triceratops

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by triceratops 5d ago
You're thinking of second-tier and third-tier tech companies, big banks, insurance and telecom companies, consulting shops. Big Tech pays enough to hire whoever it wants, regardless of nationality. The evidence is they continue to pay
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by triceratops 5d ago
> All this to say: it would be a very different industry. But it wouldn't cease to exist.
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by triceratops 5d ago
You can route the box's traffic through a VPN.
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by triceratops 5d ago
I don't think that's true. Copyright isn't more than a few hundred years old. Humans have been making and performing creative works for thousands of years. Did Shakespeare or Chaucer need copyright? What about da Vinci? And
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by triceratops 5d ago
"Pride doesn't increase shareholder value" - many execs.
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by triceratops 5d ago
> It is changing fast, and the world only needs so many electricians I don't know about that. We're going through maybe the biggest wave of electrification and growth demand in history. Electricians are still quite expensive
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by triceratops 8d ago
> LLMs are sufficiently transformative and do not hamper the potential market of authors of training material And OP's contention is obtaining the training material and using it in training requires making unauthorized copies. That&
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by triceratops 8d ago
> To alleviate this concern^, "sweat of the brow" doctrine would be required, but it doesn't exist in most jurisdictions No, it wouldn't. "Sweat of the brow" applies to collections of facts whose compilation
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by triceratops 8d ago
I wasn't aware of the "sweat of the brow" doctrine until you mentioned it. But you seem to be using it incorrectly. The doctrine only states that creativity or originality isn't required to make a work copyright-able. Ev
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by triceratops 9d ago
That's my point. China was so far behind and caught up. Even if we accept the premise that the US is behind today (debatable) "it's over they won" is an inaccurate statement.
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by triceratops 9d ago
Checkmate, I'll give you that one. Someone else pointed out Canada also has a land border with Denmark: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49741686 What about Australia? New Zealand? Japan? Maybe Indonesia (I don&#x2
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by triceratops 9d ago
Sort of a "meta" question about these announcements. I assume they already talk about them privately beforehand. Carney first made a speech seeking some kind of enhanced status within the EU. Then von der Leyen said basically &quo
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by triceratops 9d ago
By that logic the UK doesn't have any neighbors other than the Republic of Ireland.
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by triceratops 9d ago
> 1) we are past the point of no return in climate change Hmm...I wonder who did that? Is paying taxpayer money to shut down already approved windfarms a good way to prepare for climate change? A few extra years to prepare that "arm
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by triceratops 9d ago
Canada has a sea border with France. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Pierre_and_Miquelon
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by triceratops 9d ago
> Armed lifeboat is a serious climate change strategy. Is deliberately sinking the ship faster so we have to board said lifeboat much sooner part of that strategy? > But we are heading down the path very seriously. Being pushed at gun
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by triceratops 9d ago
Hang on you're saying people granted legal permission to fly to a country, specifically to immigrate to that country, also have the money to fly there? Crazy coincidence, that.
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by triceratops 9d ago
> climate change will happen (the trump administration is preparing for it more seriously than any other) This has to be satire surely. We're gonna need that sense of humor as the climate shit hits the fan.
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by triceratops 9d ago
> India is making bank selling Russian oil to Europe So...Europe is buying Russian oil and gas? Bit counterproductive, no?
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by triceratops 10d ago
> at least part of the Russian war bill was footed by the money India paid for Russian oil It's weird India gets held to this standard. Don't European countries still buy some natural gas from Russia?
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by triceratops 10d ago
> Sorry, but alcohol prohibition did not work That's what GP said too, albeit poorly.
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by triceratops 10d ago
They call him the King of England when he's in Canada? Or when he represents Canada abroad? Where exactly are you getting your information from? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_of_Canada#Royal_prese...
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by triceratops 10d ago
Which country would you say has a closer relationship with the King of Canada?
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by triceratops 10d ago
Imagine if China said that about the US in 1950.
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by triceratops 11d ago
You want an ID verification company handling healthcare? Even if you're a staunch believer in free enterprise this seems like a capability mismatch.
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by triceratops 11d ago
Does IDScan need to store the IDs after they've verified them? If they deleted the IDs within a week of getting them surely the leak would be much smaller.
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by triceratops 12d ago
How do you define "reach" and "influence"? Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube all have more users, more daily active users, more aggregate data transferred.
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by triceratops 12d ago
"The difference between a millionaire and a billionaire? About a billion dollars." Having said that the article does cite ways in which millionaires have leaned on lawmakers to favor them. Doctor lobby, realtor lobby, car dealersh
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by triceratops 12d ago
> I don't believe it is...I personally don't believe even a lot of the software/IT industry jobs merit H1Bs. The law doesn't work based on your beliefs. > someone who knows two languages isn't remarkable, some
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by triceratops 12d ago
> The adverts openly denigrate men in order to try to bring up women. I haven't seen 'em, no idea. The only "woke ad" on that article ("The Land of New Football") was boring and cringe. But I didn't see

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