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I'd be fine with it if they can make Sonnet 4.5 unlimited. I haven't personally seen any major differences between 4.6 or any of the other newer models. Claude 4.5 seems to be the …

The cost doesn't really matter. The US led financial system (which is a glorified Ponzi scheme) is on an unsustainable path. The war in Iran is about resources (force Iran to use U…

Welcome to the club! My Adsense account was banned years ago with no explanation or anything. They even stole my balance. I've heard of similar horror stories of people losing year…

I'm always surprised to see how many CEOs walk away with millions while running their companies to the ground. The vast majority of the S&P 500 corps are mostly monopolies (Telecom…

Perhaps people who get the flu shot are generally in better health or exercise more?

So-called smart money strikes again. Thernaos, Nikola, WeWork and now FTX (I'm sure I'm missing many and there are some other less obvious ones like Carvana and Opendoor). Billions…

Are they assembling or manufacturing? If you need to import all your raw materials then you're not really manufacturing anything and I seriously doubt that anyone in this country i…

I guess this will just accelerate adoption of China's UnionPay or their homegrown MIR.

How were rental car companies able to sell 770k+ cars last year? Where did that demand come from and who bought those cars?

This is serious. I'm sure that this will have and is likely already having some serious impact on humans that we don't know much about despite what the studies claim.

Reminded me of the line from one of the MI movies. "CIA is like Halloween, a bunch of grown men in rubber masks playing trick or treat".

Greenwald is absolutely spot on here. Also, I didn't know about Rep. Barbara Lee before, what an incredibly smart lady.

Network effect is pretty strong and although these platforms can easily be replicated, it's just not easy to get masses to adopt a new platform. I'm afraid that just like the tradi…

not just "don't have to" but I'd say that they have a responsibility to make sure that their platforms aren't used to incite violence against anyone but there are better ways to ha…

Facebook, Twitter and the rest shouldn't act like arbiters of truth. I think this is just plain wrong and a slippery slope for the entire industry.

If they really had access to everything for the past several months then that doesn't say much for their competency.

This is precisely the reason why I'm against moving everything to the cloud. Find your way into AWS or Azure and you will have everything on a silver platter.

Without an activated carbon filter on the outside to collect dust and other bigger particles your HEPA filters will be utterly useless in only a few weeks. If you keep your windows…

Apparently surgical masks are better than the cloth masks. https://healthnewshub.org/cloth-mask-vs-surgical-mask-vs-n95...

you mean professionally run corporations like Equifax, Target or SolarWinds (published ftp password to github)?

Incompetence runs through every facet of American government, corporations and even private businesses. There's an insane amount of bureaucracy and people doing IT who have no busi…

San Francisco is the 16th largest city by population and has a budget of around 14 billion which is like 6 or 7 times larger than many cities with much bigger population. This is j…

I learned about this and many other techniques from the book "The Oxygen Advantage". It definitely makes a big difference but I wouldn't say that it completely resolved it but then…

Not from California but I don't blame him. Instead of controlling waste, the usual answer from state and local governments (particularly in California) seems to be raise the taxes.…