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The Singaporean government is responsive to public opinion to some degree, but it is so they can maintain their current status of not having to worry about winning elections.

There are actually a fair number of folks that commute from Canada to the US for work. They will generally have TN Visas, it is certainly not "unthinkable" - it really does happen,…

Jean Chrétien is the one that said Canada is the first post-nationalist state, why would it be a bad thing? Is there a reason why national identity and being a high-trust society n…

Fair enough on the immediate consequences.. but shutting down these plants was a long term decision, so the long term consequences are still consequences. It is certainly true that…

"Except the shutdown had no negative effect." Three things here: * Didn't the diversion of natural gas to electricity generation end some German industrial production completely? *…

Do you think that 25% of Arkansas farmers are going to go bankrupt soon?

Define "enough"? The article in question is about Arkansas and broad acre farming, there is 600+ million acres of farm in the midwest down to the delta 99% of which isn't close to …

Lots of farmers in my area owning equipment with fresh paint (well, plastic panels these days) that can't make land payments, or at least complaining about it. The ROI on new equip…

OK, what secret information do you have from living in America that I don't have? I got people driving land prices up here too.. they have driven them up to roughly the same as Ark…

From the article: In August 2025, Graves sent an open letter to media and politicians, pleading for attention to eye-popping numbers. “My letter told what things are like right now…

That doesn't really make sense, the vast, vast majority of farmland is not close enough to an urban area to be influenced by sprawl and get bid up to development prices.

The Europeans seem to have become more free trade curious after recent events so this doesn't seem like it will hold up as a "what if". And I expect that the coming months of US-on…

> This ignores the reality of power in the US. Presidents can't implement multi-decade initiatives. Which is why if anyone wanted to actually bring manufacturing "back" to the US t…

Is this an American thing? No one has ever in my life asked me "Who did you vote for?" I have had plenty of people behave in a way that made it clear they assumed I agreed with the…

> Making the issue more political, the US edits and censors the data it publishes for its own purposes. This isn’t a secret but it taints the perception of US neutrality when makin…

As soon as he described the physical setup I was screaming "Tree!" internally.

That's the thing, the governance of the org decides what to do based on these guidelines, so the management & board decides when it is applicable.

I would say you are using the words "explicitly tasked" when the articles of incorporation use the words "seek to" and "when applicable". (And also the "allowing competition" part …

Why do you think he has a good case? To me OpenAI's response is simply, "It is our honestly held belief that given our available resources private partnership was the only viable w…

A non-profit with a for-profit subsidiary is actually pretty common and it is probably one of the more "normal" things OpenAI has done. https://www.marcumllp.com/insights/creating-…

Running the headline "Fewer people are buying electric cars" and then conceding that EV sales are rising at the start of the 3rd paragraph is embarrassing for the author Paris Marx…

Right, but that is entirely unrelated to USB working -- the regulation exists long after USB had proven itself.. because it had proven itself.

> USB is not the poster child for successful industry-led standards. Every day billions of devices use USB for charging and data transfer and work just fine.. was there some govern…

https://the-decoder.com/openai-apparently-going-all-in-on-ch... This behaviour seems more consistent with wanting is sorted out than stalling for time.

I expect that OpenAI would concede that they used the data in any court case immediately to get that issue off the table, I really don't think they have a strong interest in foot-d…