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Re:Google AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @05:47PM (#50281398)
It was so bad that the AI was taken offline for a considerable amount of time and then re-aligned to not generate anything like a person.
> Homeland Security finally got one in 2003.

This was heavily affected by them being founded in 2002.

What responsibility does the CA that signed eMudhra's intermediate cert bear here?
Transit is very heavily subsidized by taxes. In the US, the least money losing system is BART which covers 70%+ of it's operating (but not capital) expenses through fares.
A lot of them also block voip numbers. This is obviously just a way to collect cell numbers that are easy to send spam SMS messages to.
Re:Anthropic bans 'abusive or cruel behavior' towards Claude on Thursday October 08, 2026 @01:26PM (#50008863)
Yeah, real Measure of a Man moment here
People under 18 can enter into contracts for "the necessities of life".
It's an effect of "once burned twice shy". Every time there was a "bad" hire they had to change things. People add to the list but no one ever wants to advocate for a lighter process since they might be blamed for it.
Re:What Capital Never Told You About Rent on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @11:42AM (#49803167)
That theory was based on the idea there was a fixed amount of wealth in the world and it was impossible to create more.
Re:Uber is laying off 10% of staff on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @03:01PM (#49540807)
The least cynical take I've heard about RTO is that most managers are deeply under-trained to the point of being mostly incompetent. So forcing people into the office lets them do performative performance monitoring and project management. This makes their job "easier" in that they didn't know how to do it correctly in the first place.
Re:Internet centralization and the original sin of NAT on Monday August 31, 2026 @09:01PM (#49516697)
It's already won. Over 50% of Internet users are on ipv6.
The core issue is that it went beyond just not picking a vendor. They labeled anthropic as a supply chain risk. This banned the use of their software for the whole government (and contractors IIRC).
Healthcare.gov was a national scandal due to poor performance related to bad requirements gathering.
Re:Unions Can Save Tech Workers and Tech Work on Thursday August 06, 2026 @03:29PM (#49201229)
My ask for these is always the same. I just want to see how this union would work, specifically.

Don't compare it to other unions or say it could be like X. Just write a few hundred words on what it would actually be like.

Re:Position: LLMs Can't Jump on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @11:53AM (#49184616)
It's because LLMs are entropy generators. That's not a bad thing for what people are doing.

But to prevent model collapse you need a way to pump down the entropy. Much like in thermo, it's an expensive and slow process.

Re:Clinical Failure Rates over the Decades: Yikes on Saturday July 25, 2026 @10:55PM (#49054218)
The author, Derek Lowe, also writes the hilarious Things I won't work with series (https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor...)
Many people also don't know that Vienna was isolated and divided for nearly 50 years during the cold war. A significant amount of the available housing is due to Vienna having a bad economy for almost a century.
Re:TLS certificates for internal services done right on Thursday July 09, 2026 @06:38PM (#48853338)
Let's encrypt is great but if you operate any kind of scale you can quickly hit their rate limit. AWS only recently started allowing you to pull the certificate out of ACM.
That might take a while. We need to bog down the HSR first.
Re:Rent collections are down in New York on Monday June 22, 2026 @12:56AM (#48625862)
Tampering with smoke detectors
Re:Rent collections are down in New York on Monday June 22, 2026 @12:48AM (#48625812)
Do you actually know what Vienna did? Because the overwhelming number of people who reference the city basically just repeat a few dubious talking point about restricting rent.
My local library has been running a tool lender library for quite a while. It's quite popular as it rents out both manual and electric tools. This is great when you need an extension ladder but don't want to own an extension ladder.
Re:Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @04:29PM (#48576401)
> if they let you walk out maybe they really can't

Toyota's have such a backlog of orders that they're marking cars up above MSRP

> conflict free stability is super impressive by that standard.

Not much happened between 1861 and 1865?

What happens is that economics shift from a renewable model to an extractive model.

Farms are renewable so farmers maintain them over centuries. Mines are extractive so they get pumped and dumped.

What landlords do in these situations is try to extract as much money as possible before the enterprise collapses, either literally or figuratively. New housing doesn't come online quickly so both quality and quantity fall.

We could like build more houses though

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