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It’s Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word

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I'd agree the first part but to say all Ai is snake oil is just untrue and out of touch. There are a lot of companies that throw "Ai" on literally anything and I can see how that is snake oil.

But real innovative Ai, everything to protein folding to robotics is here to stay, good or bad. It's already too valuable for governments to ignore. And Ai is improving at a rate that I think most are underestimating (faster than Moore's law).

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I was homeless in 2012 for about half a year. It was quite the eye openening experience. Most of us hid that we were homeless the best we could so the cops wouldn't falsely arrest us for being "drunk in public". Lot's of people had cars but couldn't afford gas. Roughly 80% of us never pan handled, and were as clean as we could be. I learned to sleep in the park during the day and keep moving at night.

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[image] I can't wait to see more trucks replaced with bikes

Definitely not practical and not designed for the person that uses it. Great way for companies like Amazon to save a buck while making life harder for the people that get paid the least.

  • Hardly any protection from the elements
  • no place to put a drink or anything
  • have you ever been on a bicycle seat all day?
  • not safe if your on a road with cars/trucks

Maybe it would work for a college campus or something, but small electric box trucks would be far better for the person doing the work.

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The message is that it's not only the unwashed pan handlers that are homeless. There are a lot of people that are or have been productive members of society that still become homeless. In the US a lot of the obvious homeless have major mental health conditions so many just assume that's the main issue behind the majority of homless. When in reality it's low wages that don't keep up with inflation let alone inceases in cost of living

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All drugs should be completely legalized globally.

Meh, having everything instantly legal would be too much especially without the funding for care centers where addicts can get help. As well as preventative systems for addicts.

Decriminalization is a step better but it doesn't solve the problems of dealers lacing fentanyl into things people dont expect.

That said, it's absurd to not already have things like psychedelics/weed/kratom decriminalization and small amounts of party drugs. The fact that the punishment for doing drugs far more harmful than the dugs themselves is mind boggling.

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Jellyfin for Android TV roadmap

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I bought a android tv device (NVIDIA shield) and just assumed it was open source like android, turns out it's not and they force ads on the home screen, if you jump though a ton of hoops to roll back some updates, you can turn them off, but it will re-enable them after a while. does not feel like a device I own. Even NVIDIA cannot turn off the google ads on the NVIDIA shield. you can add other launchers but they don't make it easy and they regularly get removed as the default launcher.

At this point I'm just considering just making a mini PC with linux https://plasma-bigscreen.org/ that will stay connected to my TV. OSMC is another option; however, it does not work well with DRMed content, so I gave up on that as well; even though it's an awesome project. Some android TV boxes are compatible with Lineage OS so that might be another option.

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Harris Aides Quietly Grow More Bullish on Defeating Trump

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Most Trump voters I have come across don't actually know what fascism is, so the insult dosnt work. They still believe they are voting for small government and lower taxes, they are in a delusion and they can't believe otherwise regardless of what I would call facts.

Trump voters are quite practiced at mentally cherry picking what their dogma is in their religion, so for them it's not as much of a stretch.