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I work in this space. The load on private APIs -- and the management costs in general of reselling government data -- are utterly dwarfed by the upstream costs borne by the governm…

You annihilated your own argument with the inclusion of radiology. The only successfully deployed "AI" in use by radiologists (that I'm aware of) are bespoke image analysis models,…

A few hundred billion in salary and benefits reductions equates to millions of layoffs. At minimum, we'd be looking at something about the same magnitude as the 2008 financial cris…

Leaks from within OpenAI have made it pretty clear that they've been struggling to achieve significant improvements lately by simply scaling up parameter size. Experts like LeCunn …

I played a role in China's shift to renewables. It's been decades in the making.

I do run open models locally, but let's not fool ourselves into thinking that they're functionally competitive. I'm extremely skeptical of anybody claiming they've obviated a $22/h…

It's not really even a question. It's an obvious boondoggle. The forecasted net new energy requirements for the AI buildout over the next couple of years are roughly equivalent to …

$0.18/hr is the (massively) subsidized price of AI services. Once these companies are required to turn a profit for their investors, they'll raise the price. Then the math doesn't …

His word choice about semicolons is problematic for other reasons, so I won't quote it here, but Vonnegut made his views on punctuation and story structure very known. An internet …

You and Kurt Vonnegut seem to disagree here. He made liberal use of em dashes and hated semicolons. And he was a giant of literature. The problem with your definition of "good writ…

This is just repackaged cognitive or dialectical behavioral therapy, with cutesy names like "whisper" and "virtue garnish" to make it seem novel. But if it speaks to people, I see …

I don't know if you've tried Obsidian, but it's just a tool that sits atop your pile 'o Markdown files. No vendor lock-in or special databases. I use Syncthing to sync the files be…

Reach out to the NWCDC ( https://nwcdc.coop/ ) or NCBA ( https://ncbaclusa.coop/ ) for resources on how to draft bylaws and structure a worker-owned business that meets your needs.…

I'm a little surprised that there are so many takes like yours in this thread. I don't mean to pick on you, but you seem awfully certain the briber is more ethically in the right h…

No-till organic farms exist.

But it really doesn't. What it has is a lot of industry-funded "research" muddying the waters with ambiguous or misleading results. When I worked at Monsanto, the mantra was that _…

They're not mutually exclusive. I can boycott products made by sociopaths and vote/protest/run for local office.

Only if you define "the maximum" as a 14 year old narcissist boy's fantasies. He didn't really get to know the joys of adventure or a loving relationship. By all accounts, his life…

Depositors will get their insured money back. Is there a commitment from the FDIC to make all depositors whole? If so, that's not typical.

Those numbers at the bottom of a cheque? Yeah, they include your account number. There's no inherent information risk to giving out an account number that justifies an outdated pap…

I've known way too many lawyers, doctors, tech bros, and finance bros to believe in these silly platitudes. It might have once been the case that reward correlated closely to risk,…

I stand corrected³!

> So you get horrendous spellings if using Latin characters for the Slavic sounds, like you see in Polish. I'm not sure where you get this from. Several Slavic languages (Czech, Sl…

A small correction to your correction: The letter 'nj' is actually a single character in the Croatian/Slovenian and Latinized Serbian/Montenegrin/Bosnian alphabets (go ahead and sel…

I may be wrong today, but I took a peek awhile back and Solana's top N validators -- enough to exert outright control over the network -- were operated by companies from within the…