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DomeGuy

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  • Am I financially enabling child labor in 3rd world countries by buying second hand fast fashion?

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  • No matter how complex or inefficient the orphan grinding machine, if you buy something second-hand and the person you bought it from buys a replacement with your proceeds, you are contributing to that sale and thereby funding the orphan grinding machine.

  • You can't legally drink and drive, but you have to present your driver's license to prove you're old enough to drink.

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    What are some tasks that AI won't replace? Is playing computer games (like we play, by sending control commands/button presses) one of them?

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  • An actual AI would be a person,.capable of doing any task that can be done remotely. The current crop of pseudo-AIs aren't, and so cannot really replace that many jobs.

    (What they are mostly doing is serving as a scapegoat for businesses who want to drop inefficient employees -- those whose revenue::wage ratio is not high enough. I guess layoffs play better on wall street when you can blame AI for them and pretend your company isn't shedding capacity.)

    One place LLMs are potentially very useful is in replacing the need for "extra bodies.". A programmer or lawyer or doctor might want a junior or paralegal to draft some work or review some file to save their time, but the professional still needs to review it.

    Fortunately or unfortunately, "play this game and find as many bugs as you can" is exactly that sort of extra-body work. It would be dumb to fire all 10 of the team's testers, but letting go 5 of them and supplanting the balance with LLMs might wind up with a better or cheaper product.

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    Trump warns of 'very bad things' if Republicans lose midterms

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  • Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption

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  • I don't use WhatsApp, because I'm a homebody and none of the ten people I want to talk to use it. (Plus,.meta. Ugh.)

    But the test for "is their encryption good enough to keep them from reading your messages" really needs to be "can you trivially lock yourself out of sent messages".

    If it's easy for you to set up a new device and chat with your existing contacts without manually entering a code, then it'll be equally easy for them to set up a fake device pretending to be you and read all of the same things.

  • Steam Owner Valve Faces $900 Million Lawsuit Over PC Monopoly Claims, Following UK Tribunal Ruling - IGN

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  • While I don't buy a lot of PC games, I did pick up Stellaris on GOG.

    The weird second-class status I get when it comes to betas and mods is enough for anyone to scream. Especially since if I wanted to move to steam, I'd have to re-buy every add-on I want to play.

    Add-on lock-in really is a thing. Even if it may be as much a lazy publisher as it is a greedy storefront.

  • 'rents

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  • Yes, you should definitely tell him.

    And then start calling him panda.

  • "Those rights don't count": Bovino says Pretti forfeited 2nd Amendment rights in fatal shooting

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  • 1: the quote is from the declaration of independence, not the US Constitution that was written 13 years later after the initial weak federal government was found to be too weak.

    2: 11 of the ratified amendments were essentially part of the bargain to get said Constitution passed. And absent the civil war amendments, none of the subsequent amendments were passed due to violence. (Maybe you're thinking of the VRA?)

    3: that SCOTUS has devolved into a creative writing exercise in "how can we pretend the Constitution doesn't say what it says", apparently Jefferson was right and enumerated rights were a mistake. (Given the benefit of hindsight, an equally difficult process for removing rights recognized by Congress or SCOTUS would have been better.)

  • Please science

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  • On occasion those "positive side effects" become the primary effect the drug is prescribed for.

    Most famously, Viagra was not created to be a male sexual aid.

  • Baffled

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  • The best null theory for an inconsistent teacher isn't "crazy" or "weird" but "employee".

    "Socialism and communism always lead to facism" is exactly the sort of thing the American right would put in statewide tests and educational standards to keep Americans from voting to nationalize health care.

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    Are licenses imposed in certain color palettes/schemes, like the "Dracula PRO" color scheme (a paid variant of the open source Dracula color scheme that adds a light variant) unenforceable?

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  • OP should make friends with a lawyer in their country and find out the cost to ask simple questions.

    Having a family lawyer is a good thing, unless you like being at the mercy of your landlord's whins.

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    Are licenses imposed in certain color palettes/schemes, like the "Dracula PRO" color scheme (a paid variant of the open source Dracula color scheme that adds a light variant) unenforceable?

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  • A license can impose any legal conditions as part of the bargain. If I let you come into my home, I can insist that you take off your shoes and never say "Trump". I might even be able to hire a cleaning service, and require them to adhere to those same rules if they want to get paid.

    This same condition could include not saying the T word on the public sidewalk near my house. And those who want to visit me or get paid to clean my house would likely follow it. But what I cant do is impose my ban on pedestrians who just walk down the street, since they already have a right to do that.

    So, yes licenses that include terms about not using or including certain color schemes are generally enforceable. But they wont necessarily stop the usage of that color scheme by people who don't have some other consideration to bind them to the license.

    (More specifics would require more specifics. Are they claiming trademark, patent, or copyright on the color scheme? In what country? Against who?)

  • If you agree with the majority then censorship is ok.

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  • Yes. Having any one person 'in charge" who is not an immortal with superhuman morality and judgement will eventually lead to tyrannical suffering or the waste of a bloody civil war.

    Lemmy (and piefed) is a great example of human societies done correctly. There are people who run things, and while they can establish whatever rules they want for the parts they run, everyone else is free to either ask for a change or go elsewhere.

    For bad actions, options range from immediate negative feedback (downvote) and.corrective speech (public comment or private message), to negative consequences from those in power (ban account from instance), which can ultimately rise to community separation (de-federation). Heck, even the underlying software can be forked or replaced.

    Of course, the stakes here are essentially trivial. Which means the consequences are too, but also we all have less incentive for bad action than in the real world where poverty and death are a possibility from bad action.

  • If you agree with the majority then censorship is ok.

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  • Putting the mob in charge is the least-bad form of government humans have ever conceived of.

    Experts can and do establish reputations to persuade the masses or those chosen by the masses.

    When we try putting the experts in charge directly, they invariably become corrupt and stop being as skilled.

    There is a reason why America's founding fathers put a wall between church and state. Not because they thought religion was bad, but because they learned from history that when you give a topic-expert political control they stop being good at either function.

  • Greenland

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  • The quote you need to burn into whatever part of your brain that thought this up is as follows:

    War is how God teaches Americans geography.

  • If you agree with the majority then censorship is ok.

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  • Censorship is suspect, not inherently bad.

    Freedom of viewpoint expression is a key part of democracy and modern society. But it's not an absolute right of unfettered communication, since that would lead to no recourse when a racist troll projects a deep fake of you raping small children on the side of your house.

    Being able to sue someone for libel is censorship. Property rights allowing you to control what happens on your house are censorship. And, yes, the government arresting that hypothetical racist troll for the production of child pornography is also censorship.

    Of course, we could just define censorship as "suppression of protected speech" or something similar, but that just hides the game and helps folk who actually want to censor political ideas they don't like get away with it.

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    TIL: The United States is Now Officially in First Phase of Civil War

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  • By this standard the US civil war began no later than 1787, when the 3/5th and grand compromises.were necessary to get both factions to agree to the new constitution.

    There's a reason why we don't call the "three score and thirteen" years between the conference in Philadelphia and the attack on fort Sumter a "war".

  • To Their Shock, Cubans in Florida Are Being Deported in Record Numbers

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  • Oh, I know the trick to this!

    Refuse to learn anything at all about someone's actual positions, and just judge them by labels. Castro and Hitler were both bad and called themselves socialists, so Bernie sanders and AOC have to also be bad.

    (Or, y'know, we could just judge folk by what they say and do instead of labels...)

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    The Military Is Being Forced to Plan for an Unthinkable Betrayal | Attacking an ally would be a perversion of everything the armed forces have been trained to do.

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  • While malls are a staple of American culture, they're not the mark of an ally. To the USA, that word means "we will go to war to defend you and expect you to do the same".

    That the USA ended its friendship with Venezuela over an idiotic cold war bias is embarrassing and indefensible, but it's not a recent diplomatic change.