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Re:Ask HN: How can I profit from climate change? on Sunday May 14, 2023 @11:25PM (#35943575)
If someone knows an answer to your question and posts it here then their knowledge advantage vanishes. For that reason I will not answer your question.
What is LWN?
The linked article is about deforestation by humans and is irrelevant to the fact that huge parts of Spain have long been deserts.
Have a professor friend who says the same: oral exams are coming back to his classes. If you don't pass the oral, you don't pass the class.
Re:Does GPT-4 Know Me Better Than My Girlfriend? on Friday May 12, 2023 @01:38PM (#35919377)
This is unsurprising. It was claimed that the algorithms developed by Cambridge Analytica and FaceBook during the Brexit campaign and the American 2016 election were able to predict behavior better than could friends or spouse:

https://www.amazon.com/Mindf-Cambridge-Analytica-Break-Ameri...

Uh, we don't have the "spice" so we don't have "mentats"?