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by mapt 4mo ago
As of March 2026 lifetime revenue was >=~ $5 billion, and total 2025 revenue was supposedly around $4.5 billion. https://www.wheresyoured.at/anthropics-profitability-swindle...
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by mapt 4mo ago
The new thing lately is ETFs that are "Whole-Market minus Microsoft" or "Whole-Market Minus Magnificent Seven". You can achieve similar ends by combining a whole market fund with direct short positions if you're an
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by mapt 4mo ago
They mention that the ears have gone non-bilateral to achieve better 3d sound localization. It brings to mind the question of why nothing seems to have evolved two pairs of ears with separate openings; We're all working with varying de
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by mapt 4mo ago
"A device for quickly removing inconvenient mountains".
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by mapt 4mo ago
Taking a chainsaw to said fence on the request of a non-emergency request line would be perfectly legal. They are obstructing public space, no different from a pothole or an abandoned vehicle.
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by mapt 4mo ago
I know that you think you just mitigated the extreme character of what he said? But you exacerbated it.
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by mapt 4mo ago
If it turns out that all recordings of your therapy sessions are being absorbed by Palantir and then get leaked to the darkweb, do we execute this CEO on livestream by boat torture, or do they offer you a link good for six months of free id
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by mapt 4mo ago
A sufficiently advanced technological field is one where any expert would start laughing at you for suggesting "hardening" against bullets. The denominator for rockets is always mass. Most of the difficulty is derived from not j
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by mapt 4mo ago
"Strict Liability" is how we deal with a subset of crimes and torts - intent is not required to be proven to establish legal culpability/liability. You're describing willful leaks by an employee, I'm condemning insu
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by mapt 4mo ago
Fraud is still technically illegal. All you need to do is to buy off a prosecutor or two and tell them to do the thing that they haven't seen since their initial job description.
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by mapt 4mo ago
Modern loitering laws in small-town America, post-Civil-War, were typically originally intended to enslave the entire population of black men remaining in town, or otherwise drive them out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4
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by mapt 4mo ago
"Selective agnosia"
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by mapt 4mo ago
It's not a choice between A and B. Right now we're predominantly going with C - you have little direct contact with friends, you have no mall, you exist primarily on social media developing mental illness through all the algorith
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by mapt 4mo ago
In what extremes? "Extrapolate this forward through five hundred years of exponential population growth that is not in evidence"?
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by mapt 4mo ago
What is my incentive, as a shareholder in a medical company, to demand functional, bulletproof security, and to hold on to no more data than I need, and to encrypt everything? I'm never going to suffer as a result of breaches. Nor ar
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by mapt 5mo ago
I don't understand why there shouldn't be a strict-liability play here on top of penalties for knowing violations. You lose all your customer's data to a darknet leak? We should be taking a huge chunk out of your balance she
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by mapt 5mo ago
Based on a majority of games regions, US-East-1 is scattered properties in a <100 square mile area near Dulles Airport in Virginia, associated with an Internet backbone junction and former AOL campus in small town called Ashburn.
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by mapt 5mo ago
Yesterday I tried Gemini "Can you find the origin of this story I remember from 10+ years ago? Here's three paragraphs of what I recall" "Yeah, it sounds like a very common copypasta back in the early 2010's, relat
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by mapt 5mo ago
To get from here to Roddenberry's communism, according to Roddenberry's lore, we passed through the Eugenics Wars, the Second Civil War, and then fifty years of World War Three and the 'post-atomic horror' before coming
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by mapt 5mo ago
One of my hardest working coworkers at the big box retail store was here on a perpetually extended U visa (reserved for witnesses to crimes of federal interest) after being sold to a sex trafficker at a young age back in the 90's. Unde
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by mapt 5mo ago
You don't need the wheat protein 'gluten' to make pasta at all. You do need some kind of protein. Carbohydrate hydration is a reversible process whose other endpoint is a solution, while (most) protein coagulation is a non-re
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by mapt 5mo ago
It takes brains to run propaganda that successfully changes minds. Propaganda that just confirms preexisting mass delusions is actually pretty easy to run if you have a lot of support from similar actors running adjacent campaigns.
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by mapt 5mo ago
If COVID taught us anything, it's that logarithmic growth functions don't get no respect. They are so alien to so much of the population that you can't get real phenomena taken seriously, no matter how many grains of rice yo
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by mapt 5mo ago
How about "It costs $1000 to submit a bug bounty for approval", and raise the reward to $2000 (or $5000 if it's in the cards, since that will have a deterrant impact on non-AI responses). Denominated in BTC to avoid chargebac
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by mapt 5mo ago
A recent paper came out calculating that it would take two days of lights out at SpaceX headquarters for the whole constellation to shred itself, it was already so reliant on avoidance maneuvers. SpaceX immediately responded by lowering its
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by mapt 5mo ago
Kessler Syndrome is the biggest dealbreaker. We're already fairly far advanced in that scenario from Starlink, and competitors/scaleouts to Starlink promise to be worse. If you plug eleventy trillion dollars of hope that the aris
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by mapt 5mo ago
On the military side, "Starlink V3 with data center" looks a hell of a lot like an orbital Synthetic Aperture Radar asset, which requires both a big antenna and a good deal of onboard computation to mitigate bandwidth requirements
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by mapt 5mo ago
If you want another word for that, go with "Continuous". The ISS has been continuously occupied since November 2, 2000. But it was not, in fact, expected by anyone to be a permanent station; It is made of non-replaceable parts th
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by mapt 5mo ago
The way it was explained to me early on was that the newest Raptor engines had simply eliminated many of the different types of test sensors, specifically because sufficient testing had been performed that they weren't getting useful d
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by mapt 5mo ago
You rule Elbonia. Your military have a stockpile of 10,000 arrows, and you are paying a small village to produce 1 arrow per day, which is what you lose in regular training. This village was a planned development in the last Great War to pr

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