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by zugi 4d ago
Yet Musk consistently opposes AI regulation - https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/elon-musk-criticizes-ai-re... - even though it might help him.
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by zugi 4d ago
I too am skeptical of government-granted intellectual monopolies , as Richard Stallman correctly names them. Trademarks are the least offensive of them because they expire relatively quickly and are designed to prevent genuine consumer con
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by zugi 19d ago
The legal short-hand saying that "corporations are people" is terrible PR. Non-legal-experts look at that and logically and correctly conclude "no, they're not", and think it's a ridiculous statement. The under
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by zugi 26d ago
OpenAI and Anthropic are falling over themselves to claim these "incidents" show their products are both amazingly super-powerful and also "dangerous" so they need to be regulated. In addition to these stories, these com
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by zugi 26d ago
So it turns out destroying a record to obstruct an investigation is also a crime under 18 U.S. Code § 1519. For that they wouldn't need to prove that it was "evidence" or even that it was relevant. So as much as I sympathize
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by zugi 26d ago
> But this guy catching felony charges for giving federal border police a duress PIN to wipe his phone when they asked for an unlock PIN? Not actually overreach. I think it's an interesting case that will get litigated in the courts
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by zugi 1mo ago
Some general advice that probably works around the world is, if you're present in a country illegally, don't go out of your way to seek out immigration enforcement officials to record them for TikTok. Nothing in the article refute
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by zugi 1mo ago
Voting with your wallet lets you send dozens of fine-grained messages a day. You support companies you want to support, and don't support those you don't want. Others will choose differently and that's fine for them. The mere
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by zugi 2mo ago
> Connecting to the grid has enormous value Yet in most locales it's illegal to disconnect from the grid. If disconnection were legal for those who want to be energy self-sufficient, then charging just to connect would be more def
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by zugi 2mo ago
Students have cheated for as long as there have been tests - AI is just the latest tool. The only thing that matters in deterring cheating is the consequences. As a society we've become more tolerant of cheating, so we get more of it.
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by zugi 2mo ago
Sure, but "rejecting all server-side processing" is basically trusting the website to honor my wishes. I don't put much faith in that at all. They'll have my IP and browser fingerprint. Using Firefox mobile narrows me do
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by zugi 2mo ago
That's a nice feature, every OS should have that. I believe the old TrueCrypt had two passwords, each revealing a different set of files. You'd put e.g. your tax forms in one, so if forced to decrypt your drive, you could cooperat
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by zugi 2mo ago
> Just set your browser to delete all the cookies at the end of the session except for whatever sites you want to allow to 'remember' you Exactly. I use the "I don't care about cookies" extension, which rejects m
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by zugi 2mo ago
I don't see why convincing people to overpay for something based on hype and artificial scarcity required any "sweetheart deals" via congress.
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by zugi 2mo ago
Wow, you competely edited your comment to say something different than the one I replied to. You also still failed to articulate your argument. I don't think you want to make this about intelligence.
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by zugi 2mo ago
The study points out that CO2 levels are rising, and in 50 years might cause blood HCO3- to exceed 30mEq/L. It then references https://journals.lww.com/cjasn/abstract/10.2215/cjn.11941017... as to why th
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by zugi 2mo ago
"The one above" is not clear, can you please articulate your argument?
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by zugi 2mo ago
> There is mounting experimental evidence that lifetime exposure to these increasing atmospheric CO2 levels can negatively impact the normal physiology of organisms... Studies indicate that, after this time, elevated atmospheric carbon d
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by zugi 2mo ago
SpaceX bids on competitive government space launch contracts and wins most of them because they're more reliable and often half the price of the competitors, or less. Government is now essentially subsidizing SpaceX's space launch
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by zugi 2mo ago
SpaceX has accomplished spectacular things in reusable launch vehicles and space-based networking. It will soon restore the heavy launch capability that the US lost when it retired the Saturn V in the 1970s, but in an affordable and sustain
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by zugi 2mo ago
The cops said they had been tracking the car for days. So just once they should have looked at the license plate, and seen the full 7-digit number, which does not match the 5-digit number reported as stolen. Instead they just blindly truste
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by zugi 3mo ago
Exactly, it seems that HN can assume a certain level of scientific knowledge among its readers that Nature can't.
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by zugi 3mo ago
An engineer friend of mine, after a decade in industry where he rose to management, decided to go get an MBA at a top ten management school. Compared to engineering, he said it was easy, since everything they teach you is obvious common se
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by zugi 3mo ago
That's why democracy shouldn't be worshipped as the end-all be-all key to good government or good society. Or as Churchill put it, democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others. Freedom and liberty should be
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by zugi 3mo ago
Years ago the US government allegedly proposed prediction markets, in part to encourage the exact kinds of behavior that the US Special Forces soldier exhibited. Of course they wanted it from adversaries, not from allies. By creating predic
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by zugi 3mo ago
It depends on a lot of things. If they've also applied to another college that's better suited to their ability, admitting then to a school where they'll likely fail is not really doing them a favor.
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by zugi 3mo ago
I used a discount buyer's agent and it worked great! We viewed houses on the internet ourselves, went to open houses ourselves, and arranged showings with seller's agents ourselves. Once we had it narrowed down to two houses, we b
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by zugi 3mo ago
Or, the world needs more of your field because it's now cheaper. I've often heard of house painting as an example of this. It used to take a crew of 8 with buckets, paintbrushes, and ladders to repaint a house. Then paint rollers
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by zugi 3mo ago
> Anthropic and US Government, there can be only one right in this situation. And just to be clear, that's a maximum of one right in this situation.
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by zugi 3mo ago
> The FDA has approved bemotrizinol (PARSOL Shield). This is the first new sunscreen ingredient approved in over 20 years, offering superior UVA and UVB protection... an advanced sunscreen filter that has long been used in Europe and Asi

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