pstuart

Apparently faxing is the preferred medium of exchange in the medical field.

One would think that some sort of common EDI would have come around by now.

Many of us did not want this -- it was a failure of democracy: not enough people showed up to vote and many who voted were poorly informed.

And it's in Go which makes for the better app experience.

That's being too kind. He intentionally slow-walked it. J6 was an attempted insurrection and there was no doubt about it.

Technology is now political by its use and should be discussed in a "impact on society" context rather than partisan bickering.

Good point. Hard to know -- there's plenty of people in this forum who are just fine with the way things are, politically that is.

This is a vexing issue. I don't want to prop up dinosaur domestic automakers, but a significant chunk of the economy is tied to that. If they are quickly destroyed by Chinese competition the ripple effects will be huge.

They need their asses kicked and should not be allowed to coast on protections by the government. Maybe it's not possible but it would be valuable to try and force them to save themselves. Under the current administration that is likely impossible.

Please stop with the "both sides are the same". They are very much not.

The only similarity in that regard is party leadership which is owned by the corporations and the rich.

There's a reason why the Right was up in arms about Critical Race Theory. They're currently doing everything possible to erase the past and frame the future as a White Christian country. And these people are the ones in power today.

> How do you even speak to the ineffable idea of 'incompetence'?

I think it has to start with daylight: all of the relevant info accessible to the public.

Adversaries can/will counter with fake data, narratives, etc, but if there's a trustable source of that daylight data that is a huge start.

Sure, bug Google always seems to be unable to deliver good UX. UX matters if it's bad enough and there are competing options that are much friendlier and easy to engage.

If they weren't afraid of the data being public they wouldn't be removing it.

The only saving grace of this administration is that their incompetence helps to slow down their evilness.

This is going to sound partisan, but it's not: MAGA only cares about corruption if it's done by "others". This has played out time and time again. It drives me crazy. Remember the fuss about Hunter's laptop?

And to give equal time to the Dems: I believe that Dem leadership is fully corrupt as well, albeit in a more genteel fashion: they cater to the needs of the corporate elite, the moneyed class, etc and will never betray them by actively supporting worker's rights. I think most Dem pols are less corrupt, but the need for bribery, oops, I mean campaign financing, forces them into the difficult choice of staying in office or hewing to their values.

There's no way I'd trust this in the hands of anyone, especially those operating in the service of the current administration. They say they want to use it to "protect the border" but there are reports that they'd used it domestically already.

Considering the non-tolerance of public protest and the "promise" of non-lethality, I could imagine this becoming a regular tool in population control if things don't change.

Joe Sixpack is not a deep thinker.

He cares about getting his immediate needs met.

He wants to be entertained without having to be forced to think.

He wants to see people that he's been conditioned to hate be punished.

He wants people he can look down on so he doesn't feel like he's at the bottom of the pile.

Exactly. Government is just another word for "who has the power to control things around us".

Some threat actor that demands quick payment or their perishables perish?

That's a good idea. And if a team is working in a specific problem domain, their searches are likely to be repeated by others or overlap to a significant degree. With locally hosted agents that could probably be extended to caching the applicable search results (noting freshness, relevance, and accuracy) and have some sort of RAG-like internal search portal.

They've been underfunded so regular taxpayers will hate them more and supposedly support removing income taxes, and to starve them of auditors who can go after wealthy tax cheats.

https://taxlawcenter.org/blog/the-bipartisan-budget-deal-rew...

https://verdict.justia.com/2015/04/23/the-republicans-cynica...

Maybe its just the simplest image to make and each model follows that path because they too find it the simplest.

Perhaps the prompt should include what the scene should contain.

This read as a William Gibson short story but in wetware, not silicon -- very exciting. What you're doing sounds amazing and I expect to see more great things come out of this work.

Third party audits should be part of the enforcement. And even then, those third parties should be vetted and have full daylight as to ownership, conflicts of interest, etc.

nopes

If they're training to instill morality why are they working with religious thinkers?

We went through the looking glass 10 years ago...

While an intriguing concept, that doesn't sound like it could scale to the amount of "cores" needed to do the work. Or am I missing something?

Oh sure, I was less than happy to have her be my candidate. That said, she actually was one of the most qualified candidates considering her previous experience in the Whitehouse, Senate, and State Department. Add to that her training as a lawyer and the fact that she was likely the smarter one in the marriage.

For all of that, she did lack Bill's charisma.

Sure she was a finger in the air politician but there really was no contest as far as fitness for office. But then again, the typical American voter only cares about what's ostensibly immediately in it for them.

2016 was a populist referendum, and I still think Bernie could have won it (not that he's perfect either).

The whole idea behind tariffs was to replace income taxes with them. The bonus was realizing that he could weaponize it.

Tariffs today have one real value only: protecting domestic industry. And to do that correctly, it needs to be thoughtful, consistent (legislated rather than by executive order), and coordinated with the industries they are designed to protect.

> these changes were going to happen regardless

I'd agree in the context that this wasn't necessarily a case of driven by natural forces of the universe rather than some key events that could have been better addressed to hold them off. And the best way to do that is lots of sunshine and awareness.

Those key elements being:

The Powell Memo -- https://www.inequalitymedia.org/explainers/v/the-powell-memo

Reagan's embracement of evangelicals (ignoring Barry Goldwater's warning)

Rush Limbaugh's unfettered demonization industrial complex

Bill Clinton's sellout of labor to the corporate class -- https://www.theglobalist.com/bill-clinton-hillary-pivoted-am...

IMHO politics is two distinct things: control of law and the circus of those who vie to take that power. Everybody focuses on the circus because that's where the media points to and is the most engaging.

But it's the former that actually matters, and it's boring, slow, and opaque, but literally a matter of life and death to every citizen of the union.

One final thought: the creation of literal Red vs Blue was a masterclass in division and distraction. It's crazy-making to watch it play out from the sidelines.

> police needs power to protect the citizens

Those terms need to be clearly defined. SCOTUS has declared that the police actually have no duty to protect and to serve the people.

And with an overwhelming amount of evidence, the police operate with effectively no accountability and repeated demonstrate that they abuse their powers freely.

So yes, laws without teeth are pointless but the state's monopoly on violence should only be granted when it can be demonstrated to not be abused.