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Common complaint is that government enforcement of laws is insufficient, i.e. fines are only x% of their worldwide revenue. Sounds like this way has teeth and might force companies…

I was wondering about that. I've taken a number of different cold medications over the years, one active ingredient at a time, to check their effectiveness while sick. Phenylephrin…

What I've been doing recently: 1. Vibe code a codebase that does what I want at a high level. 2. Iterate with LLM on this codebase to add features, fix bugs, improve performance, a…

The people doing the voting are mostly talking about how much water datacenters supposedly use.

As I have snarkily observed at work: if I go $100 over the meal allowance on my business trip, I'll have to have an unpleasant conversation with my manager or finance. If I use $50…

Certainly disagree with "AIs are not good at writing Rust". We can discuss the pros and cons of AI coding in general but in my experience they do just as well with Rust as any othe…

Yeah, same in the US. I would not leave my laptop in a cafe in SF. I would in the Austin suburbs. I might or might not in Chicago depending on the neighborhood and cafe.

In many of those examples, there is payment to the creator of the works that others are learning from. Authors are paid for their books, when we listen to music on the radio the mu…

If they can't tell their suppliers not to depend on Anthropic models and services, then... yes, potentially?

Right, usually law enforcement gets chat logs from a participant (search warrant for a phone, informants, undercover FBI agents, etc) and uses the metadata to connect messages to a…

Yeah, and I wouldn't bet money on this happening for that reason. But it is possible.

People were also charged for coordinating and supporting J6 without being there, e.g. Enrique Tarrio of the "Proud Boys" was charged with seditious conspiracy based on activity in …

Remember that most of the participants in J6 walked away and were later rounded up and arrested across the country once the FBI had collected voluminous digital and surveillance ev…

Presumably Seditious Conspiracy, like many people involved in J6. Conspiracy to use force to prevent or delay enforcement of laws.

VXUS is up almost twice the S&P 500 year over year, although some of that is likely the weakening of the dollar.

> Trump is losing political steam and AI is widely unpopular. It seems extremely popular based on my LinkedIn feed! /s

The era of microservices and micro teams gives all "company X uses us" claims a different vibe. Maybe it used to actually mean "this is the thing Facebook uses to power its website…

Only indirectly (see other comment). In 2018 a provision was attached to the Farm Bill to legalize "hemp". The public and presumably the senators were led to believe this was about…

This is what always happened with Republican shutdowns too. - You get nothing - Eventually everyone understands they're going to get nothing, so they ask some sacrificial lambs to …

The reality is that most SNAP recipients are not going to go to food banks or anything like that; they're just going to use their own money and buy groceries or McDonald's. Now, wh…

Most "smart" devices simply don't function without connectivity back to the manufacturer's cloud, and this is basically just the same thing with extra steps.

As a concrete example, Nasdaq had a rule requiring boards of directors to have a certain amount of "diversity".

I agree with this to an extent, but I've noticed that this type of knowledge is much more prevalent in people who attended the top X% of schools, e.g. Stanford and MIT. I'm not con…

As I understand it, the issue is that the official pathway to hire a permanent foreign worker (PERM status) is very long (18 months+), and most companies don't want to start a proc…

I assume that means "you can resign, or we'll fire you, your choice".