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runako
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> Do you really know that there are no "bad people" working at Hyundai? Elon does not just "work at" Tesla. He is the CEO, the face of the brand. He is actively creating a personal brand that is incredibly polarizing,
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> Modern engineers of varying sorts can reverse engineer basically any process This is in part because they are steeped in a society where essentially all innovations are published, and have been for hundreds of years. This would not be
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3y ago
The other aspect of patents that folks are omitting is that in order to get a patent, the applicant has to publish their recipe. In most cases, this will be strictly better than simple reverse engineering because more participants can then
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3y ago
> Because how are GM and Ford supposed to pay UAW wages, return a profit, and make a car for <$20k? Worth noting that the the largest US EV maker is non-union and its entry-level price is ~$38k. UAW Ford sells the EV Mustang starting
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From the article you linked: "White collar criminals only get sentenced close to the statutory maximum when (1) they are only convicted of one or two counts with very low statutory maximum (say, one count of a crime with a five-year st
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> So it should be really hard to argue that this is a "light" sentence. The well-considered federal sentencing guidelines put the sentence for this crime at over 100 years. That is, for an anonymous defendant at remove, our leg
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Klarna in Talks with Banks for US IPO at $20B Value
(bloomberg.com)
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> it's not priced primarily via supply or demand If you're going to make a claim this strong, you really should provide a better supporting argument. > new luxury condo construction creates a form of financial "pollutio
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3y ago
If you're earnestly curious about this, there is quite a large body of literature specifically about American cities.
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3y ago
> this works in other countries, in the Czech Republic for instance Our current Chevron regime works here under our existing set of laws and structures.
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3y ago
It's less about being more or less trustworthy and more about spheres of competence. Judges are experts on the laws that are written, but they cannot be experts in all the areas Congress requires regulation. People are not interchangea
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3y ago
> They in fact want to shift it back to congress When Congress does that and there is a dispute, it ultimately falls to judges to adjudicate until Congress can update the law.
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3y ago
> What's your ideal B2B sales strategy that would work for you? >> Kinda like docker or python or something There's a lesson here in the difficulty of selling to developers.
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3y ago
> they should be providing a less arduous path to citizenship for people who can and will work those jobs, and a way for those people to do things the right way The problem with this approach is that it would go a long way toward solving
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3y ago
> Home prices - these will fall when interest rates fall This is the opposite of what will happen. Homebuyers express their housing budget in the amount they can spend each month. That then translates to a home price. If rates come down,
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3y ago
> Housing costs haven't dropped enough IMO to declare a win. This is a fundamental misunderstanding about inflation. If inflation goes to 0%, housing costs will stay exactly where they are now. You are looking for a deflation in hou
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3y ago
For a company like Figma, the shareholders often include many/all of the employees. Choosing not to take a deal that could net staff retirement money (or realistically in SF: "homeownership money") can also be a bad choice fo
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3y ago
VOO is up since the iRobot acquisition was announced, which would have resulted in the effective price increasing over time, the opposite of what they want. Nasdaq is ~ flat since then, which also would not capture the economic dynamic desi
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3y ago
You're going further to "whether LLMs can be useful when programming in a new programming language." Which I will leave to developers using those new languages. I'm saying more that every time developers develop/fin
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3y ago
This argument rears its head every time the state of the art in developer tools makes a credible threat to improve. And yet relatively few developers use C, assembly, or machine language as their daily drivers. I've even met accomplish
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3y ago
> You know you can block them right? 1) Causing massive pollution of the Web and then saying this to the 95% of the world who are not represented by the EU is tone-deaf. 2) This is an added tool that has to be installed, meaning most peo
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> They forced Microsoft to offer a choice of browsers on Windows Wasn't this an outcome of the US antitrust trial against Microsoft in the late 1990s?
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Vodafone is literally a core part of the Internet platform. It quite literally gates people's access to the Internet. It's hard to say Instagram, Meta Marketplace, and TikTok are gatekeepers (they has been designated thusly by the
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3y ago
One could make a very similar argument about Instagram or Meta Marketplace, but they have both been designated as gatekeepers.
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> so it's obviously not purposefully targeting FAANG/M$ and nothing else. I did not say that anywhere. > Or are you saying that Tidal, Apple Music & Deezer should also be targeted by DMA? I'm just noting that it
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I say it's breathtaking in its reach because it asserts the right to afford rights to EU nationals no matter where in the world they are. By analogy, it would be like the US asserting that the Constitutional rights of its citizens trav
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Your latter point technically correct, but only because companies that lack a trading footprint in the EU are beyond sanction by the EU. The EU claims jurisdiction, they just lack an effective enforcement mechanism for sites that do not hav
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3y ago
> what has this to do with AI prompts It's related via my question about EU digital regulation, although Gemini is likely on hold due to the DMA and not GDPR. The question was more about how willing are EU residents to forego techno
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> I think the only person who really cares about those tracking tools is the marketing department. The marketing department typically is important to businesses.
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> You are allowed to use those tools, but if you do, you need to get the user's consent. We are saying the same thing. Yes, you can use the tools, but then you require consent from the user as the very first thing they see on your w
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