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Comment · 1 day ago
Does the bill affect human users, maybe you're interpreting this better than me.
Comment · 1 day ago
"Knowing the identity behind a crawler tells us relatively little about whether its behavior is harmful. Under the New York bill, a company that discloses its identity and then accesses the website 10,000 times a minute complies with the law even though it is still imposing enormous and likely unjustified costs on the site. But a journalist anonymously using a crawler to investigate potentially anti-competitive practices by tech companies does not."

It does seem like this bill mostly affects normal users and is suspect with more surveillance being pushed. However the biggest problem is that the internet is global and the fees only apply to the US. If bots from Russia, China, India, or even France are scrapping then how would this even reduce the bots? Seems more like a new 'contempt of business model' is the purpose of this bill.

Comment · 1 day ago
That's the sort of thing you really don't want to hear from your encrypted mail company.
Comment · 1 day ago
Elon Musk did the Nazi solute twice on live television and is funding the Nazi revive movement in Germany. Like the KKK had 3 iterations, but no one says group 3 isn't the KKK just cause they are less powerful.
Comment · 2 days ago
Do you have investments in the big US companies?
Comment · 2 days ago
The non-deterministic nature is like the main feature. Also, you could be a cpu with enough patience, you would still be non-deterministic.
Comment · 2 days ago
Resin is not similar, it's very toxic and it accumulates.
Comment · 2 days ago
So like sitting at a coffee shop next to the theatre. Or chatting with a person on the street.
Comment · 3 days ago
Is that last bit supposed to tongue in cheek? Sarcasm is difficult to read through text.
Comment · 4 days ago
They unionized because people were already dying.
Comment · 4 days ago
Crime has been going down since they took the lead out of gasoline. The world and the US especially has been getting safer every year since before the 24 hour news cycle. Seriously, you are safe and have been safe for decades from random crime. It wasn't some busybody's cameras.
Comment · 4 days ago
It wasn't a hypothetical, the op was listing things that both literally are happening and that ALPR's (and flock specifically) are enabling. "Hypothetically" was a bit of rhetorical flourish.
Comment · 5 days ago
The difference between these roles is prestige among other programmers. I don't know why we want to categorize by vanity.
Comment · 6 days ago
That would be speculative, it should only be added in the hypothetical time the productivity actually goes up. Even then, it should be some years in and with third party sources like all of Wikipedia.
Comment · 7 days ago
Computer vision and categorization is ai. It isn't just generative AI.

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