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lores commented on FTX insider Caroline Ellison has been moved out of prison   businessinsider.com/carol... · Posted by u/harambae
croemer · 19 hours ago
At leas in some European countries there was quite a tradition of studying for long amounts of time, like 6 or so. Add a PhD, military service and long high school and you end up with 19+2+6+3=30. No gap year etc.
lores · 16 hours ago
We're talking low 1-digit percents here. The "tradition" of PhDs is a niche one.
lores commented on Is your AI system illegal in the EU?   medium.com/@lea.leumassar... · Posted by u/pbacdf
Lukas_Skywalker · 8 days ago
Do you care to elaborate or write down some arguments?
lores · 8 days ago
Generally, they're on the lines of "regulations hurt my capacity to make unlimited money at whomever's in my way's expense.", except with less candidness.
lores commented on EU investigates Google over AI-generated summaries in search results   bbc.com/news/articles/crl... · Posted by u/hackerbeat
DeathArrow · 8 days ago
Behind the curve of big tech businesses generating a lot of GDP and economic growth?
lores · 8 days ago
Behind the curve of worshipping economic growth over citizen well-being, and behind the curve of being an outright plutocracy, too, so there's that.
lores commented on UK bar bans solo-drinkers to 'protect customers'   bbc.com/news/articles/cnv... · Posted by u/walterbell
OutOfHere · a month ago
People drive because they need to get home for shelter, or get to work, etc. People live in cities because that's where the higher paying jobs are, again for survival, also given that one can use air purifiers at home and wear a mask outdoors. It is irresponsible to accept risk without reward.

In many developing countries, alcohol risks being contaminated with methanol which is extremely deadly. I wouldn't consider taking such an unnecessary risk to feel pleasant. Knowing everything I know, I would feel more scared than pleasant.

lores · a month ago
You have an extremely odd conception of people and the world. Do you take pleasure in anything?
lores commented on UK bar bans solo-drinkers to 'protect customers'   bbc.com/news/articles/cnv... · Posted by u/walterbell
OutOfHere · a month ago
I don't know why people even drink alcohol at all anymore, considering we know that it is causes numerous cancers and also brain damage, not to mention unsafe roads while driving intoxicated.
lores · a month ago
Because it's pleasant. I don't know why people drive if they don't absolutely have to when it's so dangerous, I don't know why people live in cities when the pollution causes so many health problems, I don't know why people keep hanging out with other people when so many turn out to be reprehensible, etc. The answer is, because life is not about living the longest in the most austere manner possible.
lores commented on Amiga vs. Atari ST: A rivalry that defined 16-bit home computing   slicker.me/retrocomputing... · Posted by u/rbanffy
LovingIT · a month ago
There was no rivalry. The Amiga stands alone.
lores · a month ago
Pft! Soulless console with a keyboard! ST forever!
lores commented on Humans have remote touch 'seventh sense' like sandpipers   techxplore.com/news/2025-... · Posted by u/wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB
remix2000 · a month ago
Proprioception (balance); it was always there tho afair
lores · a month ago
And in addition to proprioception, we can sense hunger, thirst, tiredness, time, temperature, balance, our own movements, pain, pressure, and maybe even itching. It's just that "we have discovered a seventeenth sense" has less glamour to it
lores commented on Facebook enables gender discrimination in job ads: European human rights body   cnn.com/2025/02/28/tech/f... · Posted by u/Bender
tmoertel · a month ago
Not the OP, but:

This is actually a thorny problem.

Say you have an advertising system that knows nothing about a user’s gender. This system, by construction, cannot vary its ad selections based on gender. But the system does remember whether users have expressed interest in the ads it has previously shown them.

Now say you have a job that in general appeals to one gender almost exclusively. The system will, given time, learn which users are interested in ads for this job. Those users will just happen to be almost exclusively of one gender.

If the ad system stops showing ads for this job to the users who have demonstrated they don’t want to see them, is that gender discrimination?

One can make an argument either way. But either way, it’s not going to be a clear-cut argument. There’s some subtlety required.

lores · a month ago
A company the size of Facebook has far more than enough resources to know that different ads have different requirements, if only legal ones, because moral ones seem hopelessly quaint. I, a know-nothing engineer not working in HR or advertisement, would have raised a question to Product asking whether job ads had to be excepted from the regular optimisations and advertised equally to everyone. Why didn't Facebook think about it? The answer is they did, they just chose to ignore it because money is more important, or at least the perception of choosing money over morals or legality.
lores commented on Things I've Heard Boomers Say That I Agree with 100%   wildingout.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/ripe
infecto · a month ago
Right I did. I guess for those of use that don’t have other human contact those few moments with the front of house are meaningful but for me that’s not the case. But again unless I am going to a nice restaurant I don’t recall having much of any real human contact with the front of house.
lores · a month ago
It's not important on its own, it just slowly erodes the feeling we live in a society, the reminding that everyone plays a role, even a little one. It lets one get out of their social bubble ever so little, and appreciate that the world is full of people with a life just as rich as their own, which is easily forgotten. I can cook well, I go to the restaurant to be in society; impersonal chains and now impersonal service reduce the experience to functional feeding and are of no interest to me.

u/lores

KarmaCake day747April 13, 2016View Original