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by ascorbic 2y ago
Life imprisonment – with or without parole – for a non-violent crime still seems excessive. If they'd convicted him of conspiracy to murder for hiring the hitman then that's a different matter.
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Stackblitz is in talks for a $700M valuation(bloomberg.com)
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by ascorbic 2y ago
China is a totalitarian dictatorship. The US is the land of the free.
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by ascorbic 2y ago
No it's not. These aren't people just buying ads - they have a whole following that they need to rebuild somewhere else.
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by ascorbic 2y ago
Do you think X was trying to make US citizens angry or content?
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by ascorbic 2y ago
But Russia was using a platform that they don't control for all of these. Meanwhile we have a member of the inner circle of the US President-elect using the social network that he owns to explicitly attempt to depose the leader of the
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by ascorbic 2y ago
China is a totalitarian dictatorship with complete surveillance over the domestic internet. Not really comparable.
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by ascorbic 2y ago
What do you mean "even India" has banned it? India is notorious for its censorship and is rated near the bottom of the World Press Freedom Index. Being in that company is absolutely not something the US should aspire to.
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by ascorbic 2y ago
No, it's setting a price and seeing how many people will pay that price, varying it and see who will pay that. You can derive a demand curve and work out the best price to maximise your revenue. And you can do even better if you can do
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by ascorbic 2y ago
Price discrimination is the practice of charging different amounts to different people, according to what they're willing to pay. It's a more efficient approach than just setting a single price that clears the market. It sounds un
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by ascorbic 2y ago
Cookie banners are a terrible policy failure, but the GDPR isn't to blame. They're from the ePrivacy Directive.
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by ascorbic 2y ago
Yes, and I think the mistakes that LLMs commonly make are less problematic than Stack Overflow. LLMs seem to most often either hallucinate APIs, or use outdated ones. They're easier to detect when they just don't work. They'r
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by ascorbic 2y ago
It's probably more common among self-taught programmers (and I say that as one myself). Most go through the early stage of copying chunks of code and seeing if they work. Maybe not blindly copying it, but still copying code from exam
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by ascorbic 2y ago
If you're thinking that this is good (and it is), you should love the GDPR which bans this sort of thing entirely without needing an investigation beforehand.
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by ascorbic 2y ago
The best one I know is the New Forest in England, which is from 1079.
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by ascorbic 2y ago
>just making the price up based on what you think I can pay It's called supply and demand, and it's the way things have been priced since the dawn of commerce. The only time the price is based on cost is when the market is comp
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by ascorbic 2y ago
I think we're biased by the fact that old-fashioned writing style always sounds more fancy and formal. I don't know how much kids' writing you've read recently (school writing, not social media), but I reckon most reason
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by ascorbic 2y ago
I've only been once, but I highly recommend Blue Dot Festival, which is a music and science festival held at Jodrell Bank. On the one hand it's a classic UK music festival, but alongside the usual stalls selling Peruvian hats and
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by ascorbic 2y ago
I'm guessing because things like bolt.new, v0 etc work a lot better when they have high quality building blocks to work with? Still seems a bit of a stretch.
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by ascorbic 2y ago
People at every level of income are better off than their equivalent in the same country at every point in history. Once you get past 100 years or so it's not even close. Even the imperfect (to say the least) social safety nets in rich
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by ascorbic 2y ago
The o1 example is interesting. In the CoT summary it acknowledges that the most recent official information is 1611m, but it then chooses to say 1622 because it's more commonly cited. It's like it over-thinks itself into the wrong
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by ascorbic 2y ago
Careful because if you don't build lots of roads you might end up with one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
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by ascorbic 2y ago
Autocomplete is the feature, fill in the middle is one approach to implementing it. There are other ways to providing it (which were used in earlier versions of Copilot) and FIM can be used for tasks other than code completion.
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by ascorbic 2y ago
Why would they have no products? While Amazon Marketplace is important, they'd still have the greatest selection of products if they only had first-party sales. It's a bad analogy. eBay is a better example, as a purely a marketpla
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by ascorbic 2y ago
Romania, Croatia and Bulgaria all introduced democratic reforms and resolved disputes specifically in order to meet accession requirements. Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia have all also made reforms and/or resolved disp
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by ascorbic 2y ago
Right. HSR isn't meant to replace all long distance travel. European cities still have very busy airports, and just look at the Ryanair route map: https://www.ryanair.com/en/cheap-flight-destinations . HSR would be
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by ascorbic 2y ago
For long distances like that, planes are faster and cheaper so the market is smaller. Yes, there will be people who prefer the sleeper train, but more people will prefer a shorter, cheaper flight. For distances under 500 miles, trains usual
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by ascorbic 2y ago
I'd also recommend seat61.com, which is the best source of info on international train travel. This page is relevant to your interests: https://www.seat61.com/international-trains/trains-from-Pari...
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by ascorbic 2y ago
Paris is probably your best bet by those criteria.
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by ascorbic 2y ago
Studies show that making particular suicide methods harder to access is an effective way to reduce overall suicide rates. That includes restrictions on poisons and firearms, but also physical barriers on bridges and train platforms.

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