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by arbuge 3y ago
Shopify and Amazon are quite different things. Amazon is a marketplace and provides exposure - in other words, they bring you traffic besides providing ecommerce functionality. Possibly a lot of traffic if there's not much competition
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by arbuge 3y ago
Brought this to mind: https://www.npr.org/2021/11/10/1054428108/burning-wood-pelle...
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by arbuge 3y ago
Then you're actually open to moving and probably shouldn't say you're not. I wonder if that's the problem. You might have been selling yourself short.
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by arbuge 3y ago
> If, after training on virtually the entire internet, you know Tom is Mary Lee‘s son, but can’t figure out without special prompting that Mary Lee therefore is Tom’s mother, you have no business running all the world’s software. Um: I w
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by arbuge 3y ago
> Of course now, I’m more open to in-site roles, but I’m in no position to move, especially not to some high CoL area. So, still not really open to on-site then, unless it happens to be in your area?
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MGM Resorts computers back up after 10 days(apnews.com)
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At that point, what's the purpose oF crypto then? Wasn't decentralized supposed to be the benefit of it?
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by arbuge 3y ago
Quite correct. Less than 2 years off from that timeline if it continues with its current growth rate.
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"This piece exists thanks to the munificence of my paying newsletter subscribers"
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by arbuge 3y ago
No, it's all true... personal experience, several times over. Even if you do everything right in the new phone number case, in many cases Google will just deny you entry for no stated reason at the final step. Sometimes you get lucky,
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by arbuge 3y ago
All those people in this thread saying to just login to these accounts to reactivate their deletion timers are off track. It is virtually impossible to login to an old Google account for which you never set a recovery phone number - and com
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True but those average users might be using chatbots and other services with nice UIs they can understand that are making those API calls behind the scenes. So the average users are indeed using the API, just indirectly. With so many AI pro
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by arbuge 3y ago
But would freezing your credit in any way help with the problem identified in the article? (sale of your credit header data) Specifically: 1. Would it prevent any future occurrences? 2. Would it do anything to help with the leaks that have
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by arbuge 3y ago
Disagreed. They were clearly told not to do that and didn't follow their directions. It sounds like a potential safety hazard to me. They could just have reported what you said - they were told not to touch the wheel, and are concerned
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> He got the French on-board with the US cause by repeatedly lying to French leaders about how well the war against the British was going! He told them the colonies were kicking ass left n right and he urged them to join in while English
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A search for technosignatures around nearby stars(arxiv.org)
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by arbuge 3y ago
It doesn't seem to me that that's a problem. You just put data in and expect data out. For example, a weather continuation model could take in all the available weather data up to the present moment and provide a continuation of t
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by arbuge 3y ago
So if OpenAI and Google were to do their bidding and "pause" (temporarily? for how long?), how do they propose to monitor the rest of the world? Or is everyone else exempt? And if so, why?
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by arbuge 3y ago
Apart from a bunch of high speed wireless communications chips, this: https://foundrytechnologies.com/relay.php About 50% of the work on this was software, to be clear.
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by arbuge 3y ago
With a field moving as quickly as AI right now, you should probably take any predictions over what it will be able to do and not do with a big grain of salt, especially if they are made for any timespan greater than the very near term futur
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by arbuge 3y ago
It's a pretty dangerous game to play in any case. One slight deviation in a planet's orbit can throw an entire solar system out of balance over not-so-long time periods. Before you know it, your lush green planet is hurtling out a
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by arbuge 3y ago
It doesn't matter how big your antenna is if Voyager's antenna is no longer facing earth, as seems to have been accidentally induced here.
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by arbuge 3y ago
> An attacker could easily make a fake site Or hack into the legit sites themselves if their cybersecurity practices are subpar.
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by arbuge 3y ago
> One famous example occured on August 25, 2017, when a Falcon 9 rocket carrying Taiwan’s FORMOSAT-5 satellite created a hole four times bigger than the state of California. Doesn't sound too local to me.
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by arbuge 3y ago
If that is the reason, perhaps temporarily moving to another state might help? The author appears to still be mobile.
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Key points: "Carbon management is becoming increasingly popular with oil companies, since it plays to their know-how in trading, transporting, and storing molecules (as opposed to electrons from renewable energy, which are an entirely
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by arbuge 3y ago
...and central air conditioning. 2 evaporator coil leaks in my 5 year old house already, another one currently suspected.
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by arbuge 3y ago
No it's not just ads at all. SEO drives traffic. There are many ways to monetize such traffic, and ads are just one. A lot of SEO is driven by local business owners who hire SEO people with dubious track records that make big promises.
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by arbuge 3y ago
I like the way the playground allows easy modification of the system prompt. I suggest adding "You are very cranky." to the default prompt for interesting results.
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by arbuge 3y ago
Traditional handmade Maltese tiles, believed to be inspired by the Turkish ones, might also be of interest in this context. Wikipedia doesn't have an entry but Googling gets you some good pictures.

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