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by gwright 3y ago
This is just stating an opinion that you disagree with the philosophy. Do you think leftist judges also don't have a philosophy but just aim for outcomes?
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by gwright 3y ago
Citizen's United seems like a pretty clear cut case of individual rights from my point of view. If your definition of "activist" is strengthening individual rights and refusing to give power to the federal government and its
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by gwright 3y ago
Now you are just pushing "activist" towards meaning "having a legal philosophy". And in practice it means having the wrong legal philosophy with respect to the person who labels you an "activist" as opposed to
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by gwright 3y ago
Your comment illustrates the problem. Do you think that everyone agrees that "activist" means "hunting for cases"? What does "hunting for cases" actually mean? The term "activist" is often interprete
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by gwright 3y ago
Activist? You clearly don't have the same definition of activist that I do. Half the problem with these sorts of conversations is there is no agreement on definitions. Please don't interpret my comment to mean that Supreme Court
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by gwright 3y ago
It all hinges on "reasonable", which is a lot different than making sure a product is "safe" or that advertising isn't "fraudulent" and so on.
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by gwright 3y ago
I'm going to avoid the snarky "hire an attorney" answer but once you get past that necessary first step I do have a few tips: * get comfortable reading legal documents, this will allow you to have more intelligent
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by gwright 3y ago
FWIW, my observation of Google's app store policies over the last 8 years or so is that they simply trail behind Apple's policies by a couple of years. Google is constantly expanding their store policies in order to better vet wh
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by gwright 3y ago
> That is literally the entire point of legislation, to change things that aren't working how we want them to, for example to be more beneficial to society. Where do you get this idea? What is the limit on this principle? The DMA t
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by gwright 3y ago
So you want to utilize the power of the state to force a private entity to sell its products under terms that are "reasonable" to you? Where is the limit on that sort of approach? Do you want the state to force everyone to set pr
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by gwright 3y ago
Who are you talking about? I explicitly said that I can understand the interest in both types of ecosystems and even that one person may like different scenarios for different devices.
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by gwright 3y ago
> Apple absolutely doesn't offer that right now, but even if they ever do offer something like that would you really want that to be the only way to get software on your device? Did you read my entire comment? Both models should be
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by gwright 3y ago
I think this perspective goes too far. Some people (me included) would actually like to have a secure, vetted ecosystem for software that gets installed on my phone (and even my computer). I realize that other people want something differe
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by gwright 3y ago
> Probable cause is supposed to be that by a preponderance of the evidence .. Really? IANAL, but this sounds like a muddling of what is required for arrest and what is the evidentiary standard for resolving a civil case in the US. I thin
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by gwright 3y ago
This is the first time I've seen it suggested that Aurora is implemented on top of S3. This overview doesn't mention S3: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide...
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by gwright 3y ago
It seems disingenuous to talk about "short-term" costs when we are talking about grid-scale energy systems. It is the long-term costs that are important when evaluating capital intensive systems.
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by gwright 3y ago
So you need to have two generation systems. Certainly possible, not cheap. I assume in this conversation that we want: * reliable power * affordable power If you relax those assumptions you open up the solution space. It isn&#
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by gwright 3y ago
I'm willing to accept I'm missing something, but overbuilding is not a sufficient approach because you still need to have generation available at night when there is no wind. Doesn't matter how much you overbuild solar and w
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by gwright 3y ago
Problem is much easier to solve if you accept that some people won't get any power when it is dark and calm. How many days of no power would people accept?
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by gwright 3y ago
> gas backup for such scenarios (which are relatively rare, and during which renewables will still operate at some non-100% fraction of the required energy) Now you have built two energy systems and one of them has to be on standby and r
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by gwright 3y ago
Which is why I asked if the weather conditions changed the calculus in Hawaii. Great for Hawaii, but doesn't help in other locations.
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by gwright 3y ago
Why do you think that can't be right? Solar and wind generation themselves are seasonal and don't match the seasonal patterns of demand. So you need to time shift across seasons if you don't have the instantaneous (base load
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by gwright 3y ago
Here is a study for two areas, Germany and California: http://euanmearns.com/the-cost-of-wind-solar-power-batteries...
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by gwright 3y ago
Well in terms of the various capabilities the article highlighted * dark starting * capacity * grid stabilization it sounds like the battery plant is successful. But the article itself says that the plant does not replace
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by gwright 3y ago
The main problem with replacing a fossil fuel plant with renewable + batteries is finding a battery system that can hold energy over a sufficiently long period of time and has enough capacity to replace solar/wind when it is dark and c
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by gwright 3y ago
> Your social standing will also take a hit. I can wrap my head around the usability and interoperability arguments but this idea that "social standing" is contingent on iOS vs Android just seems alien to me. Are there really p
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by gwright 3y ago
This is a good example of why capturing coordinates in a local spatial reference system may be better than capturing coordinates in a global spatial reference system. Global coordinates of a place of interest will drift relative to a global
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by gwright 3y ago
I agree that they are different scenarios that may lead to different legal frameworks. My point though was that asserting that the "profit" motive is sufficient to conclude something is owed to the creators is faulty logic. Indiv
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by gwright 3y ago
I didn't anthropomorphize the LLMS. It isn't about laws for the LLM, it is about laws for people would build and operate the LLM. If you want to assert that groups of people that build and operate LLMs should operate under a diffe
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by gwright 3y ago
I think this is a misleading way to frame things. It is people who build, train, and operate the LLM. It isn't about giving "rights" to the LLM, it is about constructing a legal framework for the people who are creating LLMs

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