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The wider context here is that the TikTok ban had significant support on the grounds of, what politicians and Zionist lobbying groups called, "anti-Israel bias" and "support for Ha…

Waymo doesn't gain anything. Google i.e. Alphabet Inc, does. Especially these days. Every scrap of news that could pump the stock price is publicized aggressively. And this makes t…

> Not really sure I understand the economics here There is nothing to understand. The point of such subsidies is to turn OPEX into a green line on the stock market. Especially as M…

You'd be surprised. A lot of sellers don't "cash out" from paypal all that often, letting tens of thousands pile up. (And inevitably, some of them get hit with arbitrary account cl…

This is a baseless assertion of emergent behaviour. > Every time a bot searches We are talking about LLMs by themselves, not larger systems using them. > LLMs ability to separate f…

> Well, all a judge can/should do is to apply current law to the case before them This is true, and I do not mean to suggest it is bad . But rather, that it leaves uncertainty. The…

It is not.

> While this likely has no legal weight I wouldn't be quite so sure about that. The AI industry has entirely relied on 'move fast and break things' and 'old fart judges who don't u…

Whether or not it's "essential" is kind of irrelevant for the ergonomics; Languages do exist that provide only closures. (And yes, the likes of Java do struggle a bit with function…

It's not strictly about the money. (Though it is absolutely also about that) > Dealing with unexpected job terminations (fired or laid off) is the problem. Herein lies the problem.…

> But every article I've read on this makes no statement about whether any of these hundreds of people were actually working without an appropriate visa This is because ICE is bein…

> Do they think they're above it? Are they stupid and don't know what they vote for? They're somewhat out of touch with tech, and caught up in police narratives around encrypted ap…

> 5:10 "475 were illegally present in the United States" Not quite; The figure includes those with visa. "Illegally present in the United States or in violation of their presence i…

> I hope the recession ends up being smaller in length and magnitude than the 2008-2009 recession Not a chance. Were it just the tariffs, the recession would be quite small. The ta…

That's not the point under contention. Removing the de minimis exemption is a perfectly cromulent policy. It's not even particularly unpopular to remove it. The problem is that the…

To be slightly rude, there is just a wikipedia article by the name "Dumping"; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy) The actual legal mechanics are complicated; "Il…

"Dumping" in the context of international trade; Predatory pricing. The standard model for tech firms has been to run at enormous losses to push competition into bankruptcy or stea…

> There are no major tech companies in Europe, which is so insane it's comical. Let that sink in...a continent full of intelligent tech workers has never been able to get a major t…

The entire idea of "Oh they'll leave" is ridiculous, an empty threat from billionaires who are afraid of regulation. The EU has 450M (+80M for UK & similar non-eu countries that ar…

> If they all have valid visas and are legal to work, I'm confident they'll be released The Trump administration has been in court several times already for trying to deport people…

Two things to bear in mind here: 1) As much as JD Vance and his puppetmaster wishes they were the president, they are not. The tech fascism isn't happening, just regular kind. What…

They have visas. Ones that permit specific kinds of work. They are not "illegal aliens".

One particular datapoint to watch is auction prices for production capacity as these are the most immediate market. Those have jumped, with PJM's +800% in 2024 and +22% (22% from 2…

> Is that no longer the case? Generally (but there are exceptions) in the US they have not gotten better. It's just that datacenter demand has eclipsed the effect of that. > My ass…