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by HillRat 4y ago
Twitter is also a risk, not just a distraction; now foreign governments can demand access and control in Twitter by holding Tesla revenue hostage (e.g., China's approval or disapproval of Tesla purchase tax exemptions), so he's ba
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The data analytic side of oil majors is extremely sophisticated and complex: these are groups dealing with massive sets of all-sensor geologic data and using them to make multi-billion-dollar bets as to what's going to happen thousands
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Amazon was a tax situation -- Bezos loathes Seattle City Council and basically issued a mandate that there would be no new offices in Seattle proper. Of course, now housing prices in east Seattle have gone through the roof.
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Trained AI models are arguably fair use under the "transformative" prong (which is itself a relatively new concept in copyright law), but they are also arguably derivative and thus infringing: there's a strong possibility
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Look past the veneer and you'll see plenty of ugliness in UK politics -- just a few days ago the (now former) Home Secretary was snarling about her plans to fit up "Guardian-reading, tofu-eating wokerati" with ankle monitors
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by HillRat 4y ago
Yes -- the article doesn't explain this, but in the morning you use the clockwise side of the hour hand to find south, and in the afternoon the counter-clockwise side (IIRC).
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Kanye's apparently been hanging out with conservative pundit Candace Owens (the two wore matching "White Lives Matter" shirts at his recent fashion show, she's evidently been acting as his publicity agent, and he repeate
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Ethically, you’ve uncovered a flaw that provides a modest benefit to you (direct access to your IP camera), but serious detriment to both the manufacturer and the other owners of the cameras. Leaving aside the company’s position, this flaw
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Facebook is very much the aggressor -- in response to the FTC suit, their immediate response was to try and use the courts to strong-arm hundreds of competitors into giving up massive troves of highly sensitive commercial secrets without an
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by HillRat 4y ago
Second thoughts, absolutely, but also hell-or-high-water contracts that require MAEs to break, and Musk has been notably unsuccessful in making that argument (hence where we are now!). Gonna be a lot of blood on the floor when folks have to
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One thing that’s odd about that letter — not the only thing, but one thing — is that it makes a demand on the Chancery Court to adjourn the trial. That is, it’s not a notice of settlement or even a request for adjournment, but some kind of
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That's basically the DoJ's argument -- that consolidation in the publishing world will reduce title diversity, because the incentive is to focus advances and marketing budgets on a small number of potential hits, and the fewer the
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Authors were already generally up in arms over the bad faith and contempt displayed by publishing-industry witnesses in the Penguin Random House/Simon & Schuster merger trial, so this was not exactly calculated to smooth over the t
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It's more about Pilkington's longstanding right-wing anti-American, Russophilic bias; even as late as August he was trumpeting the Russian invasion of Ukraine as a stunning success and Russian weapons as qualitatively superior to
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The problem, legally speaking, is that this is almost the exact same fact pattern as Rogers v. Koons , in that the photograph itself was not being commented on, so parodic fair use isn’t a valid defense.
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Every company has a certain threshold revenue size for new BU initiatives -- for a company Google's size it's going to be measured in the billions, which probably didn't seem unreasonable if they assumed game streaming would
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Looks interesting and a great deal more elegant than the usual Electron mess, though I'm running into some kind of race condition on Windows that continually crashes `wails dev`, so that's a bit disappointing. Nonetheless, looking
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Yeah, it falls into the trap of too many "secret history" pieces, both in terms of failing to understand the specific area of research (such as, in this case, mistaking the term "birds of a feather" for being connected t
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Don't know about quantified, but some of the underwater videos show bubble entrainment in some kind of shear flow 25+ meters down, which indicates a terrifying amount of velocity and power pushing downwards.
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Seems like they (A) are killing the free tier and forcing active users to upgrade to paid plans; and (B) screwed up and also sent out emails to users who have been inactive and had their accounts deactivated (thus accounting for the flood o
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by HillRat 4y ago
From a sales perspective (I was in a position to be tech-agnostic, due to coming in as a consultant), BE4FEs can be sold to the business on basis of: (A) decoupling and velocity; (B) flexibility and features; (C) performance and efficiency;
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The borrow checker is much less strict if the data only lives inside your skull. Much harder to mutably borrow.
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You're assuming that viruses don't have natural reservoirs. For example, viral hemorrhagic fevers, particularly filovirus VHFs, are both highly transmissible and highly deadly -- accounting for their history of rapid, fast-growing
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I'll also note that he begins his piece by approvingly quoting Shakespeare's "Dick the Butcher," one of the henchmen of Jack Cade and a symbol of the descent of England into anarchy and mob rule; in the play, Cade is bas
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Ah, I see the site fell prey to the fate, much whispered about by the most famed of initiates, of nipatzmiqui -- "being hugged to death."
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Twitter's always hedged their bot stats with the MDAU caveat (e.g., "we're not estimating all the bots who log into Twitter, just the ones that are meaningful for advertising and revenue purposes"), so while these allega
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All I’ll add is that Smith was more “America’s first formally-credentialed Black physician,” since most physicians (in America, at least) didn’t attend medical school at the time; instead, medical schools were seen as an advanced education
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Eh, the court granted one discovery request out of twenty-two, so it’s not in any case an unalloyed win for Musk. As for the bots issue, remember that Twitter convinced Musk to write language in the contract that moots the materiality scrap
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Substack Retaliates Against "Forever Wars" Editor(foreverwars.ghost.io)
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Speaking anecdotally, I’ve known quite a few Amish of various stripes who left and became Mennonites, or joined the “English” world entirely. The Amish aren’t cloistered from the world like monks, so there’s plenty of interactions on the so

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