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by dangrossman 2y ago
Contrast that with Helen Keller's description of her mental state before language: https://scentofdawn.blogspot.com/2011/07/before-soul-dawn-he...
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by dangrossman 2y ago
According to BLS, the average American consumer spends about $6000 per month. 5-10% of a B2C company's budget goes into advertising, so each person may be generating $300-600/month in ad spend. Discretionary income left over after
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by dangrossman 2y ago
You're being downvoted because your complaint is unrelated to the post topic. It's about scam ads masquerading as linked to trusted domains (an ad that shows it links to "adobe.com", but actually takes you to scamsite.co
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by dangrossman 2y ago
Maybe it will some day. I have two electric cars in my garage sitting idle most of the day and night. I have no way to connect them to the grid in a bidirectional manner. There is nothing a local electrician can order and install for me tha
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by dangrossman 2y ago
I'd also say it's objectively one of the worst EVs on the market, and as far as the dealership network and technicians go, perhaps only if you can get a Toyota service center to work on it. It's not really a Subaru at all, it
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by dangrossman 2y ago
You get an annual doctor visit for free with any insurance plan. There is no deductible or copay. There are other categories that are covered with no deductible. My wife had a $13,000 IUD insertion under anesthesia at a hospital due to comp
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by dangrossman 2y ago
Obamacare is not a plan, it's a law that set minimum standards for health insurance plans, created marketplaces to cross-shop plans across providers on a single website, and created a system where you can receive government subsidies t
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by dangrossman 2y ago
I can't scroll this webpage to read it unless I plug my laptop in. Scroll events have a lag time measured in whole seconds, then the page scrolls down by either a fraction of a line or by multiple paragraphs, so I can't keep track
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by dangrossman 2y ago
> How come Tesla never decided to future-proof their hardware? They did. The V4 Supercharger pedestals they started installing last year support up to 1000V. This is also the pedestals they're selling to third parties like Ford and
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by dangrossman 2y ago
The state can get an injunction against you, fine you, and in some situations creates a private cause of action for the people whose information was breached to individually sue you with statutory damages available.
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by dangrossman 2y ago
> A data breach? On a small self-hosted blog or email server? Who's data would those regulations be punishing you for leaking, your own, maybe two freinds'? Say you host your own WordPress blog with comments enabled. A few of y
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by dangrossman 2y ago
Self-hosting means taking a second job as a sysadmin, applying software updates all the time, patching emergency security vulnerabilities, hardening services against constant attacks, deciding whether the daily "I have found a bug in y
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by dangrossman 2y ago
TurboTax online.
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by dangrossman 2y ago
A 60W CO2 laser won't touch steel (or even paper thin aluminum foil), while a 10W diode can cut through it. The type/wavelength of laser matters greatly.
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by dangrossman 3y ago
Nothing on the computer does any more. There's too much overhead, too much administrivia, too much regulation to feel the same as popping up a Perl script into the CGI-BIN via FTP once did. To some degree, I scratch that same itch and
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by dangrossman 3y ago
https://reason.org/commentary/federal-ban-on-commercial-rest...
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by dangrossman 3y ago
Defective by design. Still using essentially the same battery pack they designed in 2008 for the 2010 LEAF -- no cooling system whatsoever, emergency resistive heater that keeps it from freezing but doesn't otherwise warm it, obsolete
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by dangrossman 3y ago
I was expecting an article about side effects of hurting an LLM's feelings in tests.
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by dangrossman 3y ago
The ranking formula is points divided by submission age raised to some constant. This means that a relatively few votes in a short amount of time is all it takes to outrank much older submissions, even with many more total votes. 9 votes in
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by dangrossman 3y ago
Yes, though explicitly not for copyright infringement. Quoting the court's opinion, "A voice is not copyrightable. The sounds are not 'fixed'." The case was won under the theory of "voice misappropriation"
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by dangrossman 3y ago
They operate a website that hosts hundreds of millions of webpages containing images and text provided by their users. No products pass through their hands. They're a UGC host, just like YouTube or Shopify or Hacker News, all of whom d
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by dangrossman 3y ago
Yesterday's [flagged] 74-comment discussion submitted by the tweet author: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39410364
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by dangrossman 3y ago
> This is an awful example as etsy would be the company that the DMCA takedown would be against. Etsy is a marketplace that connects independent buyers and sellers, like eBay but only for handmade and vintage goods. Every item on their s
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by dangrossman 3y ago
Google says there are 7 million search results for "Star Wars" on Etsy.com, an online marketplace for handmade goods. They're likely all infringing on Disney IP, as anyone big enough to get a license to make official Star War
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by dangrossman 3y ago
Imagine you're Disney and you want to crack down on merchandise infringing on your IP. You type [site:etsy.com "minnie mouse"] into Google and get 3.8 million results. There's another million results for "iron man&q
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by dangrossman 3y ago
That's financially and politically impossible on a relevant time scale, while solar can be built now.
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by dangrossman 3y ago
I did. If you object to building solar farms, there will be more coal mined.
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by dangrossman 3y ago
Is a coal mine better for the land than a silica mine? Are a few mines worse for "land" than tens of thousands of square miles of it sinking into the ocean due to sea level rise, taking millions of homes with it? I think people ge
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by dangrossman 3y ago
> Should I make an eGift store? Would you use it? You'll be overrun with fraud to the point that you can't process payments in short order.
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by dangrossman 3y ago
(Of course) there's a startup trying to commercialize this process. Lithos pays farmers to spread crushed volcanic rock on their farm fields to absorb atmospheric CO2, and then sells carbon capture credits to companies like Stripe, Alp

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