ABCLAW

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by ABCLAW 4mo ago
>History repeats itself here, with the difference that instead of paying for the data, the ai crawlers simply take it for free. This discussion was broached originally when discussing whether or not search engines and aggregators had any
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by ABCLAW 5mo ago
This isn't the danger with assuming good faith. It's the danger with not updating your behavior when the balance of probabilities shows that the individual/group/organization you're dealing with is acting in bad fai
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by ABCLAW 6mo ago
You can cultivate good taste by intentionally taking in a lot of information about what's in the field, and what you like and what you don't like about it. This could be commenting on elements of film, fashion, photography, but it
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by ABCLAW 7mo ago
No, most genetic drift that ends up being reflected in wildtype populations happens during those periods, because small errors taking up a sizable percentile of the allelic distribution is easier when there are less alleles. When it comes t
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by ABCLAW 7mo ago
>Refusing to improve early, probabilistic diagnosis because today’s treatments are modest confuses sequence with outcome. While you're right from the perspective of humanity taking the steps of gathering data then tackling the disea
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by ABCLAW 7mo ago
I think the skepticism warrants more work than that. Darwin's finches are an entry-level concept to learn when learning about biochemistry and genetics. Separate planets would act to separate groups into distinct genetic populations wh
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by ABCLAW 7mo ago
America had a true famine; the dust bowl resulted in mass displacement, and the government took exceptional steps to create remediation programs to address the plight of those affected to maintain relations. The policies included measures t
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by ABCLAW 7mo ago
It's worse than that; within a few generations our linguistic and biological systems will begin to diverge under conditions with little cross-pollination and different selective pressures. We will become aliens in the sci-fi sense very
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by ABCLAW 7mo ago
>I disagree. You can escape a disease, even during a global pandemic. And not every person that got COVID was on a ventilator or even felt that bad. Propaganda works. The knowledge worker class often believes their training will afford t
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by ABCLAW 8mo ago
I feel like this was more accurate a long time ago when the first rounds of YCombinator hopefuls were all piling in here and nerding out. The vibe, tone, and content has dramatically shifted towards the finance and ambition side of tech ove
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by ABCLAW 11mo ago
>Everyone here wants to look like the next Steve Jobs in front of YC, no one wants to look like Steve Wozniak. I think it's interesting that this wasn't the vibe that was here around the time of the first few YC cohorts. Everyo
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by ABCLAW 11mo ago
There were a lot of pre-internet 2.0 groups that were phenomenal in terms of competence density. The first point I worry a bit less about but it does have moments when it's suboptimal - for certain specific discussions there's oft
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by ABCLAW 2y ago
>If anything, they'll need to rely on more expertise now, so they can craft laws that aren't open to interpretation. Every law is open to interpretation. If tech can barely secure the doors on machines that execute instructions
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by ABCLAW 2y ago
Not really. When performing clinical trials, if you'd like to use the results of the studies in chinese/indian populations you'll need to prove bioequivalence in many cases, so you're going to need to collect a meaningfu
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by ABCLAW 2y ago
100% what I was going to say. This is a just a misstatement. There's plenty of valid things to critique sama on, but this isn't one of them.
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by ABCLAW 3y ago
Kinda? Lawyers are myopic, vain, and we don't really do much to innovate. We wanted to make sure there would be no cross pollination between legal advisory services and other professional services in most jurisdictions, but the only th
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by ABCLAW 3y ago
> We should be seeing many people holding mortgages at HSBC not able to pay. Not really. Lying about the source of cashflow doesn't mean the cashflow isn't real. The end objective for a lot of these frauds isn't to sink th
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by ABCLAW 3y ago
Vaccination generally uses an adjuvant to increase immune response to the target antigen in order to provoke a response strong enough to produce lasting immunogenic memory. Antigens alone in small numbers aren't enough. Taking random a
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by ABCLAW 3y ago
I think most people recognize that you don't get every job you apply for, but there are people who contact hundreds to thousands of organizations, apply with custom crafted letters and tailored resumes, put in thousands of hours of job
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by ABCLAW 3y ago
>but does that make it surprising that people hate doing it? When an activity validates you, it's tough to imagine other people having the opposite experience with it. Imagine every time you went to a round of interviews you were of
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by ABCLAW 3y ago
This is only true to a point. Evaluating incremental cost benefits on the basis of the delta of energy loss along specific lines ignores the state change that occurs when main trunk elements of the grid become lossless and energy generation
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by ABCLAW 3y ago
Retail banking is low margin high volume, but a bank's CMG or IB divisions are NOT low margin operations. Trading desk margins vary depending on the strength of the group and the clientele. If you're a primary desk for a trillion
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by ABCLAW 3y ago
The number of banks is not a good indicator of how much competition exists in a market. The elasticity of prices in that market is a better measure, but also has flaws. In general you need to look at how much margin a given industry is pull
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by ABCLAW 3y ago
Interac is a great example of the opposite. The government of Canada had to strong arm the financial sector to create a non profit third party to allow zero cost transfers and a robust debit payment system. The banks have been lobbying to d
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by ABCLAW 3y ago
This is misleading. Banks have capital sufficiency requirements following the implementation of the Basel 3 capital sufficiency framework. This has created an international growing market for bulk capital availability and reinsurance servic
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by ABCLAW 3y ago
Your rebuttal doesn't really address the substance of my point, but to put a fine point on it, "It's a crime, therefore it isn't speech" isn't a good argument - if anything it demolishes your own position that
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by ABCLAW 3y ago
>This is a Motte and Bailey. No it isn't. The motte and bailey tactic is when you advocate for a very broad position, then retreat to something more defensible. I've stated that the broad statement (that all censorship is bad)
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by ABCLAW 3y ago
>When you trust your government with the power to control the flow of information, you trust them with the power to hide their own actions from you I think this is as false dilemma - no one's advocating that any institution or syste
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by ABCLAW 3y ago
Not the poster you're replying to, but despite the fact that I think you're right, the mistake you've highlighted on is pretty reasonable given that there's people from many countries here and plenty of people default to
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by ABCLAW 3y ago
>But is your worry for the authors, for other platforms, or for customers? All of the above. Don't take this as a slam, but given your responses in this thread, it's probably a good idea to get a primer about how anticompetitiv

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