Could you help me understand the 'irony' here? Is saying impolite things about a dead guy the moral equivalent to being perhaps the most pivotal figure behind a war with an estimated half-million dead and a causus belli that was transparent bullshit; not to mention the elevation of extrajudicial torture to official policy? I'm not sure I follow.

And, if you'd like to expand on the 'political leanings' thing; I'd be more than happy to call anyone whose politics involve thinking that Cheney did a great job a monster as well; especially when it's so hard to argue that any of Cheney's ugliest aspects even paid off. Flirting with more expansive theories of the ends justifying the means can be a dangerous business; but, bare minimum, you can attempt to rank means by degree of atrocity and ends by degree of effectiveness; and on that score Cheney's work was honestly pretty shit.

Remember the 'Pax Americana' that the neocons assured us could be bombed into the fractious elements of the middle east? Lol. Bin Laden? Dude was chilling in an upmarket suburb in Pakistan while we were pissing away blood and treasure on hitting a mixture of hapless civilians and 'insurgents' who had the temerity to suggest that our puppet government was not the legitimate local administration in one peripherally involved country and one uninvolved one.

So, go ahead, please, explain your other level of irony. Tell us whose political loyalties are to this grade of not-even-effective violence. What'll it be?

Luckily, reliable sources assure me that he will be greeted as a liberator in hell; so things should go fine.

I largely agree, however one minor point of order is that banks rarely make interest off people who don't repay their debts. So someone who is at risk of defaulting is going to cost, hence organisations that give easy credit to anyone like Klarna are in dire straights. Whoda thunk you'd lose money by lending it to people who wouldn't pay it back.

What they want are people using credit (preferably exclusively) but paying it off every month, hence people who have credit cards but don't use them are often called "deadbeats".

I'm just glad I don't live in a country that judges me on a credit score. It seems pretty Orwellian to me. Lenders have to make their own decisions when someone applies for credit which means the lender must accept the risks (the likes of Experian have tried to set up credit score like systems here and failed as no one would buy them).

What makes you think the batteries produced locally will be cheaper? I don't think there's any reason to think that.

I take issue with your characterization of Trump as a liar. I don't think he qualifies.

Rather, I think that when something comes out of his mouth, he truly believes it, and then it's gone. There is no loop back after the fact that makes him even remember it, or that would make him realize he had said something inaccurate. And he does not internalize any information he doesn't like. Those mechanisms are broken.

So because he believes what he is saying when he says it, even if just for that moment, he's not lying. He's just wrong.

Truth is philosophy. Asking an LLM to tell the truth instead of the endless permutations of grammatically correct "stories"available as possible outputs seems a bit unreasonable.

"I painted the truth. I painted MY truth." - Peter Griffin

https://youtube.com/watch?v=BK...

If Palintir don't think a pricey college education is worth paying for, then I guess they don't want to pay for it. College grads pull higher salaries for those extra years of education, whereas highschool grads can be hired more cheaply.

There's a sizable online sentiment that 'blue-collar' (highschool + on-the-job training) has been unfairly devalued, and in other contexts many people seem to agree that college is largely a waste of time. Yet in the context of Palintir, since it is 'evil,' everybody will adopt the opposite opinion immediately and presume that offering workers a job directly out of highschool is abusive.

Right, "fundamentally" nothing is exactly knowable

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

You got a +5, insightful for your post, so I'm feeling pretty slow right now. I'd like to know how this:

"The problem likely stemmed from the Windows Servicing Stack failing to carry the power-off command through the required reboot phase. During updates Windows must restart into an offline servicing mode to replace system files. The power-off instruction was either cleared or blocked during this transition."
 
...translates to this:

"Uh, Windows is hard, it's overly complicated to both use and admin."

Yet.

They're not going full Stazi on white people, yet.

It'll happen, first they'll say it's just the "Lib'rals" and the ignorant sleepwalkers will just keep watching Fox News and swallowing their State Approved bullshit... however it'll start applying to them too and by that point, it'll be too late as "no one was left to speak out for them".

People who support the mechanism of a police state, especially out of bigotry, rarely seem to understand that the same mechanisms will be turned against them in due course. Well, not until it's too late.

At least they still managed to break my Taylor guitar.

Spain doesn't really benefit from DST because it's highest latitude is still so low that there isn't a huge difference in the hours of daylight between summer and winter.

The UK has an 8 hour difference between midsummer and midwinter. Yes, July has 8 more hours of sunshine than December. If you stuck with permanent summer time, the sun wouldn't rise until 8:30 and would still be dark by 5 in midwinter. If you stuck with permanent GMT, in midsummer the sun would be up around 03:30. Without DST, a whole bunch of seasonal issues (in particular S.A.D.) will get a whole lot worse.

Most clocks adjust themselves these days, so there isn't even that excuse any more.

I think that Too Big To Fail has become Too Big To Fail.

The whole point of a free market economy is to foster competition, if one entity becomes so large or controlling over a market segment that it can cause a serious disruption then the free market has failed, so that entity needs to be heavily regulated, nationalised or broken up.

That being said, I don't think any AI company is too big to fail... I suspect their failure will be too small to notice except by people who have foolishly invested huge sums of money in white elephants.

Check this out - to transport a pair of shoes from Hong Kong to Rotterdam (18,600 km) via container ship generates 100 g of CO2. Whereas a 20 km trip in a car to get the shoes from the store is 1,800 g of CO2.

https://safety4sea.com/maersk-...

So on a mass-per-distance basis, the container ship is 16,740 times as efficient as a car.

I am not sure exactly how that translates to, e.g., a step van making a couple hundred stops vs. a container ship from China to LA and a train or semi from LA to Phoenix.

But transoceanic shipping is very efficient. True it's still a significant source of pollution, because it transports vast tonnage across vast distances.

Yeah! It's clear those children with limited connectivity are going to be radicalized so much more quickly.