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by pdabbadabba 1y ago
Interesting points, but can you explain how they apply here? It's interesting and, afaik, true that modern Egyptians's lives today are more similar to their ancient ancestors' than you might expect (moreso than in many other
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by pdabbadabba 1y ago
You're using the word "stolen" here with a lot of conviction but, imho, not a lot of rigor. In what sense did people "own" the artifacts that the British removed from Egypt? Who owned them? If nobody owned them, how
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by pdabbadabba 1y ago
Well, they do make satellites...
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by pdabbadabba 1y ago
They weren’t caught. (Yet.)
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by pdabbadabba 1y ago
The view among "authorities" is certainly something I find relevant in assessing a highly opinionated but thinly sourced medium article from someone who, respectfully, I've never heard of and know nothing about. Certainly it
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by pdabbadabba 1y ago
This. Lawyers can use AI tools. But an attorney is ultimately responsible for everything that goes out the door. So they had better check the output from their AI tool carefully. In most firms (at least most good ones) someone would check e
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by pdabbadabba 1y ago
The phone looks much nicer without a case. And in my 10+ ceaseless years, I’ve only damaged my phone once (and, in that case, I doubt that a thin silicone case would have saved me). And in that one case, I just needed to replace the front g
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by pdabbadabba 1y ago
No? What makes you say that?
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by pdabbadabba 1y ago
I don't see the contradiction "paying partners to secure browser placement" =/ "exclusivity." This just means you can have partner deals, but that they can't be exclusive, right?
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by pdabbadabba 1y ago
I'm honestly not sure which point you're making in this thread. Are you saying that government should somehow make people whole for the loss of their coastal property? Or are you making the point that the government has no busines
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by pdabbadabba 1y ago
I think that was just a joke about "Full Self Driving" -- and how it still doesn't work.
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by pdabbadabba 1y ago
> Yet now in 2025, they had a total victory, they've annihilated all phone spam, and I didn't notice for months. No media release, no trumpeting from the roof tops. They just quietly and effectively did their job. How?
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by pdabbadabba 1y ago
You're responding to a different point than the one I made. It's true that being a "nonprofit" doesn't logically entail that donations will be tax decudtible. But it still implies it to potential donors. The forme
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by pdabbadabba 1y ago
At least in the US, claiming that you are a nonprofit implies that contributions are tax deductible. Claiming that you are a nonprofit when contributions are not tax deductible might be considered fraudulent.
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by pdabbadabba 1y ago
If they want to serve the U.S. market, which they do, they still have to deal with the FCC and comply with U.S. regulations, regardless of the launching country.
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by pdabbadabba 1y ago
No need to guess: “This allows you to mold soft plastics (which you can buy from the company, also called Saltgator, or a hobby shop or fishing-lure supplier) and mold a piece up to 250mL (8.4 oz) in volume in about 15 minutes.”
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by pdabbadabba 1y ago
If you’re a citizen of the United States in particular, you might reflect for a moment in where this line of reasoning might lead.
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by pdabbadabba 1y ago
> “False slander” is not a thing. It's only not a thing because, in the U.S., it's redundant. In other jurisdictions, it might be a thing, because there are places where a claim can be both defamatory and true.
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by pdabbadabba 1y ago
> They are looking at lightweight EVs at lower speeds. But Americans drive heavier EVs at highway speeds. The rotors & pads are huge. Perhaps other EV drivers can chime in but, if anything, I think I use my friction brakes less at
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by pdabbadabba 1y ago
And if those $2B just go poof because they somehow failed to notice what is apparently so obvious to people on his thread -- that there is no real product -- your position is that the VC does not suffer any significant consequences?
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by pdabbadabba 1y ago
There are a lot of interesting thoughts here -- many of which I tend to agree with. But I don't see how this answers my questions, unfortunately -- unless you mean to say that the answers are something like 1) "almost everyone&quo
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by pdabbadabba 1y ago
So your position is that a VC will invest $2B in a startup on vibes alone without having any idea what they're building, because it is not literally their money? That seems like a significantly stronger and less plausible claim than mi
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by pdabbadabba 1y ago
Could somebody explain why there is so much negativity towards Thinking Machines in this thread? I realize that they haven't publicly announced a product yet but presumably the VCs have some idea of what Thinking Machines is building,
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by pdabbadabba 1y ago
Could you explain what you mean by that? Who are the proponents of “big reality”? How do they fight against its disruption?
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by pdabbadabba 1y ago
That's the study I'm really interested in: does AI use improve the output of lower-skill developers (not experts). My intuitions point me in the opposite direction. I think AI would improve their work. But I'm not aware of an
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by pdabbadabba 1y ago
Sure. But what would you suppose the ratio is between expert, average, and mediocre coders in the average organization? I think a small minority would be in the first category, and I don’t see a technology on the horizon that will change th
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by pdabbadabba 1y ago
Fair enough. For what it's worth, I've always thought that the more reasonable claim is that AI tools make poor-average developers more productive, not necessarily expert developers.
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by pdabbadabba 1y ago
Maybe it's convenient. But isn't it also just a fact that some of the models available today are better than the ones available five months ago?
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by pdabbadabba 1y ago
What science is being rejected?
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by pdabbadabba 1y ago
Maybe, though a GEO satellite (or really any satellite) will always be much much farther from even the upper atmosphere than the ground will be, so satellites have a pretty dominant coverage advantage.

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