gruez

33 ms·

601.
by gruez 4mo ago
Doesn't "tanks" imply some sort of composting operation, rather than burning bodies?
602.
by gruez 4mo ago
See: >If the said process takes exactly 1 year to complete, and requires all the inputs to be provided upfront, then its margins can be directly compared to bond yields, but businesses are rarely that simple. Something tells me the xbox
603.
by gruez 4mo ago
That example only says 3% margin is better than 2% margin, not whether the hypothetical process yields better results than a bond paying 4% (or whatever). If the said process takes exactly 1 year to complete, and requires all the inputs to
604.
by gruez 4mo ago
margins can't be compared to interest rates, because it's comparing revenues against costs. Comparing that with interest rates yields nonsensical results. If you want a proper comparison, you'd need return on capital, which r
605.
by gruez 4mo ago
>It lets you treat your employees as a replaceable commodity that can be scaled up and down as it makes monetary sense rather than a cohesive team of skilled artisans. Can we extend this elsewhere? Are tech companies' decision to us
606.
by gruez 4mo ago
>that's the idea behind SecureBoot and the TPM chip is to provide the GDID based on hardware fingerprint hard drive and motherboard serials have been around far longer than TPMs. Not to mention TPMs are far cheaper to replace than h
607.
by gruez 4mo ago
Aren't they also missing security patches? I'm not sure about you, but I'd rather have SOHO routers with up to date firmware, than enterprise routers with out of date firmware.
608.
by gruez 4mo ago
You can store up to 80% of free disk space with indexeddb https://rxdb.info/articles/indexeddb-max-storage-limit.html
609.
by gruez 4mo ago
Sounds like the author is using "autocomplete" as a derogatory way of referring to LLMs in general (eg. "LLMs can't code, they're just autocomplete on steroids")
610.
by gruez 4mo ago
That just feels like status quo bias. Consider the reverse: should we cut off people's internet access because "that will destabilize a lot of countries"?
611.
by gruez 4mo ago
>I’d posit that if our planet was to significantly change is rotation speed that we would all sense it. Can you feel the fact that in the sun's reference frame, your rotation speed around the sun is constantly changing? For about ha
612.
by gruez 4mo ago
>you cannot steal genes. Why not? You can steal bits, unless you think copyright law's bunk as well. You can even steal ideas (patents).
613.
by gruez 4mo ago
>I think there is value in having people around who actually hold beliefs and aren't as quickly willing to put their beliefs aside. I don't know about you, but people who hyperbolically label stuff "evil" without prov
614.
by gruez 4mo ago
What's the purpose of communication? Is it to convince, or to preach to the choir/your side? If it's the former, I doubt summarily labeling everything "evil" or "a human right" is going to change any minds
615.
by gruez 4mo ago
>Of course, but my point is: Monsanto is obviously incorrect. It's plain to see. Plants grow without permission. Bytes flow without permission. Ideas propagate without permission. So you're against any sort of intellectual prop
616.
by gruez 4mo ago
>a quick Google of "monsanto food patents" brings up the highlights. The cases seem fairly reasonable, given how the defendents were basically engaging in selective breeding to copy the traits. https://en.wikipedia.o
617.
by gruez 4mo ago
>I love how the "pseudoscientific" word gets busted out anytime an understudied area of research is presented. Keep in mind that the state of science in 1000 years from now will prove all sorts of things that hyper-rationalists
618.
by gruez 4mo ago
>but due to how unnatural it is to move so far in so short a time. Your body literally can't tell whether it's traveling at 500mph or still. After all, the earth is rotating around the sun at 70,000 mph. Of course, there might
619.
by gruez 4mo ago
>but class action penalties often do. Do they? Or only so far as "if you have 1000x the revenue, you probably also have 1000x the customers that you have wronged, each of which are entitled to damages as well"?
620.
by gruez 4mo ago
>And yet they very much are. US copyright law has the concept of "fair use" in 17 U.S. Code § 107 [0]. I'll paste here for your benefit, #3 is the one I referenced as most obvious but #1 and #4 are also very relevant: If y
621.
by gruez 4mo ago
>It would be a huge selling point over the competition which is allegedly being used in terroristic attacks. Is this a Ukraine war reference?
622.
by gruez 4mo ago
That just feels like more of a general complaint about how the justice system is set up. The same logic applies to how a $300 speeding ticket "is not in any way a "sanction"" for someone making $1M/year, or even a w
623.
by gruez 4mo ago
>Does the law really not distinguish between mechanical processing of data, and humans learning from it? It seems surprising to be if every person who read a textbook is copyright infringing. It also seems surprising if something like a
624.
by gruez 4mo ago
>Can you remember every part? Can you do this for every book in a library? Can you remember all that forever? None of those are relevant factors when it comes to copyright law. You don't get a pass for copyright infringement just be
625.
by gruez 4mo ago
This but unironically. "did it for the benefit of other people" is redistribution, which is straightforward copyright infringement, even if you think it's a laudable act. AI training was the reverse, because courts have so f
626.
by gruez 4mo ago
>Denying their customers claims for healthcare coverage they are entitled to under the plans they pay for is the opposite of their job. Can you provide some examples? The examples I heard of are never straightforward like "person ha
627.
by gruez 4mo ago
>Now compare the prison time an avg person would get for theft. Probably 0 if it's the first offense.
628.
by gruez 4mo ago
>I think that internal investigations are acting as a substitute for actual criminal investigations. And how does this work? Are prosecutors really like "oh ok, we won't do any investigating of our own then"? If so, who&#x
629.
by gruez 4mo ago
You're dodging my earlier question. Do you think internal investigations are substituting for actual criminal investigations, and if so do you have evidence for it? All you're seemingly saying so far is that you don't like in
630.
by gruez 4mo ago
Right, but unless internal investigations are somehow deterring investigations by prosecutors, I don't see what the issue is. Would you rather than there's no internal investigations?

More ›