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by rdtsc 2y ago
> she’s not the kind of artist that makes your jaw drop or blows your mind with technique. But to be displayed in MoMA she'd kind of have to be. > Art’s all about the path you take, the experiences you collect, and the way you vi
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by rdtsc 2y ago
I remember seeing her work alongside of other artists, and before reading the plaque with the name, think, "meh, kind of underwhelming" and then seeing "oh, it's Yoko, that's why it's here".
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by rdtsc 2y ago
> Software development is continually emotionally stunted by a lack of people with expertise in multiple other fields. I think Joe's point is about the perennial discussion whether hierarchy is better than tags. It's as old as
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by rdtsc 2y ago
> I wasn’t talking about LLMs Sorry for the misunderstanding. I was thinking of LLMs mostly. > With the LLM it would be nothing to do with likeness, it would be to do with the copyright in the image I guess I don't see why it wou
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by rdtsc 2y ago
> Although Ono has, for two decades, been comfortably rehabilitated as an artist in her own right I don't think she is a very good artist. Everyone felt they have to like her, and galleries brought her work in because, well, she is
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by rdtsc 2y ago
I miss Joe, he left us too early. He always had wild ideas like that. For a while he had this idea of a git + bittorrent he called it gittorrent, only to find out someone had already used the name. I think it was a bit of an extension of th
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by rdtsc 2y ago
The question is not whether it should but whether it is. The likeness of the character is owned by Marvel. Does it mean there aren’t vendors selling unlicensed versions? No. I am sure there are. But just because not everyone is being sued d
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by rdtsc 2y ago
The likeness of Indiana Jones, as a character, is owned by Disney If they show that image to a jury they’ll have no issues convincing them the LLM is infringing. Moreover if the LLM creators are charging for it, per token or whatever, they
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by rdtsc 2y ago
And I don’t and urge others not to either. They constantly skew and manipulate information to fit a particular agenda. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_New_York_Times_c... In almost every decade or major eve
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by rdtsc 2y ago
But without a name it looks no different than NYT just making stuff up.
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by rdtsc 2y ago
https://archive.is/DWCN1 > a U.S. official briefed on the matter said Laura Loomer, a far-right activist and outside adviser to President Trump, called for General Haugh’s removal Which official briefed on the matter cla
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by rdtsc 2y ago
> Commissioned work is owned by the commissioner unless otherwise agreed upon by contract. I think the LLM example is closer to the LLM and its creator being like a vendor selling pictures of Indiana Jones on the street corner than hirin
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by rdtsc 2y ago
> But I can hire an artist and ask him to draw me a picture of Indiana Jones, Sure, assuming the artist has the proper license and franchise rights to make and distribute copies. You can go buy a picture of Indy today that may not be pri
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by rdtsc 2y ago
> Again, say what you want about Node.js, but it does have this thing right. Async/promise/deferred code is just re-implementing separate control callback chains that are not that different than threads when talking about IO. Y
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by rdtsc 2y ago
Above they are still called targets though. > Every morning, officers recalled, the Ukrainians and Americans gathered to survey Russian weapons systems and ground forces and determine the ripest, highest-value targets > Given the deli
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by rdtsc 2y ago
> “If you ever get asked the question, ‘Did you pass a target to the Ukrainians?’ you can legitimately not be lying when you say, ‘No, I did not,’” one U.S. official explained. That's some shady word mincing. Who are they afraid of,
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by rdtsc 2y ago
> In those early days, this meant that General Donahue and a few aides, with little more than their phones, passed information about Russian troop movements to General Syrsky and his staff. Yet even that ad hoc arrangement touched a raw
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by rdtsc 2y ago
> Kill as many Russians as possible and use up as many Russian munitions as possible - with the inevitable consequence being the death of a lot of Ukrainians in the process Pretty much. I see you got downvoted because somehow there are s
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by rdtsc 2y ago
How would that work?
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by rdtsc 2y ago
One of the surprising thing here is how much the European and American media managed to convince Ukrainians that they are 100% on their side. Let's play a realpolitik change of perspective, and assume that both the Europeans and the Am
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by rdtsc 2y ago
> They were perennially angered that the Americans couldn’t, or wouldn’t, give them all of the weapons and other equipment they wanted. That was the plan from the start, I believe. They were never going to be allowed to win. They won&#x2
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by rdtsc 2y ago
I would guess better regulation, better medicine, less reliance of burning coal
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by rdtsc 2y ago
> Asia has about 4.8B population, Australia has 26M. On a per capita basis Australia has about 1x% more deaths 6.3e6/4.8e9 = 0.00131 4e3/26e6 = 0.00015 About 9x as bad? Not sure about 1x%, was that 1% worse? I am sorry I might
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by rdtsc 2y ago
The deaths breakdown by region is interesting: Africa: 1.8M South America: 149k North America: 179k Australia: 4k Europe: 434k Asia: 6.3M I guess to keep it positive, I'd say "Great job, Australia"!
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by rdtsc 2y ago
> why not just say say? that’s exactly how it all started, at least according to john 1:1
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by rdtsc 2y ago
Danube delta the second largest river delta in Europe after Volga's delta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danube_Delta Another interesting thing about it is there are villages of Russian Old Believers (Lipovans) the
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by rdtsc 2y ago
She might be, but so far she is free on a $2 million bail since her 2023 arrest.
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by rdtsc 2y ago
> Florida absolutely has a nonzero amount of "Pilates teachers with ankle monitors". "We gracefully incorporate the ankle monitor into the exercise routine, it's just like an extra weight!"
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by rdtsc 2y ago
Seeing she is still out and able to pay her $2m bail, there will be many who will her story as a success. Unless she ends up prison for a least 10 years, it's not a bad deal - you get to make millions, be famous, be on the cover of mag
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by rdtsc 2y ago
> If you assume instead that the whole universe has angular momentum, well, where did that come from Would that be same kind of question as “where did the Big Bang come from?”. That’s a lot of energy that came from somewhere as well seem

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