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> millionaire who never worked in the private sector That is the most French thing I've heard all week.
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The people don't understand a lot of things. That's why representative democracies, voting on the basis of higher level choices, are effective. I struggle to imagine a scenario whereby there is ever broad French popular support fo
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Vote Smart tried to do something similar... but the effective end result was that few candidates wanted to go on the record. https://votesmart.org/for-candidates/ Which is a shame, because "knowing what you'r
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I wasn't sure if you were the OP of that tidbit or not. But yeah, to me, if I see police officers are 2-4x more likely than the general public to engage in domestic violence, that engages my curiosity about the job rather than the p
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At this point, there's probably a whole generation on HN that isn't familiar with Digg, much less anything before.
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The downside of high-plurality systems is the lack of voter knowledge, especially without the historical press function. I'd support that if it were coupled with multiple-choice position forms that were required to be filled out by e
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I'd say that it's always bad for people to be beaten once arrested. Or with violence for exercising their rights. But I'd put the "optimal" (in the efficiency and good-social-outcomes sense, as distinct from a mor
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I meant ranked choice can be the least worst way of conducting democratic elections. Individual results will still rightly depend on voters. You can blunt the attraction of extremism, but hearts and minds need shifting before voters will ta
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Here's how it falls out to me: 1. Laws and adherence to laws are required for a society to function. 2. Policing is necessary to enforce the law. 3. Policing, as a job, sucks. It's the tedium of TSA + the rare but lethal risk of b
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It can be a bad option, but still the best of the alternatives.
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Man, that'd make a really good plot point in a show exploring the nuances of policing...
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Given the current state of voters, ranked choice seems like the best way to break the logjam by creating situations where palatable-to-all get elected over loved-by-most-hated-by-many.
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I always figured that's why high-level power struggles were so constant and severely fought in totalitarian regimes. If the downside is unlimited then you do whatever it takes to win, always. And if there isn't currently a struggl
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The alternative explanation is that they have a theft problem. Maybe some intern realized they could arbitrage $0 work staplers into >$0 eBay staplers.
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My limited understanding of case law is that transformative use is still judged very human-centricly. E.g. the courts take a dim view of any attempt to create a machine (in the abstract sense) that takes in copywritten works and churns out
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To take an example: someone who used MIT licensed code but doesn't reproduce the license. Therefore isn't following the terms of the copyright grant, ergo doesn't have a license for use, ergo is violating copyright. Now what
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The key distinction I'm interested in is providing the GitHub (or any similar product) "Service" vs selling a separate, derived product (Copilot / ChatGPT). A: Common ToS to say that a product's owner obtains a lice
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ToS doesn't supercede copyright though, does it? The real rub will be the first court precedent on whether GPTs infringe on source data IP. Could see it going either way: fundamentally transformative or not.
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> ... so why would they suddenly be able to tell if it effectively blocked a site that was actually malicious? The fact that there was one false positive does not imply there are no true positives. Google crawls malware on sites all th
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Reverse Engineering Space Surveillance Network Practices and Performance(exaresearch.com)
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I think there was one. We drove halfway across town to get to it. It was definitely "different."
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I don't think that's the underlying cause. The Google product teams I've interacted with didn't seem like they cared they were a market leader. Aside from "In the making a good product" sense. They literally ju
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I'll have to try. I've had pretty good luck with the Spruce oven method: https://www.thespruceeats.com/perfect-oven-cooked-bacon-how-... Tl;dr - Put cold bacon in cold oven. Turn on oven to 400°F. Cook 17-20 min.
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It makes sense. When food brands initially took off (1950s?), my impression is that grocery stores were much more regional. There certainly wasn't anything at the scale of Walmart, Aldi, Kroger, or Publix these days. Consequently, it w
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Why do British hate food? Some of the recipes remind me of the matpakke video. "But not too exciting or tasty!" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JlNmeVK_zLg
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> "Medium heat" is when the ring is half-way up. "High heat" is when the ring is all the way up. Gas or electric? Small or large burner? Cast iron or steel pan? Kudos to you for being an exceptional nine year old co
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My wife's kids love the toaster oven, because she taught them it was almost impossible to burn the house down with, so they felt safe. Which is weird, because I never used one as a kid. Toaster, yes. Toaster-oven, no.
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There's also the point that as an early grade-school aged child, you haven't learned how to learn. We look back and say "I'd just go find a book, read it, and then try some practice runs." To an 8 year old, that seq
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That jingle will forever be seared into my brain. Well played, marketing.
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I was dragged there by some work colleagues in Kansas City. They were super excited and insisted we go. The conversation went like this "This pizza isn't really that good." "I know! That's the great thing about it!&

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