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> To take a simplistic example, even janitors might potentially have access to ITAR controlled materials if engineers threw them out into a bin bound for a shredder/incinerator and…

Yes, exactly; thanks.

> For SpaceX to internally segment ITAR from non-ITAR is a huge bureaucratic overhead for them which leads to a possibility of mistakes. They decided to become an aerospace enginee…

It’s complicated, but not always. Regardless, the ITAR issue is secondary; they hire for roles that do not touch ITAR.

> SpaceX recruits and hires for a variety of positions, including welders, cooks, crane operators, baristas and dishwashers, as well as information technology specialists, software…

They’re not mine; I pulled them directly from the parent comment.

The client "needs" in question here are low cost overall, low marginal cost for each revision, and a totally-interactive "do what I mean" interface. Shoving a human artist in the m…

Can you give an example of a “clear and bright” line in copyright law that does protect “folks who don’t have the money to fight an uncertain battle in court”? For context, I’m in …

1. Yes. Always has been, within the ambiguous limits of fair use. 2. Discovery. https://www.americanbar.org/groups/public_education/resource... Some variants of “theft of style” ar…

> Overall I think this is a net win, especially because I don't think this needs to be the end of the road for human illustrators, but this will force them to adapt and bring more …

Author conflates legal and ethical options for preventing copyrighted work from being used to train ML image generators. There’s nothing legally inconsistent about passing a law sa…

And if you have absolute dominion, so does everyone else around you—and then nobody gets water after the aquifer collapses.

This feels more like a tool that arrests creativity before it can even put its shoes on.

The Chinese have made it clear through their economic and legal policies that international collaboration can only occur on their terms and under their unilateral control. Nuts to …

I don’t think she’s substantially lip-syncing (maybe here and there, but not continuously). I was at the Detroit show and she confessed to having a bit of a cold during the interim…

I’m saying that on the continuum of Marxism, the PRC circa 1965 is somewhere to the middle-far-left and the article above (that OP claimed was Marxist) is all the way on the far ri…

It’s the same folk-interpretation of Marxism that always goes around. Now that Marxism is dead and can’t defend itself, it’s whatever anyone wants it to be. States that were far cl…

Indeed, many of the new subsidies are to promote various kinds and scales of rewilding.

It’s not related to the article, but the UK is currently restructuring its farming subsidies to, among other things, encourage sustainable farming and mitigate food security risk. …

I’ve yet to meet a customer that cares enough to pay for the necessary numerical analysis.

Absolutely. And the specific example here—reminiscent of the dongle incident [0]—is definitely one of those. [0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/how-dongle-jokes...

I’m not the parent but I imagine they’re referring to e.g., some FFTs use different partitioning strategies in different threading environments, which breaks bit-perfect replicatio…

Where did I imply that? The fault was with the JVM. “The impetus for changing the default floating-point semantics of the platform in the late 1990's stemmed from a bad interaction…