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That sounds like a great opportunity to digitize all rare books and to provide them to libraries?

And the competition, so they dont have to shred 2 or more copies?


Excellent point


Nah.

If I understand the article correctly, they found a phase transition reaction, a chemical reaction that occurs in liquid water below 0 C that splits the body of liquid water into one continuous region of high density and one of low, so its no longer a uniform liquid.

This would also release heat, like the freezing reaction (and unlike random rearrangements of molecules in the liquid).


Okay thats wrong they didnt find that. Looks like just did some ml and it suggested that such a reaction exists and what the two species are.

Also its unclear whether during the phase transition there really is two seperate macroscopic regions as opposed to a mixture (maybe like a suspension)


You should still be able to confirm it with calorimetry though I guess?

I'm confused about this.


Pretty sure that debit chargebacks lead to an instant credit (by regulation).

I'm almost tempted to test it right now but I am pretty sure I did this once and it took under 1 day

Ok now I asked a chatbot for how this is regulated. The answer was wrong as expected but it happened to mention the applicable regulation which can be looked up at gesezte-im-internet.de

§ 675u BGB - requires immediate credit for unauthorized card payments

§ 675x BGB - chargeback in 10 days for direct debit transactions (lastschrift)

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bgb/__675x.html

I guess this is just germany but I vagely remember a payment processor eu directive that this is probably implementing (PSD)

-> Yes. It is article 73 and 76 of PSD

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...

So this holds EU wide for all banks.

This was literally 15 mins of googling (well duckduck ing) on the train.

Now there still could be counterveiling evidence and ianal etc, so use grain of salt. Gotta get off now.


You dont block either.

The factory does decent software engineering - for which it can also use the same llm - so that when an attacker does either, a sota llm does not find bugs to exploit.


Ding ding ding

This is one of the things a comprehensive interoperability mandate could enable.

Require monopolistic companies that have a frontend/backend architecture to publish the interface docs and to not obstruct third party commercial alt backends/frontends.

Its a bit like carving up monopolistic firms along the joints (interfaces) defined by the software architecture, and team structure. Just less extreme; the firm isnt actually split, it's just required to allow "fair competition by third party architecture components"

This would really improve googles software, we might get e2ee google keep or gmail with pgp.

(I have not worked out the details of this, it might not be feasible)


People will pressure peers to not care about theatre?

I mean opera I would get :p. Kidding.

I'm not a theatre expert but I feel like recommending the play "The Lifespan of a Fact":

https://www.newcitystage.com/2023/11/21/truth-lies-and-every...

It's based on a true story; the details are unreliably narrated here:

https://www.amazon.com/Lifespan-Fact-John-DAgata/dp/03933407...


I like opera and classical music generally. Musicals too, although only ones written up to about 1950. I was unreasonably embarrassed about this as a kid because it wasn't "cool".


Lol, yes, subsidiarity.

HOAs, the lowest level of US government.


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You've made about a dozen comments in this thread and they've escalated from "HOAs are unconstitutional" to "I'd rather shoot my fellow citizens than be drafted if weed isn't legal" to "driving high is fine, I've done it for decades." Each one a little more unhinged than the last, which is an accomplishment given where it started.

It reads less like a coherent political philosophy and more like someone who's been hitting the sacrament a little too hard this morning.

I smoke your "sacrament" daily, and cigarettes, and I'm terrified that people will think you're representative of either of those classes, or even a minority of them.

Most people in this thread broadly agree with you that marijuana should be legal. You're somehow picking fights with your own allies because they had the audacity to say they don't like the smell, or that driving impaired is bad. You're not defending freedom, you're being contrarian and hostile to anyone who doesn't arrive at your exact position with your exact intensity.

And the driving thing isn't a matter of opinion. "I've done it for decades and never caused an accident" is the exact argument every drunk driver makes right up until they do. Your anecdotal survival is not evidence of safety.


My reading of [1] is that Palantir does data fusion. Their software, when installed on an organization's peripheral systems by their FDEs, centralizes all the org's data (within the org - not at palantir), and allows the org's management to do analyses on the pool.

I'm guessing that people are scared that the state will install one big palantir instance on all its systems. So that anything any part of the state learns about you, in any context or interaction, can be effortlessly used against you in every other context (perhaps via parallel construction in a lawsuit).

Basically, the fear would be that palantir makes mass surveillance data actionable, fuses surveillance programs, and incorporates most IT into mass surveillance programs.

The government would become less like a series of seperate agencies, more like a big consciousness that knows things (knows centrally, everything it was told anywhere).

Note this is just my interpretation of the fear.

Its fuzzy. Others may know more about palantir than me and thus have a more precise and grounded concern.

[1] https://archive.ph/6ljwy#selection-2539.194-2539.400

See also: https://redlib.privadency.com/r/Futurology/comments/4o02p3/o...


For me the idea of "people piloting mech suits" brings up lost kids, like Shinji from nge.


Funny, because I was thinking of Evangelion's predecessor, Gunbuster, in which cadets are shown undergoing grueling physical training both in and out of their mechs to prepare for space combat.


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