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dilutedh2o

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dilutedh2o··on Even 'uncensored' models can't say what they want
hahaha amazing
dilutedh2o··on Even 'uncensored' models can't say what they want
cool!
dilutedh2o··on EpsteinBench: We Brought Epstein's Voice Back but Got More Than We Wanted
it shows that finetuning a model on the epstein files makes it more dangerous
dilutedh2o··on Noise pollution hurts the heart
amen
dilutedh2o··on Australian Facebook News Ban Isn’t About Democracy
I'm all for exposing and thwarting anti competitive practices but I want to see this happen on both sides of the spectrum.
dilutedh2o··on Australian Facebook News Ban Isn’t About Democracy
Convenient for you to call it propaganda when it doesn't divulge the narrative you want to hear.

Anyone can make your argument, regardless of political stance.

What you end up with is the most convincing and popular narrative becoming the only lawful story that can be told.

No thanks.

dilutedh2o··on Why does gold have value?
Its soft and conducts at 70% of copper so it's great for contacts for electronic equipment

barely oxidizes

supply increases at a slow and sheady rate of about 2% a year

used for other electronics like circuit boards (not sure why to be honest, so might just be parroting this last point)

I'm curious too tbh, but I think that list is already pretty good (along with the fungibility and inner golumn arguments earlier in the thread)

ape do like shiny

dilutedh2o··on Stripe Canceled My Account Today
Why not just let the natural selection play out
dilutedh2o··on 250M people participate in nationwide strike in India
what about the people who don't want the market needlessly inflated by price floors?
dilutedh2o··on Facebook's blackout didn't dent political ad reach (Axios exclusive)
A future of fact checking necessitates a future of narrative control. No thanks.
dilutedh2o··on AWS Is Not Your Ideal
"This is also a side-effect of the the relative valuation of engineering time vs. the time of another function"

Not sure if author posted it but found a lil typo

dilutedh2o··on What's new in PHP 8?
I dont see the big deal to be honest. If youre using == you're probably approaching the conditional too sloppily to begin with
dilutedh2o··on Apple Music on Android asks user's card details to avoid Google's 30% cut
yes
dilutedh2o··on Google plans to move UK users' accounts outside EU jurisdiction
That sounds really interesting.

Would you mind sharing a resource to learn more about how the UK spies on US citizens?

dilutedh2o··on Learning Morse code in the 21st century
In that case we may as well use the alphabet tbh
dilutedh2o··on HSBC to shift $20B worth of assets to blockchain-based Digital Vault
No doubt, but there's no consensus algo like PoW right?
dilutedh2o··on HSBC to shift $20B worth of assets to blockchain-based Digital Vault
Git is a Blockchain? Did I miss a meeting?
dilutedh2o··on Climate change: Impacts 'accelerating' as leaders gather for UN talks
I think that is an interpretation of the graph showing sea level rise since 1994, which is on that page.
dilutedh2o··on Why Are America’s Three Biggest Metros Shrinking?
More jobs I guess?
dilutedh2o··on ‘Just four dudes’: Inside EasyList, a community-run ad-blocking list
That's basically half of my day to day at the moment, that's why I'm wondering
dilutedh2o··on ‘Just four dudes’: Inside EasyList, a community-run ad-blocking list
I would love to see an example of something like this.

Please.

dilutedh2o··on 25M Android Phones Infected with Malware That ‘Hides in WhatsApp’
Not sure I quite understand how to check if I've been infected.
dilutedh2o··on Ask HN: Why are modern music players so bad at playing music in random order?
Am just here to nitpick, but the 5 disk CD changer behavior that you just described is not true randomness (by definition).