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by ghaff 4mo ago
It's likely the general public has very little in the way of an opinion about "AI companies."
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by ghaff 4mo ago
In smaller towns, many people absolutely do have an issue with distribution centers that will probably increase local traffic.
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by ghaff 4mo ago
And, in fact, after the initial construction datacenters employ very few people working on the premises.
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by ghaff 4mo ago
There are also traffic issues--likely less of an issue with datacenters or solar farms. But things like housing that put pressures on local schools are certainly issues--though again not really with datacenters which are more about power an
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by ghaff 4mo ago
The two are often difficult to dissociate. My town had a fairly fractious town meeting around a rezoning proposal that was mostly for a fairly specific commercial purpose--that passed through a basically procedural mechanism in a second mee
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by ghaff 4mo ago
There's plenty of opposition to solar farms at the local level.
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by ghaff 4mo ago
I think you and I (also east coast) seem to have similar philosophies. I'm more retired than not these days. I'll certainly respond to a query by email or talk at a conference about my various former professions/experiences (
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by ghaff 4mo ago
It seems that Apple doesn't care about a device for an audience of nerds/gamers that pretty much no one else is is interested in--given the current technology.
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by ghaff 4mo ago
I'm pretty sure I had to provide some proof of residency for a library card from my town or state in the US.
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by ghaff 4mo ago
Just got a new MacBook Air. The thing I'm keeping my eye on is iPhones. I destroyed my iPhone on a multi-day hiking trip a few years ago and, for international travel, I really like having a workable backup which, if I could even find
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by ghaff 4mo ago
I don't really disagree. Open source is generally recognized among European states and, from a practical perspective, permissive licenses are mostly indistinguishable from public domain other than preserving notice of the original auth
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by ghaff 4mo ago
Essentially all the distributions are GNU + Linux kernel + a whole bunch of other stuff that tend to have some common elements but vary by distribution. At which point we're into pedantry about what things are called.
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by ghaff 4mo ago
And MANY people involved with it and Unix for a very long time routinely use the term, officially endorsed or not. Understandably because it is/was a windowing system and just saying X out of context isn't especially clear.
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by ghaff 4mo ago
As I say, a murky area. The MIT license was basically created because the X-Windows folks wanted to release it into the public domain but IBM would have nothing to do with it so the MIT lawyers came up with a permissive license. https:&#x2
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by ghaff 4mo ago
It seems to be a somewhat murky area of law. In Europe (and, I guess Canada) you can't really have public domain because of moral rights that you can't waive. IANAL but I've talked with IP lawyers about this and they've
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by ghaff 4mo ago
And VC even historically has not performed especially well. And just to take an anecdotal example, I have a friend who did some angel investing. He still does a bit on companies he believes in but admits he's have done a lot better put
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by ghaff 4mo ago
Conventional finance theory was that stock price/valuation was based on the net present value of the current/future dividend stream. That has of course largely fallen apart in practice.
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by ghaff 4mo ago
Situations have changed in tech so I'll probably keep my LLC for a while but when things come up for renewal probably no reason to. Associated with another company and not beating bushes for big time-consuming contracts.
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by ghaff 4mo ago
MA was going to be quite a bit more expensive. I did the transaction through Stripe and they use Delaware.
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by ghaff 4mo ago
I set up an LLC in the US for about $500 and pay Delaware a few hundred each year in fees. As it turned out, it was probably an unnecessary exercise and I probably won't renew in a couple years. But it wasn't a big deal.
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by ghaff 4mo ago
I'm tempted to say nothing some baseball bats won't help. But the real problem is that you have bicycles increasingly morphing into things that look more like motorcycles and, if they can't be legally sold that way, someone w
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by ghaff 4mo ago
There's a restaurant in a city near fairly near where I live where I often eat at the sidewalk city in the summer. And the (protected) bike lane is this somewhat horrifying combination of bikes, e-bikes, escooters and things like motor
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by ghaff 4mo ago
Yes, sometimes the interstate is the only reasonable route through a pass in the western US.
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by ghaff 4mo ago
There are a few full-service stations around where I live. But you really don't need your oil checked when you get gas so unless the objective is to have someone else pump your gas in crappy weather there's not a not of point.
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by ghaff 4mo ago
IANAL but, yes, with US/UK (i.e. common law regimes) that's something along my understanding as well. Which I generally agree with even if some/many readers here probably do not. Of course, output being copyrightable and copy
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by ghaff 4mo ago
I'm largely out of this space now but my understanding is that some copyright cases around model training are winding through courts but I haven't seen anything definitive come out. The IP lawyers I know are skeptical but we'
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by ghaff 4mo ago
I think that's probably true although I've had even US people argue with me that "everyone they know" uses WhatsApp. I do think it's the case that SMS became basically free in the US sooner than other places and the
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by ghaff 4mo ago
I'm very much like you. There are several apps that I use to communicate with a handful (or less) of people in the world. I see people on travel sites saying "Just use WhatsApp" and I'm more or less, yes it's instal
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by ghaff 4mo ago
Which is what I do.
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by ghaff 4mo ago
I'm not sure putting the onus on COVID is quite right. There are certainly remote jobs today for a variety of reasons. But as someone who has been on hiring committees, I'd like to meet someone in person. They can certainly refuse

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