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by wefarrell 3y ago
Amazon has been able to get away with a lot because for a long time their customer experience was fantastic. You could buy pretty much anything knowing it was the lowest price, get it in a day or two, and return it for pretty much any reaso
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by wefarrell 3y ago
It's pretty crazy that our legislators and courts haven't addressed this loophole that allows law enforcement agencies to buy data that they can't legally collect. This essentially nullifies the fourth amendment.
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by wefarrell 3y ago
Maybe the plaintiffs have evidence that JP Morgan doesn’t want to go public.
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by wefarrell 3y ago
It's a loophole, the 4th amendment prohibits the government from seizing data, however the government can legally purchase data from a third party.
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by wefarrell 3y ago
Microsoft was able to reverse it, hopefully Intel can as well.
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by wefarrell 3y ago
I'm more concerned for authors of published works. Imagine writing a text book with a royalty publishing deal. Your publisher decides they're going to use your book, amongst others, to train an LLM that can answer questions on you
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by wefarrell 3y ago
I don't think parking disputes are any different. You either handle them yourself or you hire a lawyer, I don't think anyone can act as your agent without having a legal license. So an AI can do the work but the person handling th
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by wefarrell 3y ago
No need to ban AI from handling legal disputes. Unless you're representing yourself you need a lawyer and there's no way for an AI to act as a lawyer.
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by wefarrell 3y ago
You're implying that the agency is no longer effective, without making any explicit claims or providing evidence. What part did I misunderstand?
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by wefarrell 3y ago
Why do you think the good work that it did stopped after the seventies? Pollution didn’t end overnight, it took decades and it’s still in progress. Do you think that the environment is in a good enough shape now that we can start increasing
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by wefarrell 3y ago
I never implied a causal relationship, they are two sides of the same coin.
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by wefarrell 3y ago
I doubt these are the stable union jobs with decent benefits from 50 years ago. If we really want to reverse Reaganomics we need to increase taxes on corporate profits, capital gains, and inheritance.
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by wefarrell 3y ago
I know that human expansion has decreased the number of large predators, which has increased the number of dear, who eat more young trees. If they have a preference for one type of tree over another that will certainly change the compositio
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by wefarrell 3y ago
Rockefeller and Ford both raised significant investments before their companies practically improved quality of life and irrational speculation is as old as the stock market itself. For example during the rise of Standard Oil 1880s there wa
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by wefarrell 3y ago
The stock market isn't based on the present state of the world, it's based on future expectations of earnings. So no, the current state of the world hasn't changed much in the past 6-12 months but clearly perceptions of the f
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by wefarrell 3y ago
I encountered security like that when I went to a party at a private Rockefeller estate. When I arrived I was confused as to why there was so much security but when we were inside there was priceless art everywhere, for example they had a h
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by wefarrell 3y ago
Could this be used to beam power to electric planes or cargo ships? I would think that it could be useful for vehicles that require more range than batteries currently allow.
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by wefarrell 3y ago
I’ve been at a few companies that expect leaders to emerge and it always goes terribly. Certain personality types try to assume those leadership roles and they tend to be the last people you want as leaders. And they tend to stop doing the
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by wefarrell 3y ago
Workers in developed countries have benefited from environmental exploitation. We can travel hundreds or miles in comfortable cars, or thousands of miles in a day in planes. We can enjoy bananas and other tropical fruit in northern latitude
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by wefarrell 3y ago
I think it would be really neat to have a space based telescope in close proximity to LISA so that when gravitational waves are detected the telescope can point in the direction of the source and capture the light from it.
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by wefarrell 3y ago
Alien is great because it's realistic expectations about space travel is such a stark contrast to the swashbuckling romanticism of popular space operas like Star Wars and Star Trek. Space is bleak and enormous. There is no technology t
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by wefarrell 3y ago
I do expect constraints to emerge, in the form of regulatory capture and copyright challenges from content owners.
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by wefarrell 3y ago
It's a signal that ride share apps won't be 100% autonomous anytime soon. If you're a consumer and you want to go from point A to point B you don't want to have to think about whether your route will be in the AV coverag
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by wefarrell 3y ago
If you believe that a powerful group of people are deliberately trying to decrease the number of white people and replace them with imported non-white people and that they must be stopped then yes, that makes you a white nationalist.
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by wefarrell 3y ago
Opponents of progressive taxes lobby hard against auto-filing. They want the Americans to conflate the complexities of the US tax code with the complexities of filing and so they fight to keep the filing process complex and they tell us it&
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by wefarrell 3y ago
My grandparents had this accent. It was contextual, they didn't use it with us but I did hear it come out when they would talk to certain friends or tell stories and voice characters. And then my grandparents on my other side had thick
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by wefarrell 3y ago
The lower hanging fruit is to fix the filing method. The government has all of the data available to them, they should be able to send you a pre filled tax return that you can amend for whatever reason. In 98% of situations their numbers wo
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by wefarrell 3y ago
For new med school grads it makes little sense to go into primary care. The pay is low, the hours are long, and job satisfaction is plummeting as check-the-box medicine takes over. As giant corporations like CVS, Amazon, and Walmart acquire
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by wefarrell 3y ago
One billion dollars is only 1/43rd of a Twitter. That sounds like a pretty good deal to me.
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by wefarrell 3y ago
You’d think that one of of the multi billionaires with rocket companies would attempt to save it. Would be great PR.

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