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All laws force morality on people.

Alexa has dropped off. Every echo device I have was better in the past. My wife is lucky to trigger them half the time. They have always done better with male voices, but it’s worse than ever. And when Alexa does respond, it’s frequently an ad.

Of course, the division famously lost $10bn, and so they must be reducing compute. But the fall has been noticeable.

I understand Elon and Pmarca to be saying that this behavior is programmed in by 'safety teams' at Meta.

It is an odd way of calcifying late-20th century American upper class anxiety. If we can't give the engineers a different moral goal, it will become the default mode of knowledge. A more immediate problem than "AI will kill us" is the dev teams determined to avoid "erasure" or "digital genocide" or whatever they'd call a race/culture-agnostic AI.

GM can’t match the lobbying power of local dealers in the state houses. Every state rep has a dealer or two in their district, and they employ staff who vote.

And, to be fair to the dealers, there is a long history of the makers trying to screw them over, and the public, too.

That sounds like a good weekend project, putting split foam insulation around your pipes. 8' runs are a couple of bucks at the big box stores.

It's not quite as efficient, but I put in a recirculation pump and a timer to keep the water warm throughout the pipe during the day. The clothes washer was never getting warm water, and we wasted a lot at the shower waiting for warm water to reach it.

Whether you need it probably depends on your climate and your house.

Water in pipes inside a house's "thermal envelope" is presumably around 72 deg. F. I wash my hands with "cold water" without wincing. Tap water strikes me as tepid if I drink it without ice.

If your pipes run through an outside wall in Canada, it might be a different story.

If you do need warmer water, and the bidet heats it, you probably just need an electrician to fish a wire and add a receptacle. That's not outrageously complex, usually, but I tend toward calling a professional for anything behind the walls.

If you can handle putting the nozzle on your garden hose, you should be able to handle it.

In the US, the water pipe almost always connects to the toilet through a small shutoff valve. After the valve, it connects to the toilet through a "supply." The supply is basically a short garden hose, with screw-on connections at both ends.

Shut off the water at the wall. Flush to empty the toilet tank. Unscrew the hose at the toilet, and screw that end into what amounts to a y, or splitter that comes with the bidet. From the splitter, screw one side back into the toilet connection; the other goes to the bidet itself. Turn back on the water at the wall.

(This is for a simple cold-water bidet. If you need heated water or electricity, it can be more complex.)

An interesting note: Puerto Ricans appear to have elected a Trump-supporting Republican-affiliated governor.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/puerto-rico-governors-ra...

Yes, but the theorem is meant to explain what can happen in the universe over long time scales.

The point is that there isn't enough time in the universe for all the random stuff to happen that scientists pin on random chance. The theorem was memorable, but a cop out.

She doth protest too much. A major purpose of education is connecting the past and the present. There will always be slang, but without a “lingua Franca,” you’re not going to make the connection between 1776 and 2024.

And yet she seems resigned to students maintaining “dialects” that make it difficult to talk to grandparents, and impossible to read the “old white men,” while she cites the phone as a reason:

> Linguistically, the dialect of English spoken by contemporary adolescents is rapidly moving further away from the vernacular of the canonical works we ask them to read. While this has always been true to some degree, social media and technology have sped up language evolution and widened the gap between English dialects.

So's coffee. If SBUX treated long covid, that's a net win.

If you can recite the black letter law, you've got a good chance of passing the bar. The higher essay scores usually require creative arguments about resolving competing rules and policies.

It's easier to extract the formal statement of the rule against perpetuities from a reddit corpus, than to apply the rule to an artificially complex fact pattern in an essay question.

They originally scored against a test usually taken by people who failed the bar.

So, GPT-4 scores closer to the bottom of people who pass the bar the first time. In other words, it matches the people who cull the rules from texts already written, but who cannot apply it imaginatively.

Yes, as I said, I think the Crown's rebranding might seem like a waste, but it's extremely useful for values/branding transmission.

When you see the branding story for, say, Google or Pepsi, that looks like money flushed straight down the toilet.

As you say, most of those aren't a big deal, except in Chicago. The Daleys started putting their name on EVERYTHING; it's always strange to visit from out of town and see it so branded.

A ridiculous transaction cost by modern standards, especially when multiplied by all HM's various enterprises.

Except this kind of work spawned a nation of clerks and it has lasted a thousand years. Everybody has to think about the King's values, and implement them in their own little corner of the kingdom.

If Joe Biden changes his heraldry, it doesn't change my post office experience one whit.

It may seem counterintuitive, but reputation damages are "actual" damages.

Yes, they are hard to prove, but the jury gets to take that into account. It could have picked almost any number ($1m, $10m, etc.) for reputation damages, but that would go in the "actual" damages line on the form.

The "punitive" damages really are just to discourage future bad conduct. And it will be difficult to support the idea that it takes a $1m penalty to prevent future bad conduct worth $1.

This almost certainly gets reduced to a tiny amount. The jury awarded $1 in actual damages and $1m in punitive damages.

The Supreme Court has said punitive damages must bear a reasonable relationship to actual damages.

As a rule of thumb, 10:1 is usually unconstitutional. 1000000:1 is off the charts.

Yes. If the drafted language falls below reasonable care and damages the client, absolutely you can be sued for malpractice.

Wrong Word in Contract Leads to $2M Malpractice Suit[1].

[1]https://lawyersinsurer.com/legal-malpractice/legal-malpracti...

If you can automate the input, you can probably automate much of the basic analysis (things that would be "revolutionary" to undergrads).

"ChatGPT, give me the highlights of these ancient Greek scrolls ..."

The oration struck me as a little self-serving -- especially since the heir was weak. You'd like the commoners to feel good about the family, and maybe this did the trick.

But, the prison releases do seem to indicate he was in a forgiving mood; I imagine release of the brother couldn't be accomplished without some formal process. "The one jailed for treason? I'd like to see that order in writing."

Both come with Google Fi, the cell service.

Which has probably kept me from comparison price shopping cell service quite so hard.

Surprised I had to scroll this far down to find this. Options? Employment contracts? The SEC database is golden.

If you're not doing well enough to pay the lawyer for custom advice, use the example of people who paid to get it right for them.

I had the same feeling at the end. Of all the ways to spend the 20th century, being tied to US Steel wasn’t exactly a bad ride.

“Arguably, the Harvard system was a disappointment every day since 1636…”

Yes, this seems like a constitutional test. If you need this pardon to stand up, you'd better get the certificate from the WH pardon lawyer with your name on it.

As the proclamation says, the District of Columbia's local laws are technically federal laws. So it wipes out the convictions of a good number of people in one of our major cities.

I can't quite tell if this applies to military convictions. That would be the other area where the Federal government takes the time to prosecute something as minor as mere possession or use.

Another interesting question: does this actually pardon, or is it more like an open call for applications? It looks to me like you'd want to get that pardon certificate from the WH Pardon lawyer well before the next election.

Germany didn't sign the contract, and it hosts the court.

Universal Music didn't sign the contract, and it went to Germany's court.

In the US, the contract terms would normally bind the _parties to the contract._ Contracts are sometimes called "private law," as opposed to "public law." But in some circumstances and places, the government just declares the contract or provision legally void. Then, even the parties to the contract can't rely on it.

> If you like a product and want it to be available long term, you would want it to be a self sustaining business, not a cash bonfire.

He doesn’t want the product at the current price. It’s a bad value for him.

You’re requiring the consumer to want management’s goal. But product survival is not a buyer’s goal. The buyer has limited money, and wants his own profitability.

Agreed the article is more about probing the board’s weakness.

But the board seems to have a weak hand. It can decide to disappoint the for profit investors. But it doesn’t own Sam, or the vast majority of the workers, and maybe not much of the know how. And they can walk if the board disappoints them.

The board’s altruism might be great, but it lacks the legal tools to do what it wants, against organized labor backed by unlimited capital.

Sounds reasonable.

People hold IP in LLCs all the time. Obviously, though, the outcome depends on TW law and its loopholes as much as the IRS and state law. And the cheapest US LLC services just won't have any clue about any of that.