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by ripe 4y ago
Capital doesn’t just exist out in the world for us to use. Economic value is actively created by the legal system. Our current economy is built on top of a "feudal calculus," according to Katharina Pistor, a professor of comparati
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The Code of Capital, the legal infrastructure of modern capitalism(nytimes.com)
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This article taught me what a "creative producer" role is in Hollywood. "The key people working directly with the creative producer are the director, who oversees the creative vision of the film, and the line producer, who ov
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by ripe 4y ago
Thank you for summarizing! I think you just saved me and probably many other readers a ton of time, or if we were just going to move on, you provided a good reason to read on.
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by ripe 4y ago
I did not know this: “The Texas Constitution mandates that the majority of transportation funds go to improving the highway system.” No wonder the Katy Freeway in Houston is “one of the widest highways in the world with 26 lanes.”
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by ripe 4y ago
From the article: Although mechanical heads are used for most of the key characters in the film, Pinocchio himself was animated with replacement faces. Because he has to look like he’s made of wood, he needed to have a hard surface, the ani
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Modern stop-motion animation for movies – gears, 3D printing(nytimes.com)
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EU fines Meta 414M dollars for ad practices(nytimes.com)
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by ripe 4y ago
The case hinges on how Meta receives legal permission from users to collect their data for personalized advertising. The company includes language in its terms of service agreement, the very lengthy statement that users must accept before a
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Highly recommended book: The Frozen Water Trade, by Gavin Weightman, Harper Collins, 2003. https://books.google.com/books?id=Us_pGAAACAAJ
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by ripe 4y ago
What do you mean by "the technology exists"? Sure, computers exist, neural networks and machine learning exist, sensors exist. Even geofenced, unprofitable operations like Waymo's exist. But that doesn't mean self-drivin
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by ripe 4y ago
Not defending cancel culture. But those who are complaining about it would be more credible if they didn’t themselves try to keep marginalized groups down themselves. Example: pretty much any opinion host on Fox News.
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by ripe 4y ago
Sort of the opposite of what you want, but Gary Marcus says we need to cross a few hurdles first: http://rebooting.ai/
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by ripe 4y ago
Thank you for the kind words! That was extracted from the link I provided, with minor rewording. Since the pandemic, I have been writing short articles aimed at lay people (not readers like you on HN), called Robots In Plain English. Link i
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by ripe 4y ago
"Static Search Structure" seems relevant [1]: A static search structure is an Abstract Data Type with certain fundamental operations, e.g., initialize, insert, and retrieve. Conceptually, all insertions occur before any retrievals
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by ripe 4y ago
It seems the people who complain most loudly about "cancel culture" are the ones who have never had this done to them historically and cannot imagine a life where you're constantly under real threat from social norms defined
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by ripe 4y ago
That's an interesting theory, but do you have anything to back that up with? Plenty of people throughout the world live quite well on plant-based diets without these problems you mention. I know, because I am one of them.
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by ripe 4y ago
Evidence? We're talking about agricultural societies, too, not about hunters.
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You are now challenging the statement about plants being the "default" food. (Maybe you are not the original responder; I can't tell on my phone UI) I think you're going to have to back that up with a citation. For most
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by ripe 4y ago
In the early oughts in the Boston area, I loved going to SoftPro Books. It was also a way to socialize with techie friends. Unfortunately, the chain shut down in a few years. I believe it was owned by an ex-Lotus employee named Rick Treitma
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by ripe 4y ago
> Waymo cars could drive on any US road, they don’t need detailed mapping efforts. Their limitation is legal not software. Again, you’re mixing up “could drive” with actual ability to reliably take me where I want to go. Yeah, NavLab dro
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by ripe 4y ago
Yes!! Thanks for reminding me. Turbo Pascal was the ultimate in text editing. In fact, it was a complete IDE in a TUI. And the most-used commands were single keystrokes. Edit-run cycles were so fast that I was writing programs to do regular
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by ripe 4y ago
> Coverage area doesn't somehow require intelligence Coverage area is required for practical self-driving solutions, and today's ML based efforts are not close to producing it. If you measure intelligence in this context by the
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by ripe 4y ago
I don't know about "sentient", but yes, cars "have been driving without drivers" for decades. Those are limted demos, not actual, useful self-driving cars. Big difference! Extract from [1]: The basic navigation prob
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by ripe 4y ago
Love your observation! I hope the author never fixes his typo. I can always google this essay by "horziontal"!
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by ripe 4y ago
Reminds me of CP Snow: [1] "A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredul
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by ripe 4y ago
True story from the early oughts: a friend spent some weeks at the India office of his big US-based software company. When you sent a document to the printer, an employee called a "peon" would pick it up and bring it to your offic
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by ripe 4y ago
Right, the human+machine system is providing the scalable and convenient service, but the "human" part is usually some minimum-wage or gig worker. This kind of automation is helping the haves, but not so much the have-nots. I gues
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by ripe 4y ago
> Chinese and Hindi (along with Japanese, South Korean and various Arabic language) speakers would surely come close to outnumbering those of us using European alphabets You are probably right. Just slightly off topic: Hindi speakers who
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by ripe 4y ago
From Robots In Plain English [1]: The Curiosity and Perseverance rovers each carry an old kind of power supply: a nuclear power generator that runs on radioactive plutonium dioxide. This generator has been used on many missions since the 19

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