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by mark212 2mo ago
no, their customers. Why do you assume that people who run websites are clueless and lack agency in this?
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by mark212 2mo ago
no, they're giving tools to their customers who can choose freely to block or not block bots. Without those tools, the people who run sites and offer content are just flying blind. I struggle to see how this is a bad thing in any way
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by mark212 4mo ago
as the article notes, prediction markets are regulated by the CFTC as a commodities futures contract, so I'm not sure how any state law survives a federal pre-emption challenge. On the other hand, it's a little unusual to see a fe
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by mark212 5mo ago
Bizarre and baffling -- an entire post about AI agents for coding and not a single mention of OpenAI, Codex, or ChatGPT (any model). Not that I'm shilling for them in any way, but the consensus among Twitterati is that Codex is better
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by mark212 11mo ago
more than history -- early, massive investment in OpenAI by Microsoft and formerly their exclusive compute provider. This stood out to me too, seems like a months-long project with heavy use of Claude
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by mark212 1y ago
seems like "not yet" is the answer from other comments
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by mark212 1y ago
the victim did have a choice of lawyers, far beyond a "luxury." Don't know if you live in the US or not, but it's hard to avoid personal injury attorney advertising in virtually every forum. More specifically, there are
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by mark212 1y ago
there is no court where I have ever practiced that would accept a watermark of any kind at whatever percentage or color. And he didn't need to ask, it's right there in the rules (state and local). Every court has extremely detaile
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by mark212 2y ago
you really have to try it. On a flight to Hawaii in October, I was getting speeds of 300+ mbps and latency that felt like my home wifi. It's just seamless and feels like an entirely different product than any other connectivity I'
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by mark212 2y ago
Bad analogy. Sam has no stock in OpenAI or any sort of formal controlling interest. His power is solely informal: his own talents and abilities and the loyalty of the other employees. Regardless of the truth of the matters, the episode is a
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by mark212 3y ago
Maybe it's because I'm American, but my first thought was ... there's a separate building and it's just the stairs? So if they sold it, how would the people in the building next door get up and down? How does a structure
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by mark212 3y ago
Amazon's investment in Alexa is a perfect example of why Apple didn't (and shouldn't have) invested all of their resources into Siri. The Alexa team is getting seriously gutted in these rounds of downsizing [1], or as CNBC pu
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by mark212 4y ago
The leisure market is huge for airships, in my opinion. Think of the same people that go on cruises to Antartica, but flying gently and at much lower altitude than a plane, over wild and scenic parts of the world. With luxury accommodations
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by mark212 4y ago
you're right, in fact in California state courts it's required to submit a proposed order with a motion. But no, each judge generally does NOT get to write their own rules of formatting. Districts (at the federal level) go to grea
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by mark212 4y ago
I've been practicing for 28 years across the country, admitted in two states and nine federal district courts. I've never seen an order like this and in fact have never seen a judge permit a "letter brief" like the origi
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by mark212 5y ago
What I can’t seem to find the answer to in this very long and stream-of-consciousness style series of posts is why the author thinks the FAA is the only relevant federal agency. They complain constantly about violating NEPA and accuse the F
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by mark212 5y ago
I agree with you. This is poorly written, random snark. It seems sort of plausible but it’s like looking at a pile of Lego and thinking “Yeah, maybe you could make a Millennium Falcon from this I think?”
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by mark212 5y ago
It doesn’t. I appreciate that the author wants to tackle big themes, but there was so much hand-waiving and wishful thinking about how people want to live and choose to live that it really undermined the plausibility of the plot. I did appr
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by mark212 6y ago
You’re right for cities and counties (and the state itself) in California. None are allowed to operate at a deficit, hence the creation of the state “rainy day fund” by Gov. Brown after the 2008 recession which has worked very well in tempe
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by mark212 6y ago
My information is 15+ years old and maybe they changed it. or maybe it’s Canadian citizens and not just residents. And yes the US is only one of two countries in the world that taxes income earned abroad by its citizens. Can be incredibly b
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by mark212 6y ago
If your point is that at least a dozen or so elected pols thought it worth doing this as a “virtue signaling” exercise, then yes I agree. Not sure it has all that much chance of dissuading rich folks from coming. I honestly don’t know who i
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by mark212 6y ago
I’ve heard from Canadian friends that this exists for Canadian residents who want to move out of the country. At an almost confiscatory rate too. But as I note in another comment, AB 2088 didn’t even get a vote in committee so it’s hardly a
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by mark212 6y ago
This is such a misleading essay. AB 2088 (to tax net worth over $30 million at 0.4%) was a gut-and-replace two weeks before the end of the session which never even got a vote in committee.[1] It hardly reflects the will of the Assembly, muc
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by mark212 6y ago
No it was a piece of cake. Exactly like the dentist’s assistant did it at the office, with likely the same putty. Tray looked the same too.
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by mark212 6y ago
I just got my first guard from Clearclub and it fits great. Less than 1/10 the price (I think $90 for a year, get a new one every six months) and the same polymer tray molds that the dentist uses. Might be worth a shot. I’ve had severa
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by mark212 6y ago
agreed, seems like running your own server just for a blog is really overkill and has a lot of overhead for no reason
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by mark212 6y ago
Not disagreeing, but the post is titled "Self-Hosting a Blog" which I would assume means that the blog author has already made the decision not to use GitHub or Netlify (for some reason, don't know why). The truly cheap would
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by mark212 7y ago
the password is the last part: p/q2-q4! it's a notational way in the chess program (written by Ken Thompson) to describe a chess move, "pawn from Queen's 2 to Queen's 4." A very common opening move that "p
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by mark212 7y ago
Not one single misspelled word in a dozen tweets from 6-8 different accounts? BORG
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by mark212 7y ago
What this guide leaves out is the most important part: getting a bank account. I can’t speak to the process in the U.K. but in the United States the “know your customer” rules are quite strict and accounts for businesses are doubly so. Just

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