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by alwa 2y ago
There’s some degree of risk-shifting, too, right? Since insurance is a precondition for a mortgage and therefore for homeownership (the way Americans like to do it, anyway), states are wont to arrange an “insurer of last resort” that suppor
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by alwa 2y ago
Does this work if you have to finalize your submission before said organizers harvest shiny fresh dataset into existence?
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by alwa 2y ago
Have you spent much time in their dining rooms? Niche as Chris Arnade’s expertise may be, it sure seems hard-earned: > I can answer both questions. I’ve spent over a decade sitting in McDonald’s all over the United States—I believe I’ve
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by alwa 2y ago
The people who would know that best are the people investigating, prosecuting, and judging him. In real life, not through rumor and media (social or otherwise). I’m not aware of evidence to the contrary, but then I wouldn’t be, because I’m
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by alwa 2y ago
This is incredible. I wonder if anybody has set out to build some of these bikes as sculptures.
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by alwa 2y ago
Was yours an SVG? I think that’s what makes Simon feel that this test is useful: the LLM has to generate functioning SVG code describing these shapes.
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by alwa 2y ago
Yes, but it sounds like part of the point is that you want to put the fear of the Lord into small-fry operators. They mention especially in their CSAM discussion that, in practice, a lot of that stuff ends up being distributed by smallish o
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by alwa 2y ago
The hacker in me is real grumpy about all this, and believes that they’re nannying a whole lot of the dumb superficial stuff while pushing serious malfeasance underground. But they make a good point: if you exclude the smaller providers, th
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by alwa 2y ago
I wonder if some of those words might be terms-of-art, written with a specialist rather than a generalist audience in mind.
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I’m surprised this is being reported as news. Has Wall Street culture ever not been this way, within living memory?
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by alwa 2y ago
It feels just as weaselly to me when, by use of confidence-inspiring “plain language,” firms manage to pass off the impression that they’re making Solemn Categorical Pledges foreswearing the bad behavior that made users nervous—while preser
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by alwa 2y ago
To be fair it’s also Sunday. Silly season for newspapers generally, the business newspaper in particular.
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In this day and age, dealing with that amount of data even to archival standards may well be cheaper than you’d rate your labor to sort all the wheat from the chaff…
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by alwa 2y ago
That phrasing raises my weasel-word hackles… first of all, it’s unclear what it would mean to “use your photos and videos for advertising.” That sounds to me like reprinting your photos to advertise something—which nobody accused them of do
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by alwa 2y ago
Why is this a link to a Reddit post? If this needs to be here at all (the ratio of salacious speculation to fact seems a little out of line with what normally flies here), shouldn’t we link to the source the Reddit post refers to? https:&#
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by alwa 2y ago
Search as I may, I can’t for the life of me find the reason why. Does the robocalling industry have particular pull in Nebraska for some reason, or as far as we can tell are they just wanting to go their own way?
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by alwa 2y ago
I wonder which state abstained from “the FCC’s robocall enforcement partnerships with leaders from 49 states, the District of Columbia, and Guam.”
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by alwa 2y ago
They were if you count the amount they claimed to be putting in from their award: “The total value of The Onion’s bid was $7 million, including $1.75 million in cash put up by Global Tetrahedron, with the rest coming from the families of th
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by alwa 2y ago
It does seem likely to be true, although apparently, based on its bid, his affiliated company sees $3.5 million worth of extra value in keeping the Infowars brand and structure as opposed to going that route.
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That's what they did, and that's what was rejected here, right? Although it sounds like maybe this was more of a procedural rejection than a dispositive one...
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Isn't it a little strange, though, that the system notionally decided that the families are owed an enormous amount of economic power as compensation for the nasty behavior of Alex Jones' media company, but at the same time it&#x2
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by alwa 2y ago
In case that one still cuts off halfway through, another snapshot is at https://archive.is/8q8m8
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by alwa 2y ago
From the Octopus Poultry Safe to the Chicken Boy, to the Spoutnic that hassles them off the floor and into the nesting boxes, chickens seem amply served by robotic companions: https://www.canadianpoultrymag.com/rise-of-the-r
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by alwa 2y ago
I share the prevailing skepticism about this specific project, but it does seem plausible that desiccated fall foliage might interact with sound differently than supple new growth.
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Even though this is Al Jazeera, there are photos of iconic works further into the article. Masks, a bust, murals…
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by alwa 2y ago
I think those kind of answers might be exactly what the court is talking about. You don’t have to “remove” something to influence its reach. They’re denying stuff that doesn’t matter while leaving plenty of room for the kind of behavior tha
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by alwa 2y ago
The allegation [0] is that a Russian influence campaign used TikTok as at least one of its platforms, to major effect. The subtext is that TikTok was at the very least complicit, in that, at a minimum, it tolerated what I believe Facebook c
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by alwa 2y ago
My iPhone autocorrects two consecutive hyphens to an em dash. I’m fairly sure it’s not something I configured manually, so I assume it is or was a default. Possibly a component of the “smart punctuation” setting for the keyboard.
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Luckily smart people have resources and a mandate to study each of those questions at scale. You might be interested in the work that the US Bureau of Labor Statistics ( https://www.bls.gov/ ) does on the economic side of lab
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by alwa 2y ago
There’s also the question of how other drivers handle the rain. And I have to imagine it’s nontrivial to, on a test range alone, permute the full range of different surfaces’ handling characteristics under different precipitation conditions

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