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by slavboj 3y ago
Insurance makes you whole, not the property. You are perfectly welcome to pocket the cash. Although if you have a mortgage, you do have an additional obligation to maintain the value of their collateral or pay off the loan.
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by slavboj 3y ago
Magnetic field protects from solar wind that strips atmosphere.
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by slavboj 3y ago
Patrick does not mention that a primary reason even the "banked" use check cashing services is that deposited funds are trivially legible for the purposes of attaching court judgements, particularly child support. Cash is far mor
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by slavboj 3y ago
Literally every Christian denomination believes in communication from God, whether that counts as "prophecy" or not.
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by slavboj 3y ago
This kind of stuck-in-loop behavior was a characteristic of previous low parameter count LLMs. For large amounts of actual text generation they're not ideal.
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by slavboj 3y ago
"Independent" just meaning "not part of a cabinet secretariat" is not at issue. When the claim is that the governance structure and the pseudo judicial hearings by which they actually exercise authority are unconstituti
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by slavboj 3y ago
They can be "independent", provided the President is able to fire them. That is the mechanism for accountability. NLRB directors only being fireable for cause, rather than because the people's elected representative choos
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by slavboj 3y ago
Executive departments not answerable to the President are unconstitutional, full stop. We do not allow Congress to delegate its authority and/or strip authority from the President and move it into a fourth branch of government.
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by slavboj 3y ago
They have a reasonable case. The idea of "independent federal agencies" that make substantive policy, are immune to democratic control, and also get to play-act as pseudo judicial bodies is a constitutional abomination.
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by slavboj 3y ago
Grammarly is an ipso facto security hole that is extremely likely to be pwned or controlled outright by a number of state security services. It should be treated like malware.
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by slavboj 3y ago
"But they don’t tell you what they actually want you to do if you want to move 200k" They will tell you to use a wire transfer.
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by slavboj 3y ago
Springer is a huge publishing conglomerate that also deals in physical books, besides the payroll for editing and typesetting, the cut from retail channels, etc.
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by slavboj 3y ago
Communist automotive engineering departments by contrast are notorious for their near-decadent focus on customer satisfaction.
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by slavboj 3y ago
It's not much of a caricature to say American courts discovered numbers circa the 1940s (cf Learned Hand's introduction of the concept in antritrust and negligence cases); before that they did just fine.
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by slavboj 3y ago
They're not public , they're available covertly to people with access to the database. How much would you pay to duplicate, say, Paul Pelosi's trades? How about getting a notice whenever someone acquires just short of the
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by slavboj 3y ago
Duplicating every single record into the same place is a massive increase in attack surface and payoff for an attacker.
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by slavboj 3y ago
For one, you can assume that data will be compromised and exfiltrated.
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by slavboj 3y ago
"But Defendants’ LLMs endanger fiction writers’ ability to make a living, in that the LLMs allow anyone to generate—automatically and freely (or very cheaply)—texts that they would otherwise pay writers to create" This kind of lud
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by slavboj 3y ago
I have a heuristic that guidance that amounts to "assertion of rights is a sign of guilt" is presumptively invalid.
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by slavboj 3y ago
"Role players will not discuss law enforcement concerns on social media or provide guidance to each other if confronted by an officer. Also, they will have no demonstrated interest in criminal cases involving claims of LARP." Your
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by slavboj 3y ago
It's not like there isn't a robust history of law enforcement "spectators" trying to railroad participants based on absolutely nothing, including in literal role playing scenarios . Privacy rights exist for a reason.
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by slavboj 3y ago
Not even adjuncts and postdocs, brutal.
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by slavboj 3y ago
What if I only train on licensed human art "in the style of moebius" but legally distinct - you can't copyright a "style". A lot of critics seem to be arguing for a conception of copyright that's far broader t
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by slavboj 3y ago
Any large manufacturer or retailer is in the credit business - taking credit from their suppliers and extending credit to their customers.
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by slavboj 3y ago
At a certain size, every business becomes a bank - stable businesses usually get more marginal return from optimizing their capital structure than actual product development.
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by slavboj 3y ago
The entire point of the airplane is to never get into close combat. It's like asking which navy has better bayonets.
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by slavboj 3y ago
Depending on what you're doing, a straight "pull the plug and stop trading" could leave you with eg unhedged positions that blow through your risk limits. But when your ability to actually execute those trades sensibly is br
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by slavboj 3y ago
He is not in "prison". He is being detained pre trial and presumed innocent.
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by slavboj 3y ago
In human terms, we would call this "reading the minutes".
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by slavboj 3y ago
They do a non quantitative literature review and explicitly disclaim any consideration of cost/benefit, even at the level of evaluating deaths now vs later. It's unclear who this is supposed to convince.

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