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by modriano 4y ago
> The entire concept of copyright is problematic - it limits what you can do with property that you own. People can own guns. Is it problematic for the government to limit what people can do with their own guns? I would argue that it&#x2
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by modriano 4y ago
Creators still need to eat, even if publishing and distribution costs have dropped to nearly nothing.
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> I am so sick and tired of the copyright laws that play counter to productive creation and stymying efforts to preserve anything. The fact that I have to wait until people die until copyright is up is god awful. So what's the right
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by modriano 4y ago
Not that I know of, but there is a correlation between vehicle miles traveled and road deaths. Cars are big, heavy, and often move very fast. When cars collide with people, other cars, or built structures, it often results in deaths.
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by modriano 4y ago
Jeff Reback gave a presentation on the roadmap for Pandas at PyData NYC 2022 [0]. In it, he basically says that pandas is used so widely in industry that big breaking changes are a non-starter, there won't be any radical changes to th
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by modriano 4y ago
Hmm. Graphic-media artists tend to have much less wealth and capacity to enforce their copyrights when compared to the music or film industries, but Getty has both the funds and the political connections (the Koch brothers own about 19% of
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by modriano 4y ago
A recent Jeff Geerling video dug into this subject. [0]. Sharp NEC [1] makes and sells TVs without any "smart" junk (they're mainly aimed at being 24/7 monitors/displays in businesses). They're significantly mo
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by modriano 4y ago
> Those parties I linked, you could have voted for, but y'all didn't. I've voted in every national election (primary and general) in the past 15 years, and those parties have never been on the ballot. It takes a massive am
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by modriano 4y ago
Oh, a lot of reasons. For one, I'm a data scientist and I am intimately familiar with the machinery under the hood. The hype is pushing expectations far beyond the capabilities of the machinery/algorithms at work, and OpenAI is he
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by modriano 4y ago
You misunderstand. Saying > "the rejection of communism is why rich people get to own and control businesses". is as wrong as saying "the rejection of [pastafarianism | soccer/futbol | anarchocapitalism | mandatory l
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by modriano 4y ago
As the past decade has shown us, moving fast and breaking things to secure unfathomable wealth has caused or enabled or perpetrated: * Genocide against the Rohingya [0] * A grotesquely unqualified reality TV character became President by a
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by modriano 4y ago
> basically every American literally voted for that by repeatedly saying no to *the alternative* (the communist party) in every American election. I had a good laugh playing with this ridiculous framing, thinking about all of the candida
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by modriano 4y ago
Two notes: 1) less than half of Americans vote in each election (less than 63% if you restrict to the voting-age population, less than 70% if you apply the scummy rules that restrict to the voting-eligible population) And 2) it's a fa
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by modriano 4y ago
But the human brain is a much more mature product (although I will concede there are still a ton of bugs to work out that we really have no idea how to repair because the product is extremely complex and still pretty fragile).
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by modriano 4y ago
It seems so odd to me that I can't ever find 00 flour in any of the grocery stores around me (in Chicago). Every neopolitan pizza recipe I read stresses use of 00 flour, but I have to buy it from King Arthur's site. Do people not
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by modriano 4y ago
Switzerland's doctrine of neutrality is not newfound, rather it's a strategy they've built into their geography over centuries. They're nestled between mountains, so it would be pretty difficult for any other nation to a
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by modriano 4y ago
Also worth noting that it appears Barney Frank helped the effort to nerf Dodd-Frank in 2018 [0] (although I haven't dug deeply into that and from the fact that 3 of the articles supporting this were added today, the wikipedia editor mi
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by modriano 4y ago
Nominally related: Ocean Conservation Namibia [0] is one of the most oddly soothing and satisfying YouTube channels I've ever discovered. These guys sprint across beaches to catch sea lions that have fishing lines/debris around th
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by modriano 4y ago
I wouldn't say this list is categorized so much as it is alphabetized.
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by modriano 4y ago
Another quote from the curbed article cited by the main post: """Look, it’s possible that my suspicions are baseless and all of these buildings are full. Maybe their tenants really did come flooding back to New York last year
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by modriano 4y ago
From the linked curbed article: """One night, on my way home from work, I pushed the wrong elevator button and got out on the floor below mine without realizing it. My key wouldn’t fit the lock to what I had assumed was my do
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by modriano 4y ago
I guess I should start researching the testing framework ecosystem. Frameworks that make it easy and low-friction to represent desired behavior and identify+test edge cases will be key to using copilot/AI-code-tools effectively. So, wh
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by modriano 4y ago
If you want to play Chex Quest in your browser, it's hosted on the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/msdos_Chex_Quest_1996
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If you ate 75% of a pie, then ate 75% of that remaining piece of pie, how much pie would you have left?
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by modriano 4y ago
Even if any of that were remotely relevant to this conversation about Bing, GPT models don't generate exploits or "hacker scripts", nor do they execute "hacker scripts". GPT models just provides natural language pla
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by modriano 4y ago
In your scenario, did the script kiddie get control of Microsoft's Bing? Or are you describing a scenario where the script kiddie spins up a knockoff Bing (either hosting the GPT3 model or paying some service hosting the model), advert
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by modriano 4y ago
> We don't think Bing can act on its threat to harm someone, but if it was able to make outbound connections it very well might try. An application making outbound connections + executing code has a very different implementation tha
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by modriano 4y ago
Oh, this is about Craig "Faketoshi" Wright? Based on the ALAB (All Lawyers Are Bastards) episode on this case [0], I thought that Wright was caught in a bunch of obvious lies, tax fraud, and other fraudulent representations to the
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by modriano 4y ago
I'm old enough to remember when Zoom started saving me and all of my coworkers 60 to 90 minutes per day.
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by modriano 4y ago
This bit on the second page was pretty surprising to me Number of employees: 156,500 (Q4 2021) -> 190,234 (Q4 2022) That's a pretty big change in headcount from 2021-2022.

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