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by _b 6mo ago
If ordinary laws could redefine words in the constitution, then every constitutional right and protection you care about is undercut.
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by _b 6mo ago
Washington's constitution says: "The word 'property' as used herein shall mean and include everything, whether tangible or intangible, subject to ownership". That is extremely broad, and there is 90 years of precede
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by _b 6mo ago
Washington State’s constitution limits a tax like this to no more 1% and requires it to be uniform; this law meets neither requirement. I am uncomfortable that supporters of the income tax are so unbothered by it being unconstitutional. So
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by _b 3y ago
I think this is right, in part because I've been told exactly this from people who work for Google and their job is to sell me cloud stuff- i.e., they say they have so much internal demand they aren't pushing TPUs for external use
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by _b 3y ago
> There are obvious conflicts of interest here. There are almost always obvious conflicts of interest. In a normal startup, VCs have a legal responsibility to act in the interest of the common shares, but in practice, they overtly act in
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by _b 3y ago
I once worked somewhere where I found some evidence that the offsets we were considering buying were probably junk. The CEO agreed, bought them anyway, and proudly proclaimed to all staff how we were now a net-zero company. Junk offsets are
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by _b 3y ago
Making advanced LLMs and releasing them for free like this is wonderful for the world. It saves a huge number of folks (companies, universities & individuals) vast amount of money and engineering time. It will enable many teams to do re
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by _b 3y ago
We're adult enough to have discussions like this in public. They are healthy to have. People make mistakes. Kudos to the original authors for releasing the source code so people could inspect and replicate their results.
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by _b 3y ago
That is a good point. Are there modifications to the voting strike idea that would make it effective? For instance, what do you think about an "inverted-voting" strike instead? Everyone on strike does things roughly as normal, but
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by _b 3y ago
I think a "down-vote everything" strike could be highly successful. As long as enough users participate, it could cripple subs whose moderators didn't choose to participate. And it is fitting. Reddit is trying to charge its u
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by _b 3y ago
DOCSIS 3.1 has been out for 10 years, and I'd be happy if Xfinity just offered me those speeds. Compared to max speeds of the standard, Xfinity offers up to 12% the download speed and 3.5% upload speed.
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by _b 3y ago
Loser pays causes higher legal fees, because on average, one only has to pay half of one's own fees, and also because losing becomes more costly making it worth it to spend more to try to avoid losing.
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by _b 3y ago
Hart says "Amazon served me with a lawsuit,"[0] but it was Amazon who was sued by California citing Hart as a witness to support the lawsuit. Hart is having to go through discovery as part of that.[1][2] Amazon is allowed to do th
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by _b 3y ago
Yup. AWS never raises prices, assuming one ignores that one time they added the per-transaction fee to S3 shortly after launch, but I think everyone thought was a rather understandable change. Conventional wisdom is that AWS is more reliabl
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by _b 3y ago
Cloud providers raising prices is unsettling. Teams invest many person-years into building software on top of cloud services assuming certain prices. There is a lot of lock in there. Although it is hard to predict to what extent they will p
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by _b 4y ago
People aren't interchangeable. The company might want to layoff 10%, but they don't want to layoff just any 10%. They will want to layoff people in positions and teams that they want to do away with, and to the extent some people
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by _b 4y ago
Having a 7% unregretted attribution target is pretty different than a 7% layoff. Many (most?) of the folks who make up that 7% leave on their own, because both the employee and the company are on the same page that it isn't working out
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by _b 4y ago
Companies do layoffs in a dehumanizing way largely to avoid lawsuits. If individual managers communicate it, some might say something wrong and invite a lawsuit. Even if they don't say anything wrong, some of the people being laid-off
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by _b 4y ago
How does that follow? Unionized companies also do layoffs.
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by _b 4y ago
I'd be interested to see "C compiled with Clang" added as another language to the benchmark games. In part, digging into Clang vs gcc benchmarks is always interesting, and in part, as Rust & Clang share the same LLVM back
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by _b 5y ago
Don't write constructors that can fail unless it is failure that would be appropriate to crash for. That works out a lot better than it might naively sound. It is hard for people to reason about the possibility of constructors/des
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by _b 5y ago
I think the dilemma for C++ exceptions is that if the programmer actually thinks something should never happen, it is almost always better to just crash. But if the programmer thinks it might happen sometimes, then it is risky to predict it
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by _b 5y ago
20 years of taking pictures, but we'll be able to study the data it gathered, and benefit from discoveries it enabled, for an indefinite amount of time.
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by _b 5y ago
I checked gov.cn, and see it using "Mr. Xi" and "President". For example: https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/wjdt_665385/zyjh_665391/t11... But maybe I'm not really understand your poin
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by _b 5y ago
Most people in my life with a Phd choose to go by "Mr" as opposed to "Dr". All major news organizations I just checked, including Bloomberg, WSJ, and the BBC, call him "Mr. Xi" and not "Dr. Xi". Do yo
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by _b 5y ago
You might be conflating justifying the ostensible purpose of a policy with justifying its likely effects, and perhaps justifying its means. I think reducing inequality is great. But do you think Mr. Xi's initiative will meaningfully re
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by _b 5y ago
The unexpected $15.5 billion in spending on Xi Jinping's "common prosperity" initiatives was unsettling. It was only 10% of their net income for 2020, so not terrible as a one-time hit, but really drove home for me that the g
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by _b 5y ago
What? Everything in the STL works fine without exceptions. Only wrinkle is if one wants to handle out of memory in way besides crashing, although there is generally nothing better to do. Besides, the kernel will often kill processes rather
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by _b 6y ago
That is true only if making lotteries illegal made them nonexistent. In the United States, the legal lottery is arguably better than the widespread (illegal) "numbers game" it replaced.
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by _b 6y ago
By hashing data already in the processor's cache.

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