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hellfish commented on Ask HN: Why is on-device search terrible?    · Posted by u/yonz
f1refly · 3 years ago
Try `find / -iname "foo" 2>/dev/null`, works every time. Also can take quite some time.
hellfish · 3 years ago
fd takes less time, would recommend
hellfish commented on Microsoft is preparing to add ChatGPT to Bing   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
hellfish · 3 years ago
Why are people here saying things like "everyone will use chatgpt"? How do we know that this isn't a fad?

Chatgpt gives us answers, but so do the top linked articles in a search engine. Why bother adjusting to something different if we already have something that solves the problem?

For most people, the marginal amount of time saved by using chatgpt instead of a search engine is borderline meaningless. It might be useful for lawyers to quickly tl;dr dry legal documents, but general use seems far fetched to me

hellfish commented on Pornhub requires ID from Louisiana users to comply with state’s new porn law   arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/coloneltcb
hellfish · 3 years ago
Damn... where else will I find quality nugget pron? Fuck you Louisiana gov

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hellfish commented on The FBI was the primary link between the intelligence community and Twitter   twitter.com/mtaibbi/statu... · Posted by u/tomohawk
beej71 · 3 years ago
This doesn't mean the government can't make requests to private companies, including the press.
hellfish · 3 years ago
Good idea, it's high time this practice gets banned
hellfish commented on The FBI was the primary link between the intelligence community and Twitter   twitter.com/mtaibbi/statu... · Posted by u/tomohawk
spamizbad · 3 years ago
I mean we allowed the alphabet agencies to cooperate with social media companies to fight "ISIS propaganda." -- what did you think would happen?

Scorpion, frog, etc.

If we had stood up to them in 2013, drew a line in the sand and said "No, a bunch of poorly edited snuff films aren't going to cause a bunch of American teens to join an Islamic revolution" these relationships wouldn't exist.

By the way, we are currently trying to ban TikTok because of similar concerns about it rotting teens brains. Before we start frothing at the mouth in rage at some problematic app let's do a thought experiment and consider the future blowback from taking such extreme action.

hellfish · 3 years ago
> I mean we allowed the alphabet agencies to cooperate with social media companies to fight "ISIS propaganda." -- what did you think would happen?

I remember thinking earlier, it's kind of odd that teenagers "running off to join ISIS" was a widespread problem. In hindsight the shills probably blew that whole thing out of proportion to justify more agency scope creep

hellfish commented on The FBI was the primary link between the intelligence community and Twitter   twitter.com/mtaibbi/statu... · Posted by u/tomohawk
complex_exp · 3 years ago
Uh, no, private property is subjogated to national interest. Personal freedom is subjogated to national interest (you may be conscripted). In all countries. The only way for things not to fall into a terrible state of affairs (like in Russia or Iran) is for the civil society to perform political acts, like engage in honest journalism, activism and critical thinking. And even then freedom and security are not guaranteed.

Thinking that you can be a free-from-all libertarian is like being a house cat that does not comprehend the system that keeps him alive. It is only because the system works that you can enjoy personal freedoms.

Russians have fully outsourced their both internal politics (resulting in for example the absolutely atrocious state of the courts of law) and foreign politics (mobilization! yay, go die in a trench!) to the tzar and look how that turned out. They also paid taxes and generally speaking accepted the offered social contract, but didn't monitor the situation and react to transgressions.

hellfish · 3 years ago
> Thinking that you can be a free-from-all libertarian is like being a house cat that does not comprehend the system that keeps him alive.

So because the government does something (THANK GOD), we all need to advocate for more government?

hellfish commented on The FBI was the primary link between the intelligence community and Twitter   twitter.com/mtaibbi/statu... · Posted by u/tomohawk
hellfish · 3 years ago
This whole issue revolves around how comfortable people are with DC sticking its nose in social media

These agencies have already seen massive scope creep in the past couple decades. Seeing the FBI doing moderation for social media companies is a step too far and it's high time for the alphabet agencies to get pared down

hellfish commented on France starts a debate on legalising assisted dying   economist.com/europe/2022... · Posted by u/Jimmc414
lotsofpulp · 3 years ago
There are a few US states with medically assisted suicide options.

>My problem with euthanasia is how do you know if the patient actually wanted it, or if they were pressured into it by medical personnel in order to cut costs?

It does not take a genius to figure out that expensive end of life care paid with taxpayer funds and the country’s labor resources could instead be going towards things like education or infrastructure.

>In the USA, we don't have a public health care system,

What is Medicare? Medicaid? Who pays the hospital when someone with no means to pay walks in and EMTALA requires them to receive healthcare?

hellfish · 3 years ago
> It does not take a genius to figure out that expensive end of life care paid with taxpayer funds and the country’s labor resources could instead be going towards things like education or infrastructure

There's enough surplus in any western society that this sort of zero sum thinking is completely out of place. Anyone who would consciously sacrifice another human being for something inanimate like "infrastructure" is sick in the head

hellfish commented on Apple Music deletes your original songs and replaces them with DRM'd versions   old.reddit.com/r/YouShoul... · Posted by u/josephcsible
hellfish · 3 years ago
I wonder if there's a way to exploit this to get free music out of apple...

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KarmaCake day69November 18, 2022View Original