jimlongton

> it’s worth noting what they’ve accomplished in getting to a place where they can afford to worry about that as one of their primary concerns

It's probably also worth noting the long history of military dictatorships, murderous suppression of worker rights, massive ongoing corruption (including a literal cult controlling the government until 2016) and the highest suicide rate in the world. Reducing the story to just economies is truly narrow minded.

It's okay. You can complain to your union (which is run by your company) or work for a competitor (which is also owned by the same conglomerate as your company).

At least your leader is no longer brainwashed by a shaman who channels her dead father while taking bribes from those conglomerates [1]. That father who was also your former military dictator who followed the great tradition of torturing and murdering socialists and worker leaders with the CIAs help.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_South_Korean_political_sc...

I would imagine integrating North Koreans into the South would be far more difficult than the reunification of Germany. The technological and health gap alone is huge and even their language has started to drift apart.

Are there major micro/restaurant payment apps in China other than WeChat? I imagine it's difficult to compete with an app that's preinstalled on every phone, integrated with every bank and used by every restaurant and street vendor. And that's ignoring the social network effect of the 900+ million daily users.

The history of the island is pretty much a condemnation of the modern the world - massive environment devastation, money laundering hub and finally a concentration camp for refugees.

Related: Revealed: Exxon made ‘breathtakingly’ accurate climate predictions in 1970s and 80s

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jan/12/exxon-clima...

It feels like we are finally at a tipping point of mass surveillance. The explosion in the prevalence of high quality street/traffic cameras, door bell cameras (that Amazon gives the police access to) and the growth of self driving cars (surveillance machines on wheels) are the final nails in the coffin of privacy which has been slowly dying since the start of the century.

It's drug dealers now. It's not difficult to see states using this to target women who travel for abortions, people traveling to political events etc.

No mention in the article of false positives. I wonder how many people they stopped and searched to get a result. I also wonder if the areas the suspect was visiting also overlap with poor or minority neighborhoods and what that means for those targetted.

Smart businesses use the government to build a moat for them. [1]

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65616866

The people who could instruct such AI and evaluate its outputs would be domain experts. Without them how would you even start to approach those problems?

Science was once the domain of Catholic monks and wealthy gentry because they were the few literate people with access to books. Monoculture is not a sign of merit.

> The technological center of world continues to be a hundred square miles in Northern California

If your definition excludes the likes of the entire semiconductor industry for example.

> A new UCL paper has revealed that the wide-spread belief that the British have poorer teeth than our American cousins is, in fact, a myth.

> The research led by Richard Watt, Professor of Dental Public Health in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, found that the mean number of missing teeth a person has is significantly higher in the US.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/eastman/news/2015/dec/us-vs-uk-who-has...

> The alternative is real human drivers who make all kinds of mistakes every day.

From a European perspective I would say that in a city the real alternative is a functioning public transport system. Trams, light rail etc are infinitely safer and far cheaper than any form of car based system.

The bill has been criticised by representations of the UN Human Rights Commission and TDs from different political parties.

As an Irish person I find it infuriating that the Irish Council for Civil Liberties would approve of a bill which criminalises even unintentional "hate" speech with up to 5 years imprisonment but fails to even define what "hatred" is. The bill can't even coherently define the protected groups like 'gender' either.

It is all but guaranteed to be misused to target journalists and political dissent. We are likely to see Sinn Fein take power in some capacity soon. With laws like this soon to be on the books I think people have every right to be worried.

I campaigned to end the Blasphemy law in Ireland. This law is hoestly sickening. We all know if will be weaponised to fight culture wars and target political dissent.

I cannot wait until someone asks for the Archbishop of Dublin or the Chief Rabbi or Imam to be arrested under these laws - but they won't be of course. Taken literally it even permits people in possession of a Bible or Koran to be arrested - texts which promote slavery, murder of unbelievers and homosexuals, genital mutilation, praises genocides and the mistreatment of women and so on.

2. The majority of the public do not want these laws. There is a lingering distrust of such things due to the decades long heavy hand of the church on Irish life. There is also no epidemic of 'hate speech' or any such extreme situation warranting them. Individual instances of opposition to immigration for example (which is causing serious issues with hotel and student accommodation at the moment) are so rare that the make national headlines for days or weeks. These laws are a solution in search of a problem. Unfortunately these "lawmakers" are rushing to sacrifice the rights of citizens for a quick PR win.

I have to admin that the inclusion of an "AI" feature makes me less likely to use this tool. While it warns that the AI suggestions may not be correct (i.e. they could be hallucinations) there's no warning that using OpenAI will send some or all of your code to a third party. Many developers may realise this but if the tool developers don't highlight privacy concerns, what other issues may be lurking in their code? Developers today are too promiscuous with their users data.

Never going to happen. Aside from the ethical objections, that would be a great way to injure or kill already immunocompromised people.

(Possibly naive question) This is marketed as open source. Does that mean I can download the model and run it locally? If so, what kind of GPU would I need?

The author is in on it - "it" being a cynical PR managed portrayal optimised to garner sympathy and disassociate her from her crimes. The tactics are so blatant - introducing her as a "mom", the homely photo, focusing on her children, her first quote about how is was all a "mistake" and portraying her as a victim of things she didn't understand. It's honestly offensive.

The investigative Youtuber 'CoffeeZilla', Stephen Findeisen, often emphasises the human cost of scams, including bankruptcy and suicides. His description of these scams as a type of "financial murder" may sound extreme but I have to agree with him when the effects are so devastating to so many people.

I eagerly await the sympathetic PR-optimised Bankman-Fried NYT article.

This is just a repeat of the recycling scam [1]. It's almost abusive - making people feel responsible for a problem almost entirely out of their control.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/the-passionate-eye/recyclin...

I work in the industry. It's not a "vehicle" any more - it's a "platform" to "engage" with customers, i.e. sell your data and lock features behind ridiculous monthly fees. That is now the mantra of the automotive industry. It really kills any enthusiasm I have for new cars.

Microsoft cloned Slack (poorly and got sued), used existing corporate agreements to entice companies to force Teams on unhappy employees and got lucky with COVID. It really think it has nothing to do with features. Of the dozens of teams I work with, almost none use any Teams features beyond text chat and calls.

> Trust me, the development team that fucks up performance with Electron will absolutely fuck it up with native too.

Microsoft is celebrating a "massive" performance improvement which means Teams, which mostly renders text chat, opens in 10s instead of a minute. I really doubt native apps would have delays like that.

Our only hope is that politicians and celebrities get sick of their voices and likeness being used to scam people or sell crypto or viagra and get laws passed against this type of impersonation.

> More impressionistically the Irish, British and Australian press don’t talk about deaths of despair.

While that phrase is uniquely American, it certainly has been used to describe decreases in living conditions in the UK. [1]

It's impossible to accurately compare the US with Western Europe where we've had social safety nets and affordable health care. Unfortunately, in the UK a decade of under-staffing, under-funding and stealth privatisation has crippled the NHS. If you go to the former industrial towns in England you can definitely see the same issues as America's Rustbelt play out but to a lesser extent.I think most Europeans would be shocked by the poverty and deprivation in certain parts of the UK.

[1] https://www.health.org.uk/news-and-comment/podcast/episode-0...

This reminds me of the time Irish bishops stopped sending trainees to Ireland's priest training seminary because of how active it was on Grindr [1].

[1] https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/martin-removes-priests...