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by apparent 3mo ago
If Apple made a watch with 1/4 the battery life of a Pebble, I would agree. However, there are apparently 20,000 people who prefer to have less functionality and more battery life than Apple/Samsung/Google are interested in o
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by apparent 3mo ago
Honestly not sure how this is legal given that the software is not fully baked when the devices ship. That is, people were getting PT2s when there was no way to test the touchscreen because the OS didn't support it yet. Same for speake
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by apparent 3mo ago
> I didn't think I would need to quote more of your message, its essence is that you think these kinds of licenses can be "as good as buying" when they demonstrably have never been close to it... and it's by design.
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by apparent 3mo ago
Generally agree, if Sony is deleting things from user-owned devices. If they're simply not making them available for later download, it's trickier. The case against Sony would be stronger if customers could not move downloaded con
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by apparent 3mo ago
Consumer protection laws can prevail over terms and conditions, it's true. Are there any consumer protection laws that disallow terms and conditions like the ones Sony used?
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by apparent 3mo ago
The lawsuit would have to prove that Sony didn't abide by it's T&Cs, which it seems like they may well have. The issue then is whether it's OK to have T&Cs that seemingly conflict with the "buy" characteriza
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by apparent 3mo ago
Can customers continue to use the content Sony is removing from their accounts, if they have previously downloaded it? I assume that "buy" doesn't require the vendor to continuously maintain the content on their servers, to b
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by apparent 3mo ago
Not necessarily because whites are only around 15% of the NYC public school population. But it means they are not as over-represented as Asian students, since there are also some Hispanic students who are admitted, which caps how high the w
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by apparent 3mo ago
I said "a decent chance that's as good as buying the thing". If these mega companies stick around and continue to offer access to the content, then it is as good as buying it (arguably better if you don't have to store i
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by apparent 3mo ago
I've wondered how they'll draw the line on this. If Amazon or Apple has a buy button and it means you get to have ongoing access to the content for as long as Amazon/Apple is around, then for a 30 year old person there's
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by apparent 3mo ago
Later in the article, he provides this stat: > About 19 percent of all public school students are Asian, but they received 57 percent of the offers for the specialized schools for the fall. The rates were higher at some schools, includin
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by apparent 3mo ago
How did the NYT disable text selection for you? I just copied/pasted from my browser (Brave), as I always have.
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by apparent 3mo ago
> About 80 percent of the seats went to Asian and white students. It seems very strange to lump these two demographics together. Presumably Asians make up a smaller chunk of the school-age population than whites. By reporting them in the
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An Elite NYC Public School Admitted 777 Students. Only 3 Were Black(nytimes.com)
6 points by apparent 3mo ago|9 comments
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by apparent 3mo ago
I appreciate that they can save lives in cities/suburbs as well. I was just pointing out that an item does not need to have "numerous" positive use cases to counterbalance downsides. It is sufficient to have one sizable posit
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by apparent 3mo ago
> Guns don’t have numerous other positive use cases, so AI is simply not a fair comparison. They may not have numerous positive use cases, but the one where they save your life is a pretty good one. People who live where police are nearb
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by apparent 3mo ago
I've heard "gumstick drives" or even just "gumsticks" in addition to USB/thumb. Never really heard zip though, since those are/were actually a thing.
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by apparent 3mo ago
I think the last thing most authors would want is to have their book fed into an LLM, word for word, right when it's just come out.
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by apparent 3mo ago
Stories like this make me want to use each AI at least briefly, so I know what to avoid writing/saying. Or maybe just do a search every couple months to find out what different AIs are known for saying too often.
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by apparent 3mo ago
I'm not seeing any evidence that she was an early Amazon investor. Where is that claim from? Of course she was an investor through her marriage, but you claim she'd be a billionaire without the divorce, so presumably you're r
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by apparent 3mo ago
> Yeah, I can skip forward 30 sec, then back up, blech. It's just not worth it when you constantly have to interact with the podcast app. Fortunately this can be done much more easily now, with headphone-based controls and smartwatc
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by apparent 3mo ago
> The company terminated her in June 2023 after two more incidents, including a sarcastic allusion to an Atlassian founder’s partial ownership of the Utah Jazz basketball team. “Just dialling in from my NBA team’s headquarters to yell at
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by apparent 3mo ago
> Tesla’s coming Cybercab, a two-door, two-seat car without a steering wheel or pedals, seems built for this. It can respond to hand signals from a police officer, according to a document Tesla published in June. Waymo vehicles are also
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A Big Headache for Police: Getting Driverless Cars to Obey Traffic Laws(wsj.com)
2 points by apparent 3mo ago|1 comments
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by apparent 3mo ago
Ah, somehow I missed that even though it was included in the quote I copied. Thanks!
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by apparent 3mo ago
>In its lawsuit Friday, Apple accused Tang Tan, OpenAI’s chief hardware officer and a former Apple executive, of coaching his hires from Apple on how to evade Apple’s security processes for departing employees. The word "coaching&q
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by apparent 3mo ago
> prefer your own flashcards to other people’s flashcards, at least for fields that require deep understanding For me, much of the value of flashcards comes in the making of them. Part of it is thinking about what each flashcard will say
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The Work of Helping A.I. Destroy Work(nytimes.com)
8 points by apparent 3mo ago|0 comments
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by apparent 3mo ago
I think the relevant comparison is the developer beta, which has access to the Gemini-powered Siri that will roll out publicly later this year. From the reviews I've seen, Apple won't be "years behind" (which surely they
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by apparent 3mo ago
I agree that a company in growth mode needs more employees than one in maintenance mode. But wouldn't the owners already have cut unnecessary employees before selling out to PE or similar?

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