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by wat10000 5mo ago
Anything recent? The practice seems to have fallen off in recent years.
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by wat10000 5mo ago
I'm sure it can't be removed entirely, but we could, for example, start imprisoning people who give or accept bribes.
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by wat10000 5mo ago
I take it as a sign of how close it is (or how close people think it is). When AGI was SFnal magic, merely having it at all is a fascinating concept. Now that (people think) it's on the horizon, there are more practical concerns, like
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by wat10000 5mo ago
It may be more than begging favors from imaginary friends, but it does include begging favors from imaginary friends. How many people would agree with the statement "prayer works"? How many of them consider that to mean actual con
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by wat10000 5mo ago
On the other hand, smart people with criminal intent are more likely to find legal ways to profit. Why steal a hundred bucks from somebody when you can figure out how to steal a few bucks from millions and your only punishment is paying a f
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by wat10000 5mo ago
Genius level intelligence will tell you to get lost with your "no explanations" nonsense and tell you why those categories don't make sense and why the question doesn't fit neatly into your boxes.
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by wat10000 5mo ago
Hold up. Law, OK, partially. But ethics ? What ethical framework treats corporations as people?
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by wat10000 5mo ago
The fact that "man bites dog" gets reported while "dog bites man" does not is not propaganda. Whose agenda do you think this is helping, exactly?
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by wat10000 5mo ago
According to Wikipedia, Alberta accounts for 11.52% of the national population and 15.25% of the GDP. Such injustice.
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by wat10000 5mo ago
The American head of state threatened to invade and annex the country, and you boil that down to a sarcastic "America bad"?
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by wat10000 5mo ago
Why can't both of those be true? I don't see any contradiction between them. The law doesn't seem to have any issue taking them both as true either. Corporations are considered their own entity under the law, but they do not
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by wat10000 5mo ago
Right. And maybe in exchange for that, you don't get a non-resident vote anymore. That doesn't sound outrageous to me. If the LLC were a pure proxy then none of these advantages would apply. It makes sense that there might be some
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by wat10000 5mo ago
Likewise, the fact that corporations act as proxies in some ways doesn't mean that they must act as proxies for votes. Obviously, the court has ruled that they do in fact act that way. But we're talking about what should be, not w
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by wat10000 5mo ago
"Protections of the corporate form"? You mean they aren't just proxies?
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by wat10000 5mo ago
The question is, why did they bother to take it to court instead of just transferring ownership directly to their persons and then voting as humans? If corporations are just proxies then why bother with the lawyers and the court fees and th
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by wat10000 5mo ago
The question is not what the law says (the headline is sufficient to understand that), but why people are doing this at all. If corporations are just proxies for their owners, then owners who want a vote could just own the property in their
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by wat10000 5mo ago
If the corporation is just a proxy for the owners then why is this in court? Why aren't the humans just voting directly? It's well established that it's OK for humans to vote.
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by wat10000 5mo ago
One of my favorite quotes, from Stephenson's The Diamond Age : "The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent. The d
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by wat10000 5mo ago
Are they signaling that they're not going to be a future customer? Or are they just signaling that they want to take positive action if they make the decision to subscribe? And what about signaling in the other direction? Canceling the
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by wat10000 5mo ago
Buying into an HOA means you're effectively renting a portion of your living arrangements. And if the dues doubled in just three years then you bought into a mismanaged HOA, which makes it worse. There's not much you can do about
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by wat10000 5mo ago
Just from the title, I’m assuming it refers to a period of downtime used to perform some sort of maintenance on the knowledge held by the system. Clicking through, that’s exactly what it is. Seems like “sleep” is an excellent term to use he
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by wat10000 5mo ago
An egg sandwich is not the sort of thing I'd trust from 7-11. I'd be thinking of that Futurama episode with the worms the whole time I was eating it.
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by wat10000 5mo ago
If we're going to imprison people for things like guessing user IDs, this surely ought to count as criminal unauthorized access to a computer system.
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by wat10000 5mo ago
If they're paying out on purchases that otherwise would have been organic, they're losing money.
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by wat10000 5mo ago
Not necessarily for extremely long haul flights. The airport side of things takes about the same amount of time regardless. For a transpacific flight, you’re looking at maybe 3-4 hours at the airport and 10+ hours in the air. Shaving down t
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by wat10000 5mo ago
Everyone thought SSTs were going to be the next big thing. Both the US and USSR had projects. The 747 got a hump so it could easily be converted to a freighter once it was made obsolete by supersonic passenger planes. Despite two superpower
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by wat10000 5mo ago
It looks like an Apple Magic Mouse with wheels. Hopefully it also has a charge port on the bottom.
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by wat10000 5mo ago
Have you tried to arm-wrestle a subsistence farmer who saw multiple bad harvests growing up?
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by wat10000 5mo ago
The point is that this "bottomless pit" you describe is not actually very expensive in practice. You imply that too much is spent on the NHS. Based on what?
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by wat10000 5mo ago
Not all power is money, but money is power.

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