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by dwallin 2y ago
I think a better example of this type of moderation would be Wikipedia.
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by dwallin 2y ago
Except that there are significant switching costs. A person moving has to pay moving costs, might have to replace furniture that doesn't work for the new place, can affect your children's schools etc. This means the value of a uni
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by dwallin 2y ago
Unfortunately, the way we structure, fund, and manage modern corporations creates tons of poor incentives all on its own, no legislative influence needed. (unless your goal is to maximize short term profit signals at all costs)
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by dwallin 2y ago
This is not a binary situation. There are plenty of reasonable approaches that help limit abusive landlord behavior without damaging the prospect of profitable real estate development.
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by dwallin 2y ago
Humans have a natural tendency towards social hierarchies. If you don't provide structure people will instinctively create it; so attempting to entirely remove structure from an organization is idealistic and inevitably fails. This usu
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by dwallin 2y ago
Apple is selling a platform to end users and they hold durable market power with that platform, due to high switching costs and minimal alternatives. End users consume services by various third parties on the platform. In addition Apple is
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by dwallin 2y ago
Apple has had no problems with providing their macOS libraries, tooling, and associated updates for free, even with a drastically smaller user base, and it appears to have been sustainable for decades. The truth of the matter is Apple would
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by dwallin 2y ago
Assuming a US perspective, welcome to a world of unlimited corporate political spending (Thanks Citizens United). If you stick your head up to try to bring such a bill to the table expect your opponent next election season to come with a ma
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by dwallin 2y ago
IMO, this is the best think that could happen for Firefox. Mozilla as an organization has been thoroughly corrupted by huge buckets of money being thrown at them by Google. "The Resource Curse" ( https://en.wikipedia.org
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by dwallin 2y ago
Scale and context matters. No one else could afford to pay anywhere remotely near what Google is paying Apple. If it was truly competitive bidding Google could just offer some small reasonable percentage more than the nearest competitor cou
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by dwallin 2y ago
This is a misleading title. They said no to whether they are currently considering any additional US joint ventures. The title implies that they are saying no to a specific joint venture, which is not the case, all existing joint ventures a
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by dwallin 2y ago
You are missing the key bit right after that where they basically scolded the 5th circuit for not having a basic understanding of free speech. They then proceeded to outline in detail why said analysis should almost certainly lead to the la
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by dwallin 2y ago
I don’t put much value in polling claims that don’t disclose how their question was phrased. The difference between slight differences in wording can be transformational. What this also doesn’t capture is how strongly people feel about thes
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by dwallin 2y ago
Although by adding small amounts of possible allergens to a bunch of common food items you help reduce the frequency of future generations developing the same allergy. So it's a bit of a mixed bag there.
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by dwallin 2y ago
I disagree. The dissent focused way too much on emotional appeals. It shouldn’t matter if the remedy was popular amongst the primary parties if the law doesn’t allow for such a remedy, “it was popular” is not a solid legal footing. If we wa
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by dwallin 2y ago
I would maybe say that it is almost assuredly one of the most featureful and widely used layout technology. But I'm not convinced it's the most powerful, flexible, or even advanced. It suffers from significant performance issues d
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by dwallin 2y ago
They tested their models on both a conventional gpu as well as a custom FPGA.
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by dwallin 2y ago
Yeah, there are some applications in the area of SLAM that benefit from quickly generating plausible gaussian representations.
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by dwallin 2y ago
I’ve heard about this one but don’t have an appropriate setup to test it myself: https://www.gracia.ai/
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by dwallin 2y ago
I do agree that new use cases are emerging and it will probably enable tons of new businesses. I'm very gung-ho about the technology myself as well. I guess what I'm trying to say is that the new businesses that emerge because of
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by dwallin 2y ago
It's important to disentangle this specific approach of generating a gaussian splatting model from 2d images, with gaussian splats as a general rendering technique. There is nothing that prevents gaussian splatting from being used dyna
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by dwallin 2y ago
There's a lot of use cases, and companies already using photogrammetry techniques have adopted it extremely quickly, but for many of these businesses the usage of gaussian splats is just a technical implementation detail, resulting in
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by dwallin 2y ago
No the main difference is looking at the problem from a new perspective, relating it to a large body of existing work in statistics (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain_Monte_Carlo and https://en.
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by dwallin 2y ago
One major problem with the Vision Pro as a devkit is it's extremely locked down. The only significant AR experiences you can create are those already anticipated by Apple and compatible with their privacy expectations. IMO this was a h
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by dwallin 2y ago
(IANAL) Assuming it's not a copyright violation, just a contract violation, if you get access to the model weights without entering said contract you could make a strong case that none of the restrictions apply to you. However, as far
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by dwallin 2y ago
You solve this by implementing the LVT as a small tax rebate on top of traditional property taxes. Something along the lines of an "Improvements Rebate" or whatever polls best. This is much more politically palatable, you can pair
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by dwallin 2y ago
Generative AI is progressing at an extremely rapid rate. What many are experiencing though, is that every company wants to be perceived as being on the cutting edge. Being on the cutting edge gets you mindshare, free publicity, investment,
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by dwallin 2y ago
If this is true, it's almost certain to lead to a shareholder lawsuit.
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by dwallin 2y ago
Oh, you are right, I missed that inversion. Although it's worth noting, the absolute employment rate for graduates doesn't seem particularly out of line historically speaking. It might be more accurate to say that the current low
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by dwallin 2y ago
The data doesn't seem to add much support for this, outside of a blip because of the pandemic. https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/college-labor-market#--:...

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