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  • What's a random line from a movie that fans of it will instantly know?

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  • [🇨🇭Switzerland] Google, X/Twitter and Other Online Services are Set to Pay Copyright Fees for Displaying Short Extracts From Newspaper Articles.

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  • This was also tried in Canada and Australia. Here's the story in the EU:

    Germany made this kind of law in 2013. This was struck down in 2019 because of a formality. The EU had not been notified in advance, as would have been required in such a matter. (outdated and incomplete WP entry)

    Then the industry lobbied the EU and got such a law enacted EU wide in 2021. The press is still extremely influential in Europe and causes a lot of damage as it struggles against its inevitable decline.

    The problem with these laws, as others have pointed out, is that tech companies will simply follow them. Outrageous, no? Well, it is when you're a copyright head. The press made licensing deals, but they want much, much more money.

    The latest splash was a few months ago when Google made an experiment to better estimate the revenue they generate from news content. In France, the press went to court and got an injunction that stopped the experiment.

  • Google Releases an Open Source AI Model for Live Music Creation, Magenta RealTime.

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  • Neat. Looking forward to seeing what people build with that.

  • Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and ‘A Better Tomorrow’: AI-Powered Kung Fu Film Plan Debuts in Shanghai

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  • I Counted All of the Yurts in Mongolia Using Machine Learning

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  • I'd say, when there's a policy and its goals aren't reached, that's a policy failure. If people don't like the policy, that's an issue but it's a separate issue.

    It doesn't seem likely that people prefer living in tents, though. But to be fair, the government may be doing the best it can. It's ranked "Flawed Democracy" by The Economist Democracy Index. That's really good, I'd say, considering the circumstances. They are placed slightly ahead of Argentina and Hungary.

    OP has this to say:

    Due to the large number of people moving to urban locations, it has been difficult for the government to build the infrastructure needed for them. The informal settlements that grew from this difficulty are now known as ger districts. There have been many efforts to formalize and develop these areas. The Law on Allocation of Land to Mongolian Citizens for Ownership, passed in 2002, allowed for existing ger district residents to formalize the land they settled, and allowed for others to receive land from the government into the future.

    Along with the privatization of land, the Mongolian government has been pushing for the development of ger districts into areas with housing blocks connected to utilities. The plan for this was published in 2014 as Ulaanbaatar 2020 Master Plan and Development Approaches for 2030. Although progress has been slow (Choi and Enkhbat 7), they have been making progress in building housing blocks in ger distrcts. Residents of ger districts sell or exchange their plots to developers who then build housing blocks on them. Often this is in exchange for an apartment in the building, and often the value of the apartment is less than the land they originally had (Choi and Enkhbat 15).

    Based on what I’ve read about the ger districts, they have been around since at least the 1970s, and progress on developing them has been slow. When ineffective policy results in a large chunk of the populace generationally living in yurts on the outskirts of urban areas, it’s clear that there is failure.

    Choi, Mack Joong, and Urandulguun Enkhbat. “Distributional Effects of Ger Area Redevelopment in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.” International Journal of Urban Sciences, vol. 24, no. 1, Jan. 2020, pp. 50–68. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1080/12265934.2019.1571433.

  • I Counted All of the Yurts in Mongolia Using Machine Learning

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  • What qualification does someone need for that statement?

    Thanks for the thought, anyway. I hadn't come across the idea that tent cities might be a good thing, actually.

  • Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering

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  • Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering

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  • “Knallfunkensender”

    Literally "Bang-Sparks-Sender".

    Are you sure it's because of the radio spectrum bang? I always thought it was because of the audible bang.

    If someone operated such a thing today, any guesses what the death zone for electronic devices would be?

  • Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering

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  • It really is from "Funkentechnik": "Spark technology". I wonder how many people appreciate the post for the cute etymology and how many because it sounds funny.

    Good information for ham radio people, too. Hobby sounds too geeky? Just say you're into Über-Funk-Parties.

  • Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering

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  • Fun fact: The german word for using a radio is "funken"; literally "to spark". A radioman is, or was, a "Funker". When you are talking over the radio, you are doing it "Über Funk".

  • What's your fav Nicolas Cage film and why?

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  • Honorable mention for 8mm. It isn't a good movie, unless you go for the very 1999 aesthetics. But I'll give a shout-out to that quote delivered by Joaquin Phoenix: "If you dance with the devil, the devil don't change. The devil changes you."

  • What's your fav Nicolas Cage film and why?

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    Are the USA heading towards civil war?

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  • This does not have the seeds of a civil war.

    Look back to 1861. The US was split between slave and free states. Both regions had different economic models that were in conflict. The slavers of the south controlled most of the nation's capital. The slaves were worth more than all the railroads and foundries of the north. They had oligarchic control of the southern states.

    When Lincoln was elected, it was the first time that an outspoken abolitionist became president. It was clear, that the demographics of the US were changing in a way that would lose their power and status. So they started a war.

    Those weren't the uneducated racists that you find waving confederate flags today.

    The US has seen presidential lawlessness before (notably Andrew "Trail of Tears" Jackson). It also has seen lawlessness by state politicians (eg Harry F. "Massive Resistance" Byrd or Governor Orval "Blood will run in the Streets" Faubus).

    The only way I could see a civil war is, if Trump directly threatened the Middle Class and/or the Wealthy Elites.

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    Are the USA heading towards civil war?

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  • Oh no. It moves.

    “It’s a coordinated superorganism, acting and moving as a whole.”

    Oh no no.

    A 10-millimeter (0.4-inch) nematode tower twists and folds as the mass of worms reaches for the lid of its petri dish.

    Oh nonononono

  • Learning Curve - Litterbox Comics

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  • Not everything that is safe for adults is safe for little ones. Honey, for example, has to be boiled.

  • Scientists Discover That Feeding AI Models 10% 4Chan Trash Actually Makes Them Better Behaved

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    France considers requiring Musk’s X to verify users’ age

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  • What you're saying is that the government should control access to information, so that people will hold the correct ideology.

    I don't think that's a game that a liberal democracy can win.

  • Napster/BitTorrent for machine learning?

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  • What would a use case look like?

    I assume that the latency will make it impractical to train something that's LLM-sized. But even for something small, wouldn't a data center be more efficient?