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by BryantD 6mo ago
Judges don't have that ability. They have the ability to determine punitive damages within guidelines (many states have caps, for example), and if the defendant feels the damages are unreasonable they have every right to appeal to a hi
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by BryantD 6mo ago
The key element you’re missing is that the lawsuit accused Alex Jones of knowing that he was lying. I.e., it’s not that he was speculating — it’s that he knew he wasn’t telling the truth. To quote Jones: “We’ve clearly got people where it’s
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by BryantD 6mo ago
The cost seems really high. On the other hand I thought bringing the Onion back as a print comedy newspaper was insane too, so possibly they know things I don’t. There is a business plan here, even if it’s a dumb one.
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by BryantD 6mo ago
Came here to say this! It’s the largest public video collection I’m aware of, at over 150,000 titles. Also they rent by mail. Not cheap but when you really need that movie…
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by BryantD 6mo ago
2017: the ACLU defends Milo Yiannopoulos' right to advertise his new book. They file an amicus brief in the Supreme Court supporting a Tea Party supporter challenging a ban on wearing political insignia at polling places. 2018: the ACL
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by BryantD 6mo ago
The community note on this Tweet points out that this person never worked at Anthropic -- engagement farming.
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by BryantD 7mo ago
I am not running either of these at the moment, because of security concerns, but I did play with openclaw for a day or so. It was clearly potentially useful. I got two use cases working easily: 1. When I get a weekly Scarecrow Video pre-or
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by BryantD 7mo ago
My commute is via car. The light rail will not speed it up, but I may do it anyhow because it's more relaxing. My point is that closing two lanes of the interstate for over a year is a failure of maintenance, rather than anything about
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by BryantD 7mo ago
I don't think you're wrong. Every time someone says we can't do high speed rail it makes me very sad. And as far as Seattle goes... my commute is substantially affected by the I-5 closures. It's somewhat shocking to me t
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by BryantD 7mo ago
a) Risk vs. reward -- not that I'm saying we're making the right balance decisions, but the correct speed depends on that balance in general. b) The current administration is extremely unlikely to make vaccine approvals faster. If
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by BryantD 7mo ago
Also in Good Will Hunting , when Will (Matt Damon) delivers a scathing job rejection to the NSA. 1997. The War on Terror has a lot to answer for. https://youtu.be/tH0bTpwQL7U
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by BryantD 8mo ago
How annoying. I am not a Less Wrong reader so I have no particular insight here.
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by BryantD 8mo ago
That literal spiral pattern keeps popping up, often around instances of AI psychosis: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6ZnznCaTcbGYsCmqu/the-rise-o... (I'm not endorsing any of that article's conclusions,
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by BryantD 8mo ago
The bit about purchased stars and followers is a bit out of left field. Is there a piece of news I missed?
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by BryantD 8mo ago
Thanks for the more detailed analysis — you clearly have better visibility into specifics than I do as an outsider. I sincerely appreciate the follow up and I agree that the economics should be examined. I still think there’s value to encou
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by BryantD 8mo ago
Sorry, but what exactly makes you say that artists aren't working poor? I don't want to put words in your mouth, but it sounds a bit like you've got a pre-existing opinion of the value of artists vs. however you're defin
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by BryantD 8mo ago
All true, but let's not lose track of relative costs. The income program provides €33,800,000 a year (2000 participants, €325 a week, 52 weeks in a year). Double that to account for cost of managing the program -- that seems too high t
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by BryantD 8mo ago
I don't think that being able to support a family of three in Ireland is particularly a sign that society doesn't value your work. If she had to pay income tax, perhaps she'd only be able to support herself -- but if you thin
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by BryantD 8mo ago
Ireland has already provided substantial benefits to artists — income from art is exempt from income tax up to a certain level. Society has not disintegrated. Speculation and anecdotes are not terribly useful but my Irish author friend is n
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by BryantD 8mo ago
How do you manage to have conversations with people in your day to day life with so much assuming negative intent? Some people treat these little linguistic excursions as ways to achieve common understanding, rather than as a sporting event
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by BryantD 8mo ago
Hey, try not to lie too obviously. I explicitly said "not a treaty matter," and I explicitly said I didn't necessarily agree with the decision. Not that anyone's reading this but what a great example of the tired old tri
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by BryantD 8mo ago
Look at all those details omitted! This was an indigenous people treaty case, and when mothballed says "certain public elections" they mean "a single election for a position in Hawaii which was established in negotiations wit
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by BryantD 8mo ago
The link to the story in the linked article is wrong; here's the current one: https://www.baen.com/Chapters/9781618249203/9781618249203___...
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by BryantD 8mo ago
Citizenship or lawful status, sorry! And you’re right. But it’s totemic when you dig into conspiracy theories about undocumented immigrants voting. RealID comes up a lot.
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by BryantD 8mo ago
I am only guessing but I'd be surprised if it was a money grab. My instinct is that it's a way of highlighting RealID citizenship verification.
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by BryantD 8mo ago
You don't have to read this comment, I'm just throwing down a marker for myself. I think this is a good policy direction. I don't like the rhetoric and I understand that this as much a political decision as anything else, but
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by BryantD 8mo ago
They are not. Many people are doing this; I don't think there's enough data to say "most," but there's at least anecdotal discussions of people buying Mac minis for the purpose. I know someone who's running it
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by BryantD 8mo ago
The blogger who wrote the linked post is a white supremacist who explicitly supports eugenics. His stock in trade is pseudoscience. This particular post is an attempt to get people thinking he’s clever before they get to the racist bits — l
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by BryantD 8mo ago
The guy who thinks African heritage is fundamentally inferior to European heritage is sloppy about his science writing! Not a surprise, alas.
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by BryantD 8mo ago
Somewhere far away, Eric Raymond is explaining that "Apple’s hopes of retaining market share above 10% will vanish."

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