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by jessriedel 2y ago
> Some more education is still necessary, though. Certain foods can go months or years past their "best by" date and still be perfectly safe - even if they might taste a little funky. Aren’t safety restrictions the “use by” dat
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by jessriedel 2y ago
I’m specifically talking about the situation where you lose almost all the cases. When that happens, it’s not called “clearing up the law”, it’s called frivolous lawsuits.
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by jessriedel 2y ago
You already have the web on your phone. The sensible comparison for the (non-web) mobile app market is to the (non-web) desktop app market, and that's not a clear-cut improvement. I'd guess people currently have more mobile apps t
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by jessriedel 2y ago
A plethora or suspicious things? If the companies are breaking the law, the FTC can sue them and win. If the companies are complying with the law, the FTC should indeed do nothing. If the law is bad, congress can pass new laws. What's
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by jessriedel 2y ago
Hmm, thanks, that sounds plausible enough. Have you seen this possibility discussed anywhere?
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by jessriedel 2y ago
The FTX stake in Anthropic was liquidated at a very high return back in ~May.
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by jessriedel 2y ago
I’m not suggesting the justice system should change. I’m suggesting that civil servants who file and lose a ton of suits should be presumed to be doing net harm. Just as we would for prosecutors in criminal law. And when it’s politically mo
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by jessriedel 2y ago
Google (gemini) does the same thing.
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by jessriedel 2y ago
Google (gemini) does the same thing. You think they've bet the company on it?
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by jessriedel 2y ago
Using public resources to sue companies, force them to pay for expensive defense in court, and then losing when the court decides they did nothing illegal?
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by jessriedel 2y ago
> And where's the cookie banner?! There actually is a cookie banner on the bottom, unfortunately. Presume that's legally required.
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by jessriedel 2y ago
> and it gives you a paragraph from the NYT, then YOU are responsible for the copyright infringement. Even though you of course had no clue it was plagiarized. No. They indemnify you for from copyright lawsuits that arise for your use o
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by jessriedel 2y ago
> Until AI generated imagery has been tested by the legal system it may be a bit too optimistic to call this "Royalty-free, copyright-free gallery of images". Although it's conceivable there's a surprise legal finding
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by jessriedel 2y ago
My memory of the consensus, the last time this topic came up, is that the number is in fact less than a hundred microseconds. But it doesn't matter for my point if it's a few milliseconds or whatever. The problem is solvable.
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by jessriedel 2y ago
Yea I agree. AM seems like the most viable.
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by jessriedel 2y ago
No. Ending hunger is hard .
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by jessriedel 2y ago
1. When I have looked into this, it turns out the basic WiFi standard has rules about polling rate (allegedly to save power). Like, the standard is literally something like “poll for a few hundred microseconds every couple seconds”. Macbook
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by jessriedel 2y ago
1 is not unavoidable. I’ve never gotten a clear answer on the explanation, but the most reasonable ones involve power-saving and frequency-saving strategies (only poll for new connections for a few hundred microseconds per second). And I th
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by jessriedel 2y ago
You can re-phrase my main question as: why is there enough interest in doing these minor improvements when there is apparently little interest in fixing the major and long-lasting deficiencies?
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by jessriedel 2y ago
Thanks! Any idea if the law requires the redesign (i.e., requires that the AM radio meets some level of audio quality when operating in the vehicle) or if it just requires the AM radio to be present and (somewhat understandably) the manufac
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by jessriedel 2y ago
This seems like a super important fact for the discussion. Do you have a cite that it really constrains the rest of the car?
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by jessriedel 2y ago
I also think the marginal cost of making a FM radio an AM/FM radio is less than $10. Probably more like $1?
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by jessriedel 2y ago
Seems so cheap to include, but I guess it’s the same weird reasons that car manufacturers are willing to make their UI baffling to save a single mechanical button.
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by jessriedel 2y ago
Yea, even if the major space powers Kesslerize all the satellites (like Starlink) in low-Earth orbit, the civilian geostationary sats like Sirius XM will likely be flying. (Geostationary sats can, I think, only be brought down individually
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by jessriedel 2y ago
The overwhelming issues with WiFi are 1. It is slow to connect, taking multiple seconds rather than a few milliseconds. (Wifi unreliability would have much less practical impact if there was rapid reconnect.) 2. The lack of a sufficiently
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by jessriedel 2y ago
“Insignificance isn’t ineffectiveness”
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by jessriedel 2y ago
Well, you can’t blind it but you can still randomize. If your outcome variables are sufficiently objective and important (e.g., mortality or cancer risk, not just perceived health), the possibility that the causality flows through a place
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by jessriedel 2y ago
Ron Miller is an artist who made some very nice visualizations. I can’t vouch for the scientific accuracy, but they seem plausible enough to me, and consistent with the images I’ve seen of Saturn’s rings from nearby probes. https:/&#x
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by jessriedel 2y ago
That article says > Epidemiological research on specific health effects of yogurt is still limited but a few studies suggest a benefit. It then describes three non-randomized observational studies.
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by jessriedel 2y ago
This mistake is so unbelievably frequent. Need a concise quip like “correlation isn’t causation”.

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