jellicle

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by jellicle 11mo ago
> Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. The two go out to dinner one night, and next week they both do
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by jellicle 1y ago
We are going to have an ever-increasing supply of stories along the lines of "used a LLM to write a contract; contract gave away the company to the counterparty; now trying to get a court to dissolve the contract". Sure you'l
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by jellicle 1y ago
So, HN has deleted this off the front page after about 20 minutes, and sure, they generally want to avoid "political" stories but the simple fact is that when a "political" story reaches a certain legal of magnitude it b
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by jellicle 1y ago
Trump to Bukele, 2025-04-14: Trump: they demand you, they love you, they love what you do... Bukele: {something about supporters} Trump: you know what I want to do? Home-grown criminals are next. {louder, to his senior staff in the room} I
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by jellicle 2y ago
The problem is both US political parties would strongly oppose any attempt to "get people in the streets", making it very challenging for any such protesters.
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by jellicle 2y ago
Two or three very small opsec failures equals one massive opsec failure.
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by jellicle 2y ago
Yeah. The only lesson that would be learned from a bunch of tablets depicting agonizing death to those who approach would be "I'll make sure to send the low-paid workers in first before I go in".
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by jellicle 2y ago
If you've honestly never seen the types of leaders envisioned in this article you are very lucky indeed. For a large majority of supervisors, if you give them carefully-worded, polite, respectful, private, accurate, truthful, ego-prese
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by jellicle 2y ago
Over and over we've seen the same financial scam play out: a) company starts up that explicitly avoids being a bank b) company does something where some amount of money is placed in FDIC-insured banks, and it TRUMPETS on its website: &
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by jellicle 2y ago
The California school curriculum includes and has always included algebra.
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by jellicle 2y ago
The "rigorous supplier vetting" of any corporation consists of checking which supplier is charging the least.
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by jellicle 2y ago
The definition of "liberal" being used here by The Hill is "voting with the Democratic Party". Their definitional left end of the spectrum is "bills put up by the Democrats" and definitional right end of the sp
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by jellicle 2y ago
Article writer does not understand how significant figures work or why they exist.
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by jellicle 2y ago
The idea that the human race will never exactly agree on what is "true" is correct and obvious. The opinion expressed here that nothing has changed in the world recently about how truth and politics are handled is false. With the
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by jellicle 2y ago
Based on other mass extinctions, we can expect ten+ million years of very low life diversity during this extinction that we're causing. So, for a period much longer than humans have been around (which you describe as "the interim&
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by jellicle 2y ago
Probably the easiest way would have been to draw a line around each factory in the US, declare that those now counted as outside-US for emissions purposes, and then declare that now the US was a zero-emissions country. Done and dusted, prob
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by jellicle 2y ago
Luckily for the government, the law doesn't say "monopoly" or require them to prove there is only one company operating. The law just says that anyone that has market power (which one might have with only a tiny percent of th
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by jellicle 2y ago
Luckily for the government, the law doesn't say "monopoly" or require them to prove there is only one company operating. The law just says that anyone that has market power (which one might have with only a tiny percent of th
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by jellicle 2y ago
> which are the point of the concern. Well, that's not in evidence here. There is maybe one commenter total in this thread other than myself who is NOT commenting as if these are real debts, that cannot be paid off since "the U
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by jellicle 2y ago
The UK, which creates UK pounds, can pay off these UK pound debts any time it likes; any day between lunch and tea time that it decides to do so, it can. Discussions of sovereign debts as if they were the same as debts owed by individuals a
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by jellicle 2y ago
"my retirement is safe and secure, I've invested with Crypto401K"
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by jellicle 2y ago
The bulk of content on Youtube today is some stock video footage, an AI-generated script read by a computer voice. Maybe a human spends a few minutes cutting together the video footage? But almost entirely automated spam designed to feed Yo
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by jellicle 2y ago
Yes, at great expense, we bring in tons of life-sustaining supplies from habitable parts of Earth so that people can live briefly at the South Pole or on top of Everest. In the absence of those supplies, of course everyone on Everest or the
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by jellicle 2y ago
Seems much more likely that in the US at least, fossil fuel interests will push for taxes on solar installations and usage to bring their costs up to the level of oil and gas.
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by jellicle 2y ago
What solution do you propose for the noisy child on a plane? Throw them out?
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by jellicle 2y ago
One of the reasons that people like many tourist destinations is that many tourist destinations forbid most outdoor advertising. It's subtle, probably many tourists don't even realize it, but it changes the entire feel of a place.
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by jellicle 2y ago
"The Congress shall have Power To ... regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;" How is the power to regulate commerce not an enumerated power of Congress?
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by jellicle 2y ago
The legislature (US Congress) has specifically given the FTC the legal authority to regulate and prevent unfair and anti-competitive practices by corporations, employees, etc., including by banning those practices, fining the entities invol
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by jellicle 2y ago
Yes, the SEC and FDA and EPA and all similar regulatory agencies are headed for the chopping block too. You only need one judge to say so. And yes, the quality of the reasoning is going to be just as bad. Sure, Congress passed a law which s
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by jellicle 2y ago
Well, that ought to reduce tech worker pay another 10% or so.

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