reality.
It’s another measurement that changes: if c is always constant, then it must be the passage of time and the distance travelled that we observe differently.
Other forms are certainly possible, it’s just that they are highly highly unlikely to form and remain stable, and develop into complex intelligent life.
So all of that informs where you should focus your efforts on research and searching.
Why hire an army of humans to investigate and deal with spam when you can just auto-ban anyone your shitty algorithm says is suspect? And the only way they can get any recourse is to make a shitstorm on social media.
Welcome to the future.
What a despicable company.
Rust’s memory safety definitely makes it a user feature.
I love the language and worked with it professionally for over a year, but I can’t stand everything around the developer experience and community.
Rust is a breath of fresh air.
Here, straight from the horse's mouth:
https://awrestaurants.com/blog/aw-third-pound-burger-fractio...
We’re talking about probabilities and statistics over large populations. Not every child who plays outside will avoid myopia, like yourself. But looking at the population, the expectation is that children who get more sunlight tend to have a lower incidence of myopia and weaker myopia.
Is there really any difference?
Honestly, Google should be paying me to get their creators’ content in front of my eyeballs, most of which contains some form of disguised or stealth marketing, or sponsored content, sponsored products, etc.
Google makes their content streams available to watch for free. It’s my own damned right to decide which streams I want to watch. Otherwise they should hide it behind a paywall.
This is without even touching on the topic of how Google exploits and abuses their relationship with content creators (BS copyright system, demonetization, etc), and the fact that the majority of the ads are scams, frauds, political misinformation, etc.
Oh, wait, I do understand. It’s because criminal law is only really meant for the little people who sold some marijuana and not the corporations facilitating massive worldwide fraud.
If I help personally defraud one person? Straight to jail. But Google helps defraud millions of people? Here please take some more taxpayer cash.
For starters, Europe doesn’t have the Communist Party dictatorship that can arbitrarily fuck your business over on a whim with no possibility for recourse because the Party is judge, jury and executioner.
China is a scary place to do business if you’re not a huge multinational with leverage.
Do you owe debts for a business deal/partnership gone wrong? Congrats your creditors can have you banned from leaving the country until they are paid. Oops you weren’t even notified there would be a court hearing against you, so you’re not aware of the debt until you tried to board a flight. I hope you didn’t think you had any chance to appeal that bad decision because the courts will side with the local Chinese over the foreigner.
Oh and let’s not forget the Canadian Michaels’ ordeal.
欢迎来中国.
The marketing around passkeys is absolutely infuriating.