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by nocoiner 10mo ago
I’m sorry, I am not seeing that at all at the link. I am surely missing something, but can you cut/paste what you are seeing on this point?
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by nocoiner 10mo ago
That’s basically just the benefits of limited liability, that has nothing to do with AI personhood. And you’re basically just describing the formation of a legal entity, the reference to AGI could just as easily be replaced with “talented f
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by nocoiner 10mo ago
Good for the AI (though who are its stockholders or the members of its board of directors?), but not so great, perhaps, for all the individuals who enabled it, who might now all be deemed to be partners in a general partnership with the AI
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by nocoiner 10mo ago
This is good advice. Also running a quick function can be quicker than opening up excel, fiddling with a cell, etc. (my excel skills are obviously at-best rudimentary). And it’s a cool moment when RPN finally “clicks” and figure out how to
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by nocoiner 10mo ago
I think this is about right. About a quarter-century ago, airbus finally became a manufacturer that could go head to head with the 737 and win more often than not. Since then they’ve generally gone from strength to strength while Boeing has
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by nocoiner 10mo ago
What are you talking about? Which airframe scandal?
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by nocoiner 11mo ago
Sometimes you can. A decade or so ago when California ran out of money, they issued warrants to their payees, and lots of banks accepted those at face value.
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by nocoiner 11mo ago
That actually sounds pretty reasonable to me. I’d love to see the cost curve come down some more on the next 10 plants after that, but if this comes anywhere close to panning out, seems like a net benefit.
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by nocoiner 11mo ago
Lots of things enshrined in statute (appropriations, prohibitions on impoundment, the name of the Department of Defense) have been disregarded in this year of our lord 2025.
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by nocoiner 11mo ago
Oh, that’s a shame. I liked those programs.
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by nocoiner 11mo ago
This seems … way better than what I expected following the acquisition? What am I missing? And I assume this is a supplement to (and not a replacement of) the existing Affinity applications?
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by nocoiner 11mo ago
Skimming 3% on OPM is still a pretty, pretty good business.
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by nocoiner 11mo ago
This sounds great as long as they’re going to build more than, like, four reactors for $80 billion.
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by nocoiner 11mo ago
Jesus Christ. I felt my own heart skip a beat every time the sequence “I nearly died from a malfunctioning heart, and 48 hours later, went for a run” repeated itself. Take care of yourself, dude. Still kinda feels like you’re pushing yourse
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by nocoiner 11mo ago
Mobies Dick.
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by nocoiner 11mo ago
I had to replace my home HVAC system this year and went with a variable speed system. It was eye-wateringly expensive, but it works much much much better than the system that was in here before, and completely obviated my concerns about siz
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by nocoiner 11mo ago
No no no, you don’t get it, it’s not a “bailout,” it’s simply a “magic bean repurchase facility” whereby dollars are made available to holders of magic beans. When the magic beans sprout and reach the sky, the profit could be considerable.
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by nocoiner 11mo ago
Here, I’ll give you this one for free: it’s called tortious interference. As the name suggests, it’s a tort, so you don’t need to sign a contact to be liable.
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by nocoiner 11mo ago
Tracing ownership of land back 400 years to some Spanish land grant…
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by nocoiner 11mo ago
Reminds me of the plugin I used to have that replaced every instance of “millennials” with “snake people” and every instance of “Great Recession” with “Time of Shedding and Cold Rocks.”
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by nocoiner 11mo ago
I too am squeamish and while I agree that the piece was very well written, it was too much for me. I had to tap out during the part about 18th/19th century grafting experiments. Just too much for me lol. Will probably pick this back up
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by nocoiner 11mo ago
I really cannot understand why an “all of the above” approach to energy production has basically no political salience. I guess because it has something for someone of any political stripe to dislike (fossil fuels, nuclear, renewables and s
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by nocoiner 11mo ago
It’s that funny intersection where abstractions meet the real world. We assume that the guy with the keys collecting the rent checks is authorized to lease it out because it’s just too expensive to assume otherwise. But sometimes that assum
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by nocoiner 11mo ago
When I was listening to some of the samples on the page you linked (pronunciation of “when”), it really seemed to me like the difference they were highlighting was how much the “h” was pronounced. Even knowing what I was listening for, it w
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by nocoiner 11mo ago
Imagine if this guy had run the malicious code and transferred ownership of his house. Oops.
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by nocoiner 11mo ago
Apparently not until early next year. I was surprised by this too, but I hadn’t really been following the rumors at all, so I didn’t really have any grounds for being surprised by this.
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by nocoiner 11mo ago
I’m aware of the merger, but I literally can’t hear a difference between the words. I certainly pronounce them the same way. I also think merry-marry-Mary are all pronounced identically. The only way I can conceive of a difference between t
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by nocoiner 11mo ago
Wickard v. Fillburn, the aggregate effects test - in the aggregate, growing your own corn affects interstate commerce, so therefore it is interstate commerce.
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by nocoiner 11mo ago
Don’t worry, this is just the version for the proles, the higher caste kids will have actual humans playing Santa on the other end of their phones.
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by nocoiner 11mo ago
The beginning of Blade Runner 2049 was a succinct depiction of the eternal struggle between Big Solar and the local grub farmers.

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