Avshalom

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by Avshalom 4mo ago
That's the thing though, I do doubt that. Surveillance that you don't need a warrant to put in front of a jury is a perfect thing to use for the ostensibly-legal construction in parallel construction.
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by Avshalom 4mo ago
That seems like a lot of effort when you can just take the license plate off and if you're really worried print off a convincing temporary license and tape in the back window.
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by Avshalom 4mo ago
That's not what that says though. >technology and professional analysts with helping detectives make arrests in 53% "technology and analysts" "help" "make arrests" not surveillance, not convictions and
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by Avshalom 4mo ago
>>Flock and law enforcement regularly cite documented cases where LPR helped solve violent crimes, recover stolen vehicles, and locate missing persons. Those outcomes are real. My opposition wouldn't change regardless but are tho
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by Avshalom 4mo ago
the reason is no one realized hpv was connected to much more than cervical cancer until fairly recently.
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by Avshalom 4mo ago
It's more specifically "I personally can't conceive of how one might built this, so non-white people definitely didn't build this"
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by Avshalom 4mo ago
The president said we dropped 250 million dollars worth of bombs in a single night last week.
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by Avshalom 4mo ago
First off, you don't know if duskdozer doesn't want to go back to cart and horse. Second even if they don't there's an enormous amount of space between horses and https://parkingreform.org/resources/
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by Avshalom 4mo ago
Oh no, he's just straight up the guy that keeps it legal to sell cyanide-rich apricot kernels as anti-cancer meds* *statement not evaluated by the FDA
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by Avshalom 4mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietary_Supplement_Health_and_...
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by Avshalom 4mo ago
Well the screw worm thing happened because Elon Musk hired a bunch of twitter nazis to put the government through a wood chipper. This is the end result of decades snake oil moguls empowered by orin hatch and then turbo charged by people be
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by Avshalom 4mo ago
To Be Fair: this is half of what Morgan Stanley said the metaverse would be worth, clearly they learned to be more bearish...
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by Avshalom 4mo ago
Cognitive Multiplier, eh?
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by Avshalom 5mo ago
robots can not yet plausibly walk into our homes.
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by Avshalom 5mo ago
Look, I was in CS101 back in those days so I'm not really qualified to say who was right about where/with-what responsibility for bugs lied. Maybe he was completely right and just kind of a dick about it. I'm just reporting t
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by Avshalom 5mo ago
Important to people being happy now is that Lennart Poettering didn't write pipewire. Also having a bunch of things barely held together with duct tape is part of the philosophy.
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by Avshalom 5mo ago
Okay so back in ~2000 the audio system in Linux was ALSA and it kinda sucked so along come a guy named Lennart Poettering who wrote pulseaudio which improved things in a lot of ways but also kinda constantly didn't work. Poettering in
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by Avshalom 5mo ago
I buy Jovial which is a just straight brown rice flour and as long as you cook it right (which in Albuquerque is a problem with wheat pasta too) it's great.
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by Avshalom 5mo ago
Rice and buckwheat noodles have a long and distinguished history.
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by Avshalom 5mo ago
generally a sort of Unknown though it depends on the formulation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-valued_logic
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by Avshalom 5mo ago
https://www.nrdc.org/bio/jc-kibbey/utility-accountability-10... To be clear this only about some utility companies.
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by Avshalom 5mo ago
because as part of their legal monopolies they are only allowed to charge a "reasonable" usage fee. ETA: utility companies make profit on capex, not opex
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by Avshalom 5mo ago
With respect to the Dawkins quote: Claude doesn't survive we just built it, like yesterday, the Claude that Dawkins is interacting with might be replaced next month because it can't survive.
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by Avshalom 5mo ago
Just once I want to see some old dude waxing about LLM-conciousness post a chat log where the LLM is like "your book is an incoherent mess of tautologies and incorrect statistics. I bet your dick looks like a road kill squirrel".
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by Avshalom 5mo ago
Previously: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=uber+self+driving
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by Avshalom 6mo ago
Well importantly like scrubs points out in a sibling comment 42+1 = 43, 42 + 1 ≠ 42, ∞ + 1 = ∞ Infinity plays by very different rules than numbers.
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by Avshalom 6mo ago
Yes this is exactly what we use it for.
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by Avshalom 6mo ago
Paleontologist and probably going to be doing pre-museum prep for some stuff here in the fall. Although we're cheap so we usually use butvar (polyvinyl butyral).
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by Avshalom 6mo ago
Yeah, the great part is you can then use fresh acetone to dissolve it. We do it with fossils all the time: glue it together, thin coat of glue all over then wrap and transport. Comes off easy in the lab.
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by Avshalom 6mo ago
They're not effective at reducing/preventing shrink. Unsure what the time situation is at scale for the stores. To be sure I'm faster and better at bagging but holy crap some people are not.

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