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It's always a bit unclear to me to what extent you're bound by a copyright when you're not distributing a work.

If someone sends me a copy while fully adhering to the license, what right does someone have to tell me what I can do with it? If I buy a book do I not have a right to read it? Lend it to people?

It's probably a good thing libraries already existed pre modern copyright.

I think that graph is saying that 0.8% of the total electricity was lost on batteries. You don't want that number to be higher.

If you want to see the batteries at work look at an hourly graph and you can see it charging and discharging during the day.

When it comes to bookstores you can safely assume they do not have high profit margins.

In the Netherlands competing with discount is actually illegal, interestingly enough. The selling price is fixed. Which is a boon for smaller bookshops, but annoying for publishers if the production prices aren't stable.

I typically tell them I don't have an Apple or Google play store. That typically confuses them enough that I can avoid explaining more than just telling them that that is indeed possible.

What kind of KYC involves controlling what software people are allowed to use?

I still believe that quality of software matters in the long term.

The issue with that belief is that it's basically impossible to falsify.

It would have been an ever better idea if I could figure out what it's for before copying :)

> "there exists a K such that, for sufficiently large n, K*n is always larger".

For what it's worth you can leave out the 'sufficiently large n' part, assuming we're talking about positive integers (or continuous functions on the nonnegative reals). I like to leave it in though because it makes the jump to defining both o, O and Theta in terms of lim sup f/g a little easier.

> o(2n+1) > o(2n) > o(n)

I don't think any of those are right. The latter two are trivially equivalent, the former also is since it differs by a factor of at most 3 for all n >= 1.

I still think the simplest definition for o(f) is 'g in o(g) iff O(g) is a proper subset of O(f)'. Or you can just say g is dominated by f in the sense that lim sup g/f = 0.

I'm fairly sure those two are equivalent, but it's a good little exercise.

Global average temperature has risen about a degree over the last century. That's a truly terrifying amount of energy. Habitats are shifting, forests are burning away in places where their current composition has become unsustainable, regions are becoming arid, permafrost is becoming less permanent.

Technically most of everything else is weather, not climate, do you want a list of bad weather events?

Somehow the anarchists never seem to expect people to use their newfound freedom to erect a new government in place of the old.

It is kind of horrifying to figure out what happens if an LLM first successfully builds a self-replicating hive mind.

I mean it used to be utterly impossible, but now? Hard to tell.

In that case you maybe shouldn't put them online protected by nothing but 30 year old security.

That used to be his response, he just doesn't agree with the way OpenAI is doing it.

I'm not sure this article is a good way to figure out his stance on the issue, I'd recommend reading his blog posts or mastodon threads.

Ideas are contagious and AI is our most powerful vector yet.

I suppose we would see some interaction with AI in that sense, but it'll take place over the course of learn cycles and when AI starts ingesting its own ideas it typically goes wrong somewhere down the line.