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I own a few GreenPan products and started to wonder so I did some digging - seems they were subject to a class action lawsuit [1] which was voluntarily dismissed since it reached settlement[2].

Hard to know if it had much merit since it was unsuccessful though.

[1] https://www.classaction.org/news/class-action-seeks-to-debun... [2] https://truthinadvertising.org/class-action/greenpan-cookwar...

Comment · 4 years ago

"Breaking Ground" by Philip and Freya Mulvey.

A soil scientist's take on climate change which ties together some pretty compelling points.

Comment · 7 years ago

I'm not with Amazon and as much as I'd like to do the same, I suspect not.

The whole idea of the competition would be to use the same hardware so it's a level playing field from a hardware perspective which turns it into a software competition, right?

Comment · 7 years ago

My understanding is that Alphastar is trained on reinforcement learning. I suspect this is unsupervised so it would have learned this behaviour independently without pro replays.

Comment · 8 years ago

Other entities burning energy isn't a good argument for "wasting power" mining cryptocurrency as it boils down to whataboutism [0].

The proof of work is a potentially valid argument but wouldn't it be better if the work was useful in some way?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

Comment · 10 years ago

No, there is no impact to Synology's Hybrid RAID running on btrfs. Synology uses mdadm/lvm for RAID.

Comment · 11 years ago

While the question was aimed at the repo creator, I did intend on raising the question to incite further discussion since licensing concerns can be frequently forgotten - thank you for your insights!

Comment · 11 years ago

Great stuff.

Do you feel explicitly stating any licensing (or lack of) be a good idea for the samples?