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by mometsi 4y ago
Policymaking is not frictionless. Certain important concepts serve as Schelling points where resistance can be focused, and once policy moves beyond that point, those harmed by various subsequent changes will have narrower coalitions suppor
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by mometsi 4y ago
A property tax on trademarks isn't a wacky idea, any more than other assets like spectrum or land. Importantly, it should be a second-price auction; the tax is the rent you pay for withholding the trademark from the next-best coalition
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by mometsi 4y ago
A fly with human characteristics doubly so
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by mometsi 4y ago
I'm looking forward to an always-on pirate livestream of Crow T. Robot, George Carlin, and Strong Bad reacting to current events in real time.
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by mometsi 4y ago
Make it a GAN with AI hecklers
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by mometsi 4y ago
I'm willing to recognize Gnome Chompsky as a valid alternative spelling.
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by mometsi 4y ago
They've optimized for cabin volume and all their claims are weirdly crafted to take advantage of that design choice. For passengers who expect a flight with 4 first class-type seats, their competition isn't a minivan with wings li
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by mometsi 4y ago
The "defendant" arg is passed by value and can't be null. The hack they came up with is to just disable type checking and pass in whatever object they have available. TFA describes the inevitable runtime errors
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by mometsi 4y ago
In its place comes cosmic trypophobia
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by mometsi 4y ago
One morning, as Gregor Samsa experienced the pesticidal effects of a sweetener used in his mouthwash, he discovered that he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug.
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by mometsi 5y ago
'Just' dislocating the pollution away from a dense city block at street level, where people live and work, to a power plant where emissions have less human impact and can be addressed more effectively, sounds great. Trash collecti
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by mometsi 5y ago
It's a bit weird to call Nader Shah, the ruler of Persia, 'a Persian brigand'. Not that brutal autocrats deserve more respect, but it was a massive military campaign and not some colorful local incident that got out of hand w
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by mometsi 5y ago
If you live in a polluted dystopian hive, alienated from those around you, tuning it all out by strapping a facebook appliance to your head sounds maladaptive even in the immediate short term.
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by mometsi 5y ago
I know not by what tools Web 3.0 content will be found, but Web 4.0 will be searched using hn comment breadcrumbs.
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by mometsi 5y ago
Already happened. Insiders know that snagging PriitK was the real motivation behind the Skype acquisition...
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by mometsi 5y ago
*Hostnames belonging to the emperor*: corp *Trained hostnames*: pihole, homeassistant *Fabulous hostnames*: mewtwo, mew, bronzong *Innumerable hostnames*: otx82wn9xnzcygap6bsc
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by mometsi 5y ago
And he is a foole, a sotte, and a geke also, Which choseth a place vnto the same to go, And where diuers wayes lead thither directly He choseth the worst and most of ieopardie https://www.otago.ac.nz/english-li
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by mometsi 5y ago
Generate a scribble. For a positive example, take two random crops of the scribble. For a negative example, take crops of two different scribbles. Ask the network if they both came from the same scribble. The meat of the paper is that the s
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by mometsi 5y ago
In any case, he manufactured some critically flawed aviation equipment, which resulted in a fatality.
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by mometsi 5y ago
A sophisticated AI-powered UI maps your voice commands to an execution graph composed of assorted php functions, single-purpose node packages, and sandboxed excel worksheet cells. Generations of engineers have devoted themselves to rewritin
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by mometsi 5y ago
Would it have been in bad taste to say it during Hindenburg's administration? Your personal data may be more durable than benign government.
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by mometsi 5y ago
It's also ridiculously difficult to blind someone with a laser from far away . Assuming a ~$200 fan-cooled 5w engraving laser with an excellent collimating lens focused at infinity, 1mrad divergence, the irradiance would fall off with
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by mometsi 5y ago
"There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
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by mometsi 5y ago
I love the domain squatting complaint-- > vii) it is unlikely that the Respondent was unaware of the Complainant’s trademark considering the fame and tradition of the trademark GAIL; Can the respondent really be so ignorant of overseas m
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by mometsi 5y ago
Sounds like some sort of reverse psychology trick by Halliburton. "Oh, I certainly hope no terrorists come, and pump oil directly under our facilities!" "Yes, that would truly be a devastating blow !" "We can onl
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by mometsi 6y ago
Forget land. I can't wait to set up my Aztec-style reed float in Bitterlakeistan for Drowning Man 2021.
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by mometsi 6y ago
Oh it's a python app. I read `virtual factory constructor generator` and assumed it would be Java.
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by mometsi 6y ago
And around a week ago, his text compressor topped the enwik9 (Hutter Prize) benchmark. Not prize-eligible though-- that would require a single core, non-GPU build to run in <100h. His nncp 2.1 benchmark took 140h to run on a GTX 3090. h
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by mometsi 6y ago
A related project is Lite, a graphical text editor that's a bit further along the frontier of useful features vs code simplicity. It includes lua 5.2 and SDL. On top of that, it's a few c files to handle input and rendering, and
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by mometsi 6y ago
Looks like they used the bootstrap.js blog example as a template-- compare with https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.4/examples/blog/ I see tracking via facebook, linkedin, quantcast, matomo, and locallabs.co

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