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That ought to turn things around.

IP protections for me, not for thee.

Matt Groening.

The example they give is a frame rate boost on GTA V - a game released 16 years ago.

The Canada hater has logged on.

Does this whole thing seem fishy to anyone else?

I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!

Where did Anthropic get all their training data? Funny that these companies care about the sanctity of IP all of a sudden.

Not sure it is a coincidence that this comes in the same year the the government is deploying a massive military presence and national domestic surveillance noose. Almost no one th…

Webcrawler was faster than both!

What some people here are missing, is that domain experts or hobbyists are mostly vibe coding tools for themselves -- not as a SAAS product. They tend to work good enough to do the…

So is the next phase of "Democracy" electing who controls technology? Political power has always about who controls economic production, and the tools of economic production.

Different countries are going to distribute the benefits of automation in different ways. Northern European states will pursue shortened work weeks and lavish social services. Chin…

It looks like they tested the strait and had to turn around. The US has not been back since. Compare this to Iraq wars I and II. In Desert Storm, the US and its allies operated a h…

I am old enough to remember when the US insisted that it was superior to China because they believed in the rule of law and sanctity of intellectual property.

The Iranians (and their Houthi proxies) have made sustained attacks on them and don't seem to have hit anything. That's because the US has kept the surface combatants far back from…

Thought I would remind people here of this simple, but mostly unknown fact about American healthcare: American taxpayers invest more public dollars per capita in healthcare than an…

Iranians were scoring direct hits on top priority infrastructure in the first days of the conflict. Only in the last couple of weeks has US media started to report the extensive da…

Frankly, it is a miracle that inflation is this low. Markets have not fully metabolized the impact from the closure of the Persian Gulf.

I suspect people would want to spend money on infrastructure that benefits them, and not a multi trillion dollar company.

Over the last decade (and even prior to that) CPPIB has been the best performing fund of its kind. National pension funds have different risk tolerances and investment guidelines t…

The international arrivals section of Vancouver airport is a great example of this. Indoor waterfalls, sound dampening on the walls and ceilings, carpeted floors and wide open spac…