lawtalkinghuman

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by lawtalkinghuman 18d ago
Someone having share options in a company means they have skin in the game, which means you can trust their opinions more. Someone betting—sorry, investing in a prediction market—means you can have even more confidence in their convictions.
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by lawtalkinghuman 4mo ago
I have tested Lexis AI once for a legal research point. I wasn't particularly keen on putting the exact details of an actual problem in, but I gave it a summary version. It didn't feel drastically different from using ChatGPT with
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by lawtalkinghuman 4mo ago
Just because the citation exists, what the LLM says it stands for and what it actually stands for are not the same. For testing, I've asked (admittedly last-gen) LLMs to generate legal opinions regarding issues in commercial English ci
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by lawtalkinghuman 4mo ago
It’s almost as if all the guardrails aren’t real.
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by lawtalkinghuman 5mo ago
The answer is: the market will work it out eventually. Clients will push for more work to be fixed-fee/outcome-based rather than billed hourly. There'll be some small firms who'll successfully grab lots of lower value clients
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by lawtalkinghuman 6mo ago
> That's why the EA guys are off beng quants. Or in prison for fraud.
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by lawtalkinghuman 6mo ago
Yes, that's the general rule. You then get lots of interesting exceptions and difficulties in applying that rule: who pays when you have multiple potential defendants (but some of them have died or gone out of business or are in a diff
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by lawtalkinghuman 7mo ago
If my goal is not seeing AI slop, I don't particularly care whether it is honestly labelled or not.
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by lawtalkinghuman 8mo ago
The difference is OneDrive is moderately useful.
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by lawtalkinghuman 8mo ago
> I think we must make it clear that this is not related to AI at all There are clear AI-specific reasons why it's being crammed down everybody's necks. Namely: someone in management has bet the entire strategy on it. The strat
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by lawtalkinghuman 8mo ago
Keeping the lights on is fine. But if they remove a feature I rely on, I can't put it back. If they add a feature I hate, I can't remove it. If they jack the price up, I have no real solution to this. If they move features I rely
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by lawtalkinghuman 8mo ago
> you'll slowly get dependent on things that will eventually break in ways you will have no capacity to fix If the commercial provider charging you $10 a month breaks it, you also have no capacity to fix it. Your options are: send t
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by lawtalkinghuman 8mo ago
Same in the UK. Votes close at 10pm. Might be a few stragglers left in the queue, so call it 10:15pm. (Exit poll results are embargoed until 10pm.) Ballot boxes are transferred from individual polling station to the location of the count. T
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by lawtalkinghuman 8mo ago
The actual data is being held by GPs, hospitals, other secondary care providers, and pharmacies. Enough of those providers use systems that all conform to a bunch of common standards and APIs that the NHS app can get that data (and the idea
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by lawtalkinghuman 9mo ago
The metaverse is clearly the future. Zuckerberg said so, after all. Browsers without metaverse integration will be a non-starter.
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by lawtalkinghuman 9mo ago
The metaverse is here to stay! Blockchain is the future! Without integrating metaverse and blockchain features into Firefox, Mozilla is at a significant disadvantage compared to other browsers. Don't get left behind!
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by lawtalkinghuman 9mo ago
Mozilla shouldn't need to worry about adoption numbers though.
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by lawtalkinghuman 9mo ago
They could even make the AI features available as extensions, downloadable from addons.mozilla.org That way, the users who want them can download them, and the users who don't, don't.
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by lawtalkinghuman 9mo ago
> the numbers speak for themselves What numbers? Have Mozilla published any numbers showing their AI experiments have been warmly received by users?
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by lawtalkinghuman 9mo ago
When I'm unconscious in an ambulance, I'm definitely in a position to appreciate all that price transparency the free market has provided, so I can rationally weigh up all my options calmly and objectively while my organs are shut
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by lawtalkinghuman 1y ago
Yes, but there would have to be an error of law in the High Court judgment. (And you'd usually appeal to the Court of Appeal first.)
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by lawtalkinghuman 1y ago
[citation needed] because that’s not how the OSA works.
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by lawtalkinghuman 3y ago
The reason people (myself included) rather like good Git commit messages is evident when one compares them to the alternative. You're working in a commercial/closed source environment and want to find out why line 57 in src/b
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by lawtalkinghuman 3y ago
In addition to the RSPCA example, banks/financial institutions bring a fair number of complex fraud prosecutions because it is in their financial interest to prosecute people who've defrauded them. But private prosecutions are ind
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by lawtalkinghuman 3y ago
pex is a build tool built on the top of the zip trick. A pex file doesn't contain a bundled interpreter, but it zips up the entire virtualenv. Also no Windows support. https://pex.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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by lawtalkinghuman 3y ago
Central Line is due next ~2030. Then Bakerloo: ~2033. It's kind of reasonable to deprioritise the Bakerloo, even as someone who used to use the Bakerloo very frequently. Bakerloo gets significantly less usage than other lines: Piccadil
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by lawtalkinghuman 3y ago
Court dress isn't based on seniority—it is based on which court you're in. If you're working in criminal practice, it's pretty routine. If you're doing civil or commercial work, it's not quite as frequent. Curr
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by lawtalkinghuman 3y ago
Yup, I do. It's a great place to talk to myself and nobody else. A bunch of people I know who play video games are on Telegram. I'm pointing out that I can talk to them without sharing my phone number which I can't do on What
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by lawtalkinghuman 3y ago
Meanwhile WhatsApp and Signal's privacy model ensures everyone you talk to has your phone number which means they have the ability to make your device buzz at any time of the day and night. It also excludes people who do not have a pho
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by lawtalkinghuman 3y ago
I mean, contractual terms that are implied by statute exist. In English consumer contract law—which since 2015 has been extended due to the EU Consumer Rights Directive to cover digital content—includes an implied term that the goods are of

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