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by bradchris 1y ago
Not just spirit, they do entirely apply. Some Supreme Court decisions (there are many clarifying the first amendment)— Bridges v. Wixon, 326 U.S. 135 (1945) > freedom of speech and of press is accorded aliens residing in this country. Pl
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by bradchris 1y ago
The US constitution has generally been thought to apply to _everyone_ interacting with the US government, citizen or not. It’s why in the past tourists could expect due process under the law, and not be disappeared out of the blue, etc. So
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by bradchris 1y ago
Do we think that Bell Labs, if it were to avoid being broken up, would have existed in any way the same way today ? Cynically, it likely would have ended up a zombie shell of itself, like IBM Topically, assuming it avoided such a fate and w
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by bradchris 2y ago
In *some parts of Los Angeles. The city is getting better district by district, if only incrementally. The east side of Los Angeles (Los Feliz Silver Lake, Atwater Village, Echo Park, Highland Park, Eagle Rock, Glassell Park) has managed to
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by bradchris 2y ago
It would be worse for the United States dollar, probably. The D in USD historically could’ve been associated with “Diplomacy”— the military was willing and able to globally enforce the value of the US Dollar by favoring countries that willi
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by bradchris 2y ago
> I supposed the unstated implication is that the US could just take the IP by force Isn’t that what China’s stated plan is?
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by bradchris 2y ago
Also— for B2B SaaS, a big component of what is being sold is not the product, but support. No matter how modern or antiquated the tech is, many B2B companies don’t actually care about the experience per-se; they care about compliance, secur
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by bradchris 2y ago
Because PG&E was the cause. If a lightening strike caused the fire, then that would be the cause. If a stray arsonist poured gasoline over the field and lit it all on fire, then the arsonist would be the cause. If it was teens lighting
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by bradchris 2y ago
Yup, I get the economies of scale, hence why I wonder why we don’t use statewide utilities for more rural areas and municipal utilities for denser metro areas that support it (e.g. LADWP for Los Angeles). But even if you have a private comp
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by bradchris 2y ago
Sure, I get that having a profit-motive is one way the market can incentivize efficiency. But without the ability for any real competition (i.e. there will only ever be one set of main transmission wires or water pipes for an area, we won’t
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by bradchris 2y ago
Considering PG&E delaying and ignoring maintenance was 100% the cause of the 2018 Paradise fire that burned down an entire town of 30,000 people, it would be foolish to not investigate
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by bradchris 2y ago
I don’t understand much about transmission lines as an industry, but I really have never understood why California allows what seems like essentially a duopoly to manage its electrical grid, especially around its major population centers li
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by bradchris 2y ago
Ok, except I guess I would say your definition of mid-level and junior both fall under what I would consider “junior”— maybe I would call what you define as “junior” as “intern” ? I don’t see how LLMs completely eliminate anyone who is doin
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by bradchris 2y ago
I believe you have this backwards. The market value of almost every single home in the Palisades, as someone with family from there, is due to the location, not the homes themselves. If the land loses its intrinsic value because it is inher
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by bradchris 2y ago
Yes. I live in Los Angeles. Huge swaths of our entire city are ripe for development— the safest areas are often some of the least densely populated, and that needs to change.
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by bradchris 2y ago
Parkland that is not often used to capacity that has less people near it would naturally also have less crime from people within it, because there’s not many people to commit crimes nearby in the first place. E.G. Los Angeles National Fores
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by bradchris 2y ago
Isn’t that what everyone said about outsourcing too? My view is LLMs will compete with outsourced developers (and contractors/consultants for one-off jobs), where job context and project scope is already subject to a communication gap.
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by bradchris 2y ago
It is also likely not solvent for statewide mass disaster scenarios like earthquakes, even if you do purchase that coverage.
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by bradchris 2y ago
It all depends on exactly how the ballot measure is phrased. After all, Prop 19 recently passed which partially repealed Prop 13 (1970s property tax-basis freeze at point of every sale) because enough people realized that now-$20m homes by
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by bradchris 2y ago
You’re not trying to convince me here, you’re trying to convince the state. I agree! People should rebuild where they want as much as they want, so long as they’re willing to accept the financial risk to do so (I.E. higher premiums that ref
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by bradchris 2y ago
The issue is state law forbids them from not taking their money if they operate anywhere else in the state, with certain exceptions such as historical disasters (which now the Palisades has). And the rates can’t be adjusted on a per-propert
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by bradchris 2y ago
Affordability would be adversely affected in the short term, yes. In the long term, more housing production would be incentivized in less-risky areas. The reduced property prices to come out of this would also mean insurance rates would dec
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by bradchris 2y ago
And of course, maybe property values in fire-prone areas should fall ! In fact, by not subsidizing them, perhaps the market would eventually restabilize these homes at saner insurance premiums to cover the reduced property value due to the
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by bradchris 2y ago
As a Californian, the ballot measure that limits the ability of insurance companies to increase and tailor rates to reflect risk is absurd. I hope someone funds a ballot measure to repeal the statute. In its “best” form, it’s requiring thos
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by bradchris 2y ago
This was so fun to read, and reminded me of Virtual Magic Kingdom (VMK), Disney’s other popular mmo at the time which was basically a Disney-fied Habbo Hotel [1]. It ran for about 3 years, but what I found interesting is the chat took the i
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by bradchris 2y ago
If that turns out to be true, the it looks like AI just gave universities a new reason for being. What a shift from twenty years ago when optimism over “information superhighways” on the “world wide web” would end knowledge gatekeeping an
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by bradchris 2y ago
College costs in the US are similar to US healthcare costs in that they’re very dependent on both the school/program, whether it’s private or public, and individual circumstances. For example, many top private schools have tuition+boar
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by bradchris 2y ago
I think that speaks to the low bar we have come to expect from our endowed institutions today more than anything else. American Universities, historically, are supposed to improve not just their students’ lives but also society as a whole,
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by bradchris 2y ago
As pointed out, Carr wrote the FCC section of Project 2025. Aside from the continuing discussions around Section 230, I found this excerpt interesting from his chapter, which I presume was written before the bi-partisan TikTok ban bill Bide
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by bradchris 2y ago
She has a net worth of $100-$200m dollars. I doubt she wants $5-10m more. OpenAI cannot hurt her standing in the industry— in fact, “ScarJo takes on Big Tech and wins”, in an era after the Hollywood unions called a strike and won protection

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