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None of the previous concerns were true, largely because they came from laypeople who didn't understand the technology. A prominent exception is nuclear weapons, where their creato…

There was a discussion about this a few weeks ago, where I discovered KineStop which is an app that does the same on Android. I've only tried it a few times but it has worked every…

The government absolutely can pass laws that ban particular contract previsions. They do that all the time. In your analogy for example while they can require you to wear red, they…

When we bought our house, the only plumbing was in a tiny, asbestos-filled lean-to extension added in the 1940s that contained the kitchen, bathroom and toilet. The way people use …

This is about businesses, not families.

Yes, clothing companies and stores will very commonly destroy clothes if they determine that selling at a discount would undermine the brand value. They do things like cutting hole…

They weren't torn down because there was better technology available. They were torn down because they were falling apart, or were no longer meeting the needs in that location. I l…

Unsurprisingly they mostly run trains to places where people live, but there is some influence the other way too. New commuter rail lines have historically lead to more development…

The location of the train comes from trackside sensors and is available as a free API. It doesn't give actual lat/lon – it only shows when it went past a particular checkpoint. The…

> I was a bit confused what this adds other than just standard CDN-Cache-Control page caching that we do now. Until now these cache headers didn't work if you set them in a Worker,…

That's not what the article is about. It's about what goes in the ducts when they are connected, and who has access to the infra.

This article isn't about coverage, it's about what goes in the duct if there is a connection. If Comcast can run a cable to your house, then they can put four strands and allow oth…

The regulations here aren't about forcing companies to lay fiber to every home, it's enforcing a standard that when a company does lay fiber it lays four strands that any ISP can u…

Deepmind is based there. Anthropic's biggest research base outside the US is there. OpenAI has just announced a big new office there.

Almost like Europe isn't one entity with a single set of regulations. Germany is not Estonia

Europe has ASML

It also removes the potential for growth or any other upside. I doubt there'd be many AI researchers willing to work on civil service salaries.

Except the frontier models are the only reason to use them. Why would they use GPT-export when they can use the latest GLM or Kimi?

The FDA has incredibly detailed guidelines that need to be followed, and a clear process to be followed. This is none of that.

They're not regulating though – they're arbitrarily blocking releases based on no clear criteria. The EU may be legalistic and rules-based, but I'd take that over capricious and ar…

Probably yes. Maybe that's one of the reasons they're not suing them.

No, because the judge ruled that the training was fair use and the model itself wasn't infringing.