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by derektank 2mo ago
>it's really a shame that they aren't the one capturing all the media spotlight This does seem at least a bit intentional on Waymo’s part. They appear to have adopted an under promise, over deliver mindset (unlike some other ro
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by derektank 2mo ago
Okay, but clearly there’s a difference between, “the bus makes sense if you live or work near downtown,” and, “people only ride the bus when there is no other option,” as the GP said.
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by derektank 2mo ago
I would imagine the answer is yes? There are lots of pop history books out there of questionable veracity
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by derektank 2mo ago
I mean, everything about intellectual property is kind of inherently artificial tbf.
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by derektank 2mo ago
No, US copyright law allows them to keep a single digital copy. The hypothetical issue is with them maintaining two copies, one digital and one physical, when they only purchased one.
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by derektank 2mo ago
It’s been established in the DC circuit, where basically any challenges to copyright office decisions would need to be brought. For all intents and purposes, until the Supreme Court or Congress decide to weigh in, it’s pretty well establish
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by derektank 2mo ago
Given the cost of generating images/text/etc. is much lower when using an AI system, as compared to a human, this seems appropriate. The purpose of intellectual property is to encourage people to invest that time into creating wor
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by derektank 2mo ago
This tally only makes sense if you believe history started 2 years ago. The US literally re-opened the Strait of Hormuz itself back in the 80s during the Tanker War, at the very least for Kuwaiti oil tankers during Operation Earnest Will. T
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by derektank 2mo ago
I don’t think this is a good example of rent seeking, this seems like an entirely positive sum interaction with no attempts to restrict the supply. There is a cost to installing the binoculars. That cost can be recouped by people paying a s
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by derektank 2mo ago
I personally wouldn’t attribute it to Flock, I think it’s probably more related to changing social norms that developed during Covid. But I think a lot of people are under the impression that the current crime recession is simply a reversio
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by derektank 2mo ago
The national homicide rate in 2025 fell below the levels seen in 2019, even exceeding the previous historical minimum set in 2014. There is clearly something new going on in the last 4 years besides simply reversing the rise seen during and
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by derektank 2mo ago
>Anthropic is the fastest revenue growing company in the history of Capitalism. I don't think they need any more marketing for investors. What’s the source for this claim? Is this true in real dollars or just nominal? What about as
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by derektank 2mo ago
Yeah, Eli Lilly is selling Zepbound direct to consumer for roughly the same price too (with a prescription, obviously). People should generally avoid compounding pharmacies unless they have a specific need, many are not based in the US and
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by derektank 2mo ago
Well, that is one thing Vishal has going for him, he’s not a murderer. I hope he sleeps a lot better at night than Mangione does.
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by derektank 2mo ago
I wonder if the mechanism of action here is increased caffeine consumption resulting in more/longer duration/higher intensity exercise.
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by derektank 2mo ago
There’s nothing unethical about self experimentation. There are many notable examples of it in the history of science. Most notable is probably Barry Marshall’s decision to self-dose with helicobacter pylori, in an effort to prove that the
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by derektank 2mo ago
Of course? We already have private entities doing this today. Private toll road operators such as United Bridge Partners already administers camera systems that collect license plates for toll payments. I would assume parking lot operators
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by derektank 2mo ago
>Doctors protect doctor's interests. Lawyers aren't idiots, they're professionals who run businesses with the express intent to make money. And this is generally a bad thing, to be clear. It often comes in the form of rent
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by derektank 2mo ago
It does seem like a reasonable middle ground would be something like selling a dongle that provides PIV attestation of ownership, that could be resold and could even be used across platforms. Of course, there’s no incentive for the console
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by derektank 2mo ago
I would say different white collar jobs have different expectations for personal appearance. For example, even looking solely at the men at my company, our sales reps, marketing lead, and CEO are all more conventionally attractive than our
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by derektank 2mo ago
Men tend to work in less public facing/social career fields. Your appearance doesn’t matter much if you’re a linesman or a welder; it matters more if you’re doing sales or supporting clients. Probably not the entire story, I think peop
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by derektank 2mo ago
“Claude, please review my repo for any work that could be novel enough to receive a patent. Be liberal in your definition of ‘novel’”
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by derektank 2mo ago
You’re right that it does appear to be near a school (I don’t think anything that contradicts anything else I said). I think the health effects of siting a school right on a major highway are much more serious than being near a data center.
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by derektank 2mo ago
The data center in question is being installed next to a Walmart supercenter and highway 101. It’s being built on land zoned for industrial use. It’s not next to anybody’s home.
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by derektank 2mo ago
This headline seems misleading at best. There was, as far as I can tell reading both this piece and the original reporting in the WSJ[0], no community vote for or against data center construction. What appears to have happened is that Amazo
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by derektank 2mo ago
The difference is that cryptocurrencies never had an obvious benefit beyond subverting the existing banking sector. A more apt comparison would be to cloud computing, which likewise had its host of detractors (“It’s just somebody else’s com
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by derektank 2mo ago
Officials in the US government confirmed to reputable reporters that al-awlaki had been killed in a CIA drone strike almost immediately after it happened.[0] Speculating that the US government is secretly assassinating US citizens that are
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by derektank 2mo ago
USCYBERCOM is not the IC, it’s DoD. The majority of CYBERCOM tasked units are cyber protection teams, primarily focused on securing the DoD’s own vast and bloated network infrastructure from attack by foreign adversaries. The rest are split
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by derektank 2mo ago
The supplier receives more money in the first of those scenarios, which (a) can be used to expand its own supply and (b) creates a demand signal for competitors to attempt to clear the barriers to entering the market.
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by derektank 2mo ago
>even countries with a liberal democratic tradition are converging towards the Chinese model What specific examples of this do you have in mind? I can’t think of any liberal democratic countries converging on a combination of (a) single

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