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In Europe the problem is already pretty solved because you can get a MPL and fly right seat in a passenger jet in 245 flight hours, just by going through an airline cadet program o…

Perhaps I'm being a bit reductive, but threads on anything that you're more well versed in than the average person, are evidently almost always goofy. It's called the "Gell-Mann Am…

No, pilots should ensure they're current at navigating without GPS because it can fail, just like pilots practice engine failure procedures and every other emergency / non-normal p…

> it is a big problem for a lot of rich people who have the time and money to think about this sort of stuff Because banks famously love spending time and money on IT security... A…

If there's a zero-day in TLS there would be a huge amount of problems that a VPN wouldn't protect you against. Even if you're using a VPN (or just a trusted ISP from your home), as…

> short sighted for an interim policy Bit of an oxymoron, no? > just require clear and detailed disclosure of the use of said tools Do you mean disclosure of the use of tools used …

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49073042 > an 18th century botanical text that there's only 2 copies of in existence. > books that had little in common, except for the fact th…

Again, what's more technically feasible? Setting up a DRM-cracking LLM and manually verifying that it's actually succeeded for each and every DRM scheme you encounter, or just thro…

Well, destroying them once they already exist is reasonable, but producing garbage (e.g. great quantities of unsold books) on a "massive scale" is completely unreasonable though. B…

> Why would DRM on a digital copy of a book matter? Because DRM is just a way to make "breaking copyright" more practically cumbersome. What's easier, breaking digital DRM for each…

The "article" in question is a tweet. The "rare botanical text" is just an example the author of the tweet made up in order to generate sympathy.

I would disagree on the "obviously morally wrong". What's the alternative for the books if they were "saved" from the fate of being scanned and shredded? How many rare books have y…

There's a bunch of details regarding LLMs and copyright, but I don't see how > They should be forced to publicly release the books as an Ebook. would be reasonable in any way? The …

> When a publisher has no incentive to keep an edition in print, it should be available to any other publisher to print How do you adjudicate that? And wouldn't it just lead to loo…

Conversely, the "serious" political parties work by claiming all sensible reforms are in one way or another impossible and sitting on their behinds for the duration of their terms.…

> know what they can actually achieve and promise that Show me a single party that actually keeps their (concrete) promises and I'll show you a flying pig. In any case, you're some…

Funny. Every bigoted person in history drank water too. Every non-bigoted person also believes they are right. Tell me, who would do something they believe is wrong? I have no idea…

> It really sounds like cutting edge biotech has ethics get ignored when money and fame are on the table. Wouldn't be the first time. Nor the first time the actual evidence of effe…

Sounds extremely similar to the first victims of Macchiarini. He and his entourage were writing and publishing success stories about his experiments when the victims had already di…

> Would I have been part of the coup in Russia during that time? Well, let's just think logically. Do I today have the time, energy and inclination to be a part of a group of radic…

LOL. > there is no way you are only giving your money to people you agree with politically Obviously not. And? > And there is more to life than politics Obviously. And? > have the …

> This intellectual dishonesty is maddeningly stupid or an expertly crafted troll, neither are making me think you are engaging seriously. Well, I could say the same about refusing…

Why not just admit that last week is unknowable to you? Then it'd reflect poorly on me dishonestly claiming that I could recall last week, surely.

You're comparing something that happened 100 years ago with something that happened 2400 years ago (also, what does "during the pottery (ostraca)" refer to?) and some science ficti…

> I wasn't alive How would you feel if you hadn't eaten breakfast today?