HumanReadable's comments

I have a feeling the computing demand for every AI use case the Danish military could want to pursue, could be met by a few mainframes with fewer security risks. Given the work that goes into verifying the data center meets some assumably very high requirements, I imagine mainframes might even be the cheaper solution too.

Seems to me like yet another example of companies successfully lobbying governments to buy unnecessary things.

his argument is that if not even the commission, which presumably would adhere to the regulation they themselves have written do it correctly, it suggests that the rules for cookies are different from what you claim.

When a luxury house is built and a family moves there, they have to move from their old home which is presumably worse. So will the slightly less wealthy family that buy their old home, and so fourth.

That said, preventing gentrification requires an active effort from policy makers.

The comment asked for things wrong with the word blacklist. I replied with a reason.

I'm not arguing for the removal of the word, I don't know why you think I am.

I didn't claim we should remove the world blacklist. The comment I was responding asked for things I find wrong with blacklist, I replied with one.

oh come on, there's much more basis than that. For starters, the lab was specifically working on coronaviruses!

I'm not saying it's definitely a lab-leak, but it strikes me as ridiculous to confidently claim it wasn't given the information currently available.

it's less clear to non-native English speakers what the hell a blacklist is than what a deny-list is.

EDIT: the replies I received to this comment are pretty shocking to me. I'm not arguing for the removal of anything, I am only listing one issue with blacklist that deny-list doesn't have. Anything you're reading into my comment beyond that is your tribal identity projecting its insecurity.

FPS issues is what eventually killed dwarf fortress for me. If you want to do anything interesting be prepared to watch the game slow to a crawl.

That and construction of anything being a nightmare as your dwarfs will get stuck in every conceivable way trying to build even a simple wall more than a meter high.

That said, I have spent hundreds of hours on the game with some great stories to tell so overall I can't complain too much.

What is that distance? We can just make odds reflect that.

Are there any odds you would be interested in betting on whether this will happen?

If so I would probably be happy to take the other side of the bet :)

Do you have any advice or wise words on how you manage this?

I find myself in a leadership position, but I feel immensely uncomfortable when directing others. In my head there's always a nagging voice that replies 'who are you to tell us what to do?'

It was not difficult to get around the ban, but I wanted to point out that doing so is not allowed. Having broken no terms-of-service, I can be banned with no means of recourse. That is extremely problematic even if it is possible to cheat the system.

I got permabanned when I tried logging in from my phone with oss android installed. In Tinder's defense I imagine my phone's system might have looked similar to that of spammers leading to a false-positive, so I don't mind the ban itself.

What I do mind was that their official stance is that they don't reverse bans for any reason. Creating a new account is against their terms of service, so in theory I am locked out of one of the primary ways my generation finds partners.

In the country I live, the competitors don't have user bases nearly large enough to compete so Tinder is effectively a monopoly. With Tinder's enormous market-power comes great responsibility, and they have in my eyes failed to live up to it.

I really don't think Facebook should be in charge of making speech moderation at this level of specificity.

Social media platforms have become the public squares of the 21st century, and as such we need to treat the right for free speech on those platforms as important.

That doesn't mean we can't change these platforms to favour desirable engagement. If our physical public square were very small, everyone might be reduced to yelling to hear each other. So we make our physical public squares large and open! Maybe if we put a tree in the middle, it will calm us down and help us engage with each other.

But we will never appoint a public square moderator who arbitrarily decides what can and cannot be said. Neither should Facebook.

In what ways do you think it's similar?

I only started reading hackernews a few years back, so I don't know what it was like in the past so I'm quite curious to hear how hackernews used to be and how it has changed.

I created such an app for myself two years back. It gets fatiguing very quickly to listen to TTS, even when using state of the art stuff like Wavenet Polly.

He is the leader of the Copenhagen Consensus Center https://www.copenhagenconsensus.com/

Which does research into the most cost-effective ways to fight global poverty. Absolutely marvellous work.

Why not? They have many things in common. For example make they both make you sick, often with similar symptoms.

If you're arguing that you shouldn't dismiss the danger of covid because of its flu like nature, then be my guest but asking not to make comparisons between things doesn't strike me as a very smart thing to do.

Covid can be dangerous and similar to the flu at the same time.

I completely agree, I merely meant to point out that making decisions based on the absolute pollution of something will lead you horribly astray.

That said a carbon tax certainly does limit shipping, as some of it will no longer be profitable. Fortunately when doing it with a carbon tax, it just so happens to be the shipping that we shouldn't have been doing in the first place!

no, it is absolutely the marginal numbers that matter. All else equal, starting anywhere but the place with the most pollution per $ produced is a sub-optimal place to start.

In a world that has climate change under control, there's for sure going to be a reduction in pollution produced by global shipping, but in the world we live in there's much better places to start than by limiting global shipping.