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by avidiax 2y ago
Copyright is in dire need of reforms. Those laws were mostly made before perfect digital copies, but also before digital enforcement and "licensing“ instead of ownership.
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by avidiax 2y ago
It's difficult to turn modern office buildings (where electric lighting was assumed, 1970's+) into apartments. The reason is that most of the floor area has no access to natural light, and the utilities are buried in the core of t
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by avidiax 2y ago
That's more typical of the "Black Friday special". That TV cuts corners that don't make sense to cut, but the reputational damage that a super cheap low volume TV causes is minimal to none.
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by avidiax 2y ago
- You want to masquerade as being in another location to avoid or test geo-restrictions, e.g. view the BBC outside the UK -You prefer the privacy or consumer policies of another jurisdiction (e.g. EU, Switzerland) - You want to avoid or flo
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by avidiax 2y ago
I'm sure the folks at Disney are at the edges of their seats in anticipation of new source material. The fact that these volumes were "lost" suggests to me that there are "new" tales in these pages.
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by avidiax 3y ago
Seems strange that the US printed lots of money, which caused inflation, which caused high interest rates, and now causes a strong dollar. You wouldn't think that printing money leads to a stronger currency, but perhaps this is a delay
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by avidiax 3y ago
Is there perhaps a training data problem? Even if the LLM were trained on the entire legal case law corpus, legal cases are not structured in a way that an LLM can follow. They reference distant case law as a reason for a ruling, they likel
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by avidiax 3y ago
We are all already paying a high price for street drugs. The addicts are not paying out of their pockets, but instead are stealing things and extracting a fraction of the value. Then we pay for emergency medical care when the street drugs h
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by avidiax 3y ago
You don't have to target dealers. If the government makes equivalent drugs available for free, no dealer can compete. Giving out free drugs like candy isn't ideal, so you can put just enough speed bumps to limit the free drugs onl
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by avidiax 3y ago
Steve?
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by avidiax 3y ago
"Direct dial" was never a good idea. There is a class of internet users that doesn't use a search engine, and instead types things like "usedcarsdetroit.com" in the URL bar until they find something they want. And t
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by avidiax 3y ago
It resolves for me: com.fritz.box. 3514 IN AAAA 2001:19f0:6c00:1b0e:5400:4ff:fecd:7828 com.fritz.box. 3600 IN A 45.76.93.104
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by avidiax 3y ago
There is a 2nd issue. If you have a local machine called "myshare" and you mistype "myhsare", it may resolve to the attacker's machine.
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by avidiax 3y ago
Block 45.76.93.104 and 2001:19f0:6c00:1b0e:5400:4ff:fecd:7828 at the firewall if possible. Setup a local DHCP server, and don't set the fritz.box search domain. Ensure that DNS-over-HTTP (DoH) is enabled where it can be. Set upstream D
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by avidiax 3y ago
There's this odd idea in the discourse that protest is supposed to be convenient to everyone, particularly the decision makers that the protest is meant to influence. You see this in the "free speech zones" and other nonsense
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by avidiax 3y ago
That's the classic economic theory. A company that tries to dump will go bankrupt, which is irrational, so no company will do this. But in this case, Amazon is 40% of the market. There is no upstart competitor that can outlast them in
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by avidiax 3y ago
> That sounds like a win for the consumer Let's say that you have a comparative advantage against Amazon. A company went bankrupt and you bought the remaining inventory of lawn darts at a fire sale price. Now you try to sell your la
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by avidiax 3y ago
> spreading price info is good for me, the end consumer. Public pricing information is good for you. Private pricing information allows sellers to maintain higher prices than they might otherwise.
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by avidiax 3y ago
He doesn't track that because it's like tracking if water is still wet. I don't think that even Hollywood accounting could make the app store seem unprofitable.
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by avidiax 3y ago
Couldn't T-Mobile send their own SMS's to their employees pretending to increase the payout to $600, then fire any employee that replies? Or maybe change the terms of use for the employee line discount to allow monitoring SMS cont
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by avidiax 3y ago
Probably looking up the dominoes is enough to make it "busy".
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by avidiax 3y ago
I've heard it called the most realistic depiction of nuclear war, but also seen it panned on this site. Nobody actually knows what it will be, except terrible for all the belligerents.
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by avidiax 3y ago
The justification is that they can. This is all marketing. All the speed tiers, all the add-ons, etc. are all marketing. There's no technical reason for any of it. 5G has huge bandwidth, and the fiber backhaul has huge bandwidth. The m
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by avidiax 3y ago
Traffic never gets better just by small infrastructure improvements. You are just lowering the price in time for a trip from A to B for people with cars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
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by avidiax 3y ago
This problem is the underpinning of lots of real-life problems. Basically any search where revisiting a previously evaluated choice is expensive.
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by avidiax 3y ago
The trouble is that optimally using that tool would involve completely draining one category of brain in the target country. That would make a missing link in their economy, but the incoming workers would terribly suppress wages in that sec
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by avidiax 3y ago
If a sector has increasing unemployment or sub-inflationary total comp growth, no H1-B's for that sector.
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by avidiax 3y ago
Sorting the applications by 2 year guaranteed total comp would be a great start. You then have to have a whistleblower program to stop the inevitable practice of inflating the total comp on the understanding that most of it will be kicked b
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by avidiax 3y ago
The status quo is not that the insurance is subsidized, however. The negative externalities are being born by individual victims. A subsidy would be that the government pays for all those unfunded individual externalities out of taxpayer mo
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by avidiax 3y ago
I suppose that without cars, there would be less economic productivity outside cities. You would not have mass transit in the countryside, so you'd be limited to horse and carriage, rickshaws, etc.

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