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by gruez 5d ago
>So.. there's a driver in driverless cars. A fall guy that will take all the blame should the company needs to produce someone to be arrested Are you seriously pretending the driver doesn't have agency here? This accident was e
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by gruez 5d ago
>When Uber's driverless car killed someone they got off pretty easy: The driverless car that very much had a safety driver, which got distracted because she was watching TV shows on her phone?
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by gruez 5d ago
>Google “taylor farms cyclospora” or “tyson beef prices shortage” for an example of the problems of highly consolidated processing. I already addressed cyclospora in another comment, but how is consolidation or tyson beef supposed to be
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by gruez 5d ago
In the context of this story (ie. US), it's specifically allowed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_pleading#Civil_law
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by gruez 5d ago
>they clearly would have tried to use it in any situation where they had potential liability. That's just how lawyers work. They'll try to invoke any defense that's vaguely applicable, just like any plaintiff lawyer will t
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by gruez 5d ago
The original lawsuit was spurious to begin with because the restaurant wasn't even operated by Disney.
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by gruez 5d ago
>There was an article around 2 decades ago on how Walmart manipulates prices at an unimaginable scale via their suppliers. If you supply Walmart they automatically become your biggest customer. Walmart knows this, and has you by the prov
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by gruez 5d ago
>1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson–Patman_Act I'm not a lawyer, but a cursory search shows there's a bunch of carveouts. It's not a straightforward ban on all favorable pricing for big player
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by gruez 5d ago
>being intelligent in one thing does correlate with being intelligent at other things vs >The consistent finding of universally positive correlation matrices of mental test results (or the "positive manifold"), despite large
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by gruez 5d ago
>it can't have a national foodborne illness outbreak. Which is bad for PR and great for clicks, but it's entirely unclear whether we're better off on average. What about all the years where we didn't have a mass outbr
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by gruez 5d ago
>but is that generally “more intelligent?” Contrary to popular belief, being intelligent in one thing does correlate with being intelligent at other things[1]. For doctors, the comparison with private equity (MBAs?) might be close, but i
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by gruez 5d ago
>And the employer with the largest amount of employees using SNAP benefits is… >Walmart is subsidized by the government to the tune of $2,000 per employee due to their low wages: https://rmfu.org/taxpayer-dollars-subsi
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by gruez 5d ago
>You’re absolutely right. For example, we’ve seen the negative impacts from excessive agricultural consolidation. Like what? >Many of them already lack profitability without subsidy. That doesn't mean anything without context. Ho
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by gruez 5d ago
>Healthcare practices that provide necessary care shouldn’t even really be allowed to be for-profit entities if you ask me. The incentives become too perverse as a result. Why stop at healthcare? Why not other essentials of life, like fo
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by gruez 5d ago
written by someone who worked in private equity for 20 years: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-06/private-e... https://archive.is/27tJr
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by gruez 6d ago
>It's the only way to get all the necessary training data. That... does not follow. The information you're getting with this is what sites a user visits. That's creepy and valuable for advertising purposes, but is hardly t
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by gruez 6d ago
>but people wrote inflated explanations of basic things like this all the time pre-LLM. And those got a pass because at least you could defend them with some excuse about how it's some budding author trying to hone their writing ski
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by gruez 6d ago
That just goes back to my original point, which is that this is AI slop and everyone would be better off if OP referenced a canonical description of what's happening, rather than wasting everyone's time by generating 1200 words of
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by gruez 6d ago
>Looks like the settings let you block all third-party cookies and add exceptions for specific sites, which seems a bit awkward but could be made to work. The fear over blocking third party cookies breaking stuff is severely overstated.
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by gruez 6d ago
Firefox (effectively) already does that by default. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/introducing-total-cooki...
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by gruez 6d ago
I'm not aware of any filter lists that blocks based on cookie name. It's almost always done at the URL level. Moreover it's bog standard 3rd party cookie tracking. At least for the purposes of "help defenders", ther
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by gruez 6d ago
>Safari and Firefox should isolate the cookie by default. That's what firefox's total cookie protection (enabled by default) does.
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by gruez 6d ago
I spent 10 seconds skimming this blog post until realizing it's just AI generated (ironic) slop describing how third party cookie tracking works. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_cookies#Mechanism Everyon
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by gruez 9d ago
We can't pump saturated salt solution to prevent more salt from being dissolved?
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by gruez 10d ago
>Is this common? I’ve had access to company credit cards before on a one-off basis (never in my name). Do people legitimately make this mistake? “oops, I put it on the company cards”? It's worse than that, because he specifically en
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by gruez 10d ago
>The footprint is a cost problem once. Land can approximately be converted to a recurring cost via rents.
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by gruez 10d ago
So you need a big enough screen to cover the entire field of view at 16 ft? Sounds expensive
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by gruez 11d ago
>While the richer people hire professionals to take care of their taxes and optimize them to the extent that they pay significantly less than n %. Source for this claim? All the claims I've seen involve treating unrealized gains as
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by gruez 11d ago
>Made by Patrick Glenn by way of Claude and ChatGPT. Code under the MIT License; text and charts under CC BY 4.0.
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by gruez 11d ago
>There's very little to use JSTOR for which isn't some form of teaching, scholarship, or research! He wasn't prosecuted for copyright infringement though. >... was prosecuted for multiple violations of the Computer Frau

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