Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 21hIt has to be tested in operating conditions, though; presumably the appropriate accountability here is just the company paying whatever the fine for a false report is. 110
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 22hThis is fine for a basic crawler, but an LLM should by default have the same terms of access as if you asked your friend to do it (so it can't eg. do your tax returns, but it should be able to do basically anything non-official). 100
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 23hI think it's fine for LLMs to have a blanket rule of ignoring those, to be fair, it's not really any different to turning on a VPN to get around unjustified geofencing. 110
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I assume they're either not Christian in a strict sense or would assert that all magic from evil sources derives from God as well. 020
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The correct way to do 3. is the ad Brown just put out, though, not explicitly disavowing pro-trans beliefs. 020
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Still, food delivery and e-commerce taking a slice of the market shouldn't be that debilitating to malls if they weren't having other issues. 010
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Actually 54 is if the current polling is correct, you're thinking of 56-58. 030
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I mean it's definitely primarily their fault in both of these cases, though that doesn't make it the best angle of attack. 040
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I think it is most things except the far left, far right and some options too weird to characterize. 010
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It's not inherently reactionary but I do think it excludes some possible ideological currents. 131
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The fastest commercially used boats are competitive over distances of a few hundred kilometers, that ought to be enough for most uses. 010
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The water speed record is 511 kph, that's pretty competitive. 110
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026One could make the argument that the causality is the other way around and that modern Southernness results from the absence of real cities. 051
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I do think it leads to perverse outcomes if you take this view and then also don't allow payment in kind, though. 001
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It seems clear that the real evil here is the South, though, eight of the nine worst are in or bordering it. 020
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It's denser than a number of midwestern cities, including MSP which I feel usually doesn't get hit with complaints about sprawl. 120
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There's no city in the US like Madrid, though, Phoenix has an alright urban spine now and I assume the others are likewise. 110
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Logically the next question is whether islands should be sunk or given rail connections. 040
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I would say for me it's more being strongly paternalistic than any sort of negative polarization. 030
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is fine because it's less gratuitously slow to do by hand. 010
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the equivalent of making someone do a bubble sort to teach the concept of sorting, though, there have to be better alternate algorithms to the lookup table. 110
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Learning the general concept of subtraction yes, but this assumes you already know that. 110
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Whenever one of these comes up the technique they're trying to use is overly elaborate and unnecessary, though. 100
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Ah, I see, you have the overly entitled American freight railroad issue; then to compare to a group which appears to have been advocating a similar Calgary-Banff line including the addition of extra dedicated track for a while, it would probably cost three or four billion for everything combined. 010
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I'm basing this off the expenses for our most recent train purchases. 100
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I would estimate maybe half a billion to a billion for the trains, and I can't imagine the existing alignment is so deficient that substantial upgrades would be needed. 100
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It's 240 km airport to airport in a mostly straight line, could do it in under two hours without anything fancy. 110
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026But this argument requires that the deranged driver do a meaningful amount of those things. 020
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Sovereignty is a bad argument here because the answer to "should the people of <area> have sovereignty over it" is always no. 000
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Wellington is ahead of every US city smaller than Pittsburgh combined (with about seventy million people between them). 000
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026There's a case to be made that there are zero proper urban rail systems in the US outside the Northeast. 100
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026That only works once, though (and it's 35 people to twice the deficit, it falls off quite quickly). 0120
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026But it does imply they can pay more without hardship, and I don't really think it's possible to get a 25-30% increase in revenue without making them do so. 140
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Yes but also the middle class does need higher taxes, if I was conventionally employed at my current salary I'd pay 1-5% more in tax than I would for the same income in the US (despite superannuation being on top of base salary here and Social Security being a tax). 170
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I would say social trust is good in general and unity is good when I agree with it. 020
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I do suspect that if your honest views are sufficiently weird that masking them to some extent increases perceived authenticity, though there's probably not many notable people in politics this would apply to. 001
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Not sure I'd call it comfortable, Morales' entire margin came out of the chunk of Ward 13 he got around 80% of the vote in. 120
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026If you blockaded China to prevent it from importing any fossil fuels you'd probably cut more than 5% off globally, but you would probably also start WW3. 030
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I do think we certainly want the average person to be more open to that insofar as foreign aid etc. is liberalism-as-tithing for the whole country. 130
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I would say the way to square this circle is that text usually conveys a tone to any given person but it's not always the same tone. 010
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Yes, but it is important to distinguish what is meant by "Australian mandatory STV" because usually STV refers to the multimember version here. 010
