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by Digory 2y ago
Alexa has dropped off. Every echo device I have was better in the past. My wife is lucky to trigger them half the time. They have always done better with male voices, but it’s worse than ever. And when Alexa does respond, it’s frequently a
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by Digory 2y ago
I understand Elon and Pmarca to be saying that this behavior is programmed in by 'safety teams' at Meta. It is an odd way of calcifying late-20th century American upper class anxiety. If we can't give the engineers a differe
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by Digory 2y ago
GM can’t match the lobbying power of local dealers in the state houses. Every state rep has a dealer or two in their district, and they employ staff who vote. And, to be fair to the dealers, there is a long history of the makers trying to
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by Digory 2y ago
That sounds like a good weekend project, putting split foam insulation around your pipes. 8' runs are a couple of bucks at the big box stores. It's not quite as efficient, but I put in a recirculation pump and a timer to keep the
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by Digory 2y ago
Whether you need it probably depends on your climate and your house. Water in pipes inside a house's "thermal envelope" is presumably around 72 deg. F. I wash my hands with "cold water" without wincing. Tap water st
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by Digory 2y ago
If you can handle putting the nozzle on your garden hose, you should be able to handle it. In the US, the water pipe almost always connects to the toilet through a small shutoff valve. After the valve, it connects to the toilet through a &
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by Digory 2y ago
An interesting note: Puerto Ricans appear to have elected a Trump-supporting Republican-affiliated governor. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/puerto-rico-governors-ra...
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by Digory 2y ago
Yes, but the theorem is meant to explain what can happen in the universe over long time scales. The point is that there isn't enough time in the universe for all the random stuff to happen that scientists pin on random chance. The the
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by Digory 2y ago
She doth protest too much. A major purpose of education is connecting the past and the present. There will always be slang, but without a “lingua Franca,” you’re not going to make the connection between 1776 and 2024. And yet she seems resi
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by Digory 2y ago
So's coffee. If SBUX treated long covid, that's a net win.
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by Digory 2y ago
If you can recite the black letter law, you've got a good chance of passing the bar. The higher essay scores usually require creative arguments about resolving competing rules and policies. It's easier to extract the formal statem
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by Digory 2y ago
They originally scored against a test usually taken by people who failed the bar. So, GPT-4 scores closer to the bottom of people who pass the bar the first time. In other words, it matches the people who cull the rules from texts already w
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by Digory 3y ago
Yes, as I said, I think the Crown's rebranding might seem like a waste, but it's extremely useful for values/branding transmission. When you see the branding story for, say, Google or Pepsi, that looks like money flushed stra
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by Digory 3y ago
As you say, most of those aren't a big deal, except in Chicago. The Daleys started putting their name on EVERYTHING; it's always strange to visit from out of town and see it so branded.
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by Digory 3y ago
A ridiculous transaction cost by modern standards, especially when multiplied by all HM's various enterprises. Except this kind of work spawned a nation of clerks and it has lasted a thousand years. Everybody has to think about the Ki
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by Digory 3y ago
It may seem counterintuitive, but reputation damages are "actual" damages. Yes, they are hard to prove, but the jury gets to take that into account. It could have picked almost any number ($1m, $10m, etc.) for reputation damages,
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by Digory 3y ago
This almost certainly gets reduced to a tiny amount. The jury awarded $1 in actual damages and $1m in punitive damages. The Supreme Court has said punitive damages must bear a reasonable relationship to actual damages. As a rule of thumb,
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by Digory 3y ago
Yes. If the drafted language falls below reasonable care and damages the client, absolutely you can be sued for malpractice. Wrong Word in Contract Leads to $2M Malpractice Suit[1]. [1] https://lawyersinsurer.com/legal-malpr
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by Digory 3y ago
If you can automate the input, you can probably automate much of the basic analysis (things that would be "revolutionary" to undergrads). "ChatGPT, give me the highlights of these ancient Greek scrolls ..."
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by Digory 3y ago
The oration struck me as a little self-serving -- especially since the heir was weak. You'd like the commoners to feel good about the family, and maybe this did the trick. But, the prison releases do seem to indicate he was in a forgi
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by Digory 3y ago
Both come with Google Fi, the cell service. Which has probably kept me from comparison price shopping cell service quite so hard.
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by Digory 3y ago
Surprised I had to scroll this far down to find this. Options? Employment contracts? The SEC database is golden. If you're not doing well enough to pay the lawyer for custom advice, use the example of people who paid to get it right f
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by Digory 3y ago
I had the same feeling at the end. Of all the ways to spend the 20th century, being tied to US Steel wasn’t exactly a bad ride. “Arguably, the Harvard system was a disappointment every day since 1636…”
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by Digory 3y ago
Yes, this seems like a constitutional test. If you need this pardon to stand up, you'd better get the certificate from the WH pardon lawyer with your name on it.
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by Digory 3y ago
As the proclamation says, the District of Columbia's local laws are technically federal laws. So it wipes out the convictions of a good number of people in one of our major cities. I can't quite tell if this applies to military co
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by Digory 3y ago
Germany didn't sign the contract, and it hosts the court. Universal Music didn't sign the contract, and it went to Germany's court. In the US, the contract terms would normally bind the _parties to the contract._ Contracts a
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by Digory 3y ago
> If you like a product and want it to be available long term, you would want it to be a self sustaining business, not a cash bonfire. He doesn’t want the product at the current price. It’s a bad value for him. You’re requiring the consu
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by Digory 3y ago
Agreed the article is more about probing the board’s weakness. But the board seems to have a weak hand. It can decide to disappoint the for profit investors. But it doesn’t own Sam, or the vast majority of the workers, and maybe not much o
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by Digory 3y ago
Sounds reasonable. People hold IP in LLCs all the time. Obviously, though, the outcome depends on TW law and its loopholes as much as the IRS and state law. And the cheapest US LLC services just won't have any clue about any of that.
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by Digory 3y ago
It protects you from the mistakes of others. The problem for the single owner is that they do a lot themselves, and for that, you need insurance. But when it works, it works. Imagine you dropship a faulty part to someone, so that there&#

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