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by strbean 3y ago
Hopefully the EU will also put a stop to this bullshit as well. We may all end up stuck using a German VPN so we can still use ad blockers.
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by strbean 3y ago
Rip the key off the cheapest android phone you can buy, or an old one after you've upgraded. Don't publish it - pass it to your rooted phone which can now use an emulated TPM.
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by strbean 3y ago
Well that's a hell of a scam, because contractors built the first rendition of HealthCare.gov that failed miserably: > Development of the website's interface as well as its supporting back-end services, to make sure that the we
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by strbean 3y ago
> That comment is wrong. It is a direct quote from the Federal Register notice published by the USPTO. The quote, with a bit more context: > The changes under consideration would make clear that the Board would discretionarily deny an
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by strbean 3y ago
> 1. Despite any theoretical applications, all applications of crypto thus far have been to bypass laws. Not so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_in_El_Salvador
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by strbean 3y ago
> They only apply to patents that currently have ongoing litigation No they don't. The allow the USPTO to prevent initiation of proceedings by denying petitions for IPR/PGR. The proposed discretionary denial criteria do not req
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by strbean 3y ago
These rules say that a company cannot preemptively challenge a bogus patent before developing something that would infringe that patent. This would have a chilling effect on the challenge of bogus patents, which is bad for creativity and in
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by strbean 3y ago
Patent law doesn't provide you much protection unless you can outspend infringers in court.
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by strbean 3y ago
The Silk Road bust comes to mind - https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/10/how_did_the_f...
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by strbean 3y ago
What are the scenarios in which this would cause our extinction, and how would regulation prevent those scenarios?
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by strbean 3y ago
> Patents protect the little guy from the manufacturers Except in the cases where manufacturers just stall the little guy in court for most of their life.
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by strbean 4y ago
The idea is that deaths of drug addicts attract less heat than property crimes. Questionable for sure.
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by strbean 4y ago
> All of this while the country is virtually bankrupt. Could you elaborate on this? Their debt in 2022 was 113.7% of GDP, compared to the USA's 764.7%.
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by strbean 4y ago
I overheard an interesting tinfoil-hat theory about these overdoses, particularly why they seem to come in waves. It goes something like this: - The best customers are newly minted addicts. They still have jobs, personally property, and fri
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by strbean 4y ago
No, they're relying on the implied use of Troy ounces for precious metals. Using fluid oz for gold without saying so would be bonkers. Using Troy oz for gold without saying so is standard practice. Edit: Doing this with a liquid vs. a
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by strbean 4y ago
Are we really comparing treasury bonds to pokemon cards now? Treasury bonds are guaranteed by the government with the worlds largest economy. US treasuries are pretty much the safest investment instrument in the history of mankind. In 10 ye
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by strbean 4y ago
Treasury bonds are wild and irresponsible investments now? Man, it's probably time to jump ship from the US economy all together.
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by strbean 4y ago
So do the deposits the bonds are backing. That's irrelevant.
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by strbean 4y ago
No, it's Peter Thiel's fault for intentionally initiating a bank run? SVB's systemic risk was just that the vast majority of their depositors are startups, and can corralled into action by VCs. Thiel decided all the startups
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by strbean 4y ago
Someone at Founders Fund had an original thought (start a bank run at SVB). Everyone else FOMOd after them. Waiting to see how this shakes out for Peter Thiel.
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by strbean 4y ago
Is this not wildly glossing over the fact that there was a reserve requirement until very recently? https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm
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by strbean 4y ago
Other banks have diversity of depositors. SVB didn't implode on their own, Thiel decided all the startups he backed should withdraw their deposits. Then other VCs followed the trend. SVB was what, $2B short on their balance sheets, out
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by strbean 4y ago
> my bet is SVB gets acquired By a Thiel-backed company, after he initiated the bank run?
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by strbean 4y ago
My impression was that the quoted text is only a part of the pre-prompt. I've seen cases where ChatGPT gives a length in the order of thousands of words for the "conversation so far". Here are a couple (questionable) sources
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by strbean 4y ago
> ChatGPT is inclined to respond that "don't say racial slurs" is a moral absolute Depends on how you define ChatGPT. I'm pretty sure that is entirely due to the pre-prompt.
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by strbean 4y ago
I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not. In case you aren't: I didn't state my argument at all. Unless you dug through my comment history to find my complaints. This is precisely the kind of nonsense you get in respons
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by strbean 4y ago
That reading doesn't really agree with the maintainers' responses at all. They say this is desirable functionality, but that they would want to subsume termites features in VTE and Gnome Terminal, and that was their rationale for
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by strbean 4y ago
I think most open source developers who would boycott Microsoft products because of their (abusive?) approach to training Copilot were probably already boycotting Microsoft products. Not much point chasing a market with a lifelong grudge ag
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by strbean 4y ago
Did HRC's campaign website get hacked? I know her mailserver was hacked, but that was when she was secretary of state, no?
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by strbean 4y ago
I believe it is extremely dependent on what compound you are talking about, and how complicated the biosynthesis of that compound is. A simple protein? Very easy. A complex alkaloid, the biosynthesis of which involves many steps? Super diff

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