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by cvoss 2y ago
Theft is first a moral concept, and only secondly a legal one, so there is no need to invoke the legitimacy of nation states' authority to have a meaningful discussion about theft.
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by cvoss 2y ago
If you unlawfully or immorally gain access to information, such as my private keys, and then use that information to move money, you have absolutely committed a crime, cheated, and/or stolen from me. If you deceive me into executing a
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by cvoss 2y ago
The practical implication is you can't copyright something that your AI generated. As the article notes, copyright applications are also being rejected in cases where a human asserts authorship over an AI generated work.
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by cvoss 2y ago
> Would time on either side of the event horizon even be related? I think that's exactly the right question to ask. And ask it for space too. Perhaps the entire history of the interior universe unfolds between the black hole's
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by cvoss 2y ago
You're kind of proving the point. The building is not the real thing, as any sense in which it is holy (which is a word that means set apart for a special purpose) can be readily undone. The church doesn't cease to exist when that
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by cvoss 2y ago
If you go to a shop in a small town in America that sells used goods, you will almost certainly find a few editions of the local church cookbook. Depending on its age, it will likely refer to many of the women who submitted recipes in this
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by cvoss 2y ago
If the interviewers thought the hardcoded sum table was cheating, they surely should have said that demanding the inputs come in base 15 was also cheating. (I think base 15 is the best solution though. The instant I saw the rule that permit
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by cvoss 2y ago
One should investigate closely the connection between (well-supported) theories of physics and "reality", which, I gather, in this case means something like "the ontology of the universe". Is the universe "actually
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by cvoss 2y ago
Someone with practice at reading old cursive would likely be able to read a sample such as this one at least at a pace suitable for reading aloud. An expert, of course, could do it as fast as if it were their "native" script. Here
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by cvoss 2y ago
The US gov's intention was not at all to shut down TikTok. It was to force ByteDance to sell it. The fact that ByteDance is opting for a shutdown instead is a huge PR stunt, and their unwillingness to sell under the circumstances kinda
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by cvoss 2y ago
If you're confused by the glaring bracket-matching errors in the opening quotation, it is missing two left brackets at the start of the sentence and three right brackets at the end of the sentence. That would correctly balance and nest
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by cvoss 2y ago
I don't, on principle. A few years ago, if you opened up YouTube without being logged in, the algorithm would show you its default recommendations in the purest state, uninfluenced by your proclivities. MrBeast and similar dumpster cli
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by cvoss 2y ago
This is generally not how scientists, if they are being careful, use the word "theory". What you describe, the idea that two things are connected, is not a theory. That's a hypothesis. A hypothesis is a claim about the world,
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by cvoss 2y ago
> It is not sufficient merely to prove a program correct; you have to test it too. Well... If your proof made the (false) assumption that int is an unbounded integral type, then you didn't prove the program is correct at all. What y
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by cvoss 2y ago
The comments here are almost entirely of one voice: UW bad. Student innocent. It is not hard to find the policy in question. I quote from the UW Registrar's website, their policy on tampering and abuse of the registration system, as ci
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by cvoss 2y ago
The blog post is lacking critical details stating what exactly the problem definition is. But making some assumptions, I believe the objective is to find a decently short path using less computation time than A*, rather than to specifically
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by cvoss 2y ago
I've never once starred a GH project, nor ever looked at or considered the star count of a project in order to evaluate it. What do people actually use this metric for? (This is not a rhetorical question. If you use it, I'd like t
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by cvoss 2y ago
The idea that a small number of reviewers can accurately quantify the importance of a paper as some number of "impact points," and the idea that a journal should rely on this number and an arbitrary cut off point to decide publica
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by cvoss 2y ago
Some states have interesting quirks, such as Kentucky, where a grocery store cannot sell wine and spirits on premise (though they may do so via an adjacent secondary storefront). Kentucky pharmacies, however, may sell wine and spirits direc
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by cvoss 2y ago
You have many more important arguments to make against the cathedral's form and structure if it may not be changed, but rather preserved and restored only to its original character. What century does the cathedral belong to, by the way
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by cvoss 2y ago
> “Hey man, what’s up? Why don’t you approach and talk to a few here? They are friendly, you know. You like Open Source, so maybe talk to that guy (pointing to a senior of mine) and ask him how he got started.” This is completely wrong-h
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by cvoss 2y ago
I can spot some of the shorthand. I see "Xp" a few times, which is actually imported from the Greek christos, abbreviated to chi-rho.
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by cvoss 2y ago
It is argued that Bob sees light from Alice's crossing of the horizon at the same instant Bob himself crosses. Isn't this true of all matter that enters? When Bob enters, he sees everything that ever fell into the black hole &quot
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by cvoss 2y ago
You say that like it's hard for an oversleeper to achieve their oversleeping. As an oversleepr, I'll suggest that it's the other way around. When you're an oversleeper, the thing that's hard is to stop sleeping afte
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by cvoss 2y ago
Yeah, the political or otherwise ideological nature is read into the work. It doesn't come out of the work. But, I think, precisely because PL is one of the greatest masterpieces of the English language, it becomes a focus for that
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by cvoss 2y ago
I actually find xi easy to write, whereas zeta is really hard for me. I think the middle loop of the xi provides an anchor for what I'm aiming for, but zeta ends up as a nondescript squiggle. Sometimes I can't even properly pictur
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by cvoss 2y ago
See also the Advisory Opinions podcast if you like to consume your analysis of court arguments and opinions by listening.
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by cvoss 2y ago
You may be referring to the court's (and other appellate courts') long-standing practice of not second guessing a trial court's finding of what did or didn't happen, unless a "clear error" is demonstrated to ha
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by cvoss 2y ago
A few points to the contrary: The primary purpose for their writing of opinions is not to defend the decisions, but to instruct lower courts on how they should reason on similar cases. So it very much matters on a practical level that their
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by cvoss 2y ago
I don't understand there to be anything deeper about it, though happy to be corrected. In a consistent system, there are three kinds of statements: the provable ones, the disprovable ones, and the independent ones. This is straight fro

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