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by sib 3y ago
As I recall, they got sued by the musician's estate for using the code name, "Hendrix," so legal declared that they would henceforth only use place names as codenames to avoid the risk.
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by sib 3y ago
"Kiln"?
423.
by sib 3y ago
We have the same. The system has a high-end water filter which then exits into a split, one outlet of which goes to a room-temp tap and the other into the heater, so we have both filtered "cold" and hot water.
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by sib 3y ago
"Personal data is one of those things" - disagree. When people say "Google isn't free, they provide it in exchange for your data" that is precisely saying that there's a market and a trade involved. You may not
425.
by sib 3y ago
Seems like good proof that the GDPR != Truth
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by sib 3y ago
I mean, of course it is. The customer is the advertiser.
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by sib 3y ago
iPads dominate the "premium" segment worldwide (something like 70-80% market share of tablets from US$300 - US$1000). Below that, it's all versions of Android - Apple doesn't sell non-premium tablets. Above that, Surface
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by sib 3y ago
That doesn't change who the content belongs to. It just gives some rights to FB. Any, in fact, without something like "perpetual" and/or "irrevocable" in there, it doesn't imply that they could keep using
429.
by sib 3y ago
If that's all it were, then the trade would be "you can get this [free like beer] service if you agree to give up some personal data, otherwise you don't get the service." As it is, the law says "You, company, must
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by sib 3y ago
Unfortunately, it's really the EU regulators at war with companies' abilities to make better products.
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by sib 3y ago
(a) looks bad, clearly commercial (b) ?? (c) looks bad, the LLM consumes "all" of the articles (d) looks bad, has a pretty significant impact on the market and value of the work
432.
by sib 3y ago
>> Which always struck me as a nice idea in theory but of limited use if people can just avoid state-based laws by moving interstate That (Federalism) is seen by many (reasonable) people as a benefit, not a drawback...
433.
by sib 3y ago
His (quiet) "pipsqueak nerdism" doesn't prevent them from doing their jobs...
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by sib 3y ago
>> Prop 13 property taxes reset on sales ... and property turnover rates in California are generally in excess of 10%. What that means is that pretty much all of the taxes are reset every 10 years or so That would be assuming certain
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by sib 3y ago
Since browsers are not sold (ok, let's agree that ~99% of browsers are not sold), there's not a sales market to talk about. Ask any mobile phone industry analyst, or a product manager (or product marketing manager) at a mobile pho
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by sib 3y ago
>> This 55% is iPhone's share of phone shipments in Q2, not the number of users of the respective phones at any given time. That's generally what a "market share" number measures: the share of sales during a period
437.
by sib 3y ago
If you tap the miles indicator, it changes to percent.
438.
by sib 3y ago
I'm sure that if you "slam on the brakes" (per GP), your car will take region to the max and the apply the real friction brakes, causing lots of kinetic energy to be converted to heat and "wasting" energy... (Also,
439.
by sib 3y ago
If you put the car in car wash mode, you would be able to push the car: Controls > Service > Car Wash Mode And then "Enable Free Roll"
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by sib 3y ago
There are a lot more Fortune 100 CEOs and Supreme Court justices from Harvard than MIT, so it's an interesting opportunity to look at a correlation / causation question ;) (Am personally an MIT alum...)
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by sib 3y ago
>> the government could simply tax those with wealth more...Like most western countries do Not sure where you're getting your data, but, looking at Europe as a proxy for "western countries" not including the US, in 1990
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by sib 3y ago
"page, which"
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by sib 3y ago
If you're a founder of a venture-funded company , then you either merit your position by continuing to do well or the VCs will remove you, before you run the company into the ground. Assuming you did not have enough negotiating lever
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by sib 3y ago
Sorry, of course that should be ~2TB (not GB)
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by sib 3y ago
>> 1) Anyone try Backblaze for photo backups? Is it worth trying? Yes, happy customer for many years. Restored ~2GB of photos when a MacBook Pro motherboard completely died about 18 months ago.
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by sib 3y ago
Marginal impact decreases, but the absolute impact is still positive... And the marginal impact is still quite high at the 85th percentile of income because the income distribution is very skewed (the absolute dollar difference from 85th pe
447.
by sib 3y ago
That seems like an effective way of creating self-reinforcing inflation.
448.
by sib 3y ago
I think most of the founders on HN are far above the 85th percentile in intelligence (let's not get into the philosophical arguments about it), so why would they be satisfied with that?
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by sib 3y ago
>> But as far as Boston City Hall being “objectively” ugly— that’s an objectively wrong statement. >> I can understand the vast majority might unfortunately say they personally find it ugly, but that is subjective. I have a ver
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by sib 3y ago
>> Prompts are programs. They take input and produce an expected output. I think one key difference is that (most) programs that people are used to writing tend to be deterministic (when not intentionally random...) whereas LLM prompt

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