lakecresva

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by lakecresva 10mo ago
It seems pretty obviously machine generated, and the appearance of the word "metaphysics" in the output suggests the prompt author didn't know what they were talking about to begin with.
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by lakecresva 11mo ago
If it were just the imagery I don't think this would be such a huge flashpoint relative to something like tux or octocat (the github mascot).
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by lakecresva 3y ago
Thanks, this doesn't address what I said at all. What I said is that Dobbs refutes the idea that the Supreme Court's authority is limited to "interpreting situations where federal law does not already exist". There'
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by lakecresva 3y ago
> Despite AWFUL national and international reporting on the Supreme court, their powers are actually quite limited. Their authority is restricted to interpretation of situations where written federal laws do not already exist. This is pr
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by lakecresva 3y ago
> isn't salary dependent on job competition in the market Salary is dependent on the contents of the employment contract.
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by lakecresva 3y ago
What if I told you that the time and effort required to develop and deploy accurate tracking metrics for every employee's individual productivity and the negative externalities that would fall out of openly stratifying worker pay based
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by lakecresva 3y ago
Who are you even responding to? No one's arguing the science, they're talking about the size of the settlement relative to the corporation's financials.
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by lakecresva 3y ago
Does anyone actually think the trackpoint is superior to a modern trackpad like what apple is using? This seems like a fetish object with a vocal following.
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by lakecresva 3y ago
Sure, and their options include literally everything else on the market, including older macbooks. You're missing the point by a mile.
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by lakecresva 3y ago
Yes, the way consumers perceive your pricing matters. If you lose a key, you need to call a locksmith; it's rare that someone needs to buy a new apple laptop.
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by lakecresva 3y ago
Whoever/whatever owns the copyright to the underlying work(s) would need to sue to get the ball rolling. Current statutory law doesn't directly address copyright ownership with respect to the kinds of collaboration we see in open
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by lakecresva 3y ago
For what it's worth, the Federal Circuit, the Eleventh Circuit, and the Seventh Circuit have heard cases dealing with the GPL or some other open source license, and they all understood the big picture and were fine with it. (the cases
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by lakecresva 3y ago
> whereby the defendant is forced to share code against their will. This remedy of compelling a party to do something they agreed to do is called 'specific performance', and US courts only even consider doing this when real pro
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by lakecresva 4y ago
The entirety of IP law. I don't have to think of non-competes as patents or a way of protecting trade secrets, because patents and trade secrets have their own separate (and quite potent) legal protections.
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by lakecresva 4y ago
The punitives in that case were capped; the law of the land is that punitive damages exceeding ten times compensatory damages are presumptively unconstitutional, and the judge in that case slashed the suggested punitives by like 90% to put
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by lakecresva 4y ago
Those on the receiving end of SBF's generosity wouldn't want to send a message to future benefactors that their money won't actually get them what they want when the chips are down.
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by lakecresva 4y ago
> Prove that competitive pressures reduce margins and unbound risk reduces investment? Prove that any of the mechanisms you're describing are in play, in the way you claim they are. I'm sure every question you read becomes very
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by lakecresva 4y ago
> It is better because arbitration agreements in a competitive employment market makes wages to be pushed higher or consumer prices to be pushed lower. Prove it. A very small fraction of civil cases are resolved by jury verdict. If the p
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by lakecresva 4y ago
I'm still a datalog guy, but imo PRQL is indeed the nicest of the SQL family. Thanks for the hard work, and best of luck.
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by lakecresva 4y ago
> I understand many people do not "like" this kind of solution... Which in and of itself should be disqualifying. This would be so deeply unpopular and destabilizing that it's not even worth considering.
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by lakecresva 4y ago
This is definitely not true.
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by lakecresva 4y ago
> All laws make you less free I offer the 13th amendment (US) as a counterexample.
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by lakecresva 4y ago
If op is affiliated with texmacs, your website (texmacs.org) is down.
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by lakecresva 4y ago
Hell yeah. If we can't detect all fraud all the time, we shouldn't bother trying to detect any new forms of fraud that emerge.
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by lakecresva 4y ago
The syntax is consistent, I don't know about the semantics. The trade-off is that it becomes more difficult to glance at a piece of code and visually distinguish what's what.
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by lakecresva 4y ago
Datafrog doesn't use differential dataflow. Datafrog also requires you to do index management and joins manually, but it's very performant. Some of the join strategies are super optimized, but they don't allow for certain th
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by lakecresva 4y ago
> perhaps it wasn't the money or the articles Lol yeah, "perhaps" it wasn't. "Perhaps" proponents just spent that $200 million on the campaign for no reason.
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by lakecresva 4y ago
> does anyone really want it? It's probably safe to assume the people who need affordable housing want it.
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by lakecresva 4y ago
I guess we'll find out whether Zume's problem was not having enough former SpaceX engineers.
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by lakecresva 4y ago
> but even seven(!) years later it still feels like a pre-alpha language. Can you give any concrete examples of things that give you this impression?

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