PepperdineG

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by PepperdineG 2y ago
You might end up with Khan Noonien Singh who will try and steal your ship then stick a bug in your ear
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by PepperdineG 2y ago
It could be something like what happens with honey bees in chimneys. Honey bees think they've found a great hollow tree home with it even smelling like a tree due to creosote, but creosote levels are so high that it makes sick bee colo
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by PepperdineG 2y ago
I believe Brian wrote that in letters 30 feet tall before he was crucified
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by PepperdineG 2y ago
>it's a demo of an unreleased product. Sounds like what Trevor Milton got sent away for
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by PepperdineG 2y ago
What Franklin said was true though. If the US revolutionaries had failed, they would have been rightfully hung for treason by the British. If you're some private actor attacking military targets in some country, you'd be a terrori
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by PepperdineG 2y ago
Al Qaeda isn't a nation-state so by definition it falls into terrorism. It's like if Greenpeace sunk a military vessel because the sonar was killing sea life that would be terrorism. It would have some serious side effects if it w
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by PepperdineG 2y ago
Raspberry Pis ending up in Russian weapons used in Ukraine is currently an issue actually, which it's illegal to export them to Russia.
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by PepperdineG 2y ago
To make money, like with all the merchandising that happens with a popular movie. Any number of things are licensed with the owner of the IP having very limited involvement in it, like turning down certain types of licenses as bad for the b
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by PepperdineG 2y ago
Dennis Duffy finally got a big commercial order and now that customer isn't going to use him again. That's no way to impress Liz Lemon.
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by PepperdineG 2y ago
I watched The Beach Boys live at county fair a few years ago, which it was the official band but basically a cover band since most of the originals had moved on or passed on. The main headliner Beach Boy actually talked about why he was sti
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by PepperdineG 2y ago
The laws aren't universally the same in all countries. Copyright/product counterfeiting can vary from country to country for instance, so you can do something legally in one country but the importation of such a product into anoth
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by PepperdineG 2y ago
I'd counter that certain things are expensive and as technologies change, it opens up the technology to a broader audience, which poor people can write now due to changing affordability in writing due to technological changes. With pap
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by PepperdineG 2y ago
The article itself doesn't really go into why what they're saying is wetlands actually is. There's not really any definition of wetlands that I'm aware that's based on carbon content of the soil rather than it being
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by PepperdineG 3y ago
>after taking a look at the account ID's supplied we'd be unable to share more information or amend the actions taken. That sounds like they're concerned about money laundering/fraud/crime rather than the issue b
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by PepperdineG 3y ago
During WWII the Germans had Operation Bernhard, which was very interesting. It was run out of a concentration camp and operated by jewish prisoners. It was a money printing machine for the Germans.
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by PepperdineG 3y ago
Disputing the activities under a Delaware charter would seem to fall under the jurisdiction of the Delaware Chancery Court, not the California court Musk went to. Delaware is specifically known for it being easy for non-profits to easily tw
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by PepperdineG 3y ago
It's like the Arboghast encountering the protomolecule
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by PepperdineG 3y ago
I had always wondered what had happened to Hank Hill from Strickland Propane.
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by PepperdineG 3y ago
Ernest Scribbler helped win WWII for the British with a joke that was over 60,000 times as powerful as Britain's great pre-war joke.
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by PepperdineG 3y ago
>I don't know how anyone can call the board's action a "coup." Calling it that seems to be a propagandistic abuse of the term. >The board was in charge, and it's not a coup if it fires a subordinate (the CEO).
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by PepperdineG 3y ago
>It's the single biggest problem with LLMs and Gemini isn't solving it. I loved it when the lawyers got busted for using a hallucinating LLM to write their briefs.
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by PepperdineG 3y ago
>Ms. Toner disagreed. The board’s mission is to ensure that the company creates artificial intelligence that “benefits all of humanity,” and if the company was destroyed, she said, that mission would be fulfilled. Now we know where that
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by PepperdineG 3y ago
It just blows me away. The unusual board activity is what drew me to this. What I'm also waiting for is an explanation for why/how they canned Brockman as their Chairman of the Board. With him so far I've not even heard of a
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by PepperdineG 3y ago
The original reason given was "lack of candor," just what continues to be questioned is whether or not that was the true reason. The lack of candor comment about their ex-CEO is actually what drew me into this in the first place s
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by PepperdineG 3y ago
Recursive Interim CEOs. Will there be a Mandelbrot set of Interim CEOs?
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by PepperdineG 3y ago
>I can’t imagine why any CEO would want to take the job and be Sam’s boss. There’s no way that goes well. She could be doing a move from The Expanse where she's Jim Holden and Sam is Camina Drummer (plus Adam is Chrisjen Avasarala).
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by PepperdineG 3y ago
I think OpenAI is in zugzwang
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by PepperdineG 3y ago
Sounds like Ilya should change his name to Iago
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by PepperdineG 3y ago
It would be funny if it was the prehistoric equivalent of the city of Dog River putting up a sign saying "Wullerton Sucks!" It could for instance represent a foreigner with the statue saying certain foreigners are wankers.
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by PepperdineG 3y ago
Roy Trenneman made that policy and got Jen Barber to unknowingly approve it

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