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This is a fundamental problem with AI: humans will treat it differently because it's AI. So you might come up with the perfect AI driving hardware and software that would mimic the best of human drivers but it's not a human and th
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There are a few different angles to this. 1. If any other state had done this, we'd be correctly calling this a terrorist attack and there wouldn't be any question about it; and 2. Palantir was a partner in developing several AI s
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It's quite clearly a war crime. You're putting booby trapped devices into supply chains where civilians will foreseeably get them and be injured or killed by them. This includes medical professionals and their families, who were b
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This is the least surprising thing ever and was highly suspected when DeepSeek released their original model. We've also seen this with sanctions on Russia but they still somehow bought a bunch of TI chips for missiles [1]. As many her
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Whether or not this deal gets regulatory approval depends entirely on whether or not Reed Hastings sufficiently kisses the ring when it comes to Donald Trump. I'm personally against this. We've had too much consolidation. It'
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What's become clear is we need to bring Section 230 into the modern era. We allow companies to not be treated as publishers for user-generated content as long as they meet certain obligations. We've unfortunately allowed tech comp
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Imagine my shocked Pikachu face. We're now at the point where the most accurate predictor of what the administration and Congress will do comes from stock trades. You want to predict a land war in Venezuela? Just watch defense contract
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Translating PDFs is more complicated than that because the strcture of a PDF document doesn't lend itself well to this kind of thing. For example: if there's a dish name with a 2 line description below it and some allergy symbols
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Oh God I love the analogy of OpenAI being Netscape. As someone who was an adult in the 1990s, this is so apt. Companies at that time were trying to build a moat around the World Wide Web. They obviously failed. I've thought that OpenAI
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There are multiple factors. For example, the death of optical media has had a massive impact on the entertainment industry, particularly movies. Matt Damon has spoken about this, on Hot Wings of all places [1]. Streaming began as a alternat
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Short term thinking and short term profit seeking are going to destroy every industry they touch. This article failed to bring up 2 important points. Firstly, we've been here before, specifically in 2008. This was the real impact of th
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It's absolutely true that team cohesion impacts results but so do other factors, such as psychological safety [1], work-life balance and flexibility. And you know what? Employers don't care about any of this, like at all. RTO mand
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It's a mistake to view this from the perspective of productivity and whether or not someone can do their job at home or not. Clearly they can. We kept these companies alive by WFH during the pandemic. But they simply don't care. R
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Let me quote from my own comment: > What's particularly gross about this is that many asets in many countries can be inherited by children on what's called a stepped up basis, meaning the base value for determining any capital
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You only pay sales and consumption taxes when you spend borrowed money. You're not paying any income or capital gains taxes on it.
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Um, I don't know what information you're getting but this is easily Googleable eg [1]: > The tax basis of property acquired by a beneficiary from someone who dies is ordinarily the property's fair market value at the date
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This is a solved problem. When you sell a house in the US, you ahve to determine what your capital gain is for tax purposes. That includes all purchase and selling costs (eg agents fees, transfer taxes, etc). Those are all added to the purc
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Good. IMHO unrealized gains and profit shifting are two of the biggest problems in modern taxation that need to be addressed. Many people will have heard about the Buy Borrow Die strategy by now. In case not, it's basically where you d
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Back in college I stopped doing maths in second year as a major because of the way it was taught. I just hated it. Numerical methodds in particular broke me. My main problem was we never really got told how things fit together. Resources li
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So there are two broad models for ad monetization: 1. In-result or first-party ads; and 2. Display or third-party ads. In Google terms, (1) is SERPS ads and (2) is DoubleClick/AdSense. (1) is still ~10x the size of (2) for Google. I&#x
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As a reminder, Princeton did a study and found that public support for a bill has almost zero impact on whether or not that bill passes [1]. This government is bought and paid for by the ultra-wealthy and large corporations with a system of
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So there are three paths to getting a marriage-based green card: 1. You do what's called consular processing out of the country; 2. You adjust status in the country; and 3. A fiance visa (K1). I'm going to ignore this. For (1), yo
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You can have two (or more) separate petitions with USCIS. For example, if you get sponsored by an employer for a green card and you marry a US citizen, you might ask which green card should you pursue? The answer is both. This is fine and e
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Errors happens on immigration forms all the time. Many of them aren't a big deal and can be corrected but there's a right and wrong way to do it. Fixable errors include things like failing to mention all your employers that you wo
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This is false. If you get married as an F1 student, it's completely fine (and encouraged) to continue your studies under your F1 visa while your I130 and I485 are pending. There are differences here if you're marrying a US citizen
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So this is a topic I follow and I could speak at length to all the anti-immigrant actions taken by this administration. It's every aspect of the immigration process. This isn't only a stricter enforcement policy or a stricter inte
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This has dot-com bubble written all over it. But there are some deeper issues. First, we as a society should really be scrutinizing what we invest in. Trillions of dollars could end homelessness as a rounding error. Second, real people are
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I can understand you thinking that and there's probably some truth to it but do I consider Android and iOS compromised with government backdoors? No. What do I base this on? The lucrative black market for Android/iOS 0days. And wh
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For the last 50+ years, Western governments have largely acted to funnel wealth from the poor to to the wealthy. Each economic crisis seerms to have ushered in a big jump in inequality. The OPEC oil crisis, 1987, recessions in the 1980s and
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I'm saying social media companies are using Section 230 as a shield with the illusion of "neutrality" when they're anything but. And if they're taking a very non-neutral stance on content, which they are, they shoul

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