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by not2b 3y ago
Businesses will still need tax assistance. But there is no reason for a person whose income comes only from a salary, interest on savings and a brokerage account to need paid help to file taxes. The IRS already has all of the numbers. They
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by not2b 3y ago
It will better our society because it will deter other smart entrepreneurs from committing this kind of blatant fraud. If anyone here is ever tempted to try to acquire an asset under false pretenses, just don't, or prison could be in y
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by not2b 3y ago
Fines don't work, they are treated like the cost of doing business, and are easy to escape (if the corporation, not the person, is fined, move as much of the money away as possible and have the corporation go bankrupt). So execs need t
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by not2b 3y ago
A long time ago when I was a grad student, I got a consulting job with a radiologist who thought that he could use digital processing techniques to predict the options market well enough to make money. He didn't want to shell out for a
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by not2b 3y ago
Bette Midler won a lawsuit over a soundalike in a Ford commercial. Ford first approached her to do the ad and when she turned them down, they hired an imitator. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midler_v._Ford_Motor_Co .
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by not2b 3y ago
It gets worse. Lewis is now saying that the jury should read his book, and that either the jury will acquit SBF, or they will "lynch" him. He's evidently convinced that SBF did nothing wrong. https://hachyderm.io&#
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by not2b 3y ago
Michael Lewis's book is such an embarrassment to him that it may permanently ruin his reputation. It seems he was completely taken in by Sam Bankman-Fried.
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by not2b 3y ago
She pleaded guilty to multiple crimes. This kind of thing is common: to prosecute the boss you need the testimony of the underlings, even if the underlings are also guilty.
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by not2b 3y ago
Well, there's Banff and Jasper (and other nearby parks) which I visited with my wife quite a while ago. We're Californians. And Stanley Park in Vancouver is very accessible.
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by not2b 3y ago
Has a lemonade stand violation ever resulted in a jury trial in the US? I'm skeptical. In places that enforce those rules, usually what happens is that the cops tell the parent it isn't allowed, the kid shuts it down and there&#x2
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by not2b 3y ago
I don't think it applies to overdraft fees despite what that article says. They are talking about advertising a price, and whoops, you find out that there are lots of extra fees when you go to pay. Would have to track down the actual l
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by not2b 3y ago
Ah. The asshole who killed Usenet. I remember that. But if it wasn't him, it would have been someone else a bit later.
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by not2b 3y ago
I could take a photo of someone else's photo with a camera that cryptographically signs the image. Then I suppose I could claim that my photo is the original (see? it is signed, with a camera that maintains a chain of trust) and the or
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by not2b 3y ago
The papers' authors may be trying to translate their broken English into proper English, and might be asking ChatGPT to regenerate a "translation" that changes the meaning.
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by not2b 3y ago
The authors could be required to declare only to the reviewers that ChatGPT was used for the purpose of cleaning up the language. Reviewers could then be alert to check for artifacts like this, verify that no references were hallucinated, e
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by not2b 3y ago
Perhaps noise and wasted compile attempts could be reduced by having a simple counting mechanism for {}, (), and []. This wouldn't be correct if the program uses macros with unbalanced characters, but that's rare, so I suppose it
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by not2b 3y ago
But SouthWest will give you a much prettier display of that same data (track your flight, see the current altitude and ETA, and a lot more, like the plane's position on the map) without paying for their WiFi. My guess is that they are
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by not2b 3y ago
The more interesting security problems come from the fact that if they embed a search result in the data stream that's being processed by ChatGPT there is no robust way to prevent text in that result from being interpreted as commands
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by not2b 3y ago
Have they fixed the security problem? What happens when people embed commands to ChatGPT in files that will be encountered by popular searches?
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by not2b 3y ago
Pratically all? I regularly need to select a subset of a very large number of files to do something with. Example: I have a directory, or possibly a tree, with thousands of photos. The photos have the date in ISO 9000 format embedded in the
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by not2b 3y ago
Yes, but if you search for the podcast by name with your favorite podcast app, it will be found. Unless it is a fake podcast (like a Spotify exclusive).
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by not2b 3y ago
Agreed, but I suspect that a lot of them who already use Google Podcasts won't be thrilled to have to switch to YouTube Music and may be looking around for choices when the date of cancellation gets closer.
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by not2b 3y ago
Sickening. Podcasts are a simple RSS-based mechanism that points to sound files. The whole point of them is that you can find them "wherever you get your podcasts", no feudal lord has a monopoly over them, no company controls the
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by not2b 3y ago
Yes, the main benefit of WEBP is for lossless compression, it's reported to be about 25% better, though this would depend on the image. For lossy, there's no reason I can see to prefer it over JPEG.
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by not2b 3y ago
WEBP is more of a PNG replacement; better lossless image compression. And it's claimed to be about 25% smaller.
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A security update for libwebp has been shipped by the major Linux distros.
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by not2b 3y ago
Ubuntu and Fedora have put out security updates for libwebp, so any program that uses the shared library to access WEBP images is safe, once security updates are applied. Not sure about other Linux distros, but I expect that almost everyone
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by not2b 3y ago
Those jobs are going away anyway. There's less market for coal and automation means fewer miners are needed, so even in the absence of any push to transition to green energy almost all coal miners are going to lose their jobs.
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I suspect that the SEC will look at this one, because it looks extremely suspicious. But whether they can bring a case or not depends on the details: did the trader know about the acquisition and how did they get that info? Was an employee
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by not2b 3y ago
You can have a regular 1:1 with your mentor, even if that person isn't your manager. I have a regular 1:1 with a developer who will eventually take over some of my responsibilities, but he doesn't formally report to me.

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