sillystu04

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by sillystu04 1y ago
Isn't this a matter of tort law rather than regulation?
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by sillystu04 1y ago
> Without renters there would be no housing Ponzi scheme If by "housing Ponzi scheme" you mean house prices increasing then this isn't necessarily true. Even in a world where private renting was illegal and people were for
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by sillystu04 1y ago
That sounds dangerously close to victim blaming. Obviously if Co-op were negligent in their handling of member data they're also guilty of something. But even the best organisations have some level of exposure to phishing related attac
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UK launches new EV grant with discount of up to £3750(autocar.co.uk)
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by sillystu04 1y ago
My understanding is that V2G (vehicle to grid) requires transfer switches etc to be installed to your home electrical setup so you don't accidentally backfeed electricity into the grid. So it's never going to be a simply a matter
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by sillystu04 1y ago
> Only a completely closed-off environment with no access to the internet could prevent this. Even then, an LLM running locally could still operate.
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by sillystu04 1y ago
To play devils advocate, a lack of sanctions also allows countries to advance technology at a tremendous velocity. The Ford Motor Company's dealings in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union significantly helped the adoption of mass product
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by sillystu04 1y ago
> To me buying new cars is just throwing away money Why should a car manufacturer care about your preferences if you're never going to buy new from them? It's annoying but people like us who care about things like TCO are proba
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by sillystu04 1y ago
> Beyond that, the chinese EV brands are in market capture mode right now. The competition is cut throat and the margins are extremely thin. BYD is profitable. Admittedly that's more of an exception than a rule for Chinese EV brands
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by sillystu04 1y ago
Perhaps the next big programming language will be designed specifically for LLM friendliness. Some things which are human friendly like long keywords are just a waste of tokens for LLMs, and there could be other optimisations too.
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by sillystu04 1y ago
The Romans never referred to the Greeks, Jews or Egyptians as barbarian. If they did it certainly wasn't with great frequency. It almost always targeted at the tribal Anglo, Celtic or Germanic peoples. And in these circumstances it was
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by sillystu04 1y ago
Quite the opposite. AI will enable the creation of ever more macros and guide users to make even more elaborate pivot tables.
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by sillystu04 1y ago
They've adopted a different flavour of devilishness. See VSCode versus Visual Studio, or their approach to AI. Bill Gates would've bought OpenAI. Satya shares their mission of developing AI for the good of humanity. He charitably
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by sillystu04 1y ago
In hindsight, it would've been worthwhile for Microsoft to tolerate heavy losses for a decade on Windows phone. Like they did with Bing or Azure. In the 2020s every serious app developer from Epic to Spotify to Facebook to Tinder is de
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by sillystu04 1y ago
I suspect it's more of a human nature problem. Perhaps a good work culture might allow you to delay its oncoming slightly past 7 people - but eventually all large social groups get political dynamics.
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by sillystu04 1y ago
There are performance benefits to using DB functions in situations where you'd otherwise have to pull lots of data out of the DB. For example, if you wanted to find which of your sessions where created with iPV6 addresses you could sel
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by sillystu04 1y ago
In fairness, FTX had a profitable bankruptcy [1]. So it's still better to be scammed by Jane Street alumni than to be scammed by the usual alumni of Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan etc [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/a
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by sillystu04 1y ago
When companies were operated by royal charter and owned by aristocrats there wasn’t much meaningful distinction between dividends and taxation. > They also had no euro, no socialist EU and no self-imposed limitations on energy conversion
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by sillystu04 1y ago
That’s never been the European way of doing things. You can’t beat America at being America. From the East India Companies to Airbus, strong European companies have been made around strong European states.
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by sillystu04 1y ago
> They can use their bank account to buy crypto and then pay the ransom. This is actually more difficult than it sounds. Most banks and crypto exchanges won't allow a person to make meaningfully large crypto transactions without som
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by sillystu04 1y ago
I believe OP was referring to a P2P crypto situation, rather than the BuyMeACoffee platform adopting stablecoin support. So I'd send crypto to your address, then you'd trade it for cash with your local exchange/dealer etc.
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by sillystu04 1y ago
What's the alternative? Subscriptions aren't affordable for poor people, government funding creates a conflict of interests, and so does relying on philanthropists.
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by sillystu04 1y ago
Netflix should try out a free tier which is entirely monetised by ads. Even if it only contains a subset of their library. Just imagine how much money loveholidays or Jet2 would pay for an advert midway through a travel show, where a custom
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by sillystu04 1y ago
To play devil's advocate, many successful developer focused companies have gone down this route successfully. Neon, Cloudflare, Firebase, Github and many more have all made free tiers work. I suspect there's a special dynamic for
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by sillystu04 1y ago
Visa/Mastercard can demand merchants meet certain standards of consumer care in order to participate in their networks. No consumer business can operate without access to those card networks.
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by sillystu04 1y ago
Visa/Mastercard have enough power to enforce this on their own. Although obviously regulation would've been better. If a bunch of elected officials wrote letters to execs and a couple of NYT articles were written about the issue,
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by sillystu04 1y ago
This is why Lockheed Martin has some part of the F35 supply chain in nearly every US state.
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by sillystu04 1y ago
Why do the hardware companies make things so difficult? If I were selling hardware I’d want it to be as open and well documented as possible. So that more people buy it and so that I get credit for all the great stuff people make with my pr
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by sillystu04 1y ago
You probably don’t like this: String string = “String.com”;
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by sillystu04 1y ago
I wish modern computers considered casing to be purely a matter of style, such that “S” == “s” evaluates to true. Casing is rarely semantically important, so case sensitivity is widely ignored. But in many circumstances this gets implemente

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