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Exactly, and the prupose of these legislation was supposed to be exactly that : force companies to integrate privacy in the core of their products, not to create a list of items to tick.

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2 mesi fadiscuss

didn't they ? There is 4x more advertising for 4x less content and the recommendations are pretty crappy.

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3 mesi fadiscuss

Don't mean to make Americans sad but "the US" doesn't win AI, a few oligarchs win AI (if US companies end up winning).

The question is not US v China, it's Peter Thiel and Elon Musk vs literally anything else (that would be clearly better).

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3 mesi fadiscuss

Successfully ? Maybe the OG survivor bias here..

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5 mesi fadiscuss

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5 mesi fadiscuss

Do you think your organisation as a whole is doing more ? Is the more being done actually useful ? i.e: is the outcome better ?

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5 mesi fadiscuss

This looks like a fairly typical engineer's solution to a complex social problem: it doesn't really solve the problem, introduces other issues / is gameable, yet unlikely to create problems for the creator. Of course creator answers any criticism of the solution with "Well make something better". That's not the point: this is most likely net negative, at least that is the (imo well supported) opinion of critics. If the cons outway the pros, then doing nothing is better than this.

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5 mesi fadiscuss

But humans react to this extremely differently than a self driving car. Humans take responsability, and the self-driving disengages and say : WELP. Oh sorry were you "enjoying your travel time to do something useful" as we very explicitely marketed ? Well now your wife is dead and it's your fault (legally). Kisses, Elon.

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5 mesi fadiscuss

4 thousand :)

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5 mesi fadiscuss

  ECB is doing one reckless thing after another which will inevitably lead to Germany leaving Eurozone at some point.

I'm not even sure what you're trying to say with the rest of it but this is nonsense. The ECB policy IS German, and has been for 3 decades. All of germany's economy is organized around the existence of the eurozone with Germany controlling a unified monetary policy.

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5 mesi fadiscuss

M1&2 yes with slight caveats, m3-5 not really (at least yet)

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5 mesi fadiscuss

landlords need people to pay the rent. Or to spell it out more precisely : the construction/housing industry off of which land lords extract value needs external value creation to still exist AND give revenue to spend to a large population. "Houses are for people to live in" may be a communist slogan right now, but it's also very basic macro-economic reality.

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6 mesi fadiscuss

It's particularly well suited for backups

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6 mesi fadiscuss

Historically news outlet run as public service (with sufficient guardrails for autonomy) such as the BBC, PBS, France Television, Arte (naming only those I know well) have produce much better news coverage than the privately owned ones.

OTOH the concept of independent public institution and general checks and balances seems to have been entirely forgotten, so maybe that's not a solution for 21st century.

An alternative would be communally owned media (50/50 by readership and journalists), with simple direct tax incentive to fund them (equal amounts of $ per person)

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6 mesi fadiscuss

There is very little hardware that would actually be ipv6 incompatible. We're talking network equipment from 15+ years ago, which is also obsolete because it's 1Gbps at 10x the power usage of a 10gbps switch.

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6 mesi fadiscuss

Yes they did, at least twice in the 19th century. It was the largest financial crisis before 1929

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6 mesi fadiscuss

Unless you are a personal assistant, your job probably is not to "make the life of your hiring manager easier".

You have responsibilities, which ideally should be stipulated in some form in a contract, and if you are vaguely senior they hopefully go beyond "do whatever steeve needs to feel good".

I would argue that it is in fact your manager whose job entails making your (and your peers) professional life easier, by identifying the roadblocks, escalating problems if need be, etc...

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7 mesi fadiscuss

It has more words put together in seemingly correct sentences, so it's long enough his boss won't actually read it to proof it.

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7 mesi fadiscuss

It is literally the ONE thing that every AI critic has been talking about for years.

Several things can be true at the same time : it's possible for the wild claims of great efficiency gains and transformative (for good) power of AI to be overblown (for the sake of stock prices) AND for AI applied to surveillance to be a terrifying prospect.

Surveillance AI doesn't need to be correct to be terrifying.

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10 mesi fadiscuss

It solves a problem for Stripe : potentially evading some incoming regulations in payments in the UK/EU (and U.S probably).

Regulations in payments tend to be very technical, and inserting some crypto/distributed plausible deniability in the mix could get them 5 more years of delay (until the next generation of regulations). It will depend on how those regulations take shape in the coming months.

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