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Not in my language.

Funnily enough in some legal systems it does. Where I live the legal definition of “theft” is: Taking away a movable thing.

You cannot steal what is not owned. At least in the EU there is no copyright for LLM outputs, so I guess all they might do is violate the terms of service.

That was ment as an observation, not an encouragement to apply this. Some of the discrimination against trans people might have a similar reason, after all they drastically break w…

I knew it! I have vivid memories of eating a mars bar as a kid and marveling at the weight written on the packaging. Same for KitKat Chunky.

I think people often tend to treat drastic deviations from standard appearance as an indicator for undesirable character traits. If you are badly groomed as a man, you tend to be p…

Their “brain trust” has impressive experience, but mostly at things that are not natural science. Alpha fold and friends are an exception, but these mostly harnessed existing scien…

For a well earning man with a white collar job, keeping a six pack requires a large amount of time away from work. So it probably is a good proxy measure for quite a few desirable …

Whenever I do things like that, I match total area covered by a polygon in a radar chart spanned by the feature axis. That way a single dominant feature cannot compensate for the c…

I liked Master and Commander, I still prefer C.S. Forrester’s “Hornblower” books. Forrester is the Andy Weir of naval warfare with sailing ships. Even the tiny technical details ar…

Not sure about all the other things, but in my experience if you found a startup and get American VC money, they more or less tell you to move the company to the US. Then they star…

I am confused by this article: If we use the existing tools for interpretability like circuit tracking, sparse auto encoders and the like, should we not be able to determine if the…

People learn Klingon or Esperanto. You could probably convince me to join a hypothetical “Worshipful society of Gentlemen speaking Sumerian”.

I did all that math a while ago when I was offered a well paying job in California . Bottom line was that stuff is so much cheaper here than over there, that not much would have ch…

Germany is not a major country. The 1. Something percent it contributes to the global co2 output just do not matter much. If you purely think about the climate and don’t care for t…

People might not know that, since it’s mostly in French, but France has somthing similar as open source for their tax system: https://github.com/openfisca/openfisca-france/

I took the liberty of computing my and my wife’s effective income tax burden: 24% We are both German and in the 92nd percentile of the income distribution.

Russian cursive is incredibly hard to read. Since handwriting even more than code is meant to be red, I think prioritising readability over ease of writing is actually acceptable. …

A portion of young men already are more or less addicted to pornographic content. Tolls like this have the potential to make this so much worse.

There is the concept of sending doubles to stand in for punishment in china. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ding_zui

Choose the country domain the matches your citizenship. Most countries protect their own much better than foreigners!

In our legal system not all way to express your opinion are protected. Death threats, insults and promises of rape can be considered ways to express yourself, but any opinion worth…

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Does that really matter? Your name can be whatever until you really take off. Point is: You can easily have a company in Germany in 24 h. An UG is affordable at about 4K and has li…

You can just buy a ready made GmbH. This costs about 28k€, 25k€ are deposited in the company. That is called Vorratsgmbh and takes very little time.