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by sib 1y ago
I was extremely disappointed when I clicked through...
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by sib 1y ago
Why not place the air conditioner next to a large electric space heater?
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by sib 1y ago
That's a pretty significant difference, though. OpenAI (and other services) log and preserve your interactions, in order to either improve their service or to provide features to you (e.g., your chat history, personalized answers, etc.
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by sib 1y ago
>> It seems obvious that it is harmful for a user who requests and is granted privacy to then have their private messages delivered to NYT. This ruling is about preservation of evidence, not (yet) about delivering that information to
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by sib 1y ago
I'd like to thank you for explaining this so clearly (and for "providing receipts," as the cool kids say). >> Again, i don't claim any of this is how it is should be. But it's definitely how it is. Agreed.
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by sib 1y ago
>> Negligence doesn't make sense because it was the VCs own money Almost definitionally, VCs are investing someone else's money (the people providing the capital are called the "limited partners" (LPs); the VCs who
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by sib 1y ago
It's a wonderful thing that no other economic systems reward dishonesty. /s
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by sib 1y ago
You know what they say about assuming...
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by sib 1y ago
Ahh, memories. Ben was the advisor for my Master's thesis...
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by sib 1y ago
Because from the point of view of the rest of the world, there aren't any major cities in Denmark other than Copenhagen... Saying that there is cheap housing 20 minutes outside of a town with 64K people doesn't really make the poi
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by sib 1y ago
I think it's worth remembering that Hacker News is a global platform and if someone refers to "major cities" in Denmark, for many (most?) readers, the only name that would come to mind is Copenhagen. Copenhagen: ~1.4M people
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by sib 1y ago
But I think the general meaning of a cutoff date, D, is: The model includes nothing AFTER date D and not The model includes everything ON OR BEFORE date D Right? Definitionally, the model can't include anything that happened after trai
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by sib 1y ago
One Eames chair is about $6-7K. (Not that I own but, but I'd take a donation ;) )
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by sib 1y ago
The SEC is not a registry of all businesses in the US. The SEC concerns itself with business that sell shares to the public; this would not cover (for example) a single-member LLC that a software developer might use. In the US, businesses
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by sib 1y ago
Wait - you mean the EU-driven requirement?
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by sib 1y ago
In the US, there are probably a significant number of hobbyist developers who don't even know 20 Android users.
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by sib 1y ago
Well, if it's easier for Google to require it of everyone instead of a subset (and less risky if they should happen to miss someone who's not a "trader"), then it is entirely reasonable to blame it on the EU. Before the
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by sib 1y ago
Uber is a profitable company both in 2023 and - to the tune of billions of dollars - in 2024. Please read their financials if you doubt this statement.
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by sib 2y ago
And then it takes 30 minutes to play the last 5 minutes... ugh.
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by sib 2y ago
Oh, I like this. Feels like something you'd see in NPB with teams recruiting Bonsai masters to grow bats.
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by sib 2y ago
>> The monarch absolutely does not get involved in politics. The monarch picks the Prime Minister, no? That seems pretty involved.
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by sib 2y ago
>> 'Back in the day' it was the "Right" that wanted have total access/total control over everything. It was the Clinton administration that pushed for the Clipper chip. Are you talking about a 'day'
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by sib 2y ago
To take it further... why is Sunday the last day of the week in all of those countries? (Of course, my point is, Sunday is the day off, the last day of the week, and the "core" of the weekend, exactly because of the dominant relig
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by sib 2y ago
PSA: Don't try this in rural Wyoming...
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by sib 2y ago
I've recommended that we just put up signs on the Interstate highways entering CA...
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by sib 2y ago
>> Sundays off are about workers rights, little to do with religion. Why did they all happen to pick Sunday?
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by sib 2y ago
I've tried them a few times (in Japan, Europe, and in the US) and I just don't get the love affair... We even had the plumbing and electrical power put in next to the toilet in our master bedroom when we remodeled our house, but h
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by sib 2y ago
Licensing is distinct for FAST and (A)VOD. That is, a service may have acquired the rights to show a specific title on FAST but not AVOD (or vice-versa).
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by sib 2y ago
I think that nearly everyone who has an iPhone (at least who didn't get their phone deeply discounted second-hand) has a payment method set up with Apple. I don't remember the numbers from when I had to know ~5 years ago, but it w
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by sib 2y ago
Streaming device makers make a significant share of their gross margins from sales of those buttons. (That and an Apple-like mandatory revenue share on the channels that users choose / install.)

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