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concordDance
·geçen yıl·discuss
Disgruntled ex-employee disparaging their old colleagues and bosses is extremely common, I don't get why this is getting so many upvotes...
concordDance
·2 yıl önce·discuss
You could use the EPA dollar to life conversion ratio.

Though anything actually potentially lethal shouldn't really have a standard Internet connection. E.g. nuclear power plants, trains, planes controls, heavy industrial equipment, nuclear weapons...
concordDance
·2 yıl önce·discuss
Some of those commits might fix genuine vulnerabilities. So you might trade a new backdoor for an old vulnerability that thousands of criminal orgs have bots for exploiting.

Damage wise, most orgs aren't going to be hurt much by NSA or the Chinese equivalent getting access, but a Nigerian criminal gang? They're far more likely to encrypt all your files and demand a ransom.
concordDance
·3 yıl önce·discuss
What system would you recommend?
concordDance
·3 yıl önce·discuss
> Also, it's not unprovable

No it really is. Unless Sam explicitly confesses it's completely impossible to prove to a courtroom standard.

It would have happened two decades ago, with a person he had frequent private physical access to. There is no possible physical or witness evidence.

It can't go anywhere.

Also, remembered allegations of sexual assault from when someone is four are much weaker signals than recountings of behavior by an adult in a workplace setting.
concordDance
·3 yıl önce·discuss
> I understand why

Because its pointless and unpleasant, we have zero means of verifying or discomfirming the story and it won't go anywhere because its unprovable.
concordDance
·3 yıl önce·discuss
What does "free to do X" mean then? That you are physically able to do so?
concordDance
·3 yıl önce·discuss
> Nobody sheds any tears over their opinions being restricted, and nobody should. Debating with pidgeons doesn't work.

Wrong, wrong and in my experience the people most similar to pigeons (e.g. shitting on the table rather than debating) are the young teens on reddit with vaguely leftist ideas with no foundation (proper communists are generally good debaters), the actual heriditarians and ethnic nationalists might be wrong, but they do try and actually debate rather than insult.
concordDance
·3 yıl önce·discuss
> Doesn't mean you are forbidden to say what you want.

This confuses me.

Saying someone is "free to do X" normally means that X is allowed by law. Or else what could it possibly mean?
concordDance
·3 yıl önce·discuss
And yet when I want to search in the files in a folder searching with windows search won't turn up anything, so I have to switch to the WSL and grep...
concordDance
·4 yıl önce·discuss
> Looks pretty sane to me?

Expressing the view off site that sexual relationships between adults and children are not harmful results in being prevented from editing wikipedia.

This is an ideological test on who can edit.
concordDance
·4 yıl önce·discuss
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concordDance
·4 yıl önce·discuss
You can't copy paste guns and distribute them for free on the internet. At least not yet.
concordDance
·4 yıl önce·discuss
That's true only for the first few hundred Ricks. Then people wide up and ignore the child rape videos.

It's inevitable and frankly a hundred Ricks is a price worth paying.
concordDance
·4 yıl önce·discuss
"The relationship between tyranny and surveillance means we need better governments, not more anonymity."

"Better governments" is not actionable, people have been wanting that since Socratese. Might as well wish for the second coming.

The real answer is to just let people know about the fakery, then they'll stop believing every video and the trolls will be defanged.
concordDance
·4 yıl önce·discuss
> Being very common makes the event systematic.

The thing is that when dealing with something on the scale of the justice system even a hundred examples don't mean it occurs more than a fraction of a percent of the time. When assessing anecdotes to try and determine event frequency you need to understand how the anecdotes were sampled.
concordDance
·5 yıl önce·discuss
> freed up 40% of the workforce.

And did that actually improve everyone's quality of life? Or did it just increase the cost of positional goods (check out house prices in the West)?
concordDance
·5 yıl önce·discuss
> Just raise them as you would a child?

That could only work even in theory if you've programmed in all the innate behaviours/desires human children have. And in practice raising superintelligent children who can clone themselves and rewrite their minds is not a thing we know how to do.
concordDance
·7 yıl önce·discuss
I'm struggling to see any actual harm from this use of facial recognition if the video is deleted promptly after processing and conversion to an attendance list.