Comment Re:50 years later... (Score 2) 209
BrightLine right now operates in Florida. So there is that.
Non-compete clauses create a bind, be them enforceable or not.
The USA AFAIK is the only western country without a strong public healthcare system.
It typically costs Americans twice as much as other OECD countries for worse outcomes.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/0...
It a complex problem, but if you had to identify major causes, your complex private insurance system creates layers of inefficiency other countries don't have to bear.
Oracle probably has a HUGE cash cow in running these insurance databases and I can guarantee they will be in lockstep with insurers in lobbying for no change in the US healthcare system.
Network equipment often runs some version of Linux, including big iron stuff like Cisco Nexus. And they are running a watchdog, which works similar to a dead-man's-switch in a train engine: If it does not get activated in regular intervals, it restarts vital services or even the whole system.
Your solution would effectively ban non competes, since basically no company would consider the price worth it.
Is this bad? Non-competes truly make sense only for high-value positions, like CTOs and VPs. And in this case you absolutely can afford to pay them during the non-compete period.
The implication that these bots can be scaled down to run fine on a phone means that maybe we also get something like "Freedom Bot, Expert on the Constitution." or "Liberty Bot, who helps you fight censorship". Ie.. things the majority of current West-coast tech moguls would be horrified by. If the barrier for entry is lower in terms of code and infrastructure, then it's reasonable to expect a diversity of opinions to emerge in terms of the political leanings of these things. Because of their extreme bias, I'm not willing to listen to the current crop of bots, but maybe the next gen will have more political clue. Here's hoping. I'm okay if I've gotta side-load it or compile it out of pkgsrc. I'm not okay being lectured on progressive politics by ChatGPT or Gemini.
Thankfully the vast majority of the computing effort goes into pretraining. Censorship and vendor instilled bias applied on top especially in smaller models is relatively easy to undo. Give it a few weeks and I'm sure there will be tons of tweaked versions on huggingface with much of the brain damage removed.
The model has a phone home for config requirement. E.T. should not phone home.
You can just download it...
https://huggingface.co/Nikolay...
My opinion it's by far the best 3b model I've seen.
Fiction:
12 books from the Deverry series
The Three Body Problem trilogy
Monkey
Treacle Walker
Various books on Powershell
Non-Fiction:
Linux Administrator's Guide
Linux Network Administrator's Guide
Both OpenZFS books
Ansible
Terraform
Various books on Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL optimisation
C++ manuals
Various Cisco manuals
OpenPF manual
If that argument holds, the court will decide. But as with every contract, they can be ligitated if one side feels wronged.
A car is a tool to move people and stuff from A to B, and without fuel, it ceases to fulfill its promise, on which it was sold.
The one pure EV that Toyota makes was co-developed with Subaru and is in fact a terrible EV by current standards. It would have been a mediocre EV 10 years ago.
Perhaps "disappointing" is more appropriate? For a company that has decades of electric drivetrain experience is is perplexing that Toyota could produce something so subpar. They rode their battery patent exclusivity for so long they forgot how to be competitive in an evolving market.
=Smidge=
I like the idea of hydrogen as a fuel source, but to buy a car powered by it and then filing lawsuits cause you cant find fuel is a bit ridiculous. The shit might as well be leprechaun juice, and then they want to act surprised
Maybe some reversible nuclear process, if that is even feasible.
If we don't manage to use electricity to merge neutron stars, it's probably not feasible. Until then it's like making gold from lead by nuclear processes: doable, but the price per atom is not market compatible.
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