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by fsckboy 5mo ago
anybody in southern VT and wants to check on a rare variety (last of its kind) apple tree? i know exactly where it was. this was a while ago, and it was already old, but who knows.
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
so, you're talking not about renters but about homeowners, and you're saying housing prices are up everywhere else except they are down in New Orleans? I'm not from NOLA so I'm not going to bone up on prices, but I do do
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
> at $250 after subsidy > who cares?! fellow taxpayers, fellow ratepayers, people who care about the planet, etc. etc.
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
"security through obscurity" is not a term of art; it is not solely that property which RSA does not rely upon.
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
i don't know precisely the architectures they both used (i tend not to study things that are changing and over which i have no control), but here's what I would say: I like boolean and literalism etc., I like control and syntactic
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
> I think your imagination is much worse than reality you are imagining that my imagination is worse, i am very realistic. I'm not worried about these things at all, not a germaphobe, I always assume humans have been exchanging fec
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
> Here we show that cyclic voltammetry can be used without any additional sample preparation to directly measure the strength of a coffee beverage and, separately, how dark the coffee has been roasted; these two properties are implicated
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
had to search that, NEET is India's National Eligibility cum Entrance Test. No, I was too scared to ask.
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
it is recommended (search, you'll see) that at home you don't wash your underwear with your other clothes because there is a nonnegligible amount of fecal matter and associated bacteria remaining after washing. extending that noti
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
...unless the second one is named Alfred and is an informal person
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
well, if the Normans had simply spoken Norse as one would expect Norsemen to do... I recently tried some light research (ok, i ddg'ed) recently on this topic as it wasn't that long between the Viking invasions and settling down in
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
they should have held it in the US, a country entirely resistant to what Americans want, care about, and vote for.
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
exactly! i love this. I always say I'd rather argue with my enemy than be bored to tears by people in the middle.
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
i am the least self centered person you know. I pay close attention to very specific wants and needs, mine and other people's. I want what I want, why wouldn't everybody else? but it's generally a one way street not in my dir
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
i saw 6 in the left-right scroller but when i looked in Firefox Page Info there were some I had not seen on the page. I just grabbed these sorry for dupes or whatever, can't be bothered to clean up. I tried to skip maketing pictures, p
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
don't even have to get esoteric, a Nikon Z9 body only is $5000 at Target right now completely different camera but it's a straight up camera and not strange format. for people who are serious/professional about photography mu
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
i really can't stand that which is called design today. I liked interfaces designed by autistic geniuses for other autistic geniuses, they were intuitive and consistent to high IQ people, people who think quickly and structured and hie
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
pithy: Concise and meaningful. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pithy
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
his prompt might be the result of human creativity but even in that case it's more than likely not to be a copyrightable expression of human creativity. a copyrightable expression of human creativity in that case would need to be sub
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
> isn't prompt design and steering the AI "human creativity"? yes it is, but that does not make the response by the AI an expression of human creativity and therefore not copyrightable. If you wrote down your teachings
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
i wasn't advocating for trade secrets as "equal" or "the way to go", i was trying to explain in simple terms how to think about copyright issues in concordance with the existing legal structures people here who have
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
it's well known that recipes cannot be copyrighted. But recipes still are protected intellectual property by trade secret law if they are treated as a secret by the holder of the recipe. Claude code itself is a trade secret, and it is
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
> This is sort of why "brand" matters; it provides a source of trust it tells you more about who you are buying from than how good the product will be, so I guess it's like National ID/Internet ID
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
> The service changes take affect in August, in large part because they can no longer expect the funding for them to exist by then. I think a more plausible reason is, "withdraw the services now to get people who want that spending
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
you probably have a high wage profession, and you max out FICA etc. and stop paying payroll taxes around April every year. You don't like the income uptick at that point cuz you're just so darned happy to pay payroll taxes? There&
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
> If a tax is a function of the worker's income, it doesn't really matter (except for nominal terms) whether the worker or employer pays the taxes, yes, I took a lot of micro (and macro too for that matter) but if what you say
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
ah, good correction, that's why the self employed hate them, they have to pay both halves. the main reason for the distaste is that self-employed people generally fall in the class of people who do a better job preparing for retirement
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
> TriMet relies heavily on payroll taxes that are deeply unpopular among the self-employed and small business owners just a point of clarification, the term "payroll taxes" refers to Social Security and Medicare taxes that are
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
> Valid complaints, but contrary to the HN guideline the site not too long ago banned ai generated content. i don't know if they changed it but pointing out that something was AI would have been following/flagging the rule&#x2

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