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by nrb 4y ago
Isn’t the issue here the conclusions drawn from this supposed evidence? Seems like the kind of thing they wouldn’t bother taking to court if the best they can muster is AI or “expert witness” as they’ll be laughed out of it.
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by nrb 4y ago
Isn’t it both that we should be more efficient AND contribution should be made locally for local improvements? I think value capture addresses this somewhat in the sense that if these projects are funded more locally, more attention would b
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by nrb 4y ago
Does anyone have a problem with it, so long as the material it trained on was with explicit permission/license and not potentially in violation of copyright? That's where the line is for it to be suspect IMO.
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by nrb 4y ago
I haven’t really seen him called a failure unless it’s in the context of habitual over-promising and failing to meet frequently and very publicly stated goals. But, the stuff his companies are doing is hard so it is what it is. Couldn’t hur
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by nrb 4y ago
> Very Important Person Or just a person likely to be impersonated for various scams or other social attacks? How does anyone see a blue check as anything other than that?
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by nrb 4y ago
> Congress cared that it met payload requirements and mission requirements. This is just not correct if you mean that they only cared about payload and mission requirements. Congress mandated that certain technologies were to be used
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by nrb 4y ago
Research how and where SLS must be designed, manufactured, integrated, and tested. Then research who designated that process and how. Calling Falcon Heavy and SLS equivalently government-led is laughable. The amount of by-design government
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by nrb 4y ago
Judging by the shuttle era and our lack of ability to even launch Americans into space for the last decade thanks to failed programs that have come since, I think it’s a matter of how much worse this program would be.
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by nrb 4y ago
That doesn't come close to telling the whole story either though. Namely two things: 1. All of Amazon's profit last quarter, and then some, came from AWS. Declining revenue growth in that segment could have an outsized effect on e
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by nrb 4y ago
Is it possible that both CIA intervention into public discourse and foreign entities with unknown interests with reach far greater than the largest media outlets in the country[1] are both not ideal? And that one does not excuse the oth
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by nrb 4y ago
How many of them satisfy the on-topic criteria for HN: “anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity”? The OP contains nothing more than a dubious claim with no supporting evidence or insight, is not itself intellectually curi
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by nrb 4y ago
Rhesus macaque are way closer to us on any scale between “us” and “animals” hence the reason for them being used in this study.
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by nrb 4y ago
That sounds orthogonal to what the parent is saying, which is that religious leaders fight vehemently against the legalization of physician-assisted suicide.
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by nrb 4y ago
The model could theoretically regurgitate verbatim a copyrighted work or trademark on which it trained, which may run you afoul of various laws were you to proceed to use it.
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by nrb 4y ago
I’m not at all discounting the value of SSO to all users, totally agreed. Just that in the business of software this just plainly makes the most sense for most companies. It’s useful for everyone, but it’s required for enterprise (via sec
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by nrb 4y ago
> HTTP is OK with ME How do you propose to secure user sessions and prevent MITM or tracking otherwise?
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by nrb 4y ago
It makes more sense to them to add that other value to the non-enterprise plans or licensing to attract more users, then charge the businesses that MUST have the SSO or audit functionality, because they know enterprise will pay it without b
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by nrb 4y ago
> Need to get in touch with Bill? Just stroll over to his desk. Sorry to be flippant, but to me this is one of the worst parts of office life summed up in one statement. The bar for other people to carelessly interrupt you can be unbelie
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by nrb 4y ago
If only we had the technology to somehow record lessons for later viewing or for refreshing knowledge later, and additional catch-up materials & deeper dives into the topics. This seems like extremely low-hanging fruit. Why do I get a
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by nrb 4y ago
If database capacity is your main concern and not independent schema deployability, then federation is overkill. You can just connect to whichever databases contain your data in your resolvers within a single service. You have to be at pret
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by nrb 4y ago
> No one was fat 150 years ago. Caloric surplus is not a new phenomenon, ancient Rome had obesity. It’s definitely become much easier to gain a surplus with all this processed food but I just don’t see behaviors changing anytime soon, so
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by nrb 4y ago
Not necessarily, it’s a good opportunity to trim the fat without having to explain yourself, and a way to extend your runway for what will certainly be an interesting fundraising environment for the next few quarters.
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by nrb 4y ago
The main annoying thing when added to a mixed group of SMS and iMessage group chats is that you cannot leave them, or add anyone after the fact without creating an entirely new chat with all the contacts from scratch.
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by nrb 4y ago
> It breaks down a bit at the edges though, because extreme violations of speed limits can result in harm and death, while copyright is just lost profits. It’s not remotely the same amount of harm, but mass violations of copyright seem t
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by nrb 4y ago
Pacsun was big in the 90s, they had stores in a ton of malls that sold mostly clothes from surf brands like Quicksilver and Billabong. Interesting to see it on that list.
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by nrb 4y ago
We demo’d Fullstory recently and decided not to go with it because of user privacy concerns, but there is a “private by default” setting now that masks all fields except ones you explicitly allow.
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by nrb 4y ago
The main server emulator for UO, RunUO (and ServUO that spun out of it), is written in C# and runs worlds that are as large as UO had in its heyday. A few of the very hot code paths in the netcode and elsewhere drop to unsafe to do pointer
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by nrb 4y ago
> Yeah UO only worked because it was basically the only game in town. As someone who was deeply involved with UO for a number of years, this explains a lot of it I think. Once there was a choice of optional PvP in UO itself the players O
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by nrb 4y ago
Since only the server is authoring the entries, just a ledger.
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by nrb 4y ago
Supermarkets are literally designed to sell you on products. Every single product placement is from a planogram meant to juice the sales per sqft of space, from which aisle the item appears to which row and where within the row it’s positio

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