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by thebradbain 3y ago
I think it’s important to get into the weeds as to _what_ the demand around AI is, because it’s not as simple as “you can’t use AI”. As someone who is very close with (and supportive of!) people in the WGA— this is not what they’re demandin
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by thebradbain 3y ago
As someone who is very close with (and supportive of!) people in the WGA— this is not what they’re demanding. They’re demanding that a studio cannot classify something AI-generated as “source material” in the same way a book, movie, play or
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by thebradbain 3y ago
Well, they usually end up with the people everyone was most angry at for causing the circumstances that lead up to the revolution powerless or dead, as an explicit aim. So regardless of who ends up in charge after or if that regime succeeds
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by thebradbain 3y ago
Yeah, tech is fortunate enough (for now… note how company ”gratefulness” to employees seems to be dependent on stock price) to the point that most everyone in the industry can switch jobs land on their feet and be better off. I guarantee yo
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by thebradbain 3y ago
Maybe true, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a stupid system
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by thebradbain 3y ago
To be clear, I would love a simple Japan-style federal zoning code. I just don’t think that it’s politically feasible nor practical— like most everything at the federal level, including things as fundamental as the IRS tax code or debt ceil
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by thebradbain 3y ago
Do it with a significant bump in the minimum wage, then peg it to CPI. Even aside from that, most employers for hourly jobs — restaurants, retail, factories, whatever — will still need to operate the same amount of hours, so they’ll either
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by thebradbain 3y ago
I think state-level zoning hits the sweet spot— the US has some wildly different climates and geography, and I do appreciate that zoning in, say, Rhode Island, Nevada, and California have distinct enough geocultural situations to have their
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by thebradbain 4y ago
The $600 reporting threshold has always been there (though I agree, it should be retroactively pinned to CPI from when it was introduced). Most banks through Zelle previously would automatically submit all transaction history to the IRS any
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by thebradbain 4y ago
There was a notification feed tab to filter notifications to “verified only” (which ironically has lost almost all use as spam and low quality accounts make up the majority of blue checks now), but there was never a way to filter your feed
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by thebradbain 4y ago
Maybe I’m revealing my youth here, but I played Roblox waaaay back as a middle-schooler around 2009/2010 or so (it existed in 2006!), and it was my first introduction to programming. The Roblox editor was _rough_, but Lua probably got
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by thebradbain 4y ago
If the United States lasts in its current form for another 100 years, I will be surprised. 100 years ago, you could argue this country was fundamentally different than it is now — aside from rights (pretty much all of civil rights) and liab
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by thebradbain 4y ago
> Why would two independent governing bodies group together to oppress a single country? Not that it’s the same, but have you looked at either of these countries’ pasts? Even relatively recently— the Marshall Islands, or still ongoing, i
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by thebradbain 4y ago
I’m an American and I’d probably oppose direct military support for Taiwan? Aside from the obvious fact it seems like it could easily escalate into a direct war between the US and China, why is it the USs business in the first place? The US
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by thebradbain 4y ago
> “In other words, they’d rather keep up the flame wars on social media and build survival bunkers in Montana than address the social ills their critics charge them with exacerbating.” Don’t Look Up was — after all was said and done — a
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by thebradbain 4y ago
To get pedantic, the executive is there to enforce (and decide how to enforce) the law. The judicial is there to decide if a given law should be enforced (and if a given enforcement method is valid) This is why I’m not a big fan of original
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Hollywood WGA: Companies cannot use AI to undermine writers' working standards(twitter.com)
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by thebradbain 4y ago
The vast majority of artists don’t make a living selling the “generic art” that enthusiasts are so sure AI will disrupt (and if they do, certainly not individual pieces to hotels/coffee shops/etc, but bulk licensing through agenci
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by thebradbain 4y ago
If you have enough assets, Chase will absolutely lend against that collateral. “Enough” is likely the key word. But if you have business or personal accounts with over a couple million (and certainly $10+ million), I would be shocked if som
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by thebradbain 4y ago
I don’t know how what was supposed to be an edit seemingly posted a new comment, sorry for the dup
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by thebradbain 4y ago
The industries that are excited to use child labor (which is what this is) are only doing so because they have a shortage of capable adult workers that want to work in the conditions and for the pay provided. Aside from the fact that most k
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by thebradbain 4y ago
The industries that are excited to use child labor (which is what this is) are only doing so because they have a shortage of capable adult workers that want to work in the conditions and for the pay provided. Aside from the fact that most k
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by thebradbain 4y ago
http://www.salaam.co.uk/new-light-on-the-origin-of-the-term-... http://www.wata.cc/forums/archive/index.php/t-16001.html
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by thebradbain 4y ago
My bad, I meant OP in regards to whom you directly responded to (emphasis mine) > they will _probably realize_ years later that they were abused.
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by thebradbain 4y ago
Usually people choose to stay in abusive situations because they don’t believe they’re being abused, or have convinced themselves they have no better option. That doesn’t change the fact the environment is still abusive. There’s a whole swa
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by thebradbain 4y ago
Well, unless you’re already in the stratosphere of wealth where you you can take advantage of other financial instruments available to you like interest-only loans, jumbo mortgages, or stock/non-salary collateral (which by definition w
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by thebradbain 4y ago
The Bay Area has a whole is nowhere near carrying capacity, what? We "stop" where it is natural to, like any other place in human history: lack of resources , lack of space*, there's better places to move to, etc. And if the
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by thebradbain 4y ago
Or, more likely, based on all of human history, you have a few people at the top who “own” the AI, gatekeep and charge for access to it, own the IP-equivalent of whatever it produces, and life will continue as normal for 80%-99% of peasants
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by thebradbain 4y ago
I went to highschool in the early 2010s, and I started 8:30am. Sports would start at 2:45. Senior year, because of the stress of college applications, we would start at 10am (you could still take the bus and use the extra time to meet with
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by thebradbain 4y ago
An organization that is also supposed to be a non-profit and therefore focused on only using that money to fulfill its larger mission statement

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