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by HillRat 3y ago
And also why selling Sun to Oracle was like selling the rabbit to the wolf. Not sure Oracle can go three minutes without an exec at some level deliberately slamming right through moral and legal guardrails.
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by HillRat 3y ago
Yeah, I wasn't clear as to my reasoning: if you read the filing, they go out of their way to refuse the disclose the underlying plaintiffs' identities and specifics of alleged harm, so filing under associational standing is a gamb
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by HillRat 3y ago
Not my world (and I think GA has tighter org and assoc standings rules that would come into play here, too), but I’d argue that there’s a need to show individualized proof of harm here that runs afoul of the third Hunt prong. (This is prett
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by HillRat 3y ago
This is headed to a Rule 56 SJ on standing grounds. If affected individuals want to sue over reverse discrimination claims, they can put their name to the lawsuit and take their PR lumps for doing so, rather than hiding behind a political p
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by HillRat 3y ago
Their paper says that they asked ChatGPT to "impersonate" "average" and "radical" Democrats and Republicans, and then did a regression on "standard" answers versus each of the four impersonations, fin
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by HillRat 3y ago
The Engadget article is a remarkably unhelpful summary, unfortunately, since they imply that there's actually some kind of textual analysis going on.
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by HillRat 3y ago
Flair is a line of inexpensive, fully-manual lever espresso machines with varying degrees of portability. Excellent designs.
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by HillRat 3y ago
For those who RTFA but didn't RTF (original) A, here's the "scanning": [A]dministrators first compiled a master list of commonly challenged books, then removed all those challenged for reasons other than sexual content.
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by HillRat 3y ago
And it’s only evasion if you (or someone else) tried it once before and it was ruled abusive. If enough money is at stake, you can go a long way using novel tax schemes to avoid paying taxes long enough to profit, even with civil penalties.
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by HillRat 3y ago
He’s had an “everything app” obsession for years (to his modest credit, even before apps as such!), but I charitably put the odds at pulling such a thing off in the US at epsilon above zero. WeChat, LINE and the like developed under very sp
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Using GPT as an HVAC control system(arxiv.org)
24 points by HillRat 3y ago|39 comments
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by HillRat 3y ago
Not apocryphal, but not what you're thinking of -- breakage is essentially an unexercised contract right (like a gift card that is never redeemed), and in streaming it refers to the difference between an advance or minimum payment to a
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by HillRat 3y ago
Inventories are stacking up after the COVID supply chain crisis, so automotive and durable goods manufacturers are slowing down on input orders, even though demand for their products remains high. There's definitely a PC/smartphon
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by HillRat 3y ago
I think the most effective argument against Wansley and Weinstein is that the markets may reset after the companies involved collapse, so you essentially get a transfer of value from shareholders to VCs and from shareholders and VCs to cons
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by HillRat 3y ago
Studios are essentially big piles of cash to fund movies; rights to scripts, stories and IPs to make movies; and contracts to distribute movies (and, since everything old is new again, they now also own streaming services rather than movie
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by HillRat 3y ago
The question is whether the prospect of a WGA deal (and, admittedly, having to go back to the table with SAG-AFTRA and IATSE) is so unpalatable to the studios that they're willing to take the hit of a significant gap in theater release
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by HillRat 3y ago
Lots of options out there. A few from my bookshelf: Bijker's "Of Bicycles, Bakelites, and Bulbs" is a case-study-centric work that seeks to build a general theory of STS. Nye's "Technology Matters" is less a wo
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by HillRat 3y ago
This is pretty indicative of how bad things are: [A] quality control officer ... alleg[ed to investigators] another employee -- upon learning investigators were on the way -- "immediately rushed and tore apart balance printouts along
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Titanic “digital twin” shows shipwreck in extreme detail(offshore-mag.com)
1 points by HillRat 3y ago|0 comments
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by HillRat 3y ago
Musk is also reportedly (as per Puck) refusing to pay JAMS (it's about $3.5mm in filing fees alone for 2K two-party arbitrations, and he's going to spend many multiples of that on attorney fees), so if he makes arbitration impossi
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by HillRat 3y ago
At this rate we're a couple of quarters away from her sending out an "our incredible journey" email announcing that Automattic is acquiring the remnants of the company for spare change and a promise never to release any inter
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by HillRat 3y ago
Yaccarino is saying what she needs to, but the typical and tired self-aggrandizing "we're on a mission to change the world" platitudes ring more than a bit hollow given the chaos of the past several months. Showing up for you
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by HillRat 3y ago
Oof. That's a "Please explain why we shouldn't make a criminal referral for prosecution of you, your company, and your associates under 18 USC § 1001" kind of letter.
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by HillRat 3y ago
Licht and Musk are similar in that they both hold right-of-center (Licht) or right-of-right (Musk) views, convinced themselves that they’re representative of the median American, and bet their respective media orgs on amplifying their views
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by HillRat 3y ago
Unless they changed up the bill since I looked at it, you’ve got a bill of attainder with serious Constitutional issues, including First Amendment, due process, and dormant Commerce Clause problems. It’s very hard for me to see a federal co
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by HillRat 3y ago
Don't forget the most ridiculous part of EDI-style protocols (X12, HL7, etc.), which is that they don't have an explicit looping construct; you have to look at each implementation spec and your trading partner's specific comp
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Montana Signs TikTok Ban into Law(cnn.com)
4 points by HillRat 3y ago|1 comments
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by HillRat 3y ago
Blue force tracking has been a thing for decades now, so there's nothing new about (relatively) real-time unit tracking and C2 messaging in the field, and there have been multiple stabs at integrating HoloLens into the loop, none succe
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by HillRat 3y ago
Thanks to tort carveouts in the PLCAA, liability suits against firearms manufacturers have additional hurdles to overcome; the Remington settlement was surprising because the plaintiffs would have had a hard time prevailing at trial. It’s l
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by HillRat 3y ago
These lawsuits are part of a longstanding effort by cities and states to try and develop a theory of manufacturer legal accountability through public nuisance law, an effort that is perhaps morally laudable but legally fraught; to date, oth

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