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Comment Query ID (Score 1) 48

Is it not possible to allow a query to a government issued ID card - "is the holder over the age of 16?" Yes/no.
That is all they need to know, so that's all the info you should have to give them.

I am close to certain I must be missing something...

Comment Re:Yikes (Score 4, Insightful) 13

How many companies used llama instead of paying OpenAI for API access?

If Meta saw OpenAI as a market competitor then denying them revenue is a cunning move.

Especially if llama isn't Meta's core competency but ChatGPT is OpenAI's.

Maybe even legal in that aspect, though they both seem super guilty of not paying for copyrighted material.

Comment Re: effective? (Score 4, Insightful) 124

The COVID mRNA vaccines were the culmination of decades of research into genetic vaccines that could be in essence engineered to target a selected antigen without the years of trial and error that are required by the methods we have been using since the 1950s. Within days of the virus genome being published, they had a vaccine design, the months it took to get to the public were taken up with studies of the safety and effectiveness of the heretofore untested technology, ramping up production, and preparing for the distribution of a medicine that required cryogenic storage.

It would be unreasonable not to give the Trump administration credit for not mucking up this process. But the unprecedented speed of development wasnâ(TM)t due to Trump employing some kind of magical Fuhrermojo. It was a stroke good fortune that when the global pandemic epidemiologists have been worried about arrived, mRNA technology was just at the point where you could use it. Had it arrived a decade earlier the consequences would have been far worse, no matter who was president.

The lesson isnâ(TM)t that Trump is some kind of divine figure who willed a vaccine into existence, itâ(TM)s that basic research that is decades from practical application is important.

Comment The US should stop manufacturing weapons etc. (Score 1) 215

Maybe it'd help if the US wasn't such a war monger and, instead of bashing China, stopped manufacturing weapons and the wars that require them...not to mention the emissions from the military industrial complex and the military itself.

You never know, if the US wasn't threatening China so much, maybe China would also manufacture fewer weapons/etc too. Win-win.

Comment Re: Power is fungible, like money (Score 1) 215

Is it not done via accounting? So, it's not literal.

How does Ecotricity do it? AI...

Ecotricity claims its electricity is 100% renewable by directly generating power from its own wind and solar farms, purchasing clean energy through agreements with other renewable producers, and using REGO certificates in a transparent way. Unlike many suppliers that engage in greenwashingâ"labeling fossil-fuel electricity as âoegreenâ by simply buying certificatesâ"Ecotricity ensures the energy and its provenance are genuinely linked. Its model actively supports investment in new green infrastructure, making it one of the few UK providers recognised for truly decarbonising the grid.

Comment Re: Burn coal to get off of coal? Yes please. (Score 1) 215

> Second, it seems that

Facts please, not conjecture. Stopped reading this nonsense at that point.

The USA caused the problem so it should have the burden to fix it. China is doing a lot and it's policies are constantly changing to fix any problems and improve things, while balancing it's efforts with the benefits of the country as a whole. It's a grown up attitude that contrasts starkly with the policies of the USA government.

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