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See: “benefits in terms of capital spending + the few ongoing jobs created”

> There IS value being created, or people wouldn't use the tools. But for who and where is it realized? Ireland’s massive data centers aren’t there to serve Ireland’s tiny populati…

> Americans really do get screwed in so many ways. Absolutely. I assumed the parent was talking about the US because that's the only place in the world I've encountered this.

It’s not your property they care about. They usually want this because it includes liability insurance if you damage their property or someone else’s, or your negligence causes har…

What is the rationale for going to the trouble of such a law but only banning sale, rather than all sharing?

What makes it giving up sovereignty? I understand it creates the potential for separation in future but not yet. The devolution of Scotland and Wales happened peacefully a couple(?…

How can we know the IRA “won”? The country changed a hell of a lot over the course of the Troubles and by the time of the GFA in 1998 I don’t see how it is so clear that the reform…

You’re extremely confident about this just based on your experience of it not happening to you. It’s good that it hasn’t driven you into a house but that doesn’t mean it can’t fail…

Your example would call more to create an "information technology" subject in schools, that updates its curriculum to include changes like the development of AI. Thus, you go to th…

It’s a tax. So the government wouldn’t be buying anything. OpenAI (for example) would need to issue 100% new shares and give them to the government to hold in this new sovereign we…

This would be an incredible $1,800 from each taxpayer sent overseas to the Iranian regime. On top of what’s already been spent and the inflation caused. In any other time in histor…

It looks like when you sum up: the cost to generate information using an LLM + the cost to actually verify the information, the result on average is the same as not using the LLM. …

NZ is even worse than Australia on the housing tax vs shares tax front. No housing taxes. Yet they have what is effectively an annual wealth tax on shares (FIF) even on their pitif…

But now even this is just producing more information and requires more work both of you and of the original sender.

Seems AI has made it cheap to produce information but now you have to spend more time parsing the information. And it’s now the less competent/useful people spending less time prod…

> What I remember most about the 90s was the overwhelming optimism. To me it felt we were slowly making the world better for all. Progress was happening and would continue to happe…

This is where the media (or your media bubble) failed you. Trump was always this way. In his first term he significantly increased the amount of bombs dropped and number of countri…

Democrats shouldn’t have wasted effort on trying to reduce student loans simply because the constituency (students) didn’t even give them recognition for it. They simply blamed Bid…

> our politicians seem entirely unwilling to do anything about colossal expenditures on this "expedition" Not all politicians. Most democrats have tried to do something about it wi…

The way AI is being used feels like it is proving that, in many orgs, what has always mattered has been the appearance of work, not results of work. Will we wake up in a few years …

Be warned though that life and disability insurance will absolutely use errors in your medical records to refuse your coverage or claims.

I rely on Medicare as a disabled person. I love it. The reduction in stress I experienced when I got to transition from my former employer plan to Medicare is pretty indescribable.…

> Website operator: I do not care about serving UK citizens and am now blocking UK IP addresses. Thank you for notifying us. Wait did 4chan actually block UK addresses? My understa…

In the original example the Parisian bars sells and sends the alcohol. You’ve modified that to introduce a proxy, DoorDash, that now sells and sends the alcohol. If DoorDash sells …