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mminer237··on Who wins and who loses in prediction markets? Evidence from Polymarket
You do not have to be an accredited investor for IBKR or Robinhood.
mminer237··on Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised
Most malware isn't either, especially with Node.
mminer237··on ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline
This is true in some states, like Texas; but not in Delaware where Disney is incorporated and where directors and officers owe fiduciary duties of care and loyalty to both the corporation and the shareholders.

(Not legal advice. I'm not licensed in either state.)

mminer237··on Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message
There is a big difference between advertising your services and trying to literally steal people's money.
mminer237··on UAE to leave OPEC in blow to oil cartel
The UAE is trying to expand its ability to ship oil through Fujairah, so this could potentially undermine both KSA/Iraq and Iran.
mminer237··on South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf
That would be so vague as to be useless.
mminer237··on US Department of Justice has officially reclassified cannabis as less dangerous
Biden did start the process, but Trump actually just cancelled that process and started a totally different process.
mminer237··on All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
Thanks. I couldn't find the text for the life of me. Glad to be wrong.
mminer237··on All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
I did actually look for the text for several minutes but couldn't find it anywhere. Thanks for doing what the news apparently couldn't.
mminer237··on All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
Heat guns and pryers are commercially available. I don't think this will change anything there.
mminer237··on Sauna effect on heart rate
Edit: I posted this accidentally when editing without noticing. Hypertrophy isn't necessarily a bad thing. I thought I was discarding the comment cuz I realized I was out of my depth. whoops

Please ignore my comment, though I will leave it to make the below comments less confusing.

Original: You don't want to "work out" your heart though. Cardiac hypertrophy is a bad thing.

The benefit of exercise is that your muscles become more oxygen-efficient. Your heart endures some stress now, so that it can work less in the future.

mminer237··on I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program
If you go to Rent-A-Center and rent a DSLR, that doesn't make Rent-A-Center responsible for the pictures taken by their cameras.
mminer237··on In Case of Emergency, Make Burrito Bison 3 (2017)
They're still developing and posting, just not on their blog: https://www.facebook.com/juicybeast/

Made a few games since then as well: https://juicybeast.itch.io/

mminer237··on Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week
It's called the right of publicity. Basically the idea that you're entitled to compensation to for commercial use of your likeness. AFAIK, you always have to be recognizable to sue over it as you have to see your likeness, and damages would be pretty minor if you're not famous or an actor anyway. It depends on the state but generally it does have to be in advertising.
mminer237··on You Do Not, in Fact, Have to Hand It to Them
I wonder if she appreciates the irony of posting that on a website lol
mminer237··on GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability
Note that it gets 90% largely off Copilot going down and Actions not working. Actual git has 98.98%, which is still just one 9 but a lot better.
mminer237··on Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill
1. It's easier to download a new browser than reinstall your OS.

2. Plenty of websites make their own apps, and then you're back to just having every website under the sun trying to verify everyone's age to know who to show explicit content to.

mminer237··on Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill
So, for instance, pornography and gambling should be 100% illegal? Or at the least, all social media sites should censor any discussions that aren't child-appropriate?
mminer237··on Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill
Having a radio option for <13, 13–15, 16–17, and 18+ on account creation and a syscall to query that is not a huge imposition for OS.
mminer237··on India's top court angry after junior judge cites fake AI-generated orders
To fire a federal judge. Local judges, which are the vast majority, can be fired by their colleagues or replaced in elections.
mminer237··on India's top court angry after junior judge cites fake AI-generated orders
To be fair, that's a problem with human authors too. Wikipedia is really well-cited, but it's common to check a citation and find it only says half of what a sentence does, while the rest seemingly has no basis in fact. Judges are supposed to actually read the citations to not only confirm the case exists and says what's being claimed, but often to also compare & contrast the situations to ensure that principle is applicable to the case at hand.
mminer237··on Denver dumps Flock, awards contract to Axon
It depends on how. The Fourth Amendment prohibits warrantless searches, not any information itself. The police can always just have an officer tail you 24/7, and it's perfectly legal. Placing a GPS tracker on your car physically invades your property and therefore counts as a search though. Generally any public photography is not a search, so they're free to record and keep records however they legally can.

Though at some point, even SCOTUS just does whatever feels right, regardless of what the law says. In Carpenter, SCOTUS ruled 5-4 that your cellular company voluntarily handing over historical cell data also counts as a government search. An appellate court has held that if photography is extensive enough, it becomes a search. SCOTUS has held before that uncommon photographic equipment can constitute a search. That logic honestly doesn't really make sense, but it is what it is now. I wouldn't be surprised that the courts rule against it, but that's not what the law really says.

mminer237··on Uncovering insiders and alpha on Polymarket with AI
It rewards blatant corruption? What's the benefit is the bigger question.
mminer237··on Silicon Valley engineers were indicted for allegedly sending secrets to Iran
If immigrants were loyal to their country, they wouldn't do this. The problem is immigrants who don't make it their country.
mminer237··on Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files
Recently he said he had a $50k hosting bill but that the CEO of Vercel offered to cover them and help them start some optimization.
mminer237··on GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks
Finetuning the weights doesn't eliminate bias though. Just seems like a bandaid.
mminer237··on GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks
I'm not sure being beholden to the whims of the Chinese Communist Party is an iota better than the whims of proprietary megacorps, especially given this probably will become part of a megacorp anyway.
mminer237··on Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is running into problems
When YouTube is replacing translations with AI-generated ones or if Drive is using all your personal documents as training data, that can definitely drive people away.
mminer237··on Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is running into problems
Microsoft has done the worst of any Mag 7 stock since the day before ChatGPT's release: https://totalrealreturns.com/n/AAPL,MSFT,AMZN,GOOGL,META,TSL...
mminer237··on Show HN: Adboost – A browser extension that adds ads to every webpage
I mean, you're also telling them almost every site you visit. That's strictly worse from a privacy perspective than blocking ads outright.
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