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> I don't see a fundamental reason why AI actors couldn't build the same kind of notoriety and following. Can AI's trash a room at Hotel Marmont? Dump their girlfriends when said g…

> There are 1000x as many tax payers and the government still makes sure every single mom who gets a venmo payment for $60 pays taxes. That's a join in an existing database. Where'…

> There are already organizations taking advantage of this, actively producing "AI propaganda", meaning propaganda aimed at the LLMs themselves in order to influence their understa…

> You can't get the inability to allocate some large object because there's a spray of small objects in its way ... The large objects live in their own space Assume for the sake of…

Car brakes can get hot enough to start a fire (wood, paper, maybe even gasoline - see race cars) but a spark is a hot piece of material that is large enough so it can keep its heat…

John Ford

In the spirit of “The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, Engl…

> If you believe that some people have a pre-existing unfair bias in their favor, then applying a countermeasure is indeed fair. What definition of "some people" and "unfair" are w…

The New York Times Company operates under a dual-class stock structure where the Ochs-Sulzberger family holds roughly 95% of Class B shares. This family control allows them to elec…

One of the founders of Renaissance Technologies, which runs some of the most successful quant funds of all time, said ""We’re right 50.75% of the time... but we’re 100% right 50.75…

I wonder why a balloon or an extra-long safety sausage wouldn't work.

The n word is a staple of activities by members of a protected class. Feel free to tell them that they're wrong.

It can be both or neither, not just one or the other.

bcd is a reasonable way to do fixed-point decimal arithmetic. binary floating point, let alone IEEE, is almost useless for implementing decimal arithmetic.

The article claims "One of the most surprising of these techniques involves the Roth IRA, which limits most people to contributing just $6,000 each year." That's sort of correct (t…

google "checkbook ira" - there are dozens of providers (including one at "checkbookira.com") for ordinary folk. That said, private company stock is typically limited to accredited …

Electric presses seem to be covered by the 1st amendment, and there's a much bigger "output" difference between electric presses and manual presses than there is between machine gu…

Radio, TV, cameras That said, breech loaders were used by the British during the Revolutionary War (the Ferguson Rifle) and multiple shots from a single barrel using multiple "touc…

> Europe is usually not this hot, hence lack of AC in many places. Europe averages 53k to 175k heat-related deaths per year. The difference depends on whether you listen to the EC …

GNU Emacs from gnu.org is usable without an init.el or any other customization. Every line in init.el is something that you have to maintain and move with you. And when you're usin…

Similar usage pattern (no init.el), but I started with TECO Emacs in the late 70s.

> He can borrow against it which gets around taxes and that should probably be addressed Folks who lend money against stock insist on being repaid. (In fact, they typically have th…

Lenat's AM and Eurisko worked because large fraction of legal token strings were meaningful.

https://imgur.com/anon-starts-world-war-crow-K63U5ig

> Trust in science is so low in the US that this was bound to happen. How is "They were almost certainly transported via unchecked northward migration of people and animals." a con…