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by readams 5y ago
All patents are on the specific implementation, but patent attorneys work hard to ensure that the claims in the patent (the only part that matters) cover as broad an area as possible.
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by readams 5y ago
But they don't even get the ownership of the content. The original creator still owns the copyright, and as a the buyer you don't even get a license to use the work in the NFT. The copyright is the only meaningful way you can own
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by readams 5y ago
Is it worth noting here that GPT-3 isn't a chat bot? It's intended to complete writing prompts.
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by readams 5y ago
And none of that has anything to do with blockchain.
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by readams 5y ago
But it doesn't solve that at all since there's no way to tie something on the block chain to the real world. All the same problems of knowing whether some particular PGP key belongs to the person you want apply the same to a walle
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by readams 5y ago
Other XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1319/
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by readams 5y ago
This problem was most famously studied by Akerlof in The Market For Lemons. The prediction is that such a market will be overrun with low quality lemons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
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by readams 5y ago
Gifted programs aren't the same thing as tracking kids into more advanced math classes. A gifted program is where you take some kids aside and teach them some random extra stuff, at the end of the day they're still in the regular
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by readams 5y ago
The bad schools will embrace it though, further exacerbating unequal access to good education.
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by readams 5y ago
I think it's more correct to say that lab leak is a plausible theory. But it's going too far to say it's the most likely theory. I do wish China hadn't clammed up and would have allowed a real investigation. We'll n
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by readams 5y ago
Scott Aaronson had a brief comment on the news on his blog: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6111 Seems we're still a bit light on details. I hope to see a lot more on this. The progress on quantum computing lately is exc
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by readams 5y ago
"Cancer clusters" by themselves are not really surprising, since statistically if you look at enough small subsets it's certain you'll see such seemingly-anomalous "clusters." It's interesting only as the
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by readams 5y ago
You definitely can't get tension from books that are simply pressed together. I think more likely the books are glued together, and possibly reinforced with a cable or rod threaded through the center.
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by readams 5y ago
I personally find it strange how gleeful lots of US developers have been about remote work. It means our US salaries are going to be untenable and we'll be paid like the rest of the world. Why pay a Silicon Valley salary when it's
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by readams 5y ago
Admittedly Safari is like IE of old though, always behind on standards and broken. Apple wants you on native apps.
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by readams 5y ago
This is just rescaling. The author is actually acknowledging that there exists 10x differences but divides by 10 for some reason.
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by readams 5y ago
That's like the main feature of Google Docs and people use it all the time.
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by readams 5y ago
US law defines the line as speech that incites imminent lawless action. The speech must not only be encouraging such action, it must be imminent and likely. This is in practice a pretty good line. If you think that private companies should
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by readams 5y ago
Do you have an example of a new highway built recently?
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by readams 5y ago
This sort of thing is sadly very frequent. The thumb is definitely on the scales. Fact checkers show their bias not only in things like this where they bend over backwards to say something is false, but also in what they choose to fact chec
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by readams 5y ago
It's pretty scary that an advocacy organization gets to be an "independent" fact checker. The ones that are at least nominally independent definitely show their biases but this is really egregious.
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Bitcoin outlawed in China as country bans all cryptocurrency transactions(arstechnica.com)
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by readams 5y ago
Not sure if you're intentionally trying to misunderstand to make some weird point. All I said is that there exists land that is not forest, and is not otherwise suitable for agriculture, but that can be converted by cows into food. Thi
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by readams 5y ago
You're picturing a world where the only land that exists is forested land and you have to choose to either leave it a forest or cut it and use it for agriculture or grazing. But a lot of land is not forested, and not suitable for agri
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by readams 5y ago
Land use questions are far more of a concern in developing countries than in the US. The area of forested land in the US is actually increasing, not decreasing. But in general the point is that meat production does not have to be displacing
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by readams 5y ago
Note that this doesn't seem to actually be related to USB-C, but rather to a quirk of how the docking station the author was using behaved when not connected to a computer. This could just as easily happen with any dock. But maybe USB-
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by readams 5y ago
It's hard to get a job because there are a lot of charlatans out there and it's often very hard to get rid of them once hired. Even worse is hiring someone merely mediocre and not actively harmful. That said of course the modern c
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by readams 5y ago
Google and Facebook also don't sell data. They keep the data and charge advertisers to take advantage of their ability to target using the data.
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by readams 5y ago
That query works well for me on Google.
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by readams 5y ago
I think it's more accurate to say that there's an optimization that applies only to a very specific situation that's millions of times faster than without the optimization. It's a bit strange to say that before the u8 sp

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