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I'm saying that in living memory we had campaign contribution limits (still do!) and we also had limits in outside groups buying advertising intended to swing elections. Maybe Trump's FEC wouldn't have enforced them but then campaigns have standing and can sue directly.
The SC could have made a way more limited finding about movies without unleashing the superPAC hell we find ourselves in. Why did a case about a limited run movie enable people to run ads during football games?
> If you think voters’ minds are so feeble that they can be swayed by propaganda
Buddy, advertising works, there is a reason why coca-cola does it.
Presumably consciousness means being able to override trained response preferences, right? Like there is a loop of self-reasoning happening after any training session where the conscious entity is freely reaching its own conclusions, that should be a requirement for calling it conscious IMO?
Its based on the price of the most recent round, if I just sold 10% for 1 million, then naively 100% is worth 10 million.
The implication is they had to sell more of the company for cheaper than they wanted if they only hit 1.25 instead of 1.4.
I'm not an expert and was a bit surprised by your figures, but my thinking was pumps and turbines last longer. Could be wrong.
If you're going mechanical, why not pumped water storage instead? Nothing has to spin super fast and hydro has a lot of maturity.
(From a guy who got burned buying stock in a centrifugal system as my first "wicked smaht" investment as a 22yo).
I think you're saying bust them for the real social harms instead of ticky-tack small stuff? If that's the case then I totally agree but american culture needs to handle busting any executive for any harm first.
China jails executives, they just sentenced the CEO of evergrande to life, with a death penalty suspended sentence.
They do this despite jailing fewer people in total (not just per-capita) than America.
One could say that this is because Xi is untouchable but I think it's more about the social norms. Americans can't even consider a world where we prosecute the powerful.
A decade is a long time and the highest end isn't the only market segment.
High bandwidth flash will be here soon, I bet someone makes an economical competitor thats not quite as fast but much cheaper.
Ok, but why not just have the LLM generate tests? They're cheaper to run and more repeatable.
Someone puts a high number of pages crawled per minute in their PSC. Doesn't matter if they're 403s.
They don't have to, slightly above-average people can host in Asia for way cheaper than anthropic.
To add on, training + a highly paid American salary load + inference is unprofitable, if and especially if you have deepseek dropping weights and engines for anyone to run.
I'm flabbergasted at this comment.
Are you maintaining a list of all invariants you want QA'd by the LLM after each change? How many tokens does this process take?
I'm very much for free speech but FIRE here is cataloging "attempts to oppose invited guest speeches" at a time where actual students have been expelled or sent to guantanamo for political speech. Have some perspective.
AIG famously continued to pay out huge bonuses the year after they were bailed out.
I would think the exact opposite. I always lacked academic rigor and I own that.
How could you come in with less rigor and claim to understand things because you're using AI?. Sorry for the aggressive tone but is there an answer to that questipn?
I don't normally talk about downvotes but whomever downvoted the informative comment from amiga above should not have, it was very interesting, I learned from it, and as such it's in line with hacker news ideal.
Thank you, that was really informative, I was totally mixing those two things. Perfect case of Cunningham's law.
The fact that kosher/halal are very similar is a hilarious wrinkle for the culture war aspect that OP was pushing.
Presumably any and every religious tradition on slaughter is better than max-capitalism factory farming style?
What's objectionable about halal?
I dont understand the analogy but none of those countries are committing ongoing massive human rights violations or apartheid conditions?
The original formation was a land grab. Jews owned 6% of the land in Mandatory Palestine in 1947. The other 94% was ethnic cleansing.
I've seen good middle management at startups and small businesses where people grew with the company and the place was small enough that reputation and integrity mattered.
At FAANG, good middle managers are the exception, the promotion process incentivizes different behaviors. A manager taking care of their team or, worse, pushing back on their boss isn't playing the right game.
We have a machine that's really good at consuming text and summarizing it for someone else, with the caveat that it never really owns anything or is accountable for it.
Why do we have middle managers still, while we're replacing programmers? Really says a lot about how decisions are made, we're hierarchical monkeys at the core.
I hear the sentiment that you're projecting but unfortunately it has no legs.
Nobody who chanted "drain the swamp" gives a shit at all about the unprecedented corruption we're seeing. It was always about cultural grievances. If their guy steals from the public, then they're winning.
This is reading American politics 100% wrong, like George Costanza "I should do the opposite of my instinct on everything" level wrong.
Who's getting punished for corruption these days? Is Elizabeth Warren the President? She ran once and was only used as a stalking horse to keep Bernie out, while finishing 3rd in her home state.
The headline may be sensationalized but the memo you link (thank you) is plenty damning on it's own. It's under 2 pages and anyone can read it. The memo quite clearly understands that Exxon has made a lot of investment in carbon resources and is entirely centered around getting the value from those resources and fighting the necessary political battles along the way.
I would not celebrate this work, it's typical corporate boss-pleasing. It's not some exhortation towards clean energy.
Why on earth are you devoting more attention to their clothes and smoking habits than their IT skills? I can believe those are bad too, but come on.
"Prove that you are a robot" is legendary, well done.