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by dv_dt 3mo ago
Dumping is the word used for some other nations effective industrial development policy
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by dv_dt 3mo ago
I have noticed that austerity first economics is correlated with poor economic performance. There is no avoiding change and the question is if nations lean into the change or wall themselves into isolation and stagnation
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by dv_dt 4mo ago
Im not sure of your direction as the age verification legislation also does not address this: | They did not fight for your right to gang up on others and call them the n-word, to spread lies and slander about people, to harass children and
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by dv_dt 4mo ago
The science for age bans on social media is weak at best. There were pretty much terrible studies done during Covid and did not attribute all sorts of uncertainty going on at the same time. If the point were to improve on the mental health
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by dv_dt 4mo ago
My local librarian did not restrict my books to the kids section when I was a kid. Also librarians have fought civil legal battles to keep reading activities anonymous. Libraries are unlike the restrictions and risks of the proposed legisla
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by dv_dt 4mo ago
So the solution for criminals in the public is for everybody to show their papers walking into a public square? It is not, we have requirements for police process like warrants and a process for determining the requirements for urgent condi
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by dv_dt 4mo ago
Social media age verification is like none of those - social media is the modern public square and age verification is asking everybody to show their papers before participating in free speech in the public. It will have a chilling effect o
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by dv_dt 4mo ago
See the Chicken tax for trucks for a not so recent example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax
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by dv_dt 4mo ago
A trillion dollar ipo jist occurred for a company whose main line of business is almost entirely subsidized by government contracts
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by dv_dt 4mo ago
The large ai companies bought advance purchases of memory while the actual buildouts are massively lagging and will probably never materialize at even 70% of planned capacity for years. They are financed and motivated to create their own tu
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by dv_dt 4mo ago
Why is "no tax funding" a hard requirement? I would think the lowest cost to get that market information publicly shared and forthcoming (and thus increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of the market), would be for a governm
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by dv_dt 4mo ago
Seems like a bit of a false dichotomy- other alternatives are regulatory requirements or taxes that force or allow the api to be provisioned
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by dv_dt 4mo ago
For small and occasional activities it may be worth asking a tax professional how the local laws treat hobby income. In the past it has simplified my declaration of tax activity by avoiding business red tape for that class of income and I c
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by dv_dt 4mo ago
So AI is resurrecting the microsoft clippy problem
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by dv_dt 4mo ago
This makes me think of an LLM induced summer of endless rewrites where you get to experience a random reroll of what 80% works on any given rewrite.
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by dv_dt 4mo ago
It's quick to build a hut in a green field, but slow to remodel the expanded building after. I think that will remain true regardless of if a team of sw developers are doing it, or an AI with a product manager or somewhere in between.
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by dv_dt 4mo ago
Math, independent sw projects etc. I have done and still do to some extent as another type of excercise. But for me, the paid sw work - even if unfulfilling, or maybe because it was somehow unfulfilling, left me with little energy for added
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by dv_dt 4mo ago
If I've learned anything about AI recently, it's that AI has just as much trouble centering things consistently as human designers.
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by dv_dt 4mo ago
For alcohol, tobacco, gambling and many other vices, there are a wealth of other regulations that the supplier side must comply with - including labeling of content, warning labels, tests for amounts of alcohol, ingredients disclosure, enfo
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by dv_dt 4mo ago
I disagree with this standard of prevention, and privacy advocates disagree. It is not a reasonable standard
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by dv_dt 4mo ago
What is it about magically turning 17 that makes social media "safe"? If these laws were about integrity in social media, there would be disclosure laws for paid time or content creation, disclosure of who pays for ads or time of
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by dv_dt 5mo ago
I'm done with the kindle ecosystem, except for one last jailbroken kindle that I use for reading, but once that dies it's nice to know options. Open source software, open (to the owners) with default configs, open ecosystems, repa
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by dv_dt 5mo ago
I'll have to see if I can find references to an older effort on previous learning algorithm optimizations with FPGAs in the loop - it must be 20+ years old by now. The algorithm did indeed optimize the toy problems that it was setup t
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by dv_dt 5mo ago
I feel like we went through something similar to this early in the era when Google's search engine was new. People posted engine results, but pretty quickly, people got tired of doing that, and would say google it. Part of that was if
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by dv_dt 5mo ago
They also neglected to solve the problem of differentiating answers to previous generations of software. How many python2 answers does one have to sift through to get a python3 answer - maybe the weight of answers finally tilted over the pr
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by dv_dt 5mo ago
If there is a non-transparent or non-user changable algorithm selecting content to present then 230 protections shouldn't apply. This is different than removing 230 entirely
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by dv_dt 5mo ago
both options incentivizes the buyer to also lobby local officials
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by dv_dt 5mo ago
also a night time mouth prosthetic can help some cases short of a cpap (while being much easier to deal with vs a coap)
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by dv_dt 5mo ago
I'd bet the leaders of the Japanese ceramic company have some deep ties and focus on ceramics, while the leaders of the US paper company have deep ties and focus on the financial industry.
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by dv_dt 5mo ago
That's a good question, but to me it is not not odd at all to see continuity of growth in that all hugely profitable lines start smaller and grow. The proposition of the VC startup industry is the same at the core of it. Do many small

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