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by cudgy 2y ago
Seems like it’s just as bad in Europe, even when not crossing borders https://www.politico.eu/article/police-can-access-mobile-pho...
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by cudgy 2y ago
It’s yet to be proven that AI will increase economic output. Some might argue that reducing the economic benefits for the many in order to maximize the output of the whole may backfire horribly over the long-term.
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by cudgy 2y ago
AI results typically blow away Google results in both quality and definitely speed. For example, when searching for product information, Google results in top 50 to 100 listed items titled “the 10 best …“ full of vapid articles that provide
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by cudgy 2y ago
Artificial intelligence is definitely better at avoiding voluntary biases such as this. Most people that are highly political/tribal demonstrate this bias very effectively. Examples such as this make a great case for AI being used for
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by cudgy 2y ago
Isn’t the investment to avoid a revolution? To avoid those that cannot find work from dismantling and tearing down everything around them so they can get what they need. Some might consider that to be a benefit to taxpayers and not a poor i
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by cudgy 2y ago
Existing career auditors have been ineffective for whatever reasons. New people taking a look at things seems reasonable. Whether DOGE is part of the answer remains to be seen.
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Good thing law firms are overflowing with the desire to make large amounts of cash from contingency based cases.
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by cudgy 2y ago
“… he complained that LLM companies were crawling data without respecting robosts.txt“ Maybe that is the problem? They misspelled robots.txt
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by cudgy 2y ago
The “discussion” seems one-sided and any dissent is downvoted to oblivion. Maybe that is why these are flagged by people. They are not discussions.
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by cudgy 2y ago
The ability to create novel solutions without a priori knowledge.
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by cudgy 2y ago
Electric vanagon? Or the ID.Buzz might work. https://soymotor.com/sites/default/files/usuarios/redaccion/...
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by cudgy 2y ago
Why not buy out of money options in companies that you know with spare money? Better odds and good payouts if you hit it right.
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by cudgy 2y ago
“There’s two simple steps to restore American greatness: 1) Brain drain the world. Work visas for every person who can produce more than they consume. I’m talking doubling the US population, bringing in all the factory workers, farmers, min
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by cudgy 2y ago
> Obviously, it doesn't make any sense to say that a city wants something that its people do not want. Is it really so obvious? So many policies are implemented by government that people as a majority do not want like wars and tax c
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by cudgy 2y ago
Uh … basic deduction and simple set theory. Because donations are made for tax purposes and virtue signaling … someone is going to get this money. Many of the donors are alumni and will donate money to the school. It was already targeted to
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by cudgy 2y ago
Are you saying that the insurance companies are paying 4 to 5 times cost to repair roof, but then at the same time saying that adjusters are only paying out 50 to 90% of the actual cost? That doesn’t make sense. The former which you were cl
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by cudgy 2y ago
The actual report with the findings had the following interesting statement at the bottom of page 3. Seems convenient to claim fraud as a trade secret, which apparently prevents this report from exposing those companies. “A number of the do
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by cudgy 2y ago
This article has turned itself into gas-lit pretzels, trying to make excuses for the current horrible state of college education. It reads like a propaganda piece directly written by the lobbyist organizations for private and public college
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by cudgy 2y ago
Why has it taken this author so long to finally realize this? It was never “safe” to have government data managed and stored in another country. Sounds more like they just don’t like the current administration in the United States. This dis
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by cudgy 2y ago
Sorry, but your statements are inaccurate. I posted this link separately and it fully demonstrates what I would expect: more jobs in the US to compensate for the increased cost to import. In this case, the jobs were provided by existing man
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by cudgy 2y ago
Sorry, but I just don’t feel like you have the authority or knowledge to make that statement. How could you possibly know whether direct cuts will only worsen things? This is the type of issue that is argued between people inside of an orga
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by cudgy 2y ago
Sure, rhetoric matters for style points, but the act supersedes stylish rhetoric. I’ll take proper action with clumsy rhetoric over inaction or improper action backed up with eloquent rhetoric, which is what most politicians provide.
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by cudgy 2y ago
No. The law is not being broken. That act does not require the president or the administrative agencies to spend all of the amount budgeted. There’s a process to handle scenarios, where the administrative branch feels that more money is not
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by cudgy 2y ago
Really? Then why do they charge students athletic fees? Why do stadiums and athletic centers receive government grants and subsidies? Here is a huge list of donations from various groups to an athletic endowment at the University of Alabama
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by cudgy 2y ago
“Imports did decline. Washing machine imports fell by about 33% the first year the tariffs were in effect and stayed below pre-tariff levels through 2022. During that time, Samsung began producing washing machines at a US factory in South C
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by cudgy 2y ago
Sure, but how is this any different than the income tax system where companies receive tax credits, reduced tax rates, accelerated depreciation, schedules, subsidies to build factories, and direct cushy (high margin and sometimes fraudulent
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by cudgy 2y ago
But your view is too shortsighted as I’ve said, in other comments. There will be a reaction to these increases in prices and increases in margins. Small startups and even large companies will enter the space to take advantage of the increas
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by cudgy 2y ago
Of course it takes time for domestic competition to arrive. Decision decisions cannot only be made because the benefits are not immediately realized. It’s taken decades to get to the point that we are with the outsourcing and oversees manuf
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by cudgy 2y ago
Unfortunately, the vast majority of jobs and manufacturing is in The lower value manufacturing chain. So by chasing only the high value chain, you abandon the manufacturing operations that actually hire workers, thereby hollowing out the mi
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by cudgy 2y ago
“And the US manufacturers in the space that WERE still selling products despite the international competition will just increase their prices now that competition is more expensive.” And an industrial entrepreneur, such as yourself, might s

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