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Do you know where they are legal/illegal? Multiple places I know of have legalized them.
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"Every monster is a proof. Bring back the ring before sunrise."
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HN auto-title editor strikes again: "The best pint in England" is the title.
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> it also demonstrates one of the most effective ways to increase productivity: simply reducing the workforce. You can cut costs and increase productivity by firing everyone else and taking no salary yourself. The point of investment is
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If a Meta employee screws up a major project, what happens? What will happen to the executives behind these mass firings and realignment - executives of one of the very top SV companies whose job is dealing with the landscape of disruptive
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IME there is no reliable source: Stores' (including restaurants') own websites are inaccurate enough that I need to call them if I need to be sure. Yelp, etc. are at least equally inaccurate. I'm sure it annoys the stores tha
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I don't know about that ... HN is a conversation. It's not a very interesting conversation when you say a few words and then refuse to say more, telling the other people at the table to look it up. I could look up lots and lots of
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By 'sources', I mean the original books, papers, etc. For example, in this context, the American Heritage Dictionary and On the Origin of Species are sources (of knowledge). I don't mean your local bookstore or library wh
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Is that some sort of real thing, some significance in law?
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So Anna's Archive is in some ways a front for AI companies, gathering the sources they can't get themselves?
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How is Anna's Archive funded? I see they have memberships, but it's hard to believe that can fund all these bounties - some going into six figures. Ask any FOSS project about funding by that method. It seems like there are some de
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I'm sure they'd go after you, but hypothetically: What damages would they claim? They still have the data, which isn't their IP to begin with.
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Open Syllabus: Galaxy(galaxy.opensyllabus.org)
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Look up introductory college courses, e.g.., in astronomy. Their syllabi have your answers. Maybe it is more extensive than you want, but one or two book might be what you seek. The very useful Open Syllabus Project collects syllabi and lis
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The US Post Office is funded by its own revenue, I'm pretty sure.
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Great, thanks. Here's the abstract. And for context, it's a collaboration with Ford Motor Co. ... We report and compare the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for a 36-item grocery basket transported along 72 unique paths from a cent
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I was zeroing out the amount purchased: The comparison is the customer picks up one item vs. Amazon delivers one item, or the customer picks up 12 or 20 things vs. Amazon delivers the same amount. I'd still love to see data. The proble
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> To put it crudely, having someone in a Sprinter van deliver a recently-purchased toothbrush to your doorstep is simply not a universalizable action, from either a business or logistical standpoint. It is a modern feat that Amazon is ca
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> So I'd argue pro/rel is a net plus because it leads to better play. From a sports perspective, sure, I agree. I've often thought that the only non-competitive position on a sports team is owner. If anyone else, coach or
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In European football, relegation is a zero sum outcome for society: One team is relegated and another promoted. On average, equal numbers of fans are happy or sad. Acting is about art, which brings up different issues and value. But looking
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I understand how the marketplace works, but the value - the contribution, the marginal value - to society doesn't match it. The $1T business owner doesn't provide nearly that much marginal value to society. The backup (or starting
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FWIW the Preface says it's written for people with secondary school mathematics education - whatever that meant in the Soviet Union in the 1950s.
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> A person paid to do child care in an organization with overhead, who has to pay taxes, etc. is not productive enough They are highly productive but the market doesn't value them. It values the backup forward on a basketball team -
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There's nothing weird about a religious ritual in a religious setting. > not a medically licensed > hire a doctor and do it in sanitary conditions. Most procedures are done at home by unlicensed people (e.g., family, home healthc
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That comment is what I described in the GP: Reasons .
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This discussion is a cesspool of hate and prejudice. Where are the mods?
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Look at the incredible amount of art dismissed by this ideology: Van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, Rothko, Pollack, Coltrane, Lou Reed, the Beatles, Stevie Wonder, James Joyce, almost all of literature, centuries of genres in every field. Hemingw
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Thank you for explaining. > there's big advantages to having a deterministic simulation and relaying the player's commands instead of the whole game state, in fact unless you know everyone playing the game has a very good inter
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My common experience is that people dismiss these risks without evidence, while I've seen plenty of stories of such things happening in this context and in others. Possibly those stories add up to a lot of anecdotes, but these aren&#x2
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> Self hosting is not necessary for security. That moves the goalposts from 'tech sovereignty' to self-hosting. The rest describes the tech community's failure to communicate its importance. Sanitation is also inconvenient

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