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FWIW, I read that to mean "not shared with the backend".

One of the reasons that Apple does a bit of due diligence during the onboarding of a developer and establishing a developer agreement is to ensure they can reliably take legal acti…

Scandinavia is not an example of socialism and these countries and aren't trying to implement "equity of outcomes".

> We don't really need equality, we need an equitable outcome. Let's set aside for a moment that it isn't even clear that "equitable outcome" at the level of a society is desirable…

The Earth, without humans, has had much higher CO2 levels in the past and yet it isn't like Venus.

Nope. I was asserting that confusion comes from people believing that a "lossless" conversion exists. Sorry if that wasn't clear.

The biggest misunderstanding I see in these types of discussions is that there is a lossless conversion between binary floating point representation and decimal representation. Ver…

> the env work is just to prevent Venus #2 There is no science-based predictions that climate change as we understand it today, will lead to Venus #2. That idea is just fodder for …

> It's a race between turning into venus and turning into mad max's thunderdome. It is hard to tell how serious you are in that comment, but just in case, worrying about runaway gr…

> Ruby is slow and encourages an esoteric convention over configuration style of OO code. I think you are commenting on Rails, not Ruby when you refer to "convention over configura…

> the professors are literally practicing communism and giving away the book for free. Ah, no. That isn't communism.

Does your theory apply to the content consumed during the training of LLMs? If not why not? Where should we draw the line regarding intellectual property rights?

> Would you criminalize 'approaching' someone That is a very misleading summarization. It is a short article. The law requires several conditions: * approach a police office * appr…

Your definition of "solved" is quite a bit different than my definition of "solved". Especially if you are going to just pretend that the economics aren't to be included in the sol…

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by 90%. 90% of what? You can't just have 90% of power generated by renewables and 10% by fossil fuels because there are times when you get 0% fr…

You are trying hard to misunderstand me. Don't communicate as if it is a solved problem if your solution has yet to be actually been built and successfully demonstrates the feasibi…

I'm not saying it can't be done. I'm saying it hasn't been done yet. How about we try it before pretending that we can shift to 100% renewables or before legislating transitions th…

My guess is that a power grid engineer would include capacity factors, but I've never seen the mass media, politicians, or advocacy groups think like an engineer in this regard. Ev…

You are correct that you can't create a stable, resilient grid just with intermittent renewables, you need storage. But I don't think anyone has demonstrated long-term storage at g…

I don't think I would describe Apple as a monopoly. But I would say that copyright and patent law helps tech companies, like Apple, by restraining competition.

Any particular reason you are picking on US companies? or big companies? Most, if not all, monopolies are sustained by government via laws, regulations, and so on. So let's get spe…

Institutional reputation has never had much sway with me but what little it did have has pretty much evaporated of late.

> But that's on the user. The user shouldn't get upset in that scenario and has no right to. I agree. I also agree that when dealing with large numbers of people, there will be peo…

You don't need a union to purchase this type of insurance for legal costs.

> Do you really think your unique talents will save you from a lecherous boss or protect you from being discriminated against? I don't understand how a union helps with this vs. an…