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by bjt 9d ago
These (and other TOS agreements) fall under the category of "adhesion contracts". Because the buyer has no real ability to negotiate, any ambiguity is resolved in their favor. A judge can also strike provisions that a reasonable b
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by bjt 14d ago
There are incentives other than marketing, but I doubt the SEO company referred to by the ancestor comment is planning to do lots of business in the political propaganda space.
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by bjt 19d ago
> We can't keep pretending it's normal for SCOTUS to decide everything about our society. That's not what this is. As the 9th Circuit points out, states already have quite extensive laws about gambling. We don't nee
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by bjt 1mo ago
I think they're saying that coffee is a healthier habit than soda.
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by bjt 1mo ago
The point you make is observed in compression too, though, once you start optimizing for certain use cases. When LAME encodes sound into an mp3 it doesn't give equal weight to all frequencies. It throws away data outside the range of h
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by bjt 1mo ago
In this case CDC = Changed Data Capture.
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by bjt 1mo ago
Yes, and to bring in another tired metaphor people make about AI agents, this is what you want an intern to do when they get stuck. Don't just churn indefinitely without an idea what the right direction is. Certainly don't go hack
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by bjt 1mo ago
Unlike the CIA and/or FBI being in charge of preventing attacks like 9/11, NSA and DHS aren't in charge of each state's or city's infrastructure. They could run some opt-in program that local governments could then
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by bjt 2mo ago
There must be agents already ordering Doordash meals or Uber rides.
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by bjt 2mo ago
I'm curious from the other direction; where do you see overlap between k8s and what's described on the Superlogical website?
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by bjt 2mo ago
Because at some point their emails about the firing will be subpoenaed, and if they lie about it now it's going to bite them harder later.
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by bjt 2mo ago
I don't think it's really that new, legally. Cows, dogs, and whatever have been escaping from people's land and damaging their neighbor's land for thousands of years. Cases like that get decided on standards of negligenc
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by bjt 2mo ago
I also thought that was weird. Then I learned it gets better. If you click through to the BBC article that was apparently their main source, the quote is this: > Alternatively, as Prof Barber explained, it can be compared to a single str
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by bjt 2mo ago
OK but, Postgres is not one of those clunky "we have to replace this" systems.
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by bjt 2mo ago
Except, a gallon is a gallon no matter which gas station I'm at. Also I know my car's gas mileage, and it doesn't change when I visit a Shell station instead of a Chevron. The composition of the gas is regulated, as are the p
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by bjt 3mo ago
Sometimes they are. The US Earned Income Tax Credit being probably the biggest example. https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/federal/earned-income...
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by bjt 3mo ago
It's not that bizarre. Not everyone is trying to optimize for maximum profit. Some creators or companies want to build a community by increasing the consumer surplus received by their buyers. They are willing to trade profit for that.
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by bjt 3mo ago
"SUV" is too broad a category. A RAV4 is an SUV. It's similarly sized to most of the SUVs I've seen in Europe. And a pedestrian getting hit by one would have a similar experience to getting hit by a sedan. It's noth
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by bjt 3mo ago
I agree with the "steal an ancient roman baby" premise. The "roman citizen" example is not as strong. Cognitive ability is not just genetics. The grown-up roman would be missing a lot of advantages during their upbringin
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by bjt 3mo ago
People eating lead in their food don't know it's there. People engaging with the AI built into Google results pages can see it, and assumedly Google's A/B testing showed that they engaged with it.
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by bjt 3mo ago
Good piece, but I think there's a missing angle to it. He cites a study showing how often people say they "use AI", and a little over 50% use it less than once per week. If we're just talking about AI chat interfaces, su
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by bjt 3mo ago
If you've ever watched an episode of "How It's Made" and seen how incredibly customized these machines are, it won't be surprising that the people who build them are proud of their work.
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by bjt 3mo ago
Slightly agree. :) I don't think handmade shoes are the right comparison, unless you're talking about software that's meant to be used by just one person. The more apt comparison might be to the engineers building and maintai
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by bjt 4mo ago
They tended to be solo productions, or sponsored by aristocratic patrons. Anyone suggesting that we could create movies, TV, music, or games on the scale we do today, without copyright, does not seem worth taking seriously.
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by bjt 4mo ago
The Claude Code client source was never their moat. There are plenty of other companies with equivalent tools (gemini cli, cursor cli, augment, codex, etc.) The models that it talks to are far more important. Not to say you're wrong ab
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by bjt 4mo ago
"frontier level" is doing a lot of work there, but the idea would be to only feed it earlier sources. There are people working on this. e.g. https://github.com/haykgrigo3/TimeCapsuleLLM
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by bjt 4mo ago
You're saying no one capitalizes software development costs anymore? The rest of the internet disagrees strongly. The finance team at my employer would disagree strongly. Accountants talk to dev teams all the time about how many hours
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by bjt 4mo ago
There are licensing laws already protecting the lawyers whose names appear on motions and briefs, but not much protection for the junior lawyers who will be impacted most. Big law, like the fancy consultancies, was historically built like a
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by bjt 4mo ago
> You’re literally describing all companies. No, not quite. It really comes down to opex vs capex and the depreciation schedule for your investment. Software development is typically categorized as capex, on a 3-5 year depreciation sched
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by bjt 4mo ago
Macs are very popular in schools today for teachers and staff. Switching to Macbook Neos for students would actually simplify their support burden. I'm not sure they'd be cost justified though. Source: My wife works IT for our sch

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