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Time to start learning Mandarin

The law has always been able to recognize a distinction between Hunter S. Thompson reading Ernest Hemingway and learning from his style and a billion GPUs reading a billion books t…

Is this open source? Is there a GitHub repo?

People don't want to give Amazon their biometrics?

It's not a hard problem to solve, you scale the punishment for the cases you prosecute so high that it makes the expected value of stealing a suitcase negative

You jail 100 and the thousands stop doing it.

Very cool! What's your license on this stuff?

What does it mean to steal crypto if "code is law"?

I can't imagine that contrails are a significant percentage of cloud cover.

One thing that's interesting about these regional laws is that they all necessarily use geolocation, but the regional laws are jurisdiction-based. Geolocation is inaccurate in many…

Does this use Apple's face-recognition tech to automatically populate pictures of your spouse, or do you have to add them manually? I was under the impression that third-party apps…

There was a very simple reason for them: to hire more non-Asian minority faculty. Just as with SAT scores, if you evaluate candidates numerically, Asian faculty will take ~50% of t…

When you have $15/hr employees who can enable a $100,000 scam this is bound to happen.

In banning the death penalty for rape, the US Supreme Court explicitly... in black letter text... left open the possibility of executing major drug traffickers. We should use that …

Naw, the death penalty is much harsher penalty (seeing as how almost all death row inmates use every means possible to avoid it). Particularly so for white collar people who never …

Stealing 6% of a large country's GDP causes more aggregate harm than murdering ten individuals (which would be an obvious death penalty case).

If that happens, it will come to resemble an Indian or Indonesian city.

Crazy in this age to look at that hex dump and realize that it is a chess playing program. One way of thinking about it: the first image on the web page is 27 times the size of the…

Zuck's take on the Apple Vision Pro is mostly aligned with my own (disinterested) take, having tried both the Quest 3 and Apple Vision Pro.

Yes, all of those should be legal. And other voters can oppose them. For example, by electing national politicians who can pass laws like the Civil Rights Act or the Fair Housing A…

Is it so surprising that Motel 6 is more operationally efficient? That Sarah needs more money than Motel 6 to allow a unknown stranger into her living space and to clean up after t…

Why shouldn't your neighbors be able to use their powers as voters to lobby their government to pass laws preventing their quiet suburban street from being used as a distributed ho…

No, the product is simply much better. If you pay $2000 for an Apple laptop vs. a PC running Windows or Linux, the Apple laptop will have twice the battery life and be in better ph…

The recycling also doesn't achieve anything environmentally

Your palate has been desensitized and can only taste flavor with heat. Spend 2 months with zero capsaicin and it will reset.