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by gwright 2y ago
FWIW, I read that to mean "not shared with the backend".
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by gwright 2y ago
One of the reasons that Apple does a bit of due diligence during the onboarding of a developer and establishing a developer agreement is to ensure they can reliably take legal action against developers that abuse the system. The possibility
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by gwright 2y ago
Scandinavia is not an example of socialism and these countries and aren't trying to implement "equity of outcomes".
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by gwright 2y ago
> We don't really need equality, we need an equitable outcome. Let's set aside for a moment that it isn't even clear that "equitable outcome" at the level of a society is desirable, lets just consider the fact th
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by gwright 2y ago
The Earth, without humans, has had much higher CO2 levels in the past and yet it isn't like Venus.
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by gwright 2y ago
Nope. I was asserting that confusion comes from people believing that a "lossless" conversion exists. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
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by gwright 2y ago
The biggest misunderstanding I see in these types of discussions is that there is a lossless conversion between binary floating point representation and decimal representation. Very few values have exact decimal and binary floating point re
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by gwright 2y ago
> the env work is just to prevent Venus #2 There is no science-based predictions that climate change as we understand it today, will lead to Venus #2. That idea is just fodder for climate hysteria and sci-fi fantasy films.
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by gwright 2y ago
> It's a race between turning into venus and turning into mad max's thunderdome. It is hard to tell how serious you are in that comment, but just in case, worrying about runaway greenhouse gas effect turning Earth into another
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by gwright 2y ago
> Ruby is slow and encourages an esoteric convention over configuration style of OO code. I think you are commenting on Rails, not Ruby when you refer to "convention over configuration". Even in Rails I'm not sure what &q
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by gwright 2y ago
> the professors are literally practicing communism and giving away the book for free. Ah, no. That isn't communism.
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by gwright 2y ago
Does your theory apply to the content consumed during the training of LLMs? If not why not? Where should we draw the line regarding intellectual property rights?
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by gwright 2y ago
> Would you criminalize 'approaching' someone That is a very misleading summarization. It is a short article. The law requires several conditions: * approach a police office * approach has to occur "knowingly or
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by gwright 2y ago
Your definition of "solved" is quite a bit different than my definition of "solved". Especially if you are going to just pretend that the economics aren't to be included in the solution.
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by gwright 2y ago
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by 90%. 90% of what? You can't just have 90% of power generated by renewables and 10% by fossil fuels because there are times when you get 0% from renewables and so your fossil fuel plants need
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by gwright 2y ago
You are trying hard to misunderstand me. Don't communicate as if it is a solved problem if your solution has yet to be actually been built and successfully demonstrates the feasibility of the solution. I'm not sure how to interpre
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by gwright 2y ago
I'm not saying it can't be done. I'm saying it hasn't been done yet. How about we try it before pretending that we can shift to 100% renewables or before legislating transitions that we don't know how to accomplis
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by gwright 2y ago
My guess is that a power grid engineer would include capacity factors, but I've never seen the mass media, politicians, or advocacy groups think like an engineer in this regard. Even making that adjustment it doesn't factor in sea
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by gwright 2y ago
You are correct that you can't create a stable, resilient grid just with intermittent renewables, you need storage. But I don't think anyone has demonstrated long-term storage at grid scale, capable of storing power across seasons
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by gwright 3y ago
I don't think I would describe Apple as a monopoly. But I would say that copyright and patent law helps tech companies, like Apple, by restraining competition.
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by gwright 3y ago
Any particular reason you are picking on US companies? or big companies? Most, if not all, monopolies are sustained by government via laws, regulations, and so on. So let's get specific, which monopolies do you think should be forced t
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by gwright 3y ago
Institutional reputation has never had much sway with me but what little it did have has pretty much evaporated of late.
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by gwright 3y ago
> But that's on the user. The user shouldn't get upset in that scenario and has no right to. I agree. I also agree that when dealing with large numbers of people, there will be people who don't understand this and/or
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by gwright 3y ago
You don't need a union to purchase this type of insurance for legal costs.
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by gwright 3y ago
> Do you really think your unique talents will save you from a lecherous boss or protect you from being discriminated against? I don't understand how a union helps with this vs. an attorney. Other reasons for unions, but these items
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by gwright 3y ago
I'm trying to understand what are the "hidden fees". Different fees, extra fees, annoying fees (when compared to some other country) I can wrap my head around those, but what fees are "hidden"?
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by gwright 3y ago
More resources for "normal" business. Laying off large number of people isn't normal business and so there would be no expectation you had HR/security resources just sitting around waiting for that type of an event.
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by gwright 3y ago
> We're about to enter a world where wind solar EV have the clear economic advantage over coal gas ice. I don't think this is true unless you assume some imminent improvement on grid scale power storage. News reports about how
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by gwright 3y ago
> Activism is activism regardless of whether it "strengthens individual rights" or not My comment wasn't very clear, but I was trying to communicate that recognizing that the Constitution is centered around the idea of a
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by gwright 3y ago
If everything is "activism" then nothing is "activism".

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