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Comment · 7 years ago
Yes. If I put myself in the position where I am heavily dependent on what they do then I have only myself to blame. And if it is a minor dependency then I probably won't even care. And if you are talking about them doing violence then bullets are cheap.
Comment · 7 years ago
I think people should be responsible for their actions. If they only use google without even trying anything else then they are themselves to blame for whatever bias/lies google have fed them. And asking me to pay yet another tax for regulations so that dumb people are protected from the consequences of their actions is... it's like they are trying to build a kindergarten for adults. And I am not a fan of socialism.
Comment · 7 years ago
Sorry, but I don't get why you must be entitled to having me serve you if I happen to have a server that serves other people. Just because I allow some people to visit my server does not imply that I am obligated to let you in. Because this a private property and owner have a right to decide who gets in on his private property. Unless you advocate for abolishing private property that is.
Comment · 7 years ago
Good news. I hope it will be very expensive, so that only smart and hard working people can afford it for their children. Eventually we will need to leave lazy and stupid people behind, and creating a class of genetically superior humans is a good way to do it, because it will create a group identity and they won't consider themselves as normal humans. And when it is US vs THEM the hard choices are much easier to make.
Comment · 7 years ago
Humans are already a certain type of genetics. Your cat is not equal to you. Not in rights, and not even in dignity. This implies that your ability for intelligence and learning is what defines your rights. And if some population will have an average IQ of geniuses then they will eventually have different rights than you do. Maybe not openly on paper, but definitely in practice.
Comment · 7 years ago
Not on the same scale as USSR. The less you do it the farther you are away from making everyone poor. Europe still has a lot of capitalistic elements to counter the equality plague.
Comment · 7 years ago
Making things available universally have already been tried in USSR. What it leads to is everyone being equally poor. And it also disincentive hard work, because most of the fruits of your labor will go to equality, instead of going to you. And because everyone gets things equally you might as well as work as little as possible - you will get what you want in any case.
Comment · 7 years ago
I would be fine with UBI or any other form of welfare if I could personally opt out of it and not receive that welfare AND not pay any taxes for it.
Comment · 7 years ago
Their model is overfitted. If you type "What the fuck did you" it will output Navy Seal copypasta with almost no changes. No wonder why it sometimes generates human-like texts, because in some cases it literally spews out its training examples with minimal or no changes.
Comment · 7 years ago
Andrew Ng did a good analogy: it is like worrying about overpopulation on Mars. It will happen sometimes in the future, but worrying about it now is very premature.
Comment · 7 years ago
It seems this networks is completely clueless about culture. I have typed "Flat is justice." and it completed it with texts about justice in judicial system instead of lolis and anime.
Comment · 7 years ago
If you can view your old conversation from a fresh installation on a new devices then this automatically implies that some 3rd party has access to your keys. I.e. your conversion cannot be considered truly private.
Comment · 7 years ago
At first I was excited about DOH, until I realized that you are simply switching data collection from ISP to whomever you choose as your trusted resolve in DOH (most likely Google or Cloudflare). So ideally we need another machine that does DOH requests and then sends you the results, but at this point you might as well setup a full VPN.

DOH might be a good alternative in places like China, because Cloudflare knowing about your browsing history is a lot less dangerous than Chinese goverment knowing about it. Unless DOH providers will sell that data to China. Which they probably will.

Comment · 7 years ago
In practice you can host your browser redistributable on non-US server that has no obligation to US laws. And if US user chooses to download from that location there is nothing they can do about it.
Comment · 7 years ago
That is why you use monero if you don't want government to spy on your every purchase.

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