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by zugi 7d ago
By stealing text from the Bible rather than using your own words, you've just committed labor theft! Of course that accusation sounds outrageous as it should. All human knowledge and progress has come by building on the works of those
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by zugi 7d ago
The particular brainless lawmaker behind this act went on to become President. I think that shows Americans love and reward brainless lawmakers for creating these brainless laws.
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by zugi 8d ago
Years ago people warned that we had to limit the population to save the planet. Now we're naturally reducing population growth, and people warn of disaster. Gradually decreasing populations means that overall, fewer workers have to sup
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by zugi 8d ago
The extremely elderly are staying at home or a nursing home, and occasionally and delicately transported by car. But lots of walking in their less elderly days may partially explain their longevity.
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by zugi 8d ago
> What are Japan and France doing so much better? I think the question misunderstands the data. Or more specifically, a big part of the answer is "not having kids." Think about the denominator.
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by zugi 14d ago
Yet Musk consistently opposes AI regulation - https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/elon-musk-criticizes-ai-re... - even though it might help him.
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by zugi 14d ago
I too am skeptical of government-granted intellectual monopolies , as Richard Stallman correctly names them. Trademarks are the least offensive of them because they expire relatively quickly and are designed to prevent genuine consumer con
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by zugi 28d ago
The legal short-hand saying that "corporations are people" is terrible PR. Non-legal-experts look at that and logically and correctly conclude "no, they're not", and think it's a ridiculous statement. The under
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by zugi 1mo ago
OpenAI and Anthropic are falling over themselves to claim these "incidents" show their products are both amazingly super-powerful and also "dangerous" so they need to be regulated. In addition to these stories, these com
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by zugi 1mo ago
So it turns out destroying a record to obstruct an investigation is also a crime under 18 U.S. Code § 1519. For that they wouldn't need to prove that it was "evidence" or even that it was relevant. So as much as I sympathize
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by zugi 1mo ago
> But this guy catching felony charges for giving federal border police a duress PIN to wipe his phone when they asked for an unlock PIN? Not actually overreach. I think it's an interesting case that will get litigated in the courts
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by zugi 1mo ago
Some general advice that probably works around the world is, if you're present in a country illegally, don't go out of your way to seek out immigration enforcement officials to record them for TikTok. Nothing in the article refute
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by zugi 2mo ago
Voting with your wallet lets you send dozens of fine-grained messages a day. You support companies you want to support, and don't support those you don't want. Others will choose differently and that's fine for them. The mere
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by zugi 2mo ago
> Connecting to the grid has enormous value Yet in most locales it's illegal to disconnect from the grid. If disconnection were legal for those who want to be energy self-sufficient, then charging just to connect would be more def
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by zugi 2mo ago
Students have cheated for as long as there have been tests - AI is just the latest tool. The only thing that matters in deterring cheating is the consequences. As a society we've become more tolerant of cheating, so we get more of it.
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by zugi 2mo ago
Sure, but "rejecting all server-side processing" is basically trusting the website to honor my wishes. I don't put much faith in that at all. They'll have my IP and browser fingerprint. Using Firefox mobile narrows me do
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by zugi 2mo ago
That's a nice feature, every OS should have that. I believe the old TrueCrypt had two passwords, each revealing a different set of files. You'd put e.g. your tax forms in one, so if forced to decrypt your drive, you could cooperat
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by zugi 2mo ago
> Just set your browser to delete all the cookies at the end of the session except for whatever sites you want to allow to 'remember' you Exactly. I use the "I don't care about cookies" extension, which rejects m
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by zugi 2mo ago
I don't see why convincing people to overpay for something based on hype and artificial scarcity required any "sweetheart deals" via congress.
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by zugi 2mo ago
Wow, you competely edited your comment to say something different than the one I replied to. You also still failed to articulate your argument. I don't think you want to make this about intelligence.
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by zugi 2mo ago
The study points out that CO2 levels are rising, and in 50 years might cause blood HCO3- to exceed 30mEq/L. It then references https://journals.lww.com/cjasn/abstract/10.2215/cjn.11941017... as to why th
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by zugi 2mo ago
"The one above" is not clear, can you please articulate your argument?
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by zugi 2mo ago
> There is mounting experimental evidence that lifetime exposure to these increasing atmospheric CO2 levels can negatively impact the normal physiology of organisms... Studies indicate that, after this time, elevated atmospheric carbon d
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by zugi 2mo ago
SpaceX bids on competitive government space launch contracts and wins most of them because they're more reliable and often half the price of the competitors, or less. Government is now essentially subsidizing SpaceX's space launch
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by zugi 2mo ago
SpaceX has accomplished spectacular things in reusable launch vehicles and space-based networking. It will soon restore the heavy launch capability that the US lost when it retired the Saturn V in the 1970s, but in an affordable and sustain
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by zugi 3mo ago
The cops said they had been tracking the car for days. So just once they should have looked at the license plate, and seen the full 7-digit number, which does not match the 5-digit number reported as stolen. Instead they just blindly truste
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by zugi 3mo ago
Exactly, it seems that HN can assume a certain level of scientific knowledge among its readers that Nature can't.
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by zugi 3mo ago
An engineer friend of mine, after a decade in industry where he rose to management, decided to go get an MBA at a top ten management school. Compared to engineering, he said it was easy, since everything they teach you is obvious common se
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by zugi 3mo ago
That's why democracy shouldn't be worshipped as the end-all be-all key to good government or good society. Or as Churchill put it, democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others. Freedom and liberty should be
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by zugi 3mo ago
Years ago the US government allegedly proposed prediction markets, in part to encourage the exact kinds of behavior that the US Special Forces soldier exhibited. Of course they wanted it from adversaries, not from allies. By creating predic

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