celestialcheese

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by celestialcheese 3y ago
That's an argument, and maybe one that could convince a judge. But good luck getting to make that argument for less than 6 figures in legal costs. Which is why this scam is so profitable.
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by celestialcheese 3y ago
Really? So in your world, a writer's mistake is abuse, in the same way legal professionals using the copyright system to profit off of a small publishing businesses is? It's like arguing that punitive fines for minor infractions,
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by celestialcheese 3y ago
This is so common, and has been for a number of years. As an owner of a website with a lot of content published over the years, a copyright claim pops up with "settlement" offers between $200-$1k to make it go away. 50% of the tim
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by celestialcheese 3y ago
You see this in Taiwan a lot already - https://cleantechnica.com/2023/01/11/gogoro-batteries-power-... Standardized packs for low-end ebikes would be wonderful.
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by celestialcheese 3y ago
> During the early part of the pandemic when points were not usable, we converted them to cash or credited them to existing expenses (the card gave a 25% bonus to use this feature). Man this was one of the biggest silver linings on the p
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by celestialcheese 3y ago
Weird to see CC rewards as income. If you're taking cash-back or applying to balance, I'd move to a points-based rewards card ASAP now that you're making money and don't need it to live off of. Our business has a signif
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by celestialcheese 3y ago
I've been using the instructor[1] library recently and have found the abstractions simple and extremely helpful for getting great structured outputs from LLMs with pydantic. 1 https://github.com/jxnl/instructor&#x2
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by celestialcheese 3y ago
The conversation on this podcast[1] with the managing partner at the PE firm who did this deal is worth a listen, interesting if you are curious how these deals come about. 1 - https://www.capitalallocators.com/podcast/
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by celestialcheese 3y ago
From where? You might live in a flush city, with lots of extra discretionary $$ flowing around, but most cities in the US are nearly bankrupt, and leveraged to the hilt on providing basic services. This is the definition of a "luxury
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by celestialcheese 3y ago
Does this include billboards at local tracks, ballfields, sporting centers? What about ads inside airports? Bus stops? Transit stations? Where will the money come from to fill in the budget gaps left by removing these ads? If I'm at a
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by celestialcheese 3y ago
> vintage ... retro ... hole in the wall .. weird ... artisan .. dubios The adjectives you used are the opposite of mass market. Thus mass-market advertising doesn't work, so those businesses don't spend money in those channel
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by celestialcheese 3y ago
If public funds pay for it, you personally (assuming you pay taxes) are also paying for the program, but this time with real dollars instead of attention. > money is fungible What?
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by celestialcheese 3y ago
> So the possibility that the space remains ad-free doesn't exist? It does exist, but then the cost of the bike sharing would have be borne by a) users of the bike system - this would impact ridership and equity of access. b) local
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by celestialcheese 3y ago
> > Advertising in cities, from billboards to flyers to stickers is the only way to reach people directly > Most billboards are from [inter]national corporations. Local businesses usually rely on the most effective form of advertis
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by celestialcheese 3y ago
That makes sense - but in Google's case, I'd expect them to have access to private datasets that would give it something different than public models like SD.
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by celestialcheese 3y ago
How are two completely different models from different groups, converging on what looks like the exact same person? Number 1 and 3 are eerily similar. I don't understand.
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by celestialcheese 3y ago
It's not just Youtube, it's across all of Google Ads. We had to hire someone to review ads in Google's ad transparency center. Every day they find dozens of new domains, with the same creatives - all those fake button "C
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by celestialcheese 3y ago
In 3 years, if IBMs fund is paying 3%, your HYSA is going to be the same or less. HYSA's are just a treasury fund minus a few bips
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by celestialcheese 3y ago
What? I pay for youtube premium and I never see ads on youtube. How are they double-dipping?
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by celestialcheese 3y ago
Facebook doesn't sell data. They sell access to data. I'm not trying to be pedantic, but it's important because it's meaningfully different. Facebook doesn't sell data to other ad companies because that'd b
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by celestialcheese 3y ago
Do you run a pi-hole or other ad blocking on your network? Or do you have personalized ads turned off in your facebook settings? This could be why you see less targeted ads. Scams, high-ctr and broad appeal ads thrive in places where targ
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by celestialcheese 3y ago
> Meanwhile Meta can continue to make money off of their profile and data, and their subscription fee, while also getting access to a valuable feature for targeting. How would facebook monetize non-ad-enabled customers?
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by celestialcheese 3y ago
> If he had a standard year long lease with this tenant, I would be much more upset for him not getting paid or the tenant evicted! He did have a long term lease with her. From the ladies lawyer: > “This is not a short-term Airbnb —
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by celestialcheese 3y ago
Everyone is saying plumbing/utilities - that's not usually the biggest cost or issue with conversions (although it is expensive). It's lack of natural light and the size of the typical floor plate for offices that often rende
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by celestialcheese 3y ago
I'd expect that to be because of the current regulatory hurdles and associated costs. If policy shifts to make it easier (thus cheaper) to build, I'm sure berkshire would jump in.
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by celestialcheese 3y ago
Exactly this. It's so fast to spin up classifiers now when it used to take weeks to get something working. What LLMs are you using?
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by celestialcheese 3y ago
At least with the native tribes in Alaska, many of their land holdings are managed under corporations[1], so I think it's fair to consider it land ownership rather than just "nations", although there are much more restriction
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by celestialcheese 3y ago
I don't get this. I find "passive" advertising like banners, mid-roll, etc so much easier to ignore/block/ The type of advertising that's invasive for me is the "sponsored content" or paid product pl
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by celestialcheese 3y ago
Alcoa had a pretty large aluminum smelter on the west coast in Ferndale WA, but it shut down near the beginning of covid. The bonneville power contracts with Alcoa were pretty generous, somewhere around $0.035/kWh for ~300MW, and even
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by celestialcheese 3y ago
I use it for filtering and summarization tasks on huge contexts. Specifically for extracting data from raw HTML in scraping tasks. It works surprisingly well.

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