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They don't want anyone to take that which they have rightfully stolen.
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Just the fact that the lab gets to publish something that's regime-friendly is beneficial to them. Why was the study funded through the humanities department?
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Billionaires love AI chatboats so much because they invented the digital Yes-man. They agree obsequiously with everything we say to them. Unfortunately for the rest of us we don't really have the resources to protect ourselves from our
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> Researchers who find at least one valid “rooting” vulnerability will receive a permanent SSH certificate for their own car It feels like this is something you should get by being owner of the car, and not have to do free speculative re
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The problem is that it actually gets harder. I was a holdout against cell phones when I was young. Eventually payphones started disappearing. Pre-cellphone they were everywhere. By the time I finally caved and got a cellphone I knew where t
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One thing people forget is that the key complaints PATCO's members had were: 1. outdated equipment 2. staffing levels 3. workload and fatigue Reagan went to war with the union instead of addressing these things. https:&#x2F
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It certainly didn't help.[1] [1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-doges-cutbacks-at-the-...
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Scamming and cheating on homework were the original use cases of AI like buying drugs and extortion were the original use cases of crypto.
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It would really be amazing if the end result of all of this is the post-9/11 DHS finally gets reverted back to what we had before.
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Specifically the Eurodollar is the main reason for the City of London to exist. Eurodollars are US dollar deposits at European banks. Originally these were used as a way to give the Soviet Union access to the dollar markets through French b
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Sangamon was converted back into a tanker and wrecked ironically in Japan after the war. The Sangamon class along with the Bogue, Casablanca and Commencement Bay were classes of escort carriers (CVE) created during WWII for anti-submarine o
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Microsoft cleaned up when they got hit with antitrust and then started feeling a bit of competition when operating under consent decree. That's all "behind" them now and the Google settlement put antitrust to bed.
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I assume you mean that employees had daily goals? This is both not unusual and unrelated to investor reporting requirements.
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Combining this with a SPAC a startup would be able to have a six month runway as a public company before having to disclose finances. I imagine that would be attractive to some firms.
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> even if Chamath only created them to exit his sh*t investments. There are very few other ways for retail investors to invest in potential 100-1000X companies "I have this exciting bag-holding opportunity for you."
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Or even start with monthly. The problem with quarterly reporting is the internal efforts to "game" the quarter. The more aggressive disclosures are, the less of a shell game people can play to "make the report come out right.
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Mid-century I think judges were more committed to "fair and honest application of the law." This actually led conservatives to rage against judges who would "become liberal" on the bench. The quintessential example of th
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The central government in Bejing doesn't care even a little bit about some property dispute in Henan but there's a local apparatchik who cares or who could be made to care with the right consideration.
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I feel like that's breaking down in the west. I've seen more and more news articles describing someone as a "well-connected lawyer." The idea that the most important things that a lawyer possesses is connections to peopl
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Watching their demo video was the perfect encapsulation of "this was not made for users" I have ever seen. First of all the idea of hanging out in a digital world with Mark Zuckerberg is so bleak. I can't imagine a worse ha
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I think the next big war will involve a kessler syndrome, not because people start firing off anti-satellite weapons (since there's a strong component of MAD in doing that) but because the belligerents will have their own multi-thousan
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Summers and Mandelson are the most fascinating characters in all this. These guys never held elected office, and were toxic enough that even giving them appointments was politically difficult. Yet they absolutely controlled the parties they
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Neither of them could pronounce "palantir" let alone spell it. And they were talking about becoming board members.
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They're willing to boil the oceans to write better emails and, alternately, not have to read emails others have sent. So I don't think it's a lack of desire. I suspect it's more atrophying of ability to put effort into a
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Yeah and it's really interesting watching people try to come up with alternate explanations. The people who rule us can't be this mid, otherwise the very concept of meritocracy is bunk. Or at the very least, the things we tell our
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The only real competitor is bing (other search engines like DDG are just repackaged bing) and Microsoft is pursuing the same strategy as Google.
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I was working for a company who tried to do that. We opened offices in Warsaw and Krakow and started trying to hire. We really couldn't get anyone, as everyone else had the same idea at the same time. People in those markets who were g
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The nice thing about the "just pass the tests" approach is you end up with something sufficiently abstracted that it's easy to write tests for it.
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They're grifters. They thought climate tech would be a big grift. When that slowed down they dropped it like last season's trendy outfit and jumped on the AI bandwagon.
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Weirdly Europe and even Canada seem to be completely onboard with all this..

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