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Fortunately or unfortunately, the New York Times is now a gaming/recipes company with a newspaper attached to it.

Probably mostly a good thing now that I think about it - it moves the paper closer to the model of 20th century journalism (a local quasi-monopoly on news gathering and distribution funded by advertising) that was, for all its faults, pretty fucking good in retrospect.

It’s literally just saying 6-7. No, I don’t get it either. My kids thought it was hilarious to watch me grapple with it, though.

I’m sorry, I am not seeing that at all at the link. I am surely missing something, but can you cut/paste what you are seeing on this point?

That’s basically just the benefits of limited liability, that has nothing to do with AI personhood. And you’re basically just describing the formation of a legal entity, the reference to AGI could just as easily be replaced with “talented founder” or “dual class shares” or “poison pill” or something.

In any event, the law tends to be responsive about establishing doctrines for extending liability to individuals involved, like piercing the corporate veil, principles of partnership, or a statutory regime (like CERCLA).

Good for the AI (though who are its stockholders or the members of its board of directors?), but not so great, perhaps, for all the individuals who enabled it, who might now all be deemed to be partners in a general partnership with the AI and therefore jointly liable for the acts and liabilities of all the other partners.

This is good advice. Also running a quick function can be quicker than opening up excel, fiddling with a cell, etc. (my excel skills are obviously at-best rudimentary). And it’s a cool moment when RPN finally “clicks” and figure out how to perform sequential operations in it without having to rely on increasingly nested parentheses.

I think this is about right. About a quarter-century ago, airbus finally became a manufacturer that could go head to head with the 737 and win more often than not. Since then they’ve generally gone from strength to strength while Boeing has been primarily concerned with financial engineering.

What are you talking about? Which airframe scandal?

Sometimes you can. A decade or so ago when California ran out of money, they issued warrants to their payees, and lots of banks accepted those at face value.

That actually sounds pretty reasonable to me. I’d love to see the cost curve come down some more on the next 10 plants after that, but if this comes anywhere close to panning out, seems like a net benefit.

Lots of things enshrined in statute (appropriations, prohibitions on impoundment, the name of the Department of Defense) have been disregarded in this year of our lord 2025.

Oh, that’s a shame. I liked those programs.

This seems … way better than what I expected following the acquisition? What am I missing?

And I assume this is a supplement to (and not a replacement of) the existing Affinity applications?

Skimming 3% on OPM is still a pretty, pretty good business.

This sounds great as long as they’re going to build more than, like, four reactors for $80 billion.

Jesus Christ. I felt my own heart skip a beat every time the sequence “I nearly died from a malfunctioning heart, and 48 hours later, went for a run” repeated itself.

Take care of yourself, dude. Still kinda feels like you’re pushing yourself too hard.

Mobies Dick.

I had to replace my home HVAC system this year and went with a variable speed system. It was eye-wateringly expensive, but it works much much much better than the system that was in here before, and completely obviated my concerns about sizing (the old system was an oversized single-stage unit, and the house always stayed cooled, but something or other was regularly breaking, probably due to the short-cycling).

With the new system, electricity consumption on a hot summer day is about a third of the prior system, it’s virtually silent and the comfort of the house (due to more granular temperature control and near-constant dehumidification) is substantially better.

No no no, you don’t get it, it’s not a “bailout,” it’s simply a “magic bean repurchase facility” whereby dollars are made available to holders of magic beans. When the magic beans sprout and reach the sky, the profit could be considerable.

Here, I’ll give you this one for free: it’s called tortious interference. As the name suggests, it’s a tort, so you don’t need to sign a contact to be liable.

Tracing ownership of land back 400 years to some Spanish land grant…

Reminds me of the plugin I used to have that replaced every instance of “millennials” with “snake people” and every instance of “Great Recession” with “Time of Shedding and Cold Rocks.”

I too am squeamish and while I agree that the piece was very well written, it was too much for me. I had to tap out during the part about 18th/19th century grafting experiments. Just too much for me lol.

Will probably pick this back up and skip over the rest of that part though!

I really cannot understand why an “all of the above” approach to energy production has basically no political salience. I guess because it has something for someone of any political stripe to dislike (fossil fuels, nuclear, renewables and storage - take your pick!) but in a few years when we’re all paying twice the electrical rates we’re paying today, we will probably wish we hadn’t been so doctrinaire.

It’s that funny intersection where abstractions meet the real world. We assume that the guy with the keys collecting the rent checks is authorized to lease it out because it’s just too expensive to assume otherwise. But sometimes that assumption is wrong and man, what a mess that turns out to be.

Similarly, it’s like if I get back to my house tonight and someone has changed the locks on the front door, I’m pretty sure I could ultimately verify that, yes, I’m the owner, but I sure am glad that due to social norms or inertia or the sheer hassle of being a squatter that is not something I have to deal with on a regular basis.

When I was listening to some of the samples on the page you linked (pronunciation of “when”), it really seemed to me like the difference they were highlighting was how much the “h” was pronounced. Even knowing what I was listening for, it was very like my brain was just refusing to recognize the vowel sound distinction. So I think you must be right about it being a matter of basic brain chemistry.

In the example of the reverse pen/pin merger (HMS Pinafore) on that page, I couldn’t hear “penafore” to save my life. Fascinating stuff.

I used to think of the movie “Fargo” and think “haha comical upper midwestern accents.” And then at some point I realized that the characters in “No Country for Old Men” probably must sound similarly ridiculous to anyone whose grandparents and great grandparents didn’t all speak with a deep, rural West Texas accent - which mine did, so watching the movie it just seemed completely natural for the place and time at a deeply subconscious level.

Imagine if this guy had run the malicious code and transferred ownership of his house. Oops.

Apparently not until early next year. I was surprised by this too, but I hadn’t really been following the rumors at all, so I didn’t really have any grounds for being surprised by this.

I’m aware of the merger, but I literally can’t hear a difference between the words. I certainly pronounce them the same way.

I also think merry-marry-Mary are all pronounced identically. The only way I can conceive of a difference between them is to think of an exaggerated Long Island accent, which, yeah, I guess is what makes it an accent.

Wickard v. Fillburn, the aggregate effects test - in the aggregate, growing your own corn affects interstate commerce, so therefore it is interstate commerce.