Cheer2171

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by Cheer2171 3y ago
In California, it costs over $106k/year to house each inmate. About half of that go to paying prison guards and admin. Those are 2021-2 numbers, it is certainly much higher now. Imagine what else could be done with that money. https:&
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Similar to Chesterton's fence, if you don't understand why the Goop brand has become incredibly popular for a particular demographic, maybe you aren't qualified to critique it. In short: It is supposed to sound exactly as rid
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I'm just curious if you believe that physical property or real estate is similarly a form of "thought control" that does not actually exist. "Property is theft" is a common saying in some intellectual-political circ
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Nothing except their ability to make a living.
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And like those failed projects, this has the same fatal flaw: you need that offshore or high altitude server to connect to a base station on Earth in order to connect the server to the rest of the Internet. The authorities where those base
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Sure space is cool (or maybe not, but don't want to upset the HN consensus), but this seems like a total gimmick and waste of money, time, and PR.
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I'm sure it will be as successful as the many failed attempts to build uncensorable offshore micronations.
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Technically the CA government only sets a maximum price, not prices themselves. Power companies can sell at market rate if they want. But that same CA government also allows monopolies, so the price ceiling becomes the floor.
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At MIT? That's such a shame. I had such a different experience.
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"Partners" includes anyone who buys that data, not just other data brokers.
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> Heck, you need more accuracy than that for a proper cup of tea or coffee. No, 2 degrees C is about the right accuracy you need for a "proper" cup of tea or coffee. You'll lose that much heat in the transfer from kettle t
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> It doesn't appear that SFO would have any way to collect their rideshare fees except for honor-system voluntary payment. It's called a tax. By that logic, it doesn't appear that the US government would have any way to co
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Go to Walmart.com, desktop computer category, sort by low price. Many have HDDs. My parents do the analog version of this for appliances, and if I gave them the task of buying a desktop computer, they would probably buy one like this with a
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640K was enough for anybody when that quote was made.
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Agreed. I find it utterly exhausting to talk to most humans, at least when my goal is purely transactional or functional. Human conversation takes work. Let's save it for what matters. People hate call centers. I don't want to hav
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> OpenAI could presumably add a "did the safety net kick in?" boolean to API responses, and, also presumably, they don't want to do that because it would make it easier to systematically bypass. This exists and is a free A
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OpenAI's moderation API is free and just tells you if your query will be declined: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/moderation
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The past is a different country. In the 1980s, it was indeed very strange to do that, especially in the official names of songs and albums. It was something kids or the illiterate did. It was embarrassing for an adult to use 4 for 'for
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> Who is going to admit to that? To a news organisation? People who don't agree with what their coworkers are doing and want to be whistleblowers. Getting those people to reach out to you is a huge part of investigative journalism.
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Tell HN: ChatGPT Plus can no longer use GPT-4 with history and training off
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