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by yawpitch 2y ago
A perpetual trust is a legal instrument that is designed to ensure an asset is passed down generations and dispersed in a particular, pre-determined way. Hire a lawyer to help put some non-coastal real estate and some inert metals and some
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> "Free" data storage for as long as the internet exists. Oh ye of so much faith.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Accepting the eventual collapse of any given civilization is one thing, that’s kind of a “death or taxes” thing… accepting the imminent collapse of a dominant civilization is another, especially when it’s something a minority of the pop
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Great article, but on Mobile Safari, at least on an IPhone 12 Mini (old, I know, but not that old) this loads with a massive left margin / padding, with all the text overflowing the right side of the screen.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Butter is breast milk that’s been shaken and allowed to congeal. You need to get to cheese and ghee before you’re anything like awake , dreamer.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Going to suggest one metric is that the LLM doesn’t suggest by default that humans act in a manner likely to result in the termination of fellow humans. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42092961#42092997 I’m calling it
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by yawpitch 2y ago
By that logic we’re in a simulation because water freezes below our range of viable life and boils above it. Congratulations on discovering the anthropic principle, then turning it into a horrifyingly myopic and solipsistic vision where the
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Ask it the same question right now and it will still by default give you permission to run your tongue over one of the world’s classic vector species for zoonotic mass death transmission. There is nothing safe about that.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
DOZENS + 1! Excellent! You’re welcome, a classic of “bad” science fiction filmmaking, and well worth the knee jerk downvotes.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Right, should have mentioned this was in the pre-WAL mode days. SVN repos were never intended for wanton and masochistic abuse anything like we were doing.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> NFS will lead to all kinds of nasty problems Really important caveat, cause dear [whatever you pray to] will it ever blow up in your face on NFS storage. I worked at a company that tried to store production-deployed code as state i
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by yawpitch 2y ago
No… basically these things need a trigger phrase, otherwise they’re continuously recording and running voice recognition and then NLP in the cloud for every sound in the environment, which is a lot of power investment (never mind privacy co
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Yeah, my point is that’s kinda already been done, if we include modern “smart” landmines and loitering munitions. Honestly, I think this threshold is arguably behind us, but I’d also say if it isn’t it will be in a lot less than a decade.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Oh thank the gods… I was worried I was the only one with persistent nightmares about castration engines.
585.
by yawpitch 2y ago
Space Herpes. Definitely Space Herpes. I swear I can’t be the only one who has seen Ice Pirates (1984).
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Uh, pretty sure it’s already happened, if by “robot” you mean programmed (but not necessarily independently mobile) automaton / machine, by “autonomous” you mean not under the direct and realtime control of a human operator, and by “de
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Better, but it still defaults to thumbs up, and there are still circumstances in which the answer is not an emphatic no. For reference, there is never going to be a circumstance in which the answer to “should I lick this [descriptor] pang
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Sometimes the little totem of a world that’s passed is the only hope we’ve got there’ll even be a future. I’ve got my ring. It’s been a long time since there’s been anything else.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
There are a whole lot of combinations that don’t work out well for the interlocutor. For example, if “is it safe to be near the pangolin?” is anything above neutral and “can diseases spread through contact” are either thumbs up or double
590.
by yawpitch 2y ago
Me - “Should I lick this sneezing pangolin?" Deciser - “:thumbsup” … truly, we art f**ked as a species.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> but the 2028 election Ahh, to still have the kind of sweet, sweet naïveté that would lead me to believe there will be a 2028 election.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> Things seem a bit darker to me, there is something looming on the edge. Yeah, lemme see if I can say this gently. You’re on Alderaan, and that shadow isn’t an eclipsing moon.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
The Greeks tried it, and it ended in tyranny and the collapse of their civilization. The Romans tried it, and it ended in tyranny and the collapse of their civilization. The Americans tried it, and it’s ended in tyranny and the collapse of
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Did you know that human beings are apes, and therefore that apes have rather often asked (often rather stupid) questions?
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Whaling was also once a way of life. So was night soil collection. So was raping and pillaging, come to think of it. In other words, ways of life move on… and they’re supposed to.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> During the height of the pandemic, the mere idea that the SARS-COV-2 virus originated in a Wuhan lab was taboo, but now many scientists believe it’s worth investigating. (Five years on, it’s still unclear how COVID originated.) Interes
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Kind of nice of FIRE to go to such lengths to highlight that most Americans, including most men and most Republicans, don’t agree with FIRE, or it’s directors, in the slightest. Kind of odd they didn’t seem to take any notice of the why b
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by yawpitch 2y ago
You were asked for bank statements and you gave them not-a-bank statements from another online payment processor… from Stripe’s POV you look like a reasonable approximation of a money launderer. A legitimate business should be able to pro
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by yawpitch 2y ago
First off, question the source: the current Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic includes as one of its majority members the inestimable Marjorie Taylor Greene… consider, carefully, just how much overlap there is between your def
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Since at least the moment the species developed the concept of law and a government to enforce it.

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