ThrustVectoring

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by ThrustVectoring 14d ago
The intent to communicate particular ideas is actually important to the writing. If you have a lot of well put together words with relatively low intentionality behind it, what you have is something that is very effective at wasting your ti
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by ThrustVectoring 19d ago
Unironically, for a small enough business, 10% of revenue is cheaper than figuring out what the rules are and following them. If I'm doing $30 worth of sales to Malta, it's cheaper to pay them $3, basically regardless of what Malt
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by ThrustVectoring 21d ago
The line is between processes you can stop by hauling someone into court and coercing them into stopping things, and ones you can't. Think of a classical computer virus that infects machines and uses the compute and communications to i
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by ThrustVectoring 26d ago
That's because they are extraordinarily suitable as covert torture devices. When government officials use them to inflict pain, they do not leave physical evidence and the only video evidence from filming the interaction is how long ha
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by ThrustVectoring 26d ago
Intent to access a computer would have to be proven for that section of the CFAA to be relevant. The shakedown would be covered under subsection 7, governing communicating threats of computer damage or unauthorized access with the intent to
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by ThrustVectoring 26d ago
That actually is how the law works. You can read the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act at https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030 and double check, but these felonies all require knowingly or intentiona
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by ThrustVectoring 26d ago
The issue is not a localized part of any particular piece of prose, so being hard to articulate is unsurprising. Even the most egregious of LLMisms are little more than known-likely crutches that the statistics spit out in a sweet spot that
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by ThrustVectoring 26d ago
When you speed read, you can grab the words off the page faster than you can understand and fully process the information conveyed by the text. How much time you have or want to spend re-reading or thinking about what you've read is qu
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by ThrustVectoring 1mo ago
Google pays third-party websites to host advertisements, and shady website owners will put ads on such a website and bot clicks on it.
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by ThrustVectoring 1mo ago
Worker pessimism over technological unemployment risk is enough to explain profit growth via wage suppression with no need to invoke productivity gains, and AIUI these sorts of indicators have been leading on AI capabilities and adoption.
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by ThrustVectoring 1mo ago
All public cameras are a cost to privacy for the benefit of the operator, its just that the identity of the operators and the extensiveness and data centralization change the magnitude of the cost and the proper response. If my friend has a
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by ThrustVectoring 1mo ago
I'm not sure why you're ignoring the central point I'm making about scale. One guy having a camera pointing out of his doorbell is different from Amazon being able to do whatever they want with the footage from something like
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by ThrustVectoring 1mo ago
It's nefarious and privacy-violating when the database exists, government involvement just exacerbates things because private companies aren't allowed to send armed goons to your house and break down your door.
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by ThrustVectoring 1mo ago
The privacy violation is that the database exists, full stop. I don't think a warrant requirement would be a meaningful barrier, since the data is already part of the camera network operators' database and all sorts of informal or
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by ThrustVectoring 1mo ago
It's the database query, not the physical cameras. In the pre-digital age where privacy was considered in constitutional law, tracking people's and vehicle's movements was horrendously expensive - you'd need multiple det
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by ThrustVectoring 2mo ago
The economic calculus is ambivalent between a clinical trial with a 10% chance of a drug discovery worth a billion dollars, a 100% chance of a drug discovery worth a hundred million dollars, and a 1% chance of a drug discovery worth ten bil
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by ThrustVectoring 3mo ago
In perfectly efficient markets, arbitrage gets paid exactly as much as it costs to discover and execute the arbitrage. Entrepreneurs would still exist, they would just be ambivalent between finding new arbitrage opportunities and seeking ma
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by ThrustVectoring 3mo ago
Even if you were to extend rights to non-human entities, there's still a practical matter in that the legal system does not know how to compel testimony from an LLM (or a monkey for that matter, for a past attempt at copyrighting a pho
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by ThrustVectoring 3mo ago
OP wasn't explicit about taking the work = force * distance approach to dissipating energy. Two cars with the same mass and braking force (and thus deceleration) will put the same amount of work into the vehicle per unit distance, so w
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by ThrustVectoring 3mo ago
AI driven contributions aren't the same thing as AI agent submitted PRs. If a new human contributor attempts to submit low-quality submissions (regardless of AI usage), you can teach them to improve or convince them to change their met
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by ThrustVectoring 3mo ago
Profit and loss tracks changes to the fair price of purchasing the business, not operational cash flow. The $30b didn't go anywhere since it's not cash flow, it's acknowledging that someone who purchases OpenAI today would
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by ThrustVectoring 3mo ago
As to why those are required to be treated as liabilities, the primary point of accounting rules is to ensure the accurate valuation of the business to potential purchasers. Someone who would buy the business before those interests conver
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by ThrustVectoring 3mo ago
"All the jobs" includes those tasked by the state to commit, plan, and organize violence, it's plenty dystopian already. Like, one important reason why the military and militarized police don't engage in egregious overre
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by ThrustVectoring 4mo ago
The observation is right but the causality is off. The money comes from extraordinarily profitable lines of business rather than investors. Hiring is driven less by business concerns and more by various layers of management advancing their
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by ThrustVectoring 4mo ago
uhh, no Reasonable people can believe they have a legitimate ownership right when they petition YouTube for copyright enforcement for AI-generated work. The courts might eventually disagree, but that's a different thing than knowingly
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by ThrustVectoring 4mo ago
How would you ban it? Once the new owners have bought the company, they own the rights to taking out debt in its name, so long as they can find lenders willing to extend a loan on terms they find acceptable.
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by ThrustVectoring 4mo ago
Even if the courts won't uphold the copyright, that doesn't prevent people from claiming your videos and initiating YouTube's copyright process against you. This is a recurring problem for people who upload their own origin
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by ThrustVectoring 4mo ago
Owning the asset is an advantage in a bull market and a disadvantage in a bear market. If a dominant employer or industry in an area has mass layoffs, that can cascade into the housing market, driving your property underwater at the same ti
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by ThrustVectoring 4mo ago
There's significant personal financial benefits to renting, too, in that many local areas are dominated by one firm or industry as a major employer, so your employment prospects can be highly correlated with the local housing market. Y
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by ThrustVectoring 4mo ago
Commercial real estate lending typically has a clause that allows pausing of payments during a vacancy and letting the interest accrue into the balance of the loan - effectively, the banks are giving the property owners a free option to try

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