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by bombcar 6mo ago
The road thing is usually tied to “induced demand” (which is a bad way of looking at it imo). Jevrons is more directly related to the cost of something dropping increasing the usage because new things that weren’t worthwhile are now doable
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by bombcar 6mo ago
The Jevons paradox is just two curves overlaid - demand and supply. As supply goes up and the price goes down, “new” demand appears that couldn’t be satisfied (economically) at the higher price. Once the majority of the latent demand has be
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by bombcar 6mo ago
It’s said when they found the first uncomplicated Jesuit they made him Pope ;)
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by bombcar 6mo ago
Peter II also indicates something.
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by bombcar 6mo ago
Basically- are you baptized and are you not married.
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by bombcar 6mo ago
The official version of that document is in ... Latin.
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by bombcar 6mo ago
Maxim 29: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.
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by bombcar 6mo ago
Imagine a library. You go in, grab a book, and start reading. Imagine the same library, but it's the Unseen University's Library - you go in, grab one of any book ever written , and start reading. You've gained something! Im
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by bombcar 6mo ago
cc: lawyer don't do a thing, and wouldn't in this case. The lawyers submitted it sealed which means they "did their best" to protect privacy, but the guy had written snidely-whiplash-esque plans and pondering, so they we
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by bombcar 6mo ago
You need a rigorous and enforced deletion policy setup years before you get subpoenaed.
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by bombcar 6mo ago
He would have to reveal it, and refusing to decrypt would be a contempt of court charge, or a "jury, presume that everything in this damn document is the worst you can imagine." This is why politicians don't write things down
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by bombcar 6mo ago
People treat attorney-client privilege like it's the seal of the confessional or something, but it's much more limited than you might expect. And it is not there to protect you it is there to protect the lawyer which incidenta
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by bombcar 6mo ago
The key is that your personal private papers may be subject to discovery via your employer, your life, and more. Especially if you're a C-level exec. Policies about document and media handling are important if you're up where di
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by bombcar 6mo ago
People should be up-to-date on discovery and LLMs, multiple cases of interactions with an LLM being subpoenaed.
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by bombcar 6mo ago
Discovery can even be more broad - "provide all written or recorded messages involving this decision" and if you "forget" about your private diary and it's later found out, that's a paddlin'.
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by bombcar 6mo ago
Discovery is terribly intrusive and invasive, more than you would ever think. It's one of the huge reasons that lawsuits are often settled, because ain't nobody want all the dirty laundry aired. Discovery asking for a peon'
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by bombcar 6mo ago
It's amazing reading history, about a huge city that totally affected the course of a major war, manufacturing and logistics hub - open it up and look inside: "Population 10,000." Roman Army at it's peak: 450,000 men. Wa
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by bombcar 6mo ago
Wikipedia reports it peaked at 2.5m - "16th century estimate".
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by bombcar 6mo ago
I’ve never seen it explained as to how it’s different in kind from a home equity loan - you still need income from something to pay the loan back (and if you say you pay it from the loan proceeds you’re just donating to a bank with extra
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by bombcar 6mo ago
It’s real and unreal at the same time - as is true of many non-cash wealth. You have a house? You can sell it next month for a certain price, sell it tomorrow for a bit less. You own every house in your town? You can still sell a few for “f
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by bombcar 6mo ago
If this was guaranteed to result in either Facebook being completely destroyed, or copyright abolished, I’d be ride-or-die for either outcome. But we all know it’ll be a slap on the wrist for Meta and nothing will change.
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by bombcar 6mo ago
The Apple confusion started much, MUCH earlier - see https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/backspace-vs-delete-a-topic-on...
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by bombcar 6mo ago
Reading many of them give me a “we want a $300k developer for $50k a year” vibe. Not even worth applying for.
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by bombcar 6mo ago
Venice was a hotbed of political intrigue in the olden days and had half the population of NZ.
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by bombcar 6mo ago
It's not wise to build a startup that is just a feature of the product that you're building on . What's even sadder is it can work for way too long.
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by bombcar 6mo ago
It would be amusing but counterproductive to have a layoff email talk about how they’re firing their best and smartest employees.
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by bombcar 6mo ago
For a long time Apple had keyboards with only delete (delete the character at or in front of the cursor) and not backspace (delete the character before the cursor).
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by bombcar 6mo ago
Debt financing means you can basically never reduce back down, the debt load kills you (as it did here). If anything would have been profitable spun off, it would have been spun off in the bankruptcy.
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by bombcar 6mo ago
At least in my experience the "name on the machine" back then was just read from the magstripe - I had access to a track 3 writer and had some fun copying my credit card info onto my driver license and swiping that.
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by bombcar 6mo ago
> gparted wasn't to blame. I was. These can both be true, especially if/when it has bad defaults. This is why you have things like "type the name of the database you're dropping" safety features - but you also ha

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