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by tpmoney 1y ago
I like the IA as much as anyone else, but surely there's a significant difference between distributing literal word for word exact copies of copyrighted material and distributing statistical indexes about copyrighted material right?
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by tpmoney 1y ago
Even if the goal is to deter crime, we still have a principle of proportionate punishment. We don't cut people's hands of for petty theft, and we don't execute people for exceeding the speed limit even though both should be p
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by tpmoney 1y ago
Has anyone actually made the argument that having an AI regurgitate a word for word copy of an otherwise copyrighted work is fair use? Or have they made the argument that training the AI is transformative and fair use, and using that AI to
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by tpmoney 1y ago
> I think the jury is still out on how fair use applies to AI. The judge presiding over this case has already issued a ruling to the effect that training an LLM like Anthropic's AI with legally acquired material is in fact fair use.
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by tpmoney 1y ago
But that isn't how tax deductions work. Since taxes are always a fraction of income, a deduction can never save you more money than you already paid out to get the deduction in the first place. If you have a 10% tax rate, your options
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by tpmoney 1y ago
A lot of the digital cruise controls that I've used in cars increment by 1 for each press, but increment by jumps (3-5 IME) if you hold it down. I wonder if that bug is a state machine problem. Pressing fast enough puts it into the &qu
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by tpmoney 1y ago
They're almost certainly not storing a static list of numbers. As others have noted, they're using a UIPickerView. The delegate for that class has two methods that are particularly relevant for this, one that gets the value at &qu
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by tpmoney 1y ago
> Why should Spain have any claim to someone’s assets in some other location entirely, especially for this type of retroactive wealth tax? It's the only (easy) way to make a wealth tax like this work. If you don't target total
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by tpmoney 1y ago
> And given the actions of this administration thus far, attributing that removal to malice is absolutely warranted until proven otherwise. No it’s not. Given the actions of the current administration it is vital that else learn to disti
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by tpmoney 1y ago
> A government may be able to do it within their own borders for a period of time Part of the problem is the governments are proving they aren’t interested in doing it. Aside from the fact that law enforcement agencies are happy to have
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by tpmoney 1y ago
> If you encounter a lot of "online atheist" skeptics in your life, then I think it's important to just note that like, statistically, you're in a bubble. This kind of intense scientific skepticism isn't very com
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by tpmoney 1y ago
> a bit of ridicule might prevent future scams. I think this is only true if you think scammers are driven by a desire to avoid ridicule or if you think people that have been scammed are likely to respond positively to being ridiculed. A
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by tpmoney 1y ago
I would ask whether the recent era is marked by more “we need to hear these guys out” style skepticism or more “online atheist” style skepticism. From my perspective, the “online atheist” version seems to have been a much more common one. F
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by tpmoney 1y ago
As an uninformed observer, the studies were the least “convincing” part of his argument. It was the minimum force transfer numbers and the human force limit numbers, and then the note that other sports have stricter standards for the protec
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by tpmoney 1y ago
I’ve been thinking recently that an overhaul to the copyright system could solve this. Return to a very low default (10 years? 20?). Allow extensions but a requirement for extension is submitting the work to a government managed digital dat
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by tpmoney 1y ago
No idea, those are the numbers as reported in the settings app. I would assume it's part of the OS since it's a framework for other apps to tap into mapping functionality. For comparison Sygic is 324 MB. Waze is 170 MB, Tom Tom is
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by tpmoney 1y ago
> During the Enlightenment, owning a physical copy of a book meant intellectual freedom. You didn’t rent ideas; you had them. Today, most digital knowledge is hosted, locked, or streamed — leased from platforms , not owned. We’re in fac
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by tpmoney 1y ago
Not to be overly pedantic but authorization and security are two different things. If I leave my front door unlocked and open, that doesn't mean Bob the Homeless Hobo is authorized to enter my house.
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by tpmoney 1y ago
I think groups in general feel personally attacked by things that attack people on the basis of their immutable group characteristics. Notably women dislike and feel attacked by unqualified statements like "women are crazy" or cal
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by tpmoney 1y ago
It’s complicated in the US. The rules of thumb as I understand them are: 1) The truth is an absolute defense against libel claims, but it is a defense, so you must prove the truth of your claims. 2) Statements of opinion (or that a “reasona
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by tpmoney 1y ago
> of course Apple doesn't list the size of their own apps like Apple Maps, Photos, Music, etc... You can find that in the phone storage settings: iOS: 12 G Keynote: 498 M Numbers: 482 M Pages:
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by tpmoney 1y ago
> It absolutely has. This is what real everyday surveillance is that shapes people's behavior. When you cannot go anywhere without in your head thinking "am I on a camera or a microphone?" you're in a surveillance soc
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by tpmoney 1y ago
It's certainly possible, though I wonder is building a data center like this significantly more "destabilizing" to the ground water than say building a housing development? Many folks have had massive housing communities buil
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by tpmoney 1y ago
Seems like all the more reason to put the responsibility and blame on the government. You will never eliminate “influence”, and especially the more power the government has, the more value there is in spending on “influence”. The only possi
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by tpmoney 1y ago
That whole paragraph also seems completely unrelated to the issue as well. It doesn’t sound like water supply is the issue so much as sediment in the water breaking pumps and clogging the infrastructure. I guess the theory here is that the
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by tpmoney 1y ago
Realistically in the US before the various online delivery companies figured out how to make it work, most places just didn't do delivery at all. Traditionally pizza places and Chinese food were something you could order delivered. Alm
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by tpmoney 1y ago
Nah, watch any of the retro recipes videos on youtube and that's more or less his default style of speaking/presenting.
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by tpmoney 1y ago
Off the cuff that coincides pretty well with the rise of “helicopter parenting” and “tiger mom” trends.
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by tpmoney 1y ago
> IMHO it is just one more example of how PCs have become content consumption devices rather than outlets for creation. I would argue it’s more of an example of a part of an industry dying because the reality never lived up to the expect
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by tpmoney 1y ago
> it's also very much not, because it always sounds like it might be authoritative, but you could be reading something hallucinated. People telling lies on the internet is an old enough and well known enough issue that it’s appeared

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