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by aeturnum 2y ago
I think fines that are proportional to your income or wealth are clearly a better approach than fixed fines. In practice, that kind of stuff can be really hard to figure out, but overall it seems sensible? There are lots of downsides to a h
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by aeturnum 2y ago
Consoles have always won on the "time investment :: game playing capability" metric. Sure, it's possible to be savvy with your time and money and build a PC that is better than a PS5 Pro for less money - but learning how to d
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by aeturnum 2y ago
Yah, the press release is written in a confusing way. I wish they were more clear about where those two numbers are coming from but that is my read of what they are trying to say.
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I believe what they are saying is two fold: 1) We have been doing some cleaning and, based on our real results that we have recorded, we are saying it can be cleaned up for $7.5bn over 10 years. 2) Separately, we have also done some thinkin
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For me, search integration of LLMs also helps bring together the value prop of paid search. It's not just privacy, it's the skillful integration of a premium information processing service (with built in privacy).
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I do think LLMs have their place in search and I think the Kagi approach feels a lot better than Googles'. Kagi doesn't inject LLM results anywhere, but they've been making LLMs accessible in their search interface for a long
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by aeturnum 2y ago
Do you use text messages for your 2FA setup? It's more work but phone-based 2FA can be circumvented without you receiving a message.
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by aeturnum 2y ago
He's at Bloomberg right now[1]. His main output is his 4-times-a-week column Money Stuff, but he also has a podcast and writes in other venues. I love his writing! [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE&
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by aeturnum 2y ago
There are use cases where 1km is too short (and Garmen does make dedicated, multi-gps trackers for hunting with dogs), but for many run of the mill use cases (i.e. losing your dog on a hike) it seems great.
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Oh great! Someone (Garmin?) used to have a fully off grid group locator like this, but they stopped selling it pretty quickly. This kind of thing is very useful when cell coverage is poor (i.e. put one on your dogs collar). There are times
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by aeturnum 2y ago
There's also a lot of evidence that a given individuals' chance of being the victim of a particular crime derives from their social situation. Most people who regularly do crime are used to doing crime in a way they can repeat, an
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I was interested to see that there are only really prostitution arrests in the middle of the mission!
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It's the opposite - right? There are more gross crimes in the high-density area, but your chance of suffering one is much lower (all else being equal). Trying to apply statistics directly like this is generally inaccurate, but to the d
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by aeturnum 2y ago
Parking turnover probably scales with population density. One of the reasons parking is more expensive in big cities is to encourage people to move their cars sooner. Smaller cities will have more cars that never move, where larger ones wil
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by aeturnum 2y ago
IMO the way to think about it is that the turing-complete nature of python imports is one of the central design decisions of the language. Lots of python oddities make more sense once you realize that the module structure is determined at r
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by aeturnum 2y ago
My guess is that imports in python are just executing python. When you import a module you are (optionally) running code in that module. So a circular import generates infinite recursion. Python does a lot when it evaluates an import stat
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by aeturnum 2y ago
This is technically already the situation and you can easily get them to pay up for each violation you prove in court. Good luck!
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by aeturnum 2y ago
I fully agree it's a hard problem, but Facebook is the one telling us they can be the police. If you really feel you can't operate a business without doing crimes, you shouldn't operate the business. It's understandable
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This is part of a larger pattern for Facebook and other "large scale" advertisers where it's clear they are breaking laws at some rate and are protected from paying a real consequence by the cost of discovering the exact rate
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by aeturnum 2y ago
The take I have heard is that carbon capture, in theory, is an important part of dealing with emissions from sectors which don't have a realistic carbon-neutral alternative (i.e. smelting). However, the main problem is that the "i
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by aeturnum 2y ago
I don't know how use works in gleam but, at first brush they seem very different. Use in elixir basically allows you to execute a macro callback in the module `use`ing the other module. In gleam it seems to be a tool for chaining funct
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by aeturnum 2y ago
Thanks - I hadn't thought to mention the risk of trying to raise rent but it's a good note. I was mostly getting at how the conditions in the UBI scenario ("everyone could pay $1000 more in rent if I insisted") is often
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by aeturnum 2y ago
That's super fair and I think you are absolutely right that it's an obvious question. Generally when people get more money for some reason the people who they buy from don't know it - but in this case they would know it! It w
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by aeturnum 2y ago
> Someone who's yearly income is in the 5th percentile is still earning in the 5th percentile. Isn't this an intended feature of UBI? The idea of UBI is that some level of material support should be guaranteed. It's abou
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by aeturnum 2y ago
The use of Kimchi as a method of cultural outreach and cultural expression is really interesting (and ofc kimchi is delicious). My favorite detail is that South Korea funded development of a version of Kimchi that was appropriate for space[
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by aeturnum 2y ago
I feel like the idea of understanding media has, for many of us, become a prison. The purest version of understanding is kind of a personal relationship to a piece of media. A relationship you form while engaging with it that enlivens your
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by aeturnum 2y ago
I believe it's rooted in agreements that content producers (including Netflix I am sure) insist on for distributing media. My impression is that all anti-piracy measures are intended to "just" extend the exclusivity period fo
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by aeturnum 2y ago
I think you will probably see a noticeable increase in quality if you install one of the "netflix 1080p" extensions[1]. [1] https://chromewebstore.google.com/search/netflix%20higher%20...
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by aeturnum 2y ago
I don't really know what people "generally" think of Netflix encoding, but my experience is that it's Very Bad. It's a combination of factors: - Netflix will only send you "high quality" (over 720p) stream
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by aeturnum 2y ago
A really interesting question here, to me, is if aphantasia is more common now than it was before. There's a whole collection of non-"neurotypical" conditions that seem more common now (though its always possible they are jus

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