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I wonder if this tech is already being used in F1, or if it makes sense to do so. The weight savings alone could easily make a championship winner.

The US was at war during the course of the Manhattan Project. This is not the case now.

Being the sole owner of the first AGI would probably give the US an edge against its peers, but as fair as foreign policy goes, not as much as being the only nuclear-capable country.

For the world as a whole and probably for the US itself, in absolute terms, an entirely open AGI accessible to all countries with the necessary resources could have such an impact in the global economy that everyone ends up better off in aggregate.

It really depends. Locally, factions like criminal associations and retired cops mafias (militias), who always have city councelors and mayors in their pockets, may retaliate if someone with an audience is being too annoying (see Marielle Franco's case).

Nationally, not all politicians enjoy any protection from the supreme court against critiscism, only the best connected ones and the supreme court itself. Recently, a former YouTuber who lost all his social accounts and had to self-exile to the US for some disrespectful comments against the supreme court was sentenced to 1.5 years in jail for calling the newest supreme court judge a "fatty".

Except for the supreme court itself, the average Brazilian can voice their concerns and speak up against corruption with very low chances of repercussions if they don't display wholly anti-democratic discourse, like wishing the military to execute a coup.

Fines are not enough because a large enough fine will kill a company, destroying lots of jobs and supply chains.

Why not dilute the shareholder pool by a serious amount? There's no need for a statization to formally happen, the government can sell the shares back over time without actually exercising control.

Also fire execs and ban them from holding office on publicly traded companies for the foreseeable future.

Seizing shares doesn't impact the cash flow of the company directly, thus shouldn't cause job losses, but shareholders (who should put pressure on executives and the board to act with prudence to avoid these kinds of disasters) are adequately punished.

> Nice to see at least one country managed cut out the middleman that is visa/mastercard as well as the merchant services.

For debit payments, sure. Credit card payments have infinitely better fraud protection than Pix (which has none), though.

Yes, the transactions is tripartite.

Direct API access to the Central Bank's internal system is only given to participating banks. Your bank might make available a separate API through which you can generate temporary QR Codes with a value attached, for instance. This is very common. These QR codes aren't requests for payment in the strictest sense, because they aren't targeted at an user specifically: anyone that scans the QR code can pay.

To popularize the system, the central bank forbid the banks from charging for transactions in the first 12 months. That was very contentious because before we had a system called TED which allowed transactions only in business days and within a 1~24h window. Most (not all) banks charged a fixed fee of 1 to 15 BRL per transaction. This revenue source was cut all of a sudden.

Now, they allow banks to charge fees for businesses, if they wish. Some banks have fixed fees, some charge up to 1% per transaction (half the fee for debit card transactions in Brazil), sometimes also defining a ceiling (max 130 BRL fee per single transaction).

It's 4k, both for GPT4 and for GPT 3.5.

I don't understand what's the harm of having a releases page with a binary and its md5 hash, or how that keeps anyone from just compiling an unofficial binary themselves and adding malware to it.

Anyone not technical enough to compile a binary has to give up trying to use it or risk some unnoficially distributed executable .

This is so similar to what happens in Brazil with online retailers when they decide to ship something through the Brazilian Postal Company (Correios).

For me it's a gamble to order anything online because I live in a suburb that doesn't get postal service, and the parcel gets redirected to a neighbouring town instead of my own city's office. All private shipping companies deliver to my door, though.

You could say it's homeschooling without the pressure to follow some arbitrary curriculum.

The relevant bit is that the guy that is supposedly "running" this alledged unregulated security exchange can't shut it down himself. How is he running it if he's got no actual power over it?

Servers on premise with regular backups stored in the cloud can still be cheaper than offloading all your compute, storage and backup to AWS.

I work in a small startup with a headcount around ~30 employees. Although they are fully remote, employees can optionally work on the office, which is an open plan workspace.

It really does work for me. We have desks that could support about 25 people, but very rarely there are more than 8 present, so it doesn't feel crowded. I also like most of my coworkers, and that's a key part of it. I wouldn't want it to change to a cubicles workspace if I have the opportunity to just work from home when I'm not feeling like interacting with people.