TimPC

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by TimPC 3y ago
This bill was a pretty naked shakedown for money and it was obvious to everyone who read it. Even the intentional targeting of specific companies rather than trying to make a general policy raises lots of questions. If linking news is actua
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by TimPC 3y ago
It might be technically simple but it’s probably legally complicated to write a summarizer that doesn’t violate copyright. Using data they are explicitly given permission to use by the definition of the field it’s in is quite different thou
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by TimPC 3y ago
The people don’t believe in paying for competence in government employees. Then they are shocked and outraged when bottom 10% compensation leads to bottom 10% performance. If you want to hire someone to do product management for a nine figu
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by TimPC 3y ago
Should HN owe money to the National Post for the very same reason? The argument is stupid and the only way the government could push for this solution is by guaranteeing they will restrict it to big corporations few people like.
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by TimPC 3y ago
An entirely new generation of people became voting age and that generation is quite progressive on average. A second generation of fairly progressive people aged from unlikely voters to likely voters. And we had 20 years of people worth o
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by TimPC 3y ago
I think this is clearly false for humans. I think it is unquestionable that kids do better when parents have actively involved grandparents in their lives. Raising a kid without a support network is overwhelming, and even more so in modern
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by TimPC 3y ago
I bet societies without immortality progress faster than societies with immortality socially. A large portion of opinion change occurs intergenerationally with old views dying off, some people change their opinions on major values over tim
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by TimPC 3y ago
Double lifespan sounds like a nightmare if we don't dramatically change all of society first. I don't think it's possible to make that work unless we're talking about raising a retirement age to something like 130. In
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by TimPC 3y ago
Sure but if your bet is that you're going to drag all of law to a new billing model that's similar to what mechanics have done the fact that you might not be successful is a significant risk point in the profile of your product an
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by TimPC 3y ago
I think a lot of tech companies that spout this nonsense don't understand how law works. Routinely I see products based entirely around reducing lawyer's billable hours. They'll only implement that kicking and screaming if c
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by TimPC 3y ago
Canada won't do the work needed to retain them. Talking to lots of people it's mostly the combination of unaffordable housing (Canada has a far larger housing crisis than the US does with our two largest metro areas containing 25%
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by TimPC 3y ago
I worked on a start-up that was basically a Yelp competitor with a less-bad business model. Unfortunately, all the incentives in the business are about boosting the performance of your paying customers relative to free businesses on the pl
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by TimPC 3y ago
It's section 230 not article 230 but yes it's somewhat protected. You could go after the end user for defamation and you could probably use the legal system to force yelp to turn over identifying information from their logs if a j
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by TimPC 3y ago
It's even worse for only the metric by which the efforts of a group should be indexed for the masses. But people use discord for group conversation and the goal is not the create content for consumption but to do the things the group
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by TimPC 3y ago
Honestly bitcoin not being a security has been one of the biggest mistakes the SEC has made over the past decade. They gave that guidance and are stuck with it now. But the argument for it being a commodity is pretty weak and being a secur
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by TimPC 3y ago
Crypto companies think they don't trade securities which is clearly wrong and contradicted by their own advertising. People buy crypto without a real use for crypto because they think they can sell it for more later. Everyone under the
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by TimPC 3y ago
Abolishing patents is likely to substantially hinder innovation. Maybe if it is accompanied by reasonable changes to other processes. But without patent protection there is a zero reason to spend $2 billion to $3 billion to get a drug throu
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by TimPC 3y ago
If companies choose not to innovate and purchase their innovation instead that still creates a market for innovation and a source of funds for doing so. I'm far from convinced this is the case as most big tech companies have entire re
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by TimPC 3y ago
They aren't making a noticeable change to the system at all. This method challenges roughly 350 patents a year while roughly 300,000 patents are granted per year. That's in the area of 0.1% of all patents. I think these numbers
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by TimPC 3y ago
This is such hyperbole. If you're going to trade securities just register properly and follow the regulations. And yes crypto is a security. The SEC is just doing their job when they fail to register yet trade anyways.
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by TimPC 3y ago
It’s not a dysfunctional law. It seems perfectly reasonable for a company to have additional responsibilities as a seller of shares. It seems quite ludicrous for the company to be liable when a third party sells shares even if that third pa
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by TimPC 3y ago
Having a fixed supply does make something more valuable compared to a non-fixed supply. This has kind of been the story of the housing crisis in much of the Western world where NIMBYism and restrictive zoning have reduced the supply of hous
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by TimPC 3y ago
In all honesty while they rank the US as low on a corruption-scale globally they do capture a fair amount of the corruption in the US. The US has similar scores to Bhutan and Seychelles not Denmark and Canada. As for the case itself, it se
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by TimPC 3y ago
This definition fails badly because it doesn't test anything outside of language. At a bear minimum have the tests involved have pictures and descriptions in them and require the AI to use the same model to synthesize information from
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by TimPC 3y ago
Sure but I can find examples of this in both directions. GPT-4 fails spectacularly at any task that doesn't have very precisely sanitized inputs presented to it in a certain format. It also fails at any task requiring any sort of inte
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Sort of. Most common relocation packages vest over two years and cover some costs. Only the very best packages compensate you for the loss of money on your house in the market and I’ve yet to see any packages that compensate for inflation-a
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by TimPC 3y ago
The relevant distinction isn’t being a tool it’s how it is built. If you use a bunch of copyrighted material in the design of your tool and some of the material leaks into your answers that’s very different from building Microsoft Word.
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by TimPC 4y ago
This is more than minor. After not displaying the taxes properly which is already against the law at checkout they aren’t charging the correct VAT including charging 20% in a country with 19% VAT according to the article.
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by TimPC 4y ago
I think it depends. My best friend works at a company that took four years to architect and build V1 of its product on prem. They had to build a lot of things by hand that are standard components in the cloud. They architected and built V2
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by TimPC 4y ago
If you’re getting a 5% discount on $1 million per month you’d need to host using a team of 1.5 people at SF salaries and benefits to break even.

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