banana_feather

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by banana_feather 1y ago
I like the author's datalog work generally, but I really wish his introductory material did not teach using binary join, which I found to get very messy internally as soon as you get away from the ideal case. I found the generic join s
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by banana_feather 2y ago
The Supreme Court just made it up in the 1960s.
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by banana_feather 2y ago
There's just no way to spin this as the proper workings of an elegant system of checks and balances when time and time again these decisions about federal regulatory issues or other matters of national importance are nakedly forum (som
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by banana_feather 2y ago
This just does not match my experience with these tools. I've been on board with the big idea expressed in the article at various points and tried to get into that work flow, but with each new generation of models they just do not do w
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by banana_feather 2y ago
> If you want speed of policymaking, you can become more authoritarian a la china or have a more elitist policymaking system like some portion of european countries I didn't realize the United States was an authoritarian system unti
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by banana_feather 2y ago
> It sounds reasonable to NOT allow just any member of the judiciary to prosecute members of the other branches, which might wreak havoc on the political process? The judiciary does not (and cannot) prosecute. Prosecutors are officials o
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by banana_feather 2y ago
> The trump immunity case put forth what has always been - Presidents aren't charged without being impeached first. Can you point me to the part of the constitution describing the procedure for impeaching former presidents? If they
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by banana_feather 2y ago
The framers understood the concept of immunity, and in at least one instance explicitly granted it in the constitution. They did not mention anything about immunity for the chief executive. The line of argument about "bold and decisive
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by banana_feather 2y ago
From McCormick's opinion: “Put simply, neither the Compensation Committee nor the Board acted in the best interests of the Company when negotiating Musk’s compensation plan. In fact, there is barely any evidence of negotiations at all.
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by banana_feather 2y ago
Public nuisance. Don't bother trying to explain why some statutory language you googled and skimmed doesn't apply.
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by banana_feather 2y ago
This misses the point. What you wrote is essentially "witness testifies defendant once shook child in their presence, child died". The magic third ingredient is that the state was allowed to bring in an expert witness to tell the
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by banana_feather 2y ago
> You could wait for the final icj decision on the case. And Google could freeze all work for and collaboration with the party plausibly accused of acts of genocide until the decision comes in. But they won't, and their employees ar
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by banana_feather 2y ago
The International Court of Justice found that the employer's client in this case is plausibly conducting acts of genocide ( https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192... ). Is there
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by banana_feather 3y ago
> You don't actually need a lawyer to respond to bogus charges. Small claims court is a completely different beast, it is designed to be navigated without counsel. If you play this way in civil litigation you are likely going to los
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by banana_feather 3y ago
I passed the California bar exam on my first attempt (I only say this to head off cries of sour grapes), and I think this is good news. The MBE in particular is an embarrassment and the NCBE should be ashamed of themselves. The idea that th
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by banana_feather 3y ago
Urweb is extremely cool. My own attempt to use it for personal projects was shut down by how isolated the server component is; I think I was trying to read a json file on the server from within urweb and there just was not a way to do it wi
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by banana_feather 3y ago
Wall Street Journal bootstraps cumrag from their "Work & Life columnist", literally begins with a dubious founder origin story. Save yourself three minutes and read something else.
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by banana_feather 3y ago
There are "right to try" laws both Federally and in 40+ states. It's unfortunate the author doesn't address those, I'm curious how they interact with his case.
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by banana_feather 3y ago
At the end of the day it's not black and white, but there's a large and obvious difference in degree that would plausibly permit someone to find that one is and the other isn't. It's fairly easy to argue that using the o
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by banana_feather 3y ago
The idea is that if you violate the terms of the license to develop your own model, you lose your rights under the license and are creating an infringing derivative work. If I clone a GPL'd work and ship a derivative work under a comme
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by banana_feather 3y ago
>I have personally seen another alumni development quid pro quo, not a monetary donation, at MIT. Honestly it seems like common sense that the two are related. You're comparing apples to oranges. The question is whether consideratio
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by banana_feather 3y ago
They actually investigate this starting on p. 115 and find no significant short-term decrease based on observations from institutions that ceased consideration of legacy status. I think the more important point this comment misses is that t
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by banana_feather 3y ago
You are confused; evidence of absence is not absence of evidence. Unless you can point to a problem with the methodology, failure to discover a relationship between A and B is indeed evidence that A and B are not related. You're sugges
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by banana_feather 3y ago
>I do wonder if this will have any impact on alumni donations. Wonder not. "[T]here is no statistically significant evidence that legacy preferences impact total alumni giving." https://production-tcf.imgix.net/
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by banana_feather 3y ago
>The 2-person Senate and the 3/5ths compromise limited the power of SLAVE states to try to claim power in the Federal government by counting their slaves as population. In 1789, there were 8 slave states and 5 free states. Giving ea
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by banana_feather 3y ago
...And the non slave states wanted them to not be counted at all, because counting them at all would permit slave states to exploit them to gain political power in two branches of government without having to extend them any rights. The sla
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by banana_feather 3y ago
See the section on "what to expect if you don't comply": https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/competition-matters/2019/03/... The relevant statute looks to be 15 U.S.C. § 57b–1(e); if you don&#
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by banana_feather 3y ago
It sounds like someone's been hitting the Wall Street journal op-ed pipe a little too hard. A district court judge conducting a bench trial is there to make a judgment call based on the facts of a particular case, they do not have the
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by banana_feather 3y ago
This site would be better if you got banned for commenting without reading the article.
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by banana_feather 3y ago
The allegation is that the model was trained on a copy of the original work that was improperly obtained. The fact that it can produce a summary is being offered as evidence of that claim. You can't be sued for making a reference or wh

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