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by beezlebroxxxxxx 2y ago
Somewhat incredibly, the administration is citing a McCarthy-era 1952 law that many read as explicitly antisemitic and targeted at Jewish eastern-european survivors of the holocaust lest they be too sympathetic to communism as the legal bas
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A big problem is to what extent do future business models disrupt the public perception that AI is "objective" or unbiased, a perception that is often itself the product of these companies' own marketing. When the very result
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> If someone could hack into Apple, download the schematics of their chips and the source for their OS, and then post it on the internet, after which a third party could sell commercial products based on said data, there wouldn't be
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 2y ago
Most people find the traditional explanation for copyright, "everything emerges from the commons and eventually returns to the commons, so artists and creators should be entitled to ownership of intellectual property for a limited amou
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 2y ago
What you're describing is endemic across HN (and tech, tbh). Lots of people on here "know" computers/programming/CS very well. They, naturally, tend to use analogies to computers/programming/CS when trying
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 2y ago
It depends on the country, but my understanding is if you're in Canada, then what you're doing is legal.
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Personally, I've found computer writing is perfectly fine for note taking; but, once I actually want to compose something that I've really thought through, I'll turn to handwriting for complete sentences. I think the internet
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Definitely over-engineering. But I also think the industry is just extremely bad at hiring anything above junior or entry-level. Job postings are so generic and interchangeable between companies that they don't actually tell you what t
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They need to hold an actual primary.
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No, presidents can kind of claim national emergencies all the time. Usually they're used for sanctions, but they can also be for economic or security reasons (security being interpreted as times of war and in a very broad sense).
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What's kind of fascinating is the way they've introduced things like the Major Questions Doctrine (MQD), which asserted the importance (really, necessity, in their view) of Congress's explicit delegation powers, as a way to
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I have never had that happen before with my kindle paper-white. I've never connected it to the internet; everything is moved over to it via usb. I convert everything to mobi files. Have you looked at the same file in Calibre? Mobi file
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 2y ago
Providing a socialized system with adequate funding requires elected officials and voters to have appropriate and matched priorities. Voters, regardless of party in Canada for example, generally all agree that the socialized healthcare sy
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 2y ago
> Is this new wave of criticism about AI/AGI valid? We will only really know in retrospect. All of the focus on AGI is a distraction. I think it's important for a state to declare it's intent with a technology. The alterna
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 2y ago
The author is indeed talking about non-fiction books, but, more specifically, a genre of books that I call "airport books". These are mass-market self-help, HBR fanfic, blogposts, that are bound and sold as books. There's a w
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 2y ago
The extract looks great, I'll have to pick up the 3 books he mentions --- I love Armstrong. One thing that always amazed me about these jazz performers was how much they toured, even at the peak of their popularity. They went everywher
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 2y ago
The little blue pill is probably in MyFitnessPal if one really wants to track all their macros.
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Counting works for people because it quantifies their food intake. For many people, that's an effective way to overcome a learned idea that portions should be huge, or that feeling hungry has to be addressed immediately, or that feelin
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 2y ago
> Like such cannot be enforced for example against foreign radio stations or print publications. If the law and acts calling for their divestiture were deemed "content neutral" then they could. But an app, with algorithmic prof
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> But why didn't Supreme Court find the first ammendment arguments compelling? As per first ammendment it is legal and protected to print/distribute/disseminate even enemy propaganda in the USA. > Even at the height of
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 2y ago
From the oral arguments it was immediately obvious that Alito and Thomas had already decided their opinion --- as had the other judges, frankly. They were very skeptical of the ByteDance/petitioner's argument. The Act at issue was
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 2y ago
Aside from very occasional drops into printing, I exclusively write in cursive. Once you get proficient you can write very fast with cursive -- regardless of the pen/pencil. Can other people read my writing? Yes, if I slow down. But if
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 2y ago
America hasn't really taken public education seriously in a long time. That's funding for schools, serious academic standards, building more schools so class sizes stay reasonable, and insisting on having rules in place to make
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> My kids won't eat the healthy cereal so for me the number one reason is taste. This is one of those things where "taste" is basically sweetness. I used to love cereal. Ate bowls of it all the time. I've been on a ba
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 2y ago
Gov of Canada, famously, has some of the most braindead slow hiring practices in the country. Their HR teams are incredibly bad at their jobs. It's genuinely astounding. Last I checked the time from application to starting your job cou
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 2y ago
Most companies, if not nearly all of them, are just really bad at hiring above "entry-level" in general. The practice of pushing hiring through HR teams and recruiters often leads to the job posting being weird catch-all abstracti
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Don't worry, they'll fail upwards like many other executives who leave dumpster fires behind them. Remember, though, conveniently, according to other executives, there's "only a limited number of people with the skills t
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That claim has a very robust history in philosophy of mind. Peter Hacker and M.R. Bennett, a philosopher and a neuroscientist respectively, cowrote Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience [0]. There was also a fascinating response and di
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 2y ago
When you talk to neuroscientists and researchers in private you often find that they are far less confident than public personas, PR, articles, or science reporting, make them sound. A lot of their findings are really more like "huh,
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 2y ago
My brother had a friend try this in university while studying for exams and, according to my brother, it basically made the guy lose his mind. Seems like a roll of the dice on whether it works for people or not.

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