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Comment · 1 month ago
Yeah they accept websites without content nowadays, which I think should be the case either way.

What is not okay is them pushing a huge amount of ads into website, constantly asking you to enable auto-ads and vignette ads and what-not.

Comment · 1 month ago
LLMs feel to me like the monkeys from the infinite monkey theorem, except that they are on the finite side. It writes gibberish for me, and for others it writes Shakespeare.

Obviously this is just survivorship bias/p-hacking/insert-other-buzzword but can't help but anthropomorphize it, it is hard for me to wrap my head around the idea that the same person who cannot produce code without 2 unrelated bugs both not present does this for someone else.

Imagine a math teacher struggling to understand what he is teaching casually solving a millennium problem, then go back to not understanding what he is teaching, doesn't happen in our world.

I am not confused by any of this, I am just trying to communicate an idea.

Comment · 2 months ago
it is probably a wikipedia style wiki and doesn't need registration, so would probably have to ip range ban them
Comment · 2 months ago
I feel like accent removers is what you need.
Comment · 4 years ago
The offers reflected the stock price, stock prices go up and down always.
Comment · 4 years ago
The code Copilot suggest from any given project most of the time is not enough to credit such project, when I look up code in some GitHub repo, and copy it fully or part of it, I do not credit that project.

I do not see Copilot as useful anyway.

Comment · 4 years ago
That makes your cousin a migrant worker too? no?
Comment · 4 years ago
I had an income of 2-3k monthly from Facebook apps back in 2010s. I do not advice apps since you are at the mercy of the platform and their policies.
Comment · 4 years ago
Like North African farm workers in France.
Comment · 4 years ago
That's not legal, and it doesn't happen in cases of the kind of workers you are talking about. Taking passport or treating to be accused of rape and similar things happen (not commonly) to domestic workers and drivers. In occasions they buy the right of Kafala from the Kafil for a couple of $1000s and you leaving before your contract ends feel to them like a loss of money, I would say the situation here is indeed similar to slavery. For industry workers, every worker is replaceable and the company hiring you has 0 incentive to force you to stay.

The real issue in gulf is not paying livable wages mainly. Anything else is comparable to farm workers in Europe.

Comment · 4 years ago
Qatar is Sunni, they do not do temporary marriages, which is a Shia thing.
Comment · 4 years ago
It is not about the Kafala system, since even the West has similar systems. It is that they treat migrant workers that are not highly skilled specially from specific backgrounds bad.
Comment · 4 years ago
They will respond to complaints.

Say you go to your Airbnb, walk the stairs with a woman that could look like a sex worker, the neighbors will consider that disrespectful to be done "in front of their kids", and they will call the police on you. However not sure if that's enough to warrant the police entering your house, so they might just talk to you and ask you to be considerate or give you a warning.

Comment · 4 years ago
I am someone from a developing country who regularly used crypto either to get paid, or to pay for things online.

Does crypto have issues? yes. Is it good enough that in occasion it was my preferred payment method? yes.

Crypto community and companies are maybe bad, but if you zoom out into IT overall there is a fair share of greed and misuse. The internet is full of scams, gurus selling courses with false claims, spam emails that drain your grandpa's account, affiliate programs with 70% margin to sell fake products from questionable weight loss ebooks with health-harming diets to fragrances claiming to be perfumes that attract females supported by endless fake video testimonies, online communities encouraging hate, demoralization, and lack of belief in society.

Seem to me that those articles are nothing but status quo bias, does crypto has bad aspects? yes, is it worse than say internet? I don't know.

Comment · 4 years ago
TikTok recommend content based on attractiveness.

There is a couple of accounts that use the same attractive face in totally unrelated videos, like 1 second of it, in all their videos just to bait the algorithm and it works.

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