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@ Steve @communick.news

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  • Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out?

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  • The most downvoted and most upvoted comments, both say the same thing.People are werid.

  • Where are the marketing volunteers?

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  • I wasn't confused

  • Where are the marketing volunteers?

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  • You're missing my point.Not sure if it's intentional or not.

  • Where are the marketing volunteers?

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  • All true. But...Don't make your online accounts your identity.They aren't you. They aren't real.

  • Where are the marketing volunteers?

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  • The Fediverse should be as ubiquitous as email.Your ISP, company, government, etc. should all host their own social media, just like they do email.

  • How do you "process" hundreds of tabs you haven't gotten a chance to look through?

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  • If they were actually important, you'dve remembered and dealt with them already. Go ahead and close them. You might be suprised when the FoMo goes away after.

    I have Vivaldi set to close any tabs older than 3 days.

  • Is there desire for Capt. Una spin-off?

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  • A new Star Trek (2027) that just continues from SNW would be great!

    Reboot's are overly maligned. And continuity is a nievely harmful fantasy. You realise TOS got up to warp 14 or something right? It could do with a new version.

    P. S. I'm being serous. I'm not playing your childish reverse psychology nonsense game.

  • Pisces sensitivity or noise sensitivity?

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  • The Zodiac isn't real.If you enjoy reading horoscopes for light entertainment, that's harmless enough. But under no circumstances should you ever think your "stars" might have any real effect on who you are or what you're like. "Pisces Sensitivity" isn't a thing.

  • What if we’re thinking about “Fediverse funding” the wrong way? (Non-crypto idea)

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  • Couldn't each one decide how much to charge and pay for their tokens? Like a swarm of countless centralized currencies, rather than a single decentralized one?

  • What if we’re thinking about “Fediverse funding” the wrong way? (Non-crypto idea)

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  • Then you have a central org you need to trust with the money. It's not really distributed or federated system anymore.

  • What if we’re thinking about “Fediverse funding” the wrong way? (Non-crypto idea)

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  • Whatever the term, if the coins can be exchanged back into a real currency or goods, they have real value, and as such they're as good cash.

    Wikipedia:

    Pachinko balls won from games cannot be exchanged directly for money in the parlor, nor can they be removed from the premises or exchanged with other parlors. However, they can be legally traded to the parlor for so-called "special prize" tokens (tokushu keihin (特殊景品) [ja]), which can in turn be "sold" for cash to a separate vendor off-premises.

    That's still not going to work without either a blockchain or central trusted management org of some kind.

  • What if we’re thinking about “Fediverse funding” the wrong way? (Non-crypto idea)

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  • So if they have real cash value, how do you secure a distributed currency system without a blockchain? How do you stop the creation of fraudulent tokins?

  • What if we’re thinking about “Fediverse funding” the wrong way? (Non-crypto idea)

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  • I'm not sure what problem this is trying to solve exactly.Why not just a simple subscription to your home instance/server?What would people get from trading these tokins, can they cash them out?If not blockchain how do you guarantee or secure these tokins being traded across instance/servers?

  • Science Keeps Changing. So Why Should We Trust It?

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  • No. No, it proves what ideas are not true.That's what the falsifiable standard is all about.

    What you might be thinking of are unfalsifiable claims, like religion often makes. And in those cases yes, science can't say they're false. So science doesn't apply at all to those things. You may use logic or mathematics to try find a probability for those things, but that's not realy science. Those are different disciplines. Though they do have overlap, as science uses them also.

  • Artificial "Intelligence"

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  • Sewing machines don't make stiches the way people do. People tried for decades and failed to build machines that sewed like humans. They work by making their stiches in ways humans never would, or could realy. They had to invent a whole new way get the job done, not remotely the way a person would do it.

    AI will very likely be the same. Expecting machine minds to do things the same way a human mind would, to mimic human thought, strikes me as some kind of human centric bias.

  • Artificial "Intelligence"

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  • Complexity isn't relevant to my analogy.The lessons learned from the failures and eventual success of machine sewing are.

    Unless you're being sarcastic.Sewing really is surprisingly complex.

  • Artificial "Intelligence"

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  • That's like saying there's no way a machine can replicate hand sewing.

  • Science Keeps Changing. So Why Should We Trust It?

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  • At least in person I've had a little luck explaining that science doesn't actually claim to be the Truth. It does however prove what's false. So the current science is only the best idea we have so far. And when we have new information current science changes.

    Compared to faith or religion which has no idea if it's wrong, and refuses to change with new information. Which is more trustworthy for the most effective advice in a changing world?

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    "Starfleet Academy" early review round-up

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  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Why do we use the term Ban when it's temporary? Why not the more accurate, Suspension?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    How long do you think we'll keep seeing "formerly Twitter"?

  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
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    Cards Against Humanity sues SpaceX, alleges “invasion” of land on US/Mexico border

    arstechnica.com /tech-policy/2024/09/cards-against-humanity-sues-spacex-alleges-invasion-of-land-on-us-mexico-border/