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New comment by fallingknife in "Foreign Scammers Use U.S. Banks to Fleece Americans"

fallingknife — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 18:01:43 +0000

Even if the customer authorized the transaction? So now all the customers have to pay higher fees to cover for idiots getting scammed. Is the Bank of England going to start refunding people who get scammed out of cash under the mattress?

New comment by fallingknife in "Foreign Scammers Use U.S. Banks to Fleece Americans"

fallingknife — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 17:59:26 +0000

But in practice it's not like that. Roofing scams recently destabilized the entire homeowners insurance market in Florida https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/roofing-scams-florida-p...

New comment by fallingknife in "Foreign Scammers Use U.S. Banks to Fleece Americans"

fallingknife — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 17:55:16 +0000

The left has done more damage you our education system by removing standards and getting rid of separate schools for the smartest students than the right ever could by cutting funding. Most recently in California they got rid of calculus class in high school. Meanwhile we continue to increase spending and are near the highest in the world and our education system is trash https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd/education-exp...

New comment by fallingknife in "A federal judge sides with Anthropic in lawsuit over training AI on books"

fallingknife — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 21:47:46 +0000

Stealing a car deprives the previous owner of the car of possession and use. It is a criminal charge and you will be punished for it regardless of the monetary value of the car. The owner of the car could also sue the thief for financial damages caused by not having the car for a month, which won't be more than the cost of an equivalent rental for a month, so it's not even worth bothering.

Copyright infringement does not deprive the copyright owner of its property and is not criminal. So in this case only the lawsuit part applies. The owner is only entitled to the monetary damages, which is the lost sale. But in this case the sale price was paid to the owner 1 month later, so the only real damages will be the interest the publisher could have earned if they had got their money one month earlier.

New comment by fallingknife in "A federal judge sides with Anthropic in lawsuit over training AI on books"

fallingknife — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 21:37:46 +0000

> It's not adding to the cultural expression like a parody would.

Says who?

> Is AI contributing to education and/or culture _right now_, or is it trying to make money?

How on earth are those things mutually exclusive? Also, whether or not it's being used to make money is completely irrelevant to whether or not it is copyright infringement.

New comment by fallingknife in "A federal judge sides with Anthropic in lawsuit over training AI on books"

fallingknife — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 21:34:40 +0000

But if you did pirate the book, and let's say it cost $50, and then you used it to write a play based on that book and made $1 million selling that, only the $50 loss to the publisher would be relevant to the lawsuit. The fact that you wrote a non-infringing play based on it and made $1 million would be irrelevant to the case. The publisher would have no claim to it.

New comment by fallingknife in "A federal judge sides with Anthropic in lawsuit over training AI on books"

fallingknife — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 21:23:22 +0000

But there is the issue of whether there are damages. If my LLM can reproduce 10 random paragraphs of a Harry Potter book, it's obvious that nobody would have otherwise purchased the book if they couldn't read those 10 paragraphs. So there will not be any damages to the publisher and the lawsuit will be tossed. There is a threshold of how much of it needs to be reproduced, and how closely, but it's a subjective standard and not some hard line like if it's > 50%.

New comment by fallingknife in "U.S. Chemical Safety Board could be eliminated"

fallingknife — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 04:29:07 +0000

It's not just hard to measure, it's unfalsifiable nonsense.

New comment by fallingknife in "U.S. Chemical Safety Board could be eliminated"

fallingknife — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 02:03:12 +0000

Why do profits, and the stock market, continue going up then? I've heard this nonsense about corporate short termism for decades, and the long term just never seems to arrive.

New comment by fallingknife in "U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites"

fallingknife — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 01:52:13 +0000

Well that aged poorly

New comment by fallingknife in "U.S. Chemical Safety Board could be eliminated"

fallingknife — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 01:25:59 +0000

I don't really buy this since China has industrialized rapidly without much population growth at all. They have built infrastructure like high speed rail that we are unable to build in the US, so I also don't buy the "fully deployed modern infrastructure" line.

New comment by fallingknife in "U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites"

fallingknife — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 11:33:39 +0000

Yeah, I'm sure Trump raving about Obama invading Iran was part of a galaxy brain geopolitical master plan hatched back when he was just a real estate developer / minor reality TV star who wouldn't even run for president for another 5 years and not just random attempts to go viral.

New comment by fallingknife in "U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites"

fallingknife — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 01:53:01 +0000

I guess we'll see what the fallout from this attack is, but if there isn't anything major (and that's where my money is) then it would seem that just dropping bunker busters on their nuclear facilities and then going home was actually the best solution all along.

New comment by fallingknife in "U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites"

fallingknife — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 01:50:01 +0000

When the only purpose of stepping into that gap is to get to weapons grade, it doesn't really work as a gray area.

New comment by fallingknife in "U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites"

fallingknife — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 01:47:14 +0000

Every accusation from Trump is some random line he pulled out of his ass on the spot, and people like you keep falling for it and trying to divine some grand strategy out of it.

New comment by fallingknife in "U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites"

fallingknife — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 01:44:27 +0000

They're not going to escalate. They're already getting their ass handed to them by Israel and the last thing they want is to throw down with their other enemies in the region right now. You are correct that there will be no ground invasion, so there is no existential threat to the government. This means they have no incentive to do something stupid that will make anyone change their mind on that invasion.

New comment by fallingknife in "New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock social media profiles"

fallingknife — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 03:20:52 +0000

That's correct, you don't. Colleges can and will deny you admissions if you express certain unpopular opinions.

New comment by fallingknife in "New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock social media profiles"

fallingknife — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 23:39:31 +0000

Rights don't apply when you are entering another country. Americans have the right to bear arms too, but good luck with that argument when get caught at the border with weapons.

New comment by fallingknife in "George Orwell's 1984 and How Power Manufactures Truth"

fallingknife — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 01:53:09 +0000

It's pretty pathetic to include a scolding essay at the beginning of the book. Their sanctimonious drivel stands in total contrast to the work of a brilliant author that they feel the need to mar with the inclusion of their commentary. Nobody would ever read it if they didn't include it in a book that people actually care about.

New comment by fallingknife in "HR is not your friend"

fallingknife — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 23:04:33 +0000

Seems insane that leadership would give managers the ability to deanonymize answers, then.