thbb

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[–] thbb@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

No, numeracy is when you draw cards to see the future.

[–] thbb@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No, numeracy is when you draw cards to see the future.

[–] thbb@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Which group in France is against? I consider making this issue a top priority for choosing who I vote for.

[–] thbb@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

You forgot the /s

[–] thbb@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

My aunt visited Afghanistan as a tourist, in a christian group of women, in the 1960's. I really wish I could do the same when I retire.

[–] thbb@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Rising costs of energy starting Feb 22 is the cause of the last huge dip. As a matter of fact, rising the price of energy and the ensuing economic slowdown is still the most effective way to to reduce GHG. Being frugal is the only way to reach 0 emissions in spite of whatever rosy paint one wants to put on green energy, housing renovation and other half-effective measures.

[–] thbb@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

Usually, an impact study is made before such type of laws are made:

  • if this law is enacted, how much will it cost to the manufacturers to update their factory settings?
  • how will this be impacted on the device cost in the UK compared to other markets?
  • how many users will get stuck when losing the unique ID of the device, what are the recovery procedures, how costly is it to end users?
  • how many users will be protected by the measure and what cost for society does it represent?
  • how many users will set a dumb password anyhow and what is the cost for society?

I’d be curious to see the impact study, as many of those are actually botched.

[–] thbb@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Indeed, and the legality has been challenged by the ACLU. Although they could not pursue to issue a condemnation.

The present case would be an excellent opportunity to resolve the question of whether or not a President is entitled to kill a US citizen and setup better checks and balances (because, in the case of Obama, there were definitely some, but those were disputable).

[–] thbb@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I remember the early 90's when fiber connection was being developed in research centers.

Researchers had found a way to transmit all of a country's phone calls' bandwidth through a simple fiber cable. Then, they wondered: what could we use this for?

This was a few years before the explosion of the internet...

[–] thbb@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What prevents you from revoking your payment mandate at your bank?

In Europe at least, your bank must honor this request and there's nothing your debtor can do about except spending 1000's to recover at most 3 months of payments with the current legal apparatus in Europe.

[–] thbb@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

I'm afraid forcing watermarking generated content is doomed to fail, for 2 reasons: first it has to be voluntary, second, watermarking can always be removed if one does not care about preserving the exact content.

Rather, I believe systematically signing original content may alleviate some of the issues created by algorithmic content generation.

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