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8mo ago
Interesting theory considering that this California approach does not de-anonymize you, and the approach Germany is working on, as part of an EU wide effort, also does not de-anonymize you.
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This law doesn't do anything that prevents non-anonymous access. Here's how you would access things anonymously if you bought a new computer that implemented this. 1. When you set up your account and it asks for your birthdate, ma
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8mo ago
That tab refreshing thing really bugs me with fan fiction. If I think I might want to reread a story someday I'll download it, because if you read fan fiction you learn that many authors come back and fiddle with their earlier stories,
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8mo ago
> But even in industries in which it has traditionally excelled, like carmaking, Europe has failed to keep up. Tesla is now worth more than the next nine largest carmakers in the world put together. Volkswagen sells more cars per year th
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8mo ago
See if turning off your ad blocker makes a difference. I've noticed that sometimes YouTube has parts of the site the apparently can look to ad blockers like they are part of an ad (maybe intentionally to annoy people with ad blockers?)
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8mo ago
Someone having met Epstein is about as interesting and concerning as having met Theodore McCarrick [1] or Harvey Weinstein [2]. Those kind of people aren't cartoon villains who only meet with people as part of their villainous activiti
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8mo ago
I'm looking at the leaderboard and it raises some interesting questions. Currently the fastest are ~3.4 seconds. Yesterday the README said that benchmarks were run on a "Premium Intel Digital Ocean Droplet with 2vCPUs and 1.5GB of
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Damn it…missing a “not” in the first sentence.
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When some particular item as currently made does meet California regulations the maker has four options: 1. Keep the item as is and don't sell it in California. 2. Make a California version that meets regulations. Sell that only in Cal
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> 1 West Coast shipyard that can build destroyers There are only a handful of shipyards in the US that build ships for the Navy. What makes him think regulation has anything to do with only 1 being on the West Coast?
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> If oil refineries are bad in California, they're bad everywhere That doesn't follow. It only follows that they are bad everywhere with circumstances similar to California. A place differing in distribution of population, dist
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> My main concern is that there is a large lithium ion battery in a machine that is designed to get things hot. You do not want thermal runaway to happen with a battery that large inside your kitchen. It's an induction stovetop. It
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Thanks. I probably didn't notice them because they don't seem at all unnatural.
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8mo ago
Where is "it's not X. It's Y"? I didn't notice it.
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8mo ago
You should say in the output formatting rules that the pages should be output in the order that the pages are in the input file. Currently it only specifies the order of the visits within the entry for each page.
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8mo ago
Interesting argument but not likely to go far. As far as I can tell US copyright law has never been taken to include brains as machines or devices. This is actually relevant in some real cases, namely improvised works. Attempts to claim cop
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8mo ago
What's a decent time for this? I was curious what it would take if I approached it the way I do with most CSV transformation tasks that I'm only intending to do once: use Unix command line tools such as cut, sed, sort, and uniq to
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8mo ago
The haven't raised the price of the individual plan in at least 8 years. It is now going up 33%. Inflation calculated from the CPI over the last 8 years in the US was 31%, which is fuzzy enough that it should be considered approximatel
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> Also, if they'd increase things by 5%, or did yearly 2% increases or something like that, I'd be okay with that (to cover the inflation). But the 33% increase combined with the list of features I don't care about -- that
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8mo ago
Have you forgotten about the Nissan Leaf? Tesla created the market for expensive sports car EVs, but Nissan made the market for EVs for the mainstream. The Tesla Roadster came out first, by a couple years, but only sold about 2500 over its
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Worldwide, the top models are Tesla Model Y, Toyota RAV4, and Toyota Corolla, all pretty close together (in 2024 it was 1.09 million Y, 1.08 million Corolla, 1.02 million RAV4 [1]). Sources for 2025 have the same 3 at the top in a close sp
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They are going to have a hard time keeping it that way in 2026, since they were just barely ahead of both #2 and #3 (Toyota Corolla and Toyota RAV4), and as far as I know Toyota hasn't done anything to annoy a large fraction of the dem
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By that reasoning you should be suspicious of the claim that cigarette smoking has caused any deaths from lung cancer, since no one has ever identified a single individual whose lung cancer could be proven to be from smoking.
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Their point, applied to that situation, would be that if someone does argue for enforcing TPM-backed measured boot yadda yadda to address scamming, trying to counter it by dismissing scamming as not a real problem is useless.
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You missed their point. They are not saying that what Google is doing is a good way to address the underlying problem Google says it is addressing. They are saying that claiming the underlying problem is not real or not big enough to need a
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> But the crime in the human instance is the reproduction, not the storage. So the crime in the AI circumstance would not be in the training, but in prompting the output. I wouldn't be so sure, at least under US law. 17 USC 101 defi
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Isn't the 80% rule only for continuous loads (3+ hours)? Home dishwashers in the US are considered to be non-continuous loads if the net is to be believed.
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You do see it in policy discussions from officials in the EU. You probably don't see it in policy discussions in the US because the groups that should be telling US officials how to do age verification without giving up anonymity are
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What third party do they require you to blindly trust?
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> Decades ago engineering salaries were a fraction of what they are today That may be so at the FAANGs and the companies trying to become FAANG-like, but I'm not sure that's the case for people working at more ordinary places.
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