mcv
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- Comment on PC upgrade woes 15 hours ago:
Touché.
- Comment on PC upgrade woes 17 hours ago:
What, don’t you want a boot process that offers a different surprise every day?
- Comment on From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT 1 day ago:
I would replace “dramatic” with “predictable”. Everybody knew it was bullshit. It was like tulip mania, but without actual tulips.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 2 days ago:
That’s exactly what I’m saying: more options to be safer.
Choosing between no men or all men is certainly better than having no choice at all, but being able to filter out just the creeps would be even better.
And yes, that does mean you need to detect who the creeps are, but sexual harassment is already happening, and it would be good to use that information to stop it from happening.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 2 days ago:
I think this rule a massive improvement, but I also think it’s very restrictive. Women can only choose to avoid all men, rather than just the creeps. So female drivers who need more passengers might feel forced to accept all men, and female passengers who can’t find a ride, might be forced to accept a ride from any male driver. Which might still be a creep.
I think it’s better to weed out the creeps. I think that’s ultimately better for everybody. Make it harder for creeps to get a ride or passenger, instead of making it harder for women.
Maybe both should be an option.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 2 days ago:
Quite the opposite.
- Comment on "US Person": is a red flag for financial institutions in Europe 2 days ago:
The rule is not just for US citizens, but for a specific category called “US Person”, which is broader, and I think it includes anyone with any tie to the US. I believe having American parents, having had US citizenship even if you renounced it, or having had a greencard, also count. Though I don’t know the exact rules.
- Comment on "US Person": is a red flag for financial institutions in Europe 2 days ago:
I think you can usually deduct the taxes you pay elsewhere, but you will still have to file your taxes, which is apparently a rather painful process in the US.
- Comment on "US Person": is a red flag for financial institutions in Europe 2 days ago:
Because otherwise none of their customers will be able to do business with the US. They would like their customers to be able to do business with the US, so their only options are to either follow reporting rules for US Persons, or avoid having US Persons as customer. It sucks, but it’s the US government forcing this on everybody, and because of the economic dominance of the US, the rest of the world has no choice but to comply.
- Comment on "US Person": is a red flag for financial institutions in Europe 2 days ago:
This is not because anyone wants to discriminate against Americans (maybe they do, but it’s unrelated to this rule), but because of rules the US forces on the rest of the world. There are special tax reporting rules for US Persons that banks have to obey if they want to be able to do business with the US at all. If you can’t or don’t want to follow those special rules, avoiding having US Persons as customer is the easiest way to comply.
I’ve worked for several Dutch banks, and US Person is a special category they have to deal with. No other nationality has this. Maybe Ethiopia? But that’s easily ignored. But nobody ignores the US. They have no choice but to comply. Vote for a different tax code if you don’t like it.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 2 days ago:
I wouldn’t mind if they’d implemented this the opposite way: if a woman, driver or passenger, encounters a creep, they could report that in the app and then the creep would automatically be banned from riding with women. That way decent men aren’t affected and women keep more choice in drivers/passengers, and only the creeps are singled out.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 2 days ago:
I’m pretty sure it’s much, much worse than you think. In fact, I’m fairly sure it’s much worse than I think. Men don’t experience it, women are reluctant to talk about it because some men react aggressively to claims that men react aggressively.
- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 1 week ago:
Note the words “in vain”.
- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 1 week ago:
I’m a Christian, and I assure you that this is nonsense. I distinctly remember the name Yahweh being used in sermons. Maybe there are branches of Christianity where that’s a thing, but it’s definitely not universal.
“Using God’s name in vain” is generally taken to be about blasphemous cursing, not about using God’s name at all.
- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 1 week ago:
My parents are boomers and they’re not like that at all.
Even my grandfather wasn’t, although my grandmother’s sisters thought he was; it was my grandmother who insisted the kitchen was het domain, but apparently her much more feminist sisters (and this is a very Reformed protestant family) blamed him. Only after her death could he discover all the cool things he could cook.
- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 1 week ago:
I think it’s Jews who can’t say Yahweh. Christians certainly can.
- Comment on Forced age verification is comming sooner than we thought. 1 week ago:
Yeah, this does not sound like it’s going to make our children any safer.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
The kernel can wait. Kernels are good at that.
- Comment on It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich 1 week ago:
Exactly. We are extremely social animals, hardwired to recognise ourselves in things around us, which I’m sure is super useful and vital for a tribe of hunter gatherers living in a hostile environment. But it means that now we recognise faces and emotions in power outlets and lawn chairs. It’s really not surprising we see intelligence and awareness in LLMs, because we recognise that stuff in everything. We are really poor at the level of critical thought required to deal with this responsibly.
- Comment on It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich 1 week ago:
An AI response should always be treated as a suggestion, not an answer
Exactly. An AI response can be a great way to get started on a topic you know little about, but it’s never a definitive answer. You have to verify whether it’s actually true. Whether it works. Never trust it blindly.
- Comment on It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich 1 week ago:
Especially rude if you want to charge money for it. If your boss wanted an AI answer, they would have asked an AI. You don’t need an expensive consulting company for that.
- Comment on MSI's $80 AMD motherboards with DDR4 support swoop in to rescue gamers amid the global RAM crisis 2 weeks ago:
I still have some DDR3, but no motherboard for it. We need DDR4, but I don’t suppose anyone will want to trade in that direction.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 2 weeks ago:
“We apologize for the inconvenience this causes you.”
How nice.
“We apologize for the fact that you live under a state legislature that doesn’t respect your humanity.”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
They can’t possibly stop school shooters, but they’re definitely going to try to stop wealthy pedo shooters.
- Comment on User accidentally gains control of over 6,700 robot vacuums while tinkering with their own device to enable control with a PlayStation controller 2 weeks ago:
Why are they collecting this data in the first place? You can’t mishandle data you don’t have. The fact that remote access to video is even possible, is very alarming.
- Comment on Stephen Colbert says CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC 3 weeks ago:
Not for you perhaps, but for a lot of people that’s important. There are way too many people who falsely think the Republicans are the Christian party, and that’s unfortunately helped by Christians who separate their faith from politics. It’s vital that more Christians speak out about the hypocrisy and perversion of the “Religious Right”, or uninformed people will continue to be led astray by them.
It’s not good for you either if they continue to vote Republican, so give him this opportunity to set them straight.
- Comment on Stephen Colbert says CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC 3 weeks ago:
I think he’s cancelled in May or thereabouts. It’s a very slow cancellation.
- Comment on Trigger warning - This Epstein stuff is making me sick... 3 weeks ago:
There should not exist a class of people with such unaccountable power that they can do these things and get away with it.
This isn’t just about Epstein, Trump and all the other child rapists on those files (although they should definitely go to prison); it’s about the system that makes this possible, and puts the worst possible people in a position to do this and get away with it.
- Comment on An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me 4 weeks ago:
Let’s van those hit pieces too. In fact, let’s split the internet into one for bots and one without bots.
- Comment on outlawing pedestrians 4 weeks ago:
That sounds a lot more reasonable. And that’s a standalone bridge. If you want to be stingy, you could also just have a walkway on the side of the highway bridge. Make sure you’ve got a solid wall between the cars ajd pedestrians, of course.