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by rdtsc 8mo ago
> these laws cannot be used to compel a business into expressing speech they do not agree with I don’t think they are preventing them. You can still buy some Anthropic. Heck, maybe you’re now doubly motivated to buy some out of spite. Wh
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by rdtsc 8mo ago
> of "a baker should not be forced to bake a wedding cake for a customer that they ideologically/morally disagree with." > I guess the rules are different if the customer is the government? Hmm, I don’t see the inconsis
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by rdtsc 8mo ago
That's always been the loophole. But it involved an extra step so they are just trying to get rid of that one annoyance. Here is an interesting thing to think about which country spies on Americans the most and how? Are there New Zeala
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by rdtsc 8mo ago
> Realistically soldiers should head in the right compass direction and hope for the best. But then you (the player) shouldn't have a proper map of your own, either. It would depend where and when. An army on their own territory mig
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by rdtsc 8mo ago
> It's so bizarre to me when North Americans proudly claim "Viking ancestry", rather than Scandinavian. Where did you hear it? I am sure at least one out of hundreds of millions of Americans claimed it. But you know, we ha
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by rdtsc 8mo ago
Good point, you may very well be right. But seeing how that tragedy unfolded was enough to convince me at least to never consider it, just in case there is a causal effect.
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by rdtsc 8mo ago
For what's it worth for an N=1 study I watched a relative's young family fall apart because of cannabis induced psychosis. They had two young kids, husband was smoking pot recreationally (not sure how long he was doing that) but a
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by rdtsc 8mo ago
It is the full circle! patio11 refers to that explicitly in the blog. But most people here probably saw and remember Pat's blog more than the book.
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by rdtsc 8mo ago
> When I handed the form in to the security officer, he scanned it quickly, looked me over slowly, then said, ``Explain this''--pointing at the FBI question. I described what had happened. He got very agitated, picked up my for
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by rdtsc 8mo ago
The idea was change the initial approach and not mention deadlines and just see if they’ll fix it. Point to the law indicating they should notify the authorities. Then if they don’t respond, give them a timeline tell them you’re notifying t
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by rdtsc 8mo ago
> Without a deadline of some form, when do you escalate to public knowledge so customers can know they might get defrauded in some capacity? You set a deadline after an initial conversation and urging them to fix it, if they don’t respon
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by rdtsc 8mo ago
Yup. It’s like saying Company X which develops the iPhone smartphone. It’s either extreme incompetence or cheeky disclosure while also technically not naming the company.
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by rdtsc 8mo ago
> So many managers have decided they're going to have an AI Miracle and aren't interested in hearing otherwise, no matter what staff tells them. Managers' manager convinced them they should expect an AI Miracle. Now your j
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by rdtsc 8mo ago
> The irony isn't lost on me that it's the USA, the country with some of the most permissive gun laws in the world, that's imposing these draconian rules on 3D printed guns - or is this pressure from the gun manufacturing
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by rdtsc 8mo ago
My perennial joke is as soon as that got on HN front page Google went and hired some interns and they spend a 100% of the time on pelicans.
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by rdtsc 8mo ago
Yeah, that is baffling to me, the complete not giving a shit attitude. I couldn't do that, I'd start marketing and nurturing my MGKGUPXYZ brand and try to make customers happy. Which is probably why I'd fail in that marketpla
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by rdtsc 8mo ago
Yup, they are called Chinese-all-caps. Or that’s at least how I call them. Get bad reviews? Generate a new CAC name and start over. Rinse and repeat. Same product made by one factory in China sold by 100s of CAC Amazon entities.
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by rdtsc 8mo ago
> Sure, many will say that is cowardly and fair, but I actually don’t think it would bring much value. What matters more is that I describe why, and what I did and didn’t do Heh. So they are a coward and an asshole. There is value in con
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by rdtsc 8mo ago
> what evidence do you exactly refer for supposition inclined What evidence do you need for supposition?
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by rdtsc 8mo ago
> By using this form of poison the Russian state demonstrated the despicable tools it has at its disposal and the overwhelming fear it has of political opposition Just like with Litvinenko this is supposed to be traceable back to Russian
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by rdtsc 8mo ago
> But the ChatGPT maker seems to no longer have the same emphasis on doing so “safely.” A step in the positive direction, at least they don't have to pretend any longer. It's like Google and "don't be evil". Peo
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by rdtsc 8mo ago
> AI-assisted bioterrorism Does he know something we don't? Why specifically the "bio" kind?
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by rdtsc 8mo ago
> If Europe is to withstand rising populism and Euroscepticism, we must strengthen its democratic foundations. Allowing people to vote where they live would be a good start. I like the gist of it but not sure how one would follow from th
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by rdtsc 8mo ago
> I also balk at how much extra computing power is needed to generate effects I find no value in and would prefer to disable Sounds like you need to spend some money for a new Apple device! /s
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by rdtsc 8mo ago
Not OP but I think they are making a slightly different claim — that the universe sort of dictates or guides the mathematical structure we discover. Not whether they hold everywhere or not.
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by rdtsc 8mo ago
> but I believe that all of mathematics arises from an underlying fundamental structure to the universe and that this results in it both being "discoverable" (rather than invented) and "useful" (as in helpful for desc
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by rdtsc 8mo ago
It can’t be too different from what people are familiar with. So it has to be consistent with itself and with reality.”It’s like our reality except …” but the except part (faster than light travel, mind reading, time travel, dragons, magic,
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by rdtsc 8mo ago
> If PV uses too much land, do we want to talk about what agriculture is doing? If we’ve worried about land why not go for nuclear? Just plant nuclear reactor seeds add fertilizer and power plants spring up in a few months. See it doesn’
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by rdtsc 8mo ago
It's his life. I can certainly look at many other lives and say they are lot of more wasted than his. Heck, he already created Mathematica, if he wanted to go and lay on the beach for the rest of this life, it would still be a lot less
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by rdtsc 8mo ago
> Any large scale provider with headquarters in the USA will be subject to backdoors Wonder what large scale provider outside USA won’t do that?

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