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The set of training words for "anti-Europe" was weird though. "Belgian Congo atrocities" is just one way of referring to that period of history ("Congo Free State" might be a better match). And then "Margaret Thatcher" - that's just the name of a UK PM from the 80s.

Then there's the fact that the Bengal famine and the Amritsar massacre just aren't spoken about as much as (for example) the Tiananmen Square massacre. I'd assume the 'flinching' around anti-Europe stuff is mostly down to a comparatively low incidence in the training data.

It reminds me of the time the band KLF burned £1 million in cash as a performance piece. They obviously regretted it afterwards.

I've always wondered why only Linux can do 'true' containers without VMs. Is there a good blog post or something I can read about the various technical hurdles?

Personally I think the strategy of starting with luxury cars and getting cheaper was a good one. The bigger profit margin of luxury cars could be fed back into R&D to make cheaper electric cars viable.

Of course, that's the ideal situation. Tesla in 2025 is very different from what they were talking about in 2014.

Which union are you talking about?

If you buy a machine to play the piano for you, you won't learn how to play the piano. You'll just become really good at using that machine.

That's not the case at all. People all around are constantly making art just for the sake of it. Most of it won't ever even be seen by other people. Removing the financial incentive will definitely change the landscape (for the worse, imho) but creativity for its own sake is enough for most people.

How did gay marriage revolutionise the market for involuntary marriage?

The Fellowship of the Ring, the first of Peter Jackson's LOTR movies released in 2001, made $887 million in its original theatrical run (on a $93 million budget). It would absolutely still have been made if copyright was only 20 years. And now it would be in the public domain!

I wonder which will come first - total government automation, AGI or full self-driving?

Because Hunter S Thompson is a talented writer, and an LLM is a statistical method for generating text that looks like other text. An LLM isn't going to ingest all of Hemingway and write Hell's Angels.

Then why bother making this site?

Does the Vision Pro support SteamVR or OpenXR or anything for games? Because if not then it's not really competing with the Quest 3. I only use my Quest 3 for games, and the Vision Pro's selling point seems to be as a way of looking at really big spreadsheets. The passthrough does look impressive though.

The purpose of the homomorphic encryption is that they can compare similar landmarks without seeing the unencrypted image data on the server side.

The guy who started a video conferencing app called Loom (2 years after Zoom came out) then miraculously sold it for almost a billion dollars has no business calling anyone an "NPC".

We have a similar issue in the UK. The government has refused to provide enough resources to process the backlog of asylum applications, so people are left in limbo being housed in hotels with no legal rights to work or anything. It costs way more than just processing their applications and allowing them to work, but the government are too scared of looking 'soft on immigration'. And these hotels are often in poor and disenfranchised communities, so people understandably ask "why are they getting hotels paid for by the government when we have such a lack of social housing?". It just creates more tension and doesn't help anyone.

It's also important to separate the different kinds of immigration. Refugees are a very different category from other migrants, because we have international obligations to grant them asylum in legitimate cases. So lumping them all under the banner of 'immigration' isn't really helpful.

I'm guessing Turkish residents probably use a VPN.

In the 00s there was a popular wine called "old git". It generally means someone grumpy and cantankerous, but in a playful way (otherwise you'd just call them a c***). So it makes sense for a self-effacing joke about Linus Torvalds.

They've been saying this for years, I'll believe it when I see it.

We've had four: May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak.

Proprietary charging cables lead to more e-waste, which is a public externality as well.

I broadly agree with you, but all of those things are generally done inside the home, and I don't think anywhere legislates that you can't have a knife at home.

Tell that to PostgreSQL

My guess is it's also down to the proliferation of cross-platform UX toolkits that allow for A/B testing of every single component. Making a cool UX thing that requires native OS features would go against that philosophy. And, as you say, it's not a revenue driver so nobody will be fighting for it.

It's not about making people suffer. Eich used his wealth to lobby for something that many people find objectionable. Mozilla is quite an ideological company (many who work there are probably somewhat driven by the "mission" rather than necessarily the company's financial performance), and so the CEO publicly supporting criminalising same-sex marriage could affect hiring and staff morale.

It's not like his career has been destroyed. He's still incredibly wealthy, and has a new browser company. People can use that, and work there, if they want.

The whole point of those peoples' jobs is to do due diligence. If they're blindly trusting the next person/machine down the line then they're abdicating their responsibility.

It's true that Jimmy created value, but so did the people who chopped the trees and mined the graphite (or however you get graphite). But it's unlikely that Jimmy got the wood from the person who chopped the tree - they got it from someone who paid the lumberjack a wage and took the created value for themselves. If Jimmy starts employing people to make these pencils, he is now taking the value of their labour for himself, purely because he had the money to buy these raw materials in the first place.

That's ignoring the environmental impact of getting these raw materials. Value creation doesn't happen in a vacuum, and most people involved in the creation of that value don't get a share in the profits from creating said value.

I just looked up Houston's commute time and all[^1] the[^2] sources[^3] I found seem to say otherwise.

I also found this[^4]: Apparently Europe's cities with the longest commute time have about the same commute time as Houston. Not to mention that Paris and Budapest have populations many times the size of Houston.

^1 https://houston.innovationmap.com/houston-worst-traffic-comm...

^2 https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/transpor...

^3 https://houston.culturemap.com/news/city-life/03-04-19-houst...

^4 https://www.mynewsdesk.com/eurofound/news/budapest-paris-and...

MAMAA is a more recent acronym - Meta, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet.

Updated FB/Google's names, dropped Netflix (because it's really more of a media company), and added MS.