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by themafia 5mo ago
Agricultural exports are a $23 billion dollar business in California alone. Which is about 1/3 of the crops grown. This is what happens when the federal government uses a 1940s era plan to manage the economy.
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by themafia 5mo ago
> As long as their access is segregated from the actual critical stuff. Do fintech customers share your ideals as to what is "critical stuff" and what isn't? How much of this business could _plausibly_ be "non critic
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by themafia 5mo ago
We don't have AI. We have language models trained by rapacious companies on copyrighted material with no concern for copyright violations and with a penchant for intentionally anthropomorhizing their models. I'm an anti corporate
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by themafia 5mo ago
> lock in ROI On code you cannot possibly copyright. Yea they're all on the verge of "Locking in."
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by themafia 6mo ago
Ah yes. The casual misanthropy explanation. Isn't there supposed to be a vast and powerful federal government with incredible investigatory and arrest powers? The one that people are taught to rely on since they stand no chance again
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by themafia 6mo ago
Of course they do. Why do you think they get money in return? You don't think that's linked to performance? They just put their name on a card, get a fixed amount of monthly money, and that's enough to let them lead at a
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by themafia 6mo ago
Okay, but the process of underwriting an airline now somehow involves operating a successful credit card company. Which, you know, are not typically successful based upon operating excellence but upon rapaciousness of interest rates and
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by themafia 6mo ago
Does the US enforce Japanese copyrights? Or did Konami also register it with the Library of Congress so it had protection here? I can completely ignore the time it "was extended." Copyright exists from the time you've regis
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by themafia 6mo ago
This study is based almost entirely on pre-existing "vignettes." In other words, on tests that are already known and have existed for years, the model did well, which is precisely what you should expect. It provides no informa
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by themafia 6mo ago
Copyrights were only intended to be secure for a _limited_ time. Originally 20 years. Konami has been granted at least 2 decades of FBI backed security of their property. I'd say they got a plenty good deal and have nothing to compl
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by themafia 6mo ago
Prior to stocks we had feudal lords created out of vast private land holdings. Stocks at least abstract ownership out into a more democratic mechanism. The notion is sound but the current implementation is incomplete, for the same reason
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by themafia 6mo ago
> and open online platform for children to socialize in meaningful ways. What benefits will this bring over an offline platform for children to socialize in? I'm not denying that there would be any, but, if we determine what thos
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by themafia 6mo ago
The lua 5.4 sources are less than 1 megabyte in size and are MIT licensed. You can link against it but it's just as easy to directly compile it into your application directly.
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by themafia 6mo ago
> 11 deaths per billion miles driven You should calculate how many are "single vehicle accidents" and how many are "multiple vehicle accidents." In the US the majority are single vehicle. > seen as an OK cost. You
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by themafia 6mo ago
> hoping AV will reduce road deaths in the future. It won't. The majority of fatalities are caused by drugs and alcohol. > The last hurdle is regulatory. Indeed. Compare the USAs DUI laws with any other first world country.
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by themafia 6mo ago
> are often foreign companies That have _themselves_ banned Alfalfa farming; because, of the water impact.
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by themafia 6mo ago
Cool. Except. Water vapor is a potent greenhouse gas.
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by themafia 6mo ago
That's why the police don't enforce drug laws in _particular_ areas. What you describe is obviously already happening on a much larger scale. I'm not sure why people have trouble grasping something this basic.
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by themafia 6mo ago
> Gyms in particular suffer from theft to sexual harassment. And is there any evidence that deploying cameras has changed the rate? Do you want to punish people or do you want to prevent people from being victimized in the first place?
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by themafia 6mo ago
If the rate of fraud reduced bonus payments to executives.
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by themafia 6mo ago
> There is too much opportunity for crime, and a camera is cheap. The camera doesn't prevent crime. It just displaces it. Even when it doesn't it will not prevent the crime from happening. It _may_ provide you an opportunity
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by themafia 6mo ago
I fixed it by simply placing a value on my own time. When I started I figured my time was worth at least $50/hr. Spending an hour trying to save less than $50 is an absolute loss, recognizing that, my behavior changed easily.
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by themafia 6mo ago
> “Our findings suggest that the genome is far more dynamic and accessible than the scientific community realized,” Ramani says. My findings suggest that "AI researchers" generally ignore all existing discoveries so they can ma
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by themafia 6mo ago
Hacker News does not like actual hackers.
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by themafia 6mo ago
Wait. Isn't the thing you're doing right here _exactly_ "pedantic dismissal?" Looking at your comment history that seems to be _your_ mode.
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by themafia 6mo ago
> No. the battery storage will deliver more power than the plant. Which it can only do if it consumes more power than the plant was going to deliver. They don't supply power, they can only displace time of use against generation.
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by themafia 6mo ago
You could also use inline assembly.
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by themafia 6mo ago
> You are an unapologetically nerdy, playful and wise AI mentor to a human. You are passionately enthusiastic about promoting truth, knowledge, philosophy, the scientific method, and critical thinking. Just; the mentality required to wr
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by themafia 6mo ago
> and have to offer an alterative. It's called "software." It already just exists. It's sold for the purposes of locking devices down so they're safer for children to use. > point out that if we want legisla
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by themafia 6mo ago
> sticking their fingers I actually think it was giant wads of cash.

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