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Permit

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    > Just because it's all public doesn't mean you want the cashier from the supermarket following you around to your family picnic. This has never happened to me. Out of the space of…

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    Comment #49221242

    Yes I agree.

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    Comment #49220883

    > Despite this, those in power refuse any environmentally aware energy policy nor water policy. Can you tell me how much water a data center uses? If you have strong opinion on the…

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    Comment #49103827

    I searched one other comment of theirs in their history and see the same thing. On mobile so I can’t easily tell if this account is the bot account or if the ones on Reddit are. HN…

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    Comment #49103341

    The housing shortage has nothing to do with a lack of electrical engineers or plumbers. It’s entirely self inflicted and cheaper electricians will not change that. More directly: I…

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    Comment #48947457

    > I dont know why apple, samsung and google are not getting it. I know nothing about smart watches other than the fact that the Pebble company failed and that I see Fitbit/Apple Wa…

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    Comment #48385242

    >The cynic in me thinks this will go down in history alongside asbestos, leaded gasoline/paint, and the opioid crisis. Can you elaborate? Leaded gasoline is estimated to have contr…

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    Comment #48376903

    Doesn’t that mean we have an insufficient number of cameras?

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    Comment #48158256

    This is not the only possible outcome. Another approach would be not to offer software within the affected region. U.S. local news is often not available to European visitors now d…

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    Comment #48157510

    > But if someone claims that the trend toward increasing AI capabilities will never reach some particular scary level, then the burden is on them to explain either:… This is not th…

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    Comment #48118322

    Would you work for free?

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    Comment #48118245

    Blendle, Scroll, Flattr and several others have attempted this. It turns out no consumer actually wants to do this, it’s primarily an idea that’s invoked on HackerNews to defend no…

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    Comment #48103169

    > it's very, very much more bad than it is good Is it? I don’t have a clear picture in either direction. What does an environmental impact assessment for a housing project typicall…

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    Comment #48090097

    > The piracy comes first, and it's exactly the same thing. GenAI Corp. can't train models on illicitly obtained media before illicitly obtaining said media. My contention is that t…

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    Comment #48082272

    > where infringing copyright is legal as long as you're rich. This isn’t true. A rich person and a poor person can train LLMs on copyrighted material in 2026. How they acquired tho…

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    Comment #48070559

    It looks like archive.is uses recaptcha so I don’t think that’s the fix you’re looking for.

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    Comment #48060249

    They also seem to be one of the few countries that won the war on drugs, no?

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    Comment #48020560

    > It's basically the leading reason why quantum computing is being funded. What? Can you provide any evidence for this claim?

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    Comment #47986702

    [flagged]

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    Comment #47875780

    I haven't seen this. Can you give some examples?

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    Comment #47607260

    Can you elaborate on the collusion aspect? Is the implication that OpenAI and Anthropic are coordinating their purchases in such a way that they target the hobbyist market? What’s …