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by falcolas 2y ago
https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FUL... page 545 for their plan for the DOJ.
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by falcolas 2y ago
Even if they do write another power delegation law, it's not like the law can't be overturned by the courts if they want to keep their new power.
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by falcolas 2y ago
Thousands of highly detailed laws every year, which will still be out of date not not specific enough when they're enacted? "No, our compound does not pollute the water." "It's arsenic with an extra carbon molecule,
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by falcolas 2y ago
> Not sure how the courts could get around that. Like any other law, they rule it as unconstitutional. Appeal its way up to the SCOTUS, and they will ultimately decide if they want to keep the power or give it back to the regulatory agen
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by falcolas 2y ago
It's not as if judges are any more or less political. They're also not elected in most cases. It's pretty easy for a company to pick a court district which will be favorable to them, regardless of the experts brought in.
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by falcolas 2y ago
When any regulation (SCOTUS also removed the statutes of limitations for "new" companies) able to be challenged by a lawsuit in a court, and there are hundreds of thousands of regulations in place, how could the courts keep up? Th
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by falcolas 2y ago
So how do you get congress to write thousands of such laws yearly which will properly cover every potential outcome for decades? Our current congress barely passed 27 laws last year.
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by falcolas 2y ago
What makes the judges - who are also frequently appointed by an executive and who often hold the position for life regardlesss of their performance - better? It's not as if judges are bound by expert testimony.
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by falcolas 2y ago
There's no certification for heat per se; it's more that there's just a point where the aircraft can't take off safely from a given runway. Increased air temperature means increased takeoff distances for a given weight
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IIRC, the cooling is mostly achieved as a byproduct of continuously pulling in outside air and using a portion of it to cool the rest of the turbine. https://aerospaceengineeringblog.com/turbine-cooling/
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by falcolas 2y ago
Bigger engines won't help overcome lower air density. First, bigger engines mean more weight, which will mean more power required to lift the base weight of the aircraft. Second, the problem isn't (ironically enough) pushing the b
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by falcolas 2y ago
While there are plenty of certifications for aircraft maintenance and testing, this is legitimately a capacity issue. The air density issue is huge for aircraft. It caps maximum operating ceilings (as in the aircraft literally can't go
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by falcolas 2y ago
That would require an monetary investment into DEI, which has become a negative investor signal for many large companies. It's a shame, because I've met several developers who benefited from Girls in Tech's work.
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by falcolas 2y ago
Given the value of an "authentic" painting of the Starry Night (or more realistically the value of something forged in, say, Samwise Didier's style) I can't agree with "no one". I have to imagine that it's
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by falcolas 2y ago
In isolation, no. But the produced works can be too close for fair use (as demonstrated with the Prince pieces by Andy Warhol), and passing it off as a piece from the original artist can open you up to forgery/fraud charges. To put ano
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by falcolas 2y ago
Using AI is not free, in either price nor time. If all the time spent iterating over prompts to get the "right" output was instead spent working on skills, you (the royal you) could get a lot better at drawing/writing right o
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by falcolas 2y ago
Always worth remembering as we watch these cases go through the system that "legal" and "moral" (or even "benefits society") are not the same thing. They are usually intended to be the same thing, but the rule
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by falcolas 2y ago
"Take my bosses' job. Any of my bosses. I've got 8."
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by falcolas 2y ago
I don't necessarily disagree with your viewpoint, but sometimes the lack of a proper voice makes it impossible to identify that you have a perspective that can be expressed. Iterating to get the right output from a prompt- and waitin
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by falcolas 2y ago
One thing missing from this analysis is how the profit-seeking platforms for AI were directly created from the works of the passionate - something not seen when the loom (or machining tools, etc) was created. Most hobby artists see it as st
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by falcolas 2y ago
> many people who are bad at art and writing The thing is, you can get better at these. They are just creative skills that get better with practice (much like coding et.al.). And the skill will let you do things you can't do with AI
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by falcolas 2y ago
Definitely a bit of hypocrisy here. "Company X makes money from ads and that's anti-consumer!" "We make money from ads and that's good."
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The judiciary agreeing with the regulatory agency once decades ago does not set a useful precedent. Well, it did, but that precedent was just revoked.
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by falcolas 2y ago
This is understated and important. The removal of the statue of limitations means that any new company that's formed can challenge any regulations that they are subject to, no matter when the regulation was formed. Combined with Chevro
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by falcolas 2y ago
I say this with no ill intent, but if a simple white screen is "physically painful", it's clear that the screen brightness hasn't been changed. It may even still be in the store demo mode, which is going to be even worse
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Screen brightness is adjustable, and there are utilities for both windows and macs to adjust most external screens from your task bar. It shouldn't be brighter than a piece of paper in the same location.
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by falcolas 2y ago
The impeachment process only applies to a sitting president. Once they're out of office, the threat provided by an impeachment is gone. More specifically, the role of the house impeachment and senate hearing is removal someone from off
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by falcolas 2y ago
Weight is probably a big one. Slowing things down requires energy (or the dispersion of energy) and that amount of energy is directly related to the weight. Plus breathing gases, waste management, and any other required consumables.
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by falcolas 2y ago
> When was the last time a political ad even registered to you? They're not targeting you. Or me. Or 99.9% of the folks on this board. They're targeting their efforts at the undecided middle who are not sure who they'll vo
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by falcolas 2y ago
Not just overtake, but the sidings also allow trains to operate in both directions on the same rail. When you have a mega-train running west-east, all east-west trains must pull off on the sidings so the mega-train can pass.

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