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It's pretty crazy that our legislators and courts haven't addressed this loophole that allows law enforcement agencies to buy data that they can't legally collect.

This essentially nullifies the fourth amendment.

Maybe the plaintiffs have evidence that JP Morgan doesn’t want to go public.

It's a loophole, the 4th amendment prohibits the government from seizing data, however the government can legally purchase data from a third party.

Microsoft was able to reverse it, hopefully Intel can as well.

I'm more concerned for authors of published works.

Imagine writing a text book with a royalty publishing deal. Your publisher decides they're going to use your book, amongst others, to train an LLM that can answer questions on your subject, and they're not going to pay you anything.

It's a legal gray area and they've got teams of lawyers whereas you do not.

I don't think parking disputes are any different. You either handle them yourself or you hire a lawyer, I don't think anyone can act as your agent without having a legal license.

So an AI can do the work but the person handling the dispute needs to sign off on it. If the AI screws up and the lawyer doesn't catch it then the lawyer's on the hook. I don't see any need to change this.

No need to ban AI from handling legal disputes. Unless you're representing yourself you need a lawyer and there's no way for an AI to act as a lawyer.

You're implying that the agency is no longer effective, without making any explicit claims or providing evidence. What part did I misunderstand?

Why do you think the good work that it did stopped after the seventies? Pollution didn’t end overnight, it took decades and it’s still in progress. Do you think that the environment is in a good enough shape now that we can start increasing pollution again?

I never implied a causal relationship, they are two sides of the same coin.

I doubt these are the stable union jobs with decent benefits from 50 years ago. If we really want to reverse Reaganomics we need to increase taxes on corporate profits, capital gains, and inheritance.

I know that human expansion has decreased the number of large predators, which has increased the number of dear, who eat more young trees. If they have a preference for one type of tree over another that will certainly change the composition of the forest.

Rockefeller and Ford both raised significant investments before their companies practically improved quality of life and irrational speculation is as old as the stock market itself. For example during the rise of Standard Oil 1880s there was a massive speculative bubble in railroads that led to a collapse during the 1890s. Bringing up those examples without considering the failures is survivorship bias.

The stock market isn't based on the present state of the world, it's based on future expectations of earnings. So no, the current state of the world hasn't changed much in the past 6-12 months but clearly perceptions of the future have.

I encountered security like that when I went to a party at a private Rockefeller estate. When I arrived I was confused as to why there was so much security but when we were inside there was priceless art everywhere, for example they had a head of a classical Greek statue placed next to a urinal in the bathroom.

Could this be used to beam power to electric planes or cargo ships? I would think that it could be useful for vehicles that require more range than batteries currently allow.

I’ve been at a few companies that expect leaders to emerge and it always goes terribly. Certain personality types try to assume those leadership roles and they tend to be the last people you want as leaders. And they tend to stop doing the grunt work, prompting the more productive workers to fill the gaps. Those productive workers become demoralized and wind up leaving, and the team hollows out.

Workers in developed countries have benefited from environmental exploitation. We can travel hundreds or miles in comfortable cars, or thousands of miles in a day in planes. We can enjoy bananas and other tropical fruit in northern latitudes in the winter. We can live in relatively large spaces that are heated.

It’s the workers in developing countries who are lying the price. They’re the ones who are being told they can’t exploit their land and live the same lifestyle as their northern counterparts.

I think it would be really neat to have a space based telescope in close proximity to LISA so that when gravitational waves are detected the telescope can point in the direction of the source and capture the light from it.

Alien is great because it's realistic expectations about space travel is such a stark contrast to the swashbuckling romanticism of popular space operas like Star Wars and Star Trek.

Space is bleak and enormous. There is no technology that will shrink it which means travel will take decades at a minimum and the most palatable way for humans to travel in that environment is in some kind of stasis. And it's going to require massive space ships that are going to be funded by huge multinational corporations. They will enforce their will through AI that have absolutely no empathy for the humans on board.

Depressing, but I think it's the most realistic portrayal of space travel in sci fi and the amazing art design reinforces that feeling of bleakness throughout the film.

I do expect constraints to emerge, in the form of regulatory capture and copyright challenges from content owners.

It's a signal that ride share apps won't be 100% autonomous anytime soon.

If you're a consumer and you want to go from point A to point B you don't want to have to think about whether your route will be in the AV coverage area, or if AVs are able to operate in current weather conditions, or if there are enough AVs available.

You just want to press a button and have some vehicle take you from point A to point B, whether that vehicle has a human behind the wheel or not.

If you believe that a powerful group of people are deliberately trying to decrease the number of white people and replace them with imported non-white people and that they must be stopped then yes, that makes you a white nationalist.

Opponents of progressive taxes lobby hard against auto-filing. They want the Americans to conflate the complexities of the US tax code with the complexities of filing and so they fight to keep the filing process complex and they tell us it's the tax code that's the problem.

My grandparents had this accent. It was contextual, they didn't use it with us but I did hear it come out when they would talk to certain friends or tell stories and voice characters.

And then my grandparents on my other side had thick Bronx and Queens accents respectively. I think there were a lot more variations in region and class specific accents 50+ years ago.

The lower hanging fruit is to fix the filing method.

The government has all of the data available to them, they should be able to send you a pre filled tax return that you can amend for whatever reason. In 98% of situations their numbers won't need changing and filing can be a 30 second process. I believe that's how it works in most other countries.

Of course there are powerful lobbies who want the tax process to be painful and that's why it doesn't work like that currently.

For new med school grads it makes little sense to go into primary care. The pay is low, the hours are long, and job satisfaction is plummeting as check-the-box medicine takes over.

As giant corporations like CVS, Amazon, and Walmart acquire primary care practices we'll see primary care physicians turn into fast food workers, much like pharmacists did a couple decades ago.

One billion dollars is only 1/43rd of a Twitter. That sounds like a pretty good deal to me.

You’d think that one of of the multi billionaires with rocket companies would attempt to save it. Would be great PR.

Consider the very first cohort of internet companies - AOL, CompuServe, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, etc...

None of those businesses are around today, but how many of them had their equity erased and had their bondholders take a haircut? I can't say exactly, but my guess is that none of the top 10 biggest internet companies of that era had their equity fully wiped out.