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by ggm 9mo ago
What defines "equity" in these situations? How far beyond US borders would this extend, and to what extent can users indicate their preferences to sources? What does the FTC think user choices mean here? I'm avowedly left win
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by ggm 9mo ago
Used to lift a giant heliostat into place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Central_Park
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by ggm 9mo ago
I should have said it's the original articles fault and not yours.
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by ggm 9mo ago
Breakthrough is marketing. Come back with some peer review and in the meantime I'm internally translating this as an incremental improvement like most things these last 40 years or more. The tables of scores strongly speak to increment
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by ggm 9mo ago
Culture as language, culture as dress. Burberry was a ww1 trench coat, the hunting shooting fishing set and then descended to be ambitious working class Essex Chav. Same with slang, polari was gay slang, BBC radio artful in-joke, normalised
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by ggm 9mo ago
There was a parody published in 1964 by Dan Greenburg called "how to be a Jewish mother" and I feel much of this repeated the same essential tropes, except the american Jewish mother has to suffer so e.g. demands child opens bedro
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by ggm 9mo ago
If the stars succeed in getting legal closure on the moral rights to their body image, it's a logical extension of laws around faked porn spam, but with Hollywood accounting penalties. Victims of AI pornification deserve more but Cruis
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by ggm 9mo ago
Cc'ing a lawyer into routine emails doesn't work either does it?
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by ggm 9mo ago
A large percentage of the general population have some level of irregular disturbed sleep. Like, a LOT. We've known for years making late school age kids do 8am starts is punishment. Perimenopausal women, people with restless legs, sle
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by ggm 9mo ago
Yea. When design shrieks louder in the headline than the words semantic intent, you've got a problem. You made me go look. I agree.
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by ggm 9mo ago
I'm glad you're overt about this. And, my opposition here is not because of any issues with delivery of welfare by faith based organisations, the days of juice church to get the bums lunch is long gone. My concern is the ability o
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by ggm 9mo ago
This is a design flub which we are told Jobs simply wouldn't have let out the door. The Jobs who made people shave 50ms off boot times. The Jobs who demanded the no button mouse. I get the cult of Steve is a bit oversold but the propri
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by ggm 9mo ago
They can however, de-preference the systems behaviour again. and should. the responsible behaviour in the situation is to reassert control over meta constraints, even when expressed inside the model. This is not optional, its a meta state d
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by ggm 9mo ago
This attempts to formalise a role for church/faith based enterprises in the welfare state. Thats political.
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by ggm 9mo ago
Previously on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=long+covid
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by ggm 9mo ago
Even the headline leads with a mis-truth. "AI Society" is wishful thinking nominative determinism. Parry: meet Eliza. It's as old as the hills, and they couldn't even do what LISP has done since forever. I despair of how
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by ggm 9mo ago
Edinburgh has one, it's at the end of the esplanade in front of the castle (where the Edinburgh tattoo is held) embedded in a building wall and is frequently pointed out to visitors by local guides. It may have been placed there. http
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by ggm 9mo ago
A buried appeal to avoid top posting. Good, but like all good things, top posting is why we can't have good things. It isn't going to stop.
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by ggm 9mo ago
"past performance is not a good guide to future performance" is what the finance industry says about the uncertain waters of investment. If you think late delivery is a trendline to work with against the impossible, I have a self
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by ggm 9mo ago
I want to believe the FDA did a non-political thing here, and it's an argument about marginal benefits in the 40,000 patient survey, against methodology issues had they used the vax recommended for over 65s. Just 'you didn't
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by ggm 9mo ago
It's a great shame to me that the museum of London left the barbican. It made visiting the site and the building work well contextually. Roman London wall. History on tap, and a brutalist vision. The concert hall is good too.
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by ggm 9mo ago
I'm not qualified to say. But, because of inductive reasoning, I have some concern that underneath the next level of "oooh we found the hidden variable" will be a Feynman moment of saying "yea, thats defined by the as-ye
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by ggm 9mo ago
It's my belief all that could exist is heavily bowdlerised because his wife was a proselytizing christian and burnt his diaries having declared he made a deathbed act of contrition recognising god. I don't think Burton's frie
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by ggm 9mo ago
I think like many people I fell in love with the first biography of Burton I read, "the Devil Drives" by Fawn M. Brodie[0] from 1967, which I read in a penguin/allen-lane paperback edition 4 decades ago. I found it well round
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by ggm 9mo ago
I had a conversation about this in HN some months back. It's a surprisingly modern experiment. It demanded an ability to reliably emit single photons. Young's theory may be 1800 but single photon emission is 1970-80. (This is what
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by ggm 9mo ago
This problem is one of the reasons Maritime unions worldwide have been significant and strong players in national labour relations.
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by ggm 9mo ago
I am sure others will say it better, but the cat-in-the-box experiment is a shockingly bad metaphor for the idea behind quantum states and observer effect. I will commit the first sin, by declaring without fear of contradiction the cat actu
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by ggm 9mo ago
They run on train tracks. What's the effective linear density, and consequently linear debris risk from collision? They're not evenly distributed.
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by ggm 9mo ago
Amusing that the chosen illustrative homograph is "i" and tirith has two...
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by ggm 9mo ago
Could waste heat drive Stirling engines? Web says they were explored by NASA but also has a lot of yea... nah comments. If there was an acceptable efficiency to concentrate the heat into mass, you wind up at ion engines and shed heat physic

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