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by erosenbe0 1y ago
Culture argument can be argued effectively as follows: If a cohort in Japan has a median score of X at median household income Y, the American cohort with same median score X has income closer to 1.25Y or 1.5Y. Whether you want to define yo
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by erosenbe0 1y ago
Median, normal lead exposure for toddlers in the 1960s and 1970s in any urban or suburban area would be 99th percentile by today's standards due to leaded gasoline vapors (and lack of awareness about paint dust). So the crime hypothesi
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by erosenbe0 1y ago
Primary source of exposure in Chicago is from household dust contaminated by old paint. Water is secondary or tertiary issue, but can be bad. The article is a bit off the mark as they did not interview the Chicago DPH inspectors who respond
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by erosenbe0 3y ago
True. Designer I worked with believes the eyes focus easier on text if there is a small amount of low contrast fuzz surrounding it. I don't know if that is based on science but it seems plausible at least on white backgrounds.
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by erosenbe0 3y ago
I second the reply about incentives. Funding curriculum materials and professional curriculum development is often seen as more of a K-12 thing. There is not even enough at the vocational level. If big competitive grants and competitive sal
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by erosenbe0 3y ago
For profit subsidiaries can totally influence the nonprofit shell without penalty. Happens all the time. The nonprofit board must act in the interest of the exempt mission rather than just investor value or some other primary purpose. Other
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by erosenbe0 3y ago
I don't really think this is true in non-charity work. Half of American hospitals are nonprofit and many of the insurance conglomerates are too, like Kaiser. The executives make plenty of money. Kaiser is a massive nonprofit shell for
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by erosenbe0 3y ago
Yep, the lay audience conceives of AGI as being a handyman robot with a plumber's crack or maybe an agent that can get your health insurance to stop improperly denying claims. How about an automated snow blower?Perhaps an intelligent w
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by erosenbe0 3y ago
Being first to openly generate from billions of copyrighted documents would not have been a sane move for Google's management.
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by erosenbe0 3y ago
Seems unusual for a nonprofit not to have a written investigative report or performance review conducted by a law firm or auditor. Similar to what happened with Stanford's ousted president but more expedited if matters are more pressin
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by erosenbe0 3y ago
First mover advantage and Microsoft integration is nothing to sneeze at.
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by erosenbe0 3y ago
That's not quite right. However, before explaining, it is moot because OpenAI's for-profit subsidiary probably captures most of the value anyway. The nonprofit shell exists because the founders did not want to answer to shareholde
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by erosenbe0 3y ago
Does the time change for you with season and light exposure? I sometimes experience this sort of thing too, where I will have a consistent window of productivity at an unusual time, but it never lasts for a more than a few months.
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by erosenbe0 3y ago
That's fairly common. Think back to old school paper workflows or studying for school. Some people can concentrate with 5 books open and papers strewn all over the place. Others can't stand to have but one book open and one sheet
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by erosenbe0 3y ago
Basically, copyright is not too different from other paper assets like publicly traded stocks. There is little intrinsic moral imperative for profit-seeking entities to make filings based on government mandated accounting principles and to
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by erosenbe0 3y ago
Yes, thanks, as to copyright you are correct. I believe unless chattel is involved, it is called unauthorized reproduction and duplication rather than theft. As to the telecom aspect, it can go either way. In Canada, it is considered theft
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by erosenbe0 3y ago
Certainly it is a crime in Canada too, so I think the answer is no---theft of telecommunications is broadly criminalized to prevent mafia-type involvement.
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by erosenbe0 3y ago
Copyright is a property right. It is not unreasonable for theft of property to carry the possibility of criminal charges. This is not strictly done in service of big media---if organized crime rings come in to town and do a ton of rogue hoo
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by erosenbe0 3y ago
Bell Labs, GE, IBM, Philco, RCA, and other bigtime tech labs were spread across the [upstate] NY to Philadelphia region. These areas were expensive, unionized and had issues with racial integration. SV until the early 1960s was not run by u
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by erosenbe0 3y ago
Very true. But--Economic scales and incentives are artificial and must be tuned. For example, the USA has a badly regulated medical system that refuses to train doctors efficiently, so medical care is overpriced. 18 year-olds who want to be
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by erosenbe0 3y ago
Largely agree, but it's not clear at this point who will control the AI future. SV elites today are like NYC/NJ/Philly elites of the 1960s. They have the momentum and the capital but the cost of doing business, red tape, and
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by erosenbe0 3y ago
That would clearly be an antitrust violation or deceptive business practice in one or more countries. Though by the time they get penalized for it, the damage would have been done.
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by erosenbe0 3y ago
Banks are not the target of this. If Banks do something that inhibits people with disabilities, corporate account managers with disabilities, or senior citizens, they will get skewered. They will tread carefully.
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by erosenbe0 3y ago
If McDonald's required 12 year-olds to use an ordering app because their banknotes might be stolen, would that be a reasonable compromise? Foreclosing the possibility of children not being tracked (which is illegal, btw) in exchange fo
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by erosenbe0 3y ago
One of the highest stresses on passives and power components occurs when there is an inrush of current (di/dt) or a voltage spike (dv/dt), which can occur on power cycling or plug in. So it is not a myth that hard reboots can be s
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by erosenbe0 3y ago
Protest is easy and involves the ADA and COPPA. 1) You cannot all of a sudden provision content differently to a user who has an unapproved device with their preferred accessibility stack and/or hardware. 2) Even if attestation does no
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by erosenbe0 3y ago
VT420 must have had a good crt design. They'd run 18 hours a day as catalog terminals in university libraries with no problems. I'm sure most made 5 years with only minor brightness or contrast loss. Good solution with minimal ser
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by erosenbe0 3y ago
Pretty much. This makes it simpler to wrap C libraries and it is partly why Python became successful back in the day.
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by erosenbe0 3y ago
Cherrypicked raw death counts are a lobbyist measuring scheme, not social science. For example, if self-driving cars end up being prone to hitting children darting out on to city streets in new and unpredictable ways, then you have created
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by erosenbe0 3y ago
Single pane windows, lead pipe, lead paint, knob and tube electrical, no sump pumps, no drainage tile, no Tyvek, clay chimneys, poor insulation, poorly ventilated attics, creaky floors, etc. Old houses have a lot of inferior elements. Sure,

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