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by caconym_ 5y ago
And the real shame is, it's a perfectly rational one. I might be starting a family soon, and I honestly don't know how I'm going to navigate this hazard.
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Large vehicles, especially pickups with high hood heights, are a public health disaster; a deliberate atrocity on the part of those who manufacture and sell them; and a gross dereliction of duty on the part of those who should be regulatin
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by caconym_ 5y ago
The desire to maximize ad revenue drives the decisions to make these platforms more addictive and less substantial. So this is arguably something that's been done to users--not something they wanted. Sure, some people are more inte
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A lot of people seem to make the mistake of identifying SpaceX with Starship alone, forgetting that they've also achieved effective dominance of the commercial orbital launch market with Falcon 9, broken into the heavy lift game with F
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In fiction writing, people who don't have any skills or experience often assume they can just sit down and write a novel because they have a cool idea. This is never ever the case, regardless of how cool the idea is, because writing a
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by caconym_ 5y ago
BO has plenty of funding, and lofty ambitions far beyond New Shepard, but they just haven't made much progress toward achieving them. I haven't done the math, but it seems like Starship is potentially an incredibly cheap heavy lif
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Why do you feel it's necessary to gatekeep this general term? We already have a word for people who literally have sex for money, and it seems perfectly reasonable to place it under a broader "sex worker" umbrella. Also, not
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My incentives are never going to be in perfect alignment with my employer: I work for them to build my own wealth, and they employ me to build theirs. The foundation of the employer-employee relationship is that each provides the other with
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> Obviously, if I work as a developer making a stock trading app, I shouldn't be making a competing stock trading app after hours. For rank-and-file employees, I don't think this is so obvious. It presents a potential conflict
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Some people will cheat in any multiplayer game, even when there are no persistent "rewards" for winning. They are just maladjusted losers who get off on being the center of attention at everybody else's expense.
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These days I think many or even most PC gamers own a gamepad and choose to use it for certain games, even when they have a mouse and keyboard sitting right in front of them. These also tend to be the same games I'd consider most suitab
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> I'd argue the Steam controller was kinda bad. But more in concept than execution. The touch pads were just not a good replacement for a thumbstick or a D-pad There are plenty of people with great things to say about it, but they l
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No way. Nintendo's success isn't about the hardware specs, and characterizing the Switch as a "portable console" doesn't capture it well. It has first-class support for traditional "couch gaming". The Stea
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The thing about Valve's record with hardware is that the products aren't bad , just extremely niche. If this thing really can play most of most people's Steam games in a Switch-like form factor with a standard gamepad layout
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+1. I found Obsidian a few weeks ago and it really is everything I've been wishing for in a "note taking" app. I put "note taking" in quotes because I've moved all my writing into it, too--it's wonderful t
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> Nobody else Programmers are far from the only people who do creative work that involves building complex models in a mental "buffer" and then streaming them out into some persistent form. Maybe most people on HN are program
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> I am giving credit. No, you aren't. "Still trying to get hovering grain silo versions working" is not an accurate characterization of the current state of Starship development: they had hovering in the bag months ago, an
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> I know where SpaceX is. I mean, Musk may be famous for his "optimistic" timelines, but you completely misrepresented their progress. "Still trying to get hovering grain silo versions working" is not remotely accura
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Actually, they're well beyond the "grain silos" by now. They've successfully demonstrated the "bellyflop" landing maneuver from a terminal velocity fall, and now they're (credibly) trying to launch a full
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Falcon 9 (and Heavy) has not experienced any kind of mission failure since 2016, the latter period accounting for (if I'm counting right) 69% of its total launches including the Amos-6 pad failure (which did not actually launch). Its a
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> More technologies like this, that allow better sharing of code and information. It reduces the barrier to entry to creating content, thus causing more of it to be made. Like I said, this seems like a highly tech-centric viewpoint. Keep
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In case you're interested, this is the post I was thinking about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27032828 The application itself is called "Sudowrite". I guess there are probably a bunch of them at this
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by caconym_ 5y ago
> Ok great. So then new tools like this are good, even though they weaken copyright, Does it weaken copyright? Like I mentioned, it seems like it's probably allowed under existing law. > it might hurt people's ability to p
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If a non-GPL'd zip implementation is used to unzip an archive of GPL'd code, does that mean the zip implementation is in violation of the GPL? That's the point of my comment that you replied to, and it is a response to a spec
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> If Copilot is reciting pieces of GPL code (which we know it can), then not only does it need to point out where it has grabbed that code from, Copilot itself is (probably) required to be GPL-licensed. I'm no GPL expert, but if you
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I think it's kind of crazy to handwave away a whole class of creators who do make real money off selling their work (rather than being performers), even if it isn't big money or even enough to live on without supplemental income
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Well, this is the current status quo. Automated scraping of copyrighted material for (arguably) transformative applications like Copilot is generally allowed under fair use, while non-transformative copying is considered infringement. If y
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> To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right , to their respective Writings and Discoveries. What better way to promote said Progress than by making sure
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Copyright doesn't just benefit huge corporations. For instance, without it, independent artists who rely on copying for distribution (authors, musicians, etc.) would find it much more difficult to make money off their work, mostly (IMO
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> The analysis you're citing is just that -- a statistical analysis. They had some people use the thing for a while, and concluded "Hey look, it doesn't seem to quote verbatim very often. Yay!" There is nothing in the

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