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You actually don't think that the world's largest REITs hire lobbyists at the municipal, state and federal levels? That's an extremely naive and uninformed position.

I don't think this is a viable or realistic option in 2026/2027. Try to imagine what your own personal reaction would have been when you were 14 years old if 90%+ of your peers had…

Or guarantee that even if you provide such data to a nice, friendly, democratically run and ethically managed administration, that some future regime change to a completely differe…

One personal observation, the early commercial internet as it was transitioning from universities/research labs/certain high-tech firms into a mass market thing with millions of us…

(yet). Contractors for the government that will be happy to help implement the violence are coming soon. If they're not already here by some metrics.

> I see you're putting "no internet access without scanning your ID" Other countries have already implemented this or are making strenuous efforts towards it. In Pakistan right now…

> the modern internet is a harmful experience for young minds Because of the goal of advertising revenue as the ultimate driver as to build an addictive permanent scroll of slop on…

You think that the size of investment firms that own something like, a good sized chunk of midtown Manhattan class A and B commercial real estate aren't capable of deploying social…

I recently put some thought into what I would have done if I had encountered "parental controls" to use the Internet when I first encountered it as a young teen in 1992. I would ha…

> trying to plan for managing the fallout Put in a less polite way, they're preparing for the metaphorical pitchforks and torches held by mobs of the common people which might mani…

Epstein and grooming gangs are both real. Not that the whole "grooming gangs" problem hasn't been vastly amplified and turned into a repeated media talking point by a bunch of the …

basically: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wont-somebody-please-think-of...

It will also be very interesting to see some direct head to head benchmarks between qwen 3.6 27B (let's say all at Q8 XK quantization, using the GGUF that unsloth publishes as a ba…

Rectum? Damn near killed 'em!

cellular carriers are using some variety of 3GPP rev-whatever standard, the UWB mentioned in this article is something totally different. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5G_NR https:…

I think also that a large/smart/fast LLM can automate testing things with QEMU for at least moderately common architectures like motorola 68000, throw code at it rapidly and try di…

Stories about Xerox PARC aside, the Apple Lisa was released to the market at the end of January 1983, and I would be surprised if Microsoft wasn't big enough/rich enough at that po…

But was exceedingly rare, in the pre 640x480 VGA era the common video interfaces on 8088, 8086, 80186, 80286 were MDA, Hercules, CGA, or later on, EGA.

There's a difference between using AI to automate some drudge work of stuff that would just be mentally tedious to do (writing an operating system for an 8088 in assembly? Tedious,…

"Claude, build me an implementation of the fidelity.com trading site, make no mistakes".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wynona%27s_Big_Brown_Beaver

> My feed is filled with startup/VC/recruiter people liking vibe-orientated junk economics or junk science more than AI. so basically it's /r/linkedinlunatics/ ?