You can always get a car to review from a dealership or borrow one. But it’s quite hard when you’re just starting out in the business.

I’ll just try it. I don’t need a guest pass, I can just pay for it.

That’s fine as long as there’s enough content. I prefer long form content which I know they host.

How is Nebula? It has some creators that I like, but does it have a good mobile app?

Yes. Although they don’t host the dataset binaries.

What was their reason for declining?

They are, actually. They’re a registered non-profit.

I see they’re a non profit business. That doesn’t make them a charity. They have paying customers.

https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost

This is the repo (unless I have the wrong software).

However, it seems they’re running a business, which means revenue generating features will probably be prioritized. They’re not running a charity.

I’m sure if you donate enough money you can probably get them to implement better self hosting functionality. Chances are the email requirement is just what they have for other features.

They should just call this an incomplete AI output. If the AI is so good, it should create the fix, add tests, and ensure nothing else breaks.

I wonder if there’s fewer around my area because there’s a local vendor doing the same thing. Their building is fairly prominent and is surrounded by cameras.

We already apply distortion correction based on lens profiles. Probably all cell phone lenses do this. They just aren’t corrected based on individual phones.

Ah I see. Do non phone specific generic lenses exist? They all seem pretty specialized to me.

That means we could get better processing by applying this analysis in reverse. Would also reduce this type of fingerprinting.

Why would a generic lens be any better? These distortions are part of the lens design and manufacturing. Arguably, a lower quality lens would be easier to identify.

It’s more akin to a plugin since it doesn’t change the code at all.

Yeah but the compilers weren’t that good at optimization back then.

Yeah it would be nice if we could simplify instead of add a bunch of special cases.

However it’s easier said than done. In your example for carbon tax, how do you determine the cost of removing carbon? Does creating a new solar/wind power plant count? Does increasing efficiency in an existing home count? What’s the difference between that and just paying for carbon capture? This is what the carbon offset economy was supposed to be about but it’s ultimately difficult to implement correctly and inherently full of complexities. I’m not saying we shouldn’t try, but it’s really hard to simplify some things.

I think there’s evidence to show that even though punishments may be heavy, if the chance of getting caught is low people will still do it. So that means you’d need to increase surveillance and enforcement which comes with it’s own issues.

I’d like to think most democracies would enact some socialist policies if there was less money involved in politics… but I’m not sure what the best way to prevent that is.

You can craft laws but the legal system is also profit driven. And you’d need some way to either prevent corruption or get the motivations to line up correctly. But I can’t think of any practical solutions that also align with freedoms.

Capitalism isn’t a form of government the way democratic socialism is? But to your point, even Adam Smith realized the problems with a legal and governmental system that is controlled by corporations to be a terrible idea. He was well aware that profit motives without limit leads to mistreatment of individuals.

If there’s no air, wouldn’t it ruin a bunch of stuff you put in? Any liquids would evaporate, wood could deteriorate, etc. Is it also cold? That also causes changes to a bunch of stuff.