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Plagiarism should only ever be counted for explicitly unique sentences that provide actual value.

It’s actually an ongoing debate in software engineering, due to licensing, as to what you can consider “stolen code” - i.e. plagiarism.

In fact things went as far as to some companies employing AI-aided automatic cease-and-desist deliveries on GitHub, but the system was so badly configured, it detected even the most basic logic bits as license infringement. Things that are standardised in software development - like, for example, for loops, that happened to have generic parameter names (e.g if you were to create a graphic subsystem for displaying Views, whatever the primary implementation may be, you’d iterate through all views with a for loop, making it a generic call such as for(val view in views) { [do something here] }).

Well this AI aided detector was so brilliant that it detected such minute coincidences of codebases as legitimate violations (as if any company could copyright generics), and sent these spurious C&Ds to dozens of git repos. What’s even worse is that the initial company’s codebase used some open source libraries that were directly attacked… for being 100% copies of their own codebase.

IMO as long as the code/sentence isn’t a provably unique statement, plagiarism shouldn’t apply. A whole paragraph having 80%+ similarity to something unique? Now that’s worrying enough to investigate.

If you seriously think that “videos, images, text on a screen can’t compel action” then you’ve just revoked every single right you had to be part of this discussion.

Vet? Tight?

To be perfectly fair this ain’t that different to the various drone aided bombings of civilians in the Middle East.

The US is just continuing some habitual military-sanctioned murder slightly closer to home.

Given they’re all made up… at this point we’re better off making up a religion that enforces actually good behaviour like taking vaccines and not bothering people with different sexualities/gender identities/etc.

Israel had one of the shittiest songs last year, it was universally agreed that it was crap.

Yet somehow it managed to be second, mainly through public votes - and it’s been contested a few times that Israel, against the rules of public voting, ran advert campaigns in European countries to push their public to vote for them (public can’t vote for their own country).

It’s not the navigation that requires the server but the processing of the mapping data.

Which in itself is BS because most of these vacuums come with hardware roughly equivalent of a top of the line smartphone from about 5-6 years ago. They can easily do the raw data to map conversion, even if it’s a bit slow and takes 20-30 seconds.

Also if you read the article it specifies that the damn thing is already running Google Cartographer which is a SLAM 3D map builder software - one of the better pro-grade mapping software suites, mind you. So the whole claim of cloud needed for processing is BS.

Can’t blame her, got distracted by crush.

Good. More should. Even if we ignore the political/genocide issue, after the blatant cheating Israel did last year, they shouldn’t be fucking welcome. No, they can fuck the fuck off.

You “delete” or burn all that wealth, and you kill the poorest 50% of the planet practically overnight.

Sorry but burning just the wealth down without taking the system with it would result in chaos that would only hurt the most exposed. That’s why taxing the wealth is the right idea, with further steps taken to ensure such wealth discrepancy cannot exist in the future.

Source: I pulled it out of me unwashed arse

Rolling back anti-slavery laws would also be good for business.

In fact some new laws making anyone whose net worth isn’t at least 50 million USD, a property of a randomly assigned mega-corporation, would be amazingly good for business!

That’s not a good idea, mainly because how billionaires’ wealth works - it’s not in cash but split between various investments, including real estate and other property. Do you suggest we just burn their supercars, their villas, their stocks, their Rolexes?

It’s not a bank account you can set to 0. What they have as available cash is at most 10% of their wealth, but usually under 1%, since cash is riskier than other investments.

Hell, the reason we’re having trouble taxing the rich is because they use weird loopholes that aren’t available to anyone else - such as taking low interest large lump sum loans backed by their assets/investments, which is tax-free, then defaulting on said loan or writing it off, transferring the backing asset to the loan giver, also tax free… Meanwhile you or me? We’re stuck with cashing out our investments which is an immediately taxable event. Good luck convincing a bank to give you a 0.25% loan of £5000 against your £6000 investment portfolio.

And beyond range it would also improve network stability by reducing interference through the stronger signal.

But to be fair you could’ve moved the original dongle away from the host as well, with a simple USB-A extension cable - which was actually recommended for many as newer host devices would only come with USB3, and the 5GHz operation (as well as Intel’s weird obsession with 2.4GHz CPU clocks in the lower end range) would interfere with the signal, which was alleviated by the USB2 physical limitation + distancing from the interference source.

Cuz rockets are cool.

I propose we make some minor changes to the standard guillotine though, as potentially we will need to use it in a zero gravity environment when these fuckers try to escape to space.

I believe a pair of micro-rockets would give the blade assembly the appropriate near-gravity acceleration, but we do need to run the numbers to ensure we don’t end up with single use devices. That would be so wasteful.

Here’s an idea, 90% instant wealth tax on billionaires, and use the influx of money for UBI. Then they’re free to cut all the jobs for AI.

Rinse and repeat this every year until billionaires simply… don’t exist.

For good wireless you need a good antenna.

Sadly, unlike some other systems, in our universe you can’t have the laws of physics changed by throwing money at it.

Of course it ain’t real users.

Reddit has had a major bot problem a decade ago and little has been done to mitigate it - beyond banning legitimate users who dared to be too loud about it.

I’ve moderated a relatively small sub, and pretty much for every legitimate post a day, you’d get 6 to 10 bot posts literally pulling an older post verbatim word for word, or maybe introducing a typo just to make detection harder…

Reddit’s response to the issue? “Hey, why don’t you pay us ~$25 a month just so you can continue using that open source automatic bot detection system we refuse to build into the site itself?”.