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Do you take a standard deduction? It's clearly not enough to cover all of the expenses that are required to generate your "revenue", but it's a gesture in that direction.

Seconding the Onyx Box Max Lumi here. I bought one back when they were much more expensive and I still think it's been worth it.

I did the same thing actually. There must be dozens of us! I was continually impressed by how easily and reliably it worked.

It's totally solved, first class is just too expensive for most people. The future is not evenly distributed.

The fact is it doesn't matter what people "deserve". People who are willing to forsake some degree of convenience can be granted greater privacy by simply informing them. People wh…

I'm not so sure about that. It seems to me that they're selling me a service. Just like I might pay for a subscription to Adobe Photoshop or pay per-render fees to a rendering farm…

It seems weird to sue an AI company because their tool "can recite [copyrighted]" content verbatim. If I paid a human to recite the whole front page of the New York Times to me, th…

Human brains are still the main legal agents in play. LLMs are just a computer programs used by humans. Suppose I research for a book that I'm writing - it doesn't matter whether I…

Trying to prohibit this usage of information would not help prevent centralization of power and profit. All it would do is momentarily slow AI progress (which is fine), and allow O…

Why do you expect an AI to cite it's source? Humans are allowed to use and profit on knowledge they've learned from any and all sources without having to mention or even remember t…

If society were the customer, society ought to be paying.

How about instead of adding authoritarian restrictive technology to private vehicles, we just take cars out of the cities? With proper public transit, this would be a no brainer.

I've only ever heard people prefer chains.

So then you have to remineralize it... But how are those minerals being sourced, and does that mixture contain lead? Ugh, it never ends.

For sure it is. Have you never been outside your city? There's stretches of flat, straight-ish interstate in the US that continue for dozens of miles with near-perfect visibility. …

Sufficiently compromised privacy in conjunction with sufficiently sophisticated data markets starts to look a lot like "having a motive", eventually... How long before your AI girl…

I'm empathetic to the struggles faced by women. That said, I also realize that those struggles are different than the ones faced by men. Yes, I believe that women experience this p…

Women can more readily get the kind of attention they want, with minimal effort. Getting emotionally invested in an AI seems to me like it would go hand in hand with giving up on h…

Presumably they're making a higher margin on the professional cards.

To be fair, if I was writing my own Wikipedia page, I would do the same.

Getting away with it in this case just means "not being cheated by the casino". They're big enough to cheat you using violence or even the judicial system, so if you do this you're…

Is it possible that in the end the internet will decide that humanity just isn't worth it?

Well, of course they're going to set the requirement high enough that they can be confident you'll survive without them needing to pay to deport you. Beyond that though, they want …

I've been using MMO-style mice to do similar things for a while. Logitech's G-whatever software is kind of annoying, but one thing I _do_ like about it is it'll flash the configura…

Obesity can also be related to environmental exposures.