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by NotYourLawyer 2y ago
Maybe. But longer term, new uses for ammonia might well lead to more efficient and widespread production.
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by NotYourLawyer 2y ago
Ok, that’s a good point. But gravity wave is commonly used as shorthand for gravitational wave.
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by NotYourLawyer 2y ago
Seriously, what a dumb title. Anybody who knows what gravity waves are is gonna read it and go “what?? no.”
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by NotYourLawyer 2y ago
> A key point, I feel, is that it is impossible to describe the process of cryptanalysis in a work of fiction and make it interesting for the general reader. Neal Stephenson pulled it off in Cryptonomicon.
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by NotYourLawyer 2y ago
He talks about this mean-reversion effect.
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by NotYourLawyer 2y ago
I actually understood the jargon fine. It just felt like a puff piece.
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by NotYourLawyer 2y ago
This reads like a press release. Is there any actual information available?
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by NotYourLawyer 2y ago
Sounds like it could be a mechanical relay clicking. Is it actually coming from the speaker?
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by NotYourLawyer 2y ago
People still use inkjets? Lasers are better in every way.
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by NotYourLawyer 2y ago
It’s really not though. The content is completely different.
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by NotYourLawyer 2y ago
Business bankruptcies almost inevitably wipe out the shareholders in favor of the creditors. That wouldn’t do any good for the “oligarch” owners.
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by NotYourLawyer 2y ago
Oligarchs don’t declare bankruptcy very often.
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by NotYourLawyer 2y ago
Doubt it. You can bet the bankruptcy judge will be taking a hard look at where these funds came from. More likely he just has wealthy friends/allies.
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by NotYourLawyer 2y ago
>2008 Back when google wasn’t evil, did cool shit, and had a functional search engine.
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by NotYourLawyer 2y ago
It’s not at all clear to me that this comment breaks the guidelines.
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by NotYourLawyer 2y ago
It’s not the case that every single black applicant gets admitted before a single white/Asian applicant does. The point is that it’s much, much easier for a black applicant to get admitted. A black applicant with GPA and MCAT scores in
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by NotYourLawyer 2y ago
Obviously I don’t mean “hire” in the narrow sense. We shouldn’t admit people to medical school based on DEI any more than we should hire them after medical school based on DEI.
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by NotYourLawyer 2y ago
> we should set a bar for qualifications and let anyone over the bar become a doctor Absolutely. Let’s stop using different bars for different races.
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by NotYourLawyer 2y ago
Unbelievable because it’s the opposite of what the link shows?
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by NotYourLawyer 2y ago
> Not much consolation to the world's super rich who will lose tons of money once the LLM industry (let us remember that AI is not LLM) falls. They knew the deal: “it would be wise to view any investment in OpenAI Global, LLC in the
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by NotYourLawyer 2y ago
Fusion will never be practical. Why not put it in an application that will ALSO never be practical?
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by NotYourLawyer 2y ago
Nothing jumps out at me.
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by NotYourLawyer 2y ago
I hate the app-ification of everything. 95% of apps could just be a web page, and should be.
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by NotYourLawyer 2y ago
ROI!
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by NotYourLawyer 2y ago
This is such a good post. I’m sad the blog hasn’t been updated in years.
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by NotYourLawyer 2y ago
I haven’t looked at the patent documents, but I’d bet money it’s not the same. The later US patent is probably for an improvement on the original device.
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by NotYourLawyer 2y ago
1. That’s not how first-to-file works. It’s a sadly common misunderstanding. 2. This case was from way before first-to-file even went into effect anyway.
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by NotYourLawyer 2y ago
Well, some of them are, indirectly. But there are also those allegedly independent agencies (which, although maybe not a bad idea, is probably unconstitutional—we don’t have a fourth branch).
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by NotYourLawyer 2y ago
Not really. Here’s a good explanation from Harvard constitutional law professor Steve Vladeck. https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/123-what-vice-president-vance...
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by NotYourLawyer 2y ago
The unitary executive theory is hardly a maga invention.

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