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by sowbug 11mo ago
That's a valid point, though an average LLM would certainly understand the difference between trademark and other forms of IP. I was responding to the earlier comment, whose author later clarified that it represented an ethical stance
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by sowbug 11mo ago
The only intellectual property here would be trademark. No copyright, no patent, no trade secret. Unless someone wants to market the test results as a genuine Pac-Man-branded product, or otherwise dilute that brand, there's nothing sho
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by sowbug 11mo ago
That argument should be equally valid for US healthcare, prison phone calls, price gouging during natural disasters, housing prices, and college tuition. Yet many people, possibly most people, feel something is broken.
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by sowbug 11mo ago
Fun fact: modern dimes, quarters, and half-dollars all have the same value by weight -- about $20 per pound.
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by sowbug 11mo ago
Same here in the US. Back in the day, I'd sift through my jar of change and keep the quarters, which were good for parking meters and laundry. The rest went into the Coinstar machine. The fee for counting dimes, nickles, and pennies se
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by sowbug 11mo ago
If I were designing the advanced flow, I'd require the decision to be made at phone setup time. Changing your mind later requires a factory reset. Real sideloaders (F-Droid users, etc.) know at setup time that that's how they&#x27
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by sowbug 11mo ago
You think you have a choice to buy local. It's more complicated than that. "Local stores full of people you know and trust" is what advertising tries to approximate. Instead of forming lasting human bonds with shopkeepers and
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by sowbug 1y ago
You probably meant to post this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45795413
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Why home sellers are rejecting buyers' love notes(sfstandard.com)
1 points by sowbug 1y ago|0 comments
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by sowbug 1y ago
It's very easy to make American cheese at home, and it happens to make the very best macaroni and cheese. As you say, mix some other cheese with sodium citrate dissolved in water. Cheddar works great. You'll get a nacho-sauce-like
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by sowbug 1y ago
Some products are so good they don't need marketing. Some marketing is so good the product doesn't matter. But most of the time you need both. Even https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis had a great p
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by sowbug 1y ago
Waaay off topic, but does anyone know why LLMs don't have poor grammar if they were trained on the average/poor grammar of the internet? Why don't they mix up then/than or it's/its, or use hypercorrections like
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TV Pickup(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by sowbug 1y ago|0 comments
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by sowbug 1y ago
I am The Voice from Muse!
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by sowbug 1y ago
Related and recent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45734369 (Not scanning faces, but continuously monitoring yourself to prove innocence. Depressing.)
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by sowbug 1y ago
Question for a future (2026?) dystopia: if our faces aren't secret or private for 4A/5A purposes, can we start making them secret/private by walking around in public with a balaclava? New norms go both ways.
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by sowbug 1y ago
In my day, we'd say that as kids we'd take apart all our toys to see how they worked. We didn't necessarily call the end goal "taste"; it was to understand how things work, and to learn which results require which t
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by sowbug 1y ago
Here in California, Senate Bill 478 bans many junk fees, such as the mandatory "service fee" to buy a concert ticket. It's a stretch, but I could see an argument that if hospitals use a billing system that's incomprehen
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by sowbug 1y ago
You can buy cheap mounting equipment on AliExpress. But then you must convince your local building department that your panels won't land on your neighbors in the next storm. That conversation is easier when you're using familiar
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by sowbug 1y ago
I might be failing at reading comprehension, but after reading this short article several times, I still don't know what the "unexpected benefit" is. The first couple paragraphs list (1) regular sleep schedule and feeling mor
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by sowbug 1y ago
Feature request: if the cells in a row are all identical, either exclude the row, de-emphasize it, or merge the cells so it's visually apparent that they're all the same. Example: Raspberry Pi 4 vs Raspberry Pi 5 ( https:/&#x
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by sowbug 1y ago
I only hear a random high pitched tinnitus noise in one ear, rising and falling in volume for max 10 seconds, about once every few months. I get these, too. I just looked it up, and it's called "Sudden, brief, unilateral, taperi
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by sowbug 1y ago
I get where you're coming from. But I don't know which is cause and which is effect. Suppose your friendly neighborhood restaurant stopped giving you the check at the end of the meal, and instead had a stern sign on the table sayi
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by sowbug 1y ago
Lithium-ion batteries have fallen in price at least 40% since you bought your car in 2018 ( https://elements.visualcapitalist.com/charted-lithium-ion-ba... ). Assuming there's some correlation between that decline and th
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by sowbug 1y ago
Why must every service and thing in the US must be a private profit making thing? In the US, some believe that it's better to replace a government function that costs X with a private entity that charges X. The reasoning is that the
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by sowbug 1y ago
#1 works fine in stores and restaurants. Why would the government be different? #2 isn't a strong enough reason to justify the significant out-of-pocket costs and lost productivity of the US tax system. If the tax collector is regularl
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by sowbug 1y ago
I guessed "premises cleared"
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by sowbug 1y ago
If you believe that happened, your belief provides a motive for many of the actions that the linked article attributes to you. This makes the overall story easier for us readers to understand. To that extent, it might be relevant. But you&#
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by sowbug 1y ago
Something like the trolley problem is at work here, but you're the one tied up on the tracks. Suppose the accident rate for regular cars were 1 fatality every 100 million miles driven (it actually is in the US). Suppose further a hypot
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by sowbug 1y ago
A better way to phrase it is it needs to be better than the average Uber driver. People have a less inflated sense of that standard.

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