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by plorg 4mo ago
* The store's consignment fee was 35% * They had sold about half of the consigned inventory * The old franchise owner said they had a job offer outside the country * Said franchise owner was current on a restructured fee schedule that,
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by plorg 4mo ago
I believe in this case the consignment contract requires the store to hold insurance on the consigned merchandise, which I assume is intended to address this concern.
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by plorg 4mo ago
On the other hand, every BAMF I've ever been in had more open space than any of the other businesses it shared a strip mall with.
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by plorg 4mo ago
It looks like a VW bug wearing Milhouse's dad's racecar bed as a skin suit.
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by plorg 4mo ago
The article says the investigators identify this as something fundamentally different than the shark skin effect.
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by plorg 5mo ago
Yeah, that extremely purple paragraph about how the blog was documenting that liminal period where humans worked together with AI as partners was embarrassing.
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by plorg 5mo ago
The same wiki article says there is a limit to the capacity of synthesis by UVB due to the quantity of reagent 7-dehydrocholesterol produced in the skin, but I don't know the math on what amount of exposure would be required to hit tha
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by plorg 5mo ago
I believe in A, I don't take a strong position on B, I am in coalition with people who believe in B and don't take a strong position on A, we both believe in C, D, E, and F, which some other people believe in with differing weight
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by plorg 5mo ago
Perhaps I can interest you in the Firefox Mobile option: put a blue pip on the three dot menu and the "What's New" item that will never go away until you click on it.
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by plorg 6mo ago
What you are describing is a legislation of the attitude of the average careless driver in the United States. I should be able to drive however I want until or unless I kill someone, the car should be the thing that keeps me from killing pe
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by plorg 6mo ago
It's more complicated than that. KFX was not encrypted differently than AZW, it's just a proprietary format that no one else supports (AZW being more or less MOBI with some tweaks). The DRM and the format get conflated because the
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by plorg 6mo ago
Instagram has a community notes function.
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by plorg 6mo ago
I'm particularly fond of the senders who know there are nominally laws about spam, so they just label every piece of marketing and customer retention garbage as pertaining to your user account, or they layer some subscription-related l
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by plorg 6mo ago
The whole point of contention is that one of the spaces is, effectively, the only convenient places to have a quick, heretofore private, conversation. No one is confused over where the things are.
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by plorg 6mo ago
My local county is currently in a dispute with the local bar association because they want to upgrade the courthouse security cameras and the sheriff wants to add audio capabilities. This includes to parts of the building just outside the c
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by plorg 6mo ago
The premise of the quote does not contain the assumption that there is no copyright to the code. In fact the various contributors do not advance an opinion about whether code written by an AI can be granted copyright. Rather they are saying
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by plorg 6mo ago
Did anyone seriously believe this was the AI's fault? The modern military use of LLMs is very clearly for the purpose of creating vaguely plausible targets while distancing any person from the decision to murder people. Surely if we ca
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by plorg 6mo ago
This all relies, as the article points out, on everyone looking directly at code that both looks like and works like the only extant codebase for EXT4 and nonetheless concluding that in fact the computer conjured it from the aether. If I wr
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by plorg 7mo ago
It says they will not comply with whatever registration is required. It does not say specifically what they will do, in part I assume because they had not been given enough specifics (for example if it remains possible to sideload but not
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by plorg 7mo ago
If you install it or update it you will get a banner to this effect at first use.
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by plorg 7mo ago
I think the biggest problem is that the popular narratives about AI enable this like of accountability sink.
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by plorg 7mo ago
Yes, the strawman version of an analogy falls apart if you poke it. You didn't actually engage the analogy at all.
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by plorg 7mo ago
In this example we still don't require you to register with anyone to buy a knife, get the blessing of some institution to sell knives, or, as in this case, get a certification before you can start making knives.
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by plorg 7mo ago
Back in maybe 2017 there was a YC startup called Audm that hired professional audiobook narrators to read magazine articles. I found them through their embeds in The New Yorker. The app was pretty mediocre and I wanted to use it in my podca
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by plorg 8mo ago
Or, since it's apparently run by HHS, surely they will protect people looking for resources about abortion, hormones, etc. Real rich material coming from the government demanding it's biggest Internet companies unmask government c
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by plorg 8mo ago
You surely understand that this is not what GP is describing.
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by plorg 8mo ago
Why should we suspect the age verification and age-related appeals would involve different teams or processes?
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by plorg 8mo ago
So it's a Zone in search of a use case?
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by plorg 8mo ago
I took it as a comment on the economics of RAM, but I think the current state is transitory (does AI continue apace? Prices will eventually justify more competitors, even at tremendous startup cost. AI crashes? More RAM for the proles)
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by plorg 8mo ago
I got the snapshot to load and it appears that at that point it was being sat on by scammy domain parkers, complete with promises of scandalous celebrity photos and dick pills.

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