pdonis

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by pdonis 5d ago
If they're not being held legally liable, then I would not agree that "no one is confused about the liability". Sure, I agree with your analogy with a machine cutting off a finger, but you and I are just two people gabbing on
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by pdonis 5d ago
> I'm pretty sure everyone knows that OpenAI is liable for the software they create and run. Are they? What legal consequences have they suffered?
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by pdonis 5d ago
> This is tortured logic that would argue the Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to most police departments in the country Not at all. The Fourth Amendment does not specify any specific level of government. It gives general requiremen
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by pdonis 5d ago
> The Supreme Court has applied the Fourteenth Amendment to municipal action since at least Yick Wo That case was about a city ordinance (true, a city ordinance, not a State law that the city was enforcing, so that much is a fair point
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by pdonis 7d ago
Running a proxy server and running a botnet, at least.
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by pdonis 7d ago
AFAIK most people's contract with their ISP includes fine print that forbids a lot of the nasty things these IoT and "smart" devices do.
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by pdonis 8d ago
All of it. The theoretical work that showed this was done in the 1960s and early 1970s by Feynman, Deser, and others. One of the key insights was figuring out how to reformulate the theory so that it did not require an infinite series of te
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by pdonis 8d ago
> One of the key challenges with quantizing gravity is in how the terms in the expressions resulting from analyzing the Feynman diagram interactions behave [4] which prevent them being renormalized. Not being renormalizable actually is
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by pdonis 8d ago
> SR doesn't consider acceleration As I said, this is not correct. Early on, in the first years after Einstein published his papers, there were physicists who believed this (and IIRC Einstein was initially one of them), but that w
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by pdonis 9d ago
> The Dirac equation and Quantum Electro Dynamics (QED) unify quantum mechanics and special relativity And more generally the Standard Model, which includes the weak and strong interactions. The SM is a quantum field theory, which, as
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by pdonis 9d ago
The city is not a State. The Fourteenth Amendment says that States shall not abridge the privileges and immunities of citizens. As the court's opinion points out (and as others have pointed out in this thread), there are plenty of ot
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by pdonis 9d ago
The city is not a State, so that clause would not apply to it. Unless you want to argue that the State of Mississippi was violating the Fourteenth Amendment by not requiring its cities to provide clean water (the article mentions that a f
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by pdonis 9d ago
Incorporation of the Bill of Rights doesn't extend any powers granted by the Constitution to the Federal government, to state, county, city, etc. governments. It just says those governments (well, the State governments, since the Ame
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by pdonis 9d ago
> The Fourteenth Amendment explicitly constrains states It says states can't make laws that abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens. It does not say states have to provide whatever services citizens would like to have.
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by pdonis 9d ago
> The Preamble explicitly states that the Constitution is for these six things. The Constitution establishes the Federal government. Not state, county, city, municipal governments. It says what the Federal government is for. Not wh
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by pdonis 13d ago
I assume you're not including Pluto-Charon here (presumably since Pluto is now demoted to "dwarf planet")? Their mass ratio is only about 8:1, which is far smaller than Earth-Moon, 81:1.
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by pdonis 15d ago
Perhaps a server run by a large corporation could do this. Perhaps. But an ordinary person? I don't see it. If it's tough for an ordinary person to handle safely opening a port in their firewall for forwarding, it's tough squ
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by pdonis 15d ago
> NAT and a firewall are 2 different things Exactly. Which is the issue with saying, as the article does, that NAT is the reason most people don't have an Internet visible server, when the real reason is that their computers need
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by pdonis 16d ago
The Sun's gravitational pull on the Moon is always stronger than the Earth's. (Do the math and see--on average the Sun's pull is more than twice as strong as the Earth's.) So the net acceleration of the Moon is always to
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by pdonis 16d ago
As I understand it, one suggested "double planet" definition was that the barycenter would have to be outside both objects. Earth-Moon doesn't (quite) satisfy that condition, but for example, Pluto-Charon does.
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by pdonis 16d ago
> most of the time they are unwanted users trying to break in. Exactly. Of all the reasons why the average person doesn't have an Internet-visible server, NAT, I would say, is pretty far down on the list.
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by pdonis 16d ago
Since the Moon's orbit is always concave towards the Sun, one could even argue that the Moon is a planet, not a satellite, it just happens to have an orbit that is closely coupled to that of another planet, Earth. As I understand it,
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by pdonis 16d ago
I sympathize to an extent with Leavis's anger, but also with Snow's reaction. As you note, Leavis represents bad aspects of the humanities as much as Snow, in Leavis's view, represents bad aspects of science (or perhaps &quot
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by pdonis 17d ago
We have a Ring doorbell that hooks into the actual chime that the old doorbell used, so it still preserves the old doorbell's functionality[1]. I can understand not wanting to buy into the Ring ecosystem (we started using them before t
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by pdonis 17d ago
The lawful way for law enforcement to enter a home is to get a search warrant (or whatever the EU equivalent is) and show it to the owner, who then lets them in because that's what the law requires. No need for law enforcement to eve
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by pdonis 17d ago
> I don’t want to stop the bots from updating their knowledge based on all the content. Why not? At this point, any attempt to try to meet the bots halfway is doomed.
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by pdonis 17d ago
Is there a version of this that doesn't force me to click through slides with very little content on each one, as if I were in kindergarten? To whoever wrote this: I can read.
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by pdonis 19d ago
> you are still arguing against things I never said You said the singularity is a point in space. That's what I'm arguing against. The rest was an attempt to try to help you understand the correct physics. Evidently it was wa
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by pdonis 19d ago
The GP is not saying the small entity pays the bond. The GP is saying the big entity that wants the content taken down (in this case Microsoft and TracerAI) pays the bond, and forfeits it if a counter notice is issued.
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by pdonis 19d ago
If there is any non-empty subset that has no smallest element, then the ordering in question is not a well-ordering. You can of course define some subsets of the reals that do have a smallest element in the standard ordering, for exampl

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