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jazzyjackson

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    Comment #49208914

    I don’t understand what pot of money this is coming out of. Has Congress authorized taxpayer money be used for paying energy companies to halt projects?

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    Comment #49208392

    So how best to develop a kick with good form? YouTube is a better way? I really cannot relate to what you are trying to express. I practiced music by drills, it is not doing the sa…

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    Comment #49208327

    Then you want Lemming, not Luddite. But even then those animals were tossed off a cliff, not blindly following.

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    Comment #49208259

    No I like to find out how long it will take to go to one place and then another. With driving selected you can add arbitrary waypoints. For public transit you can have one destinat…

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    Comment #49201818

    Can’t you disable ferries same as toll roads?

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    Comment #49201800

    Not to mention “public transit but with a waypoint” which is too advanced for all mobile apps

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    Comment #49201679

    Running a large model on rented GPU is still meaningfully more private than handing your chat logs over to FAGA

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    Comment #49182397

    Robots should be regarded as extensions of their operator wrt liability. It is illegal to access a computer outside of authorized use already, someone lets a bot make its own plan …

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    Comment #49175214

    > [OpenAI instructing recruits to exfiltrate proprietary data from their current employer] gives them tremendous negotiating leverage

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    Comment #49174984

    > a self-driving car will never … use the car as a weapon You are lacking in creativity and vision. With networked autonomous vehicles, all cars can be used as a weapon simultaneou…

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    Comment #49154621

    Yes some people teach C this way, for a little while, I don’t forget semicolons as much as people around me later seemed too, may or may not be related

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    Comment #49103780

    Note it doesn't have to, it's just faster to. Internet Archive scans their books one page at a time keeping the book intact and stored in a warehouse.

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    Comment #49042162

    I’m wondering what the most fool proof way to get a message delivered to someone else is. I found out today some SMS messages I sent were silently dropped. Email doesn’t always get…

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    Comment #49042125

    Yes I figure if I’m going to pay someone to resolve a domain to an IP address I might as well pay the same person to operate my mailbox. Having clients that sync the mailbox offlin…

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    Comment #49042020

    I think I like this perspective because it points to where regulation might be more usefully applied than “the oracle must be prevented from answering certain question” and more li…

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    Comment #49032842

    Refurbished iPod is the way try go, I have a 2006 model with new battery and 128GB flash memory, it’s great for leaving plugged in in the car

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    Comment #49030478

    Who made you the obscure word police? End of world scenarios are not always Doomsdays, they could include salvation for instance, so it really is not synonymous with eschatology.

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    Comment #49015238

    No I just thought the parent poster was also unserious

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    Comment #49014435

    Just curious, where would you say the line is between “police state” and “a state with police”

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    Comment #48992600

    It would be nice if scientists could write and publish in their first language. If a machine translation brings it to a wider audience fine, but the lack of disclosure of who autho…

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    Comment #48986739

    It is not a given that recycling lithium will be economical, if it’s more expensive than manufacturing new why bother?