The simple rules for EMS are that if they have to drive dangerously or race to the victim, then they are dead already.

Yes the prompt treatment will help, and in a few cases those extra minutes are crucial, but typically the difference is minor.

Location matters. In the article the cities are Los Angeles and Austin. A drive to the nearest EMS facility, ambulance station, fire station, hospital, or similar is likely under three minutes, at least one will be nearby, as fire stations particularly are placed based on short travel times. Also in the article, these are people who they are trying to wake for a long time, in the opening story "nearly an hour".

Driving to any of a variety of EMS locations would be straightforward and faster than the nearly hour long wait for the story.

There are plenty of other rural areas where the nearest EMS facilities really are an hour away, but that's not where robotaxis are getting deployed. When that does eventually happen, it will be best to coordinate with an ambulance and have the vehicle drive towards the ambulance, meeting somewhere in the middle which still would save time for the potential patients, or more likely, the passed out drunks, but it is still a faster option for getting them to a qualified human.

Deltas don't revolt, they walk away and let things collapse. Revolutions happen when the old elite becomes calcified and inept and a new elite takes over by force.

Right now we're obviously at the 'calcified and inept' stage but the old elite have ruthlessly culled or co-opted any potential leaders of the new elite for decades so there's no-one out there in a position to stage a takeover. Hence that likely won't happen until after the Deltas walk away and nothing works any more.

This is one reason that so many of the oligarchs are desperate to replace Deltas with AI. But that won't work because AI can't unclog their toilet and likely won't be able to any time soon.

Unregulated gambling is a long-established haven for criminal enterprise.

Money laundering is the most likely, and historically it is trivially easy when they're unregulated. Criminal enterprises, anything from scam call centers to major white-collar crimes, they don't care if they lose a high percent, as long as the money is laundered in the end. Wash a bunch of money betting on both sides of the bet, they'll lose half but still the money comes out clean.

Insider trading is hard to catch, and we're seeing a lot of people connected to influence, like the teleprompter guy and assorted military folk who are getting caught. They almost never are caught, especially the highly skilled ones.

Hiding fraud, hiding embezzlement, racketeering, extortion systems, they're all havens in unregulated gambling.

Kalshi and Polymarket are the big ones and given their nature of distributed unregulated gambling, they're absolutely major elements in both organized crime and casual financial crimes.

Sometimes I wake up and start doing new science. But usually I just roll over and go back to sleep.

Quantized to 2 bits you might just about be able to run it with 512GB of RAM and 24GB of VRAM. But it would lose a lot of its intelligence.

However, there are people who've been running big models on consumer hardware by streaming data from an SSD rather than keeping it all in RAM. Significantly slower but doable.

He's typically pragmatic about it, and the attitude serves well.

Is it a real bug? Are POSIX standards violated, or user code broken by a operating system's promise? If yes, it needs to be fixed. If no, it has already wasted too much time.

> I don't think there's evidence of either of these statements.

You're claiming that Western countries haven't imported millions of low-trust people and haven't put low-trust people in positions of power? Are you living in a VR simulation of the 1980s or something?

> They say on yet another story about the current admin of homegrown Americans getting into politics to make their family and tribe rich.

"Homegrown Americans" often now come from low-trust immigration. Somalians, Haitians, Irish and Italians can now be "homegrown Americans."

It's just another Boomer phrase that's been redefined until it's meaningless.

Late-stage democracy will always end with the elected leaders looting everything they can. Because why wouldn't they? No-one is going to stop them and they may only have a few years to loot before they get voted out.

Sure, it's a problem that oligarchs can just buy politicians, but that's a feature of democracy, not a feature of capitalism. Kings usually won't sell out their country because they own it and want to keep it. Elected politicians are just renters and don't care what happens to the country after they're gone.

Unfortunately, it's complicated.

For large companies, yes, there are enough lawsuits all the time that retention rules are to keep everything.

For small companies and individuals, generally there are minimal retention policies in place. That's the big reason for sending out the notices, so they have legal notice not to delete anything that might be evidence in the lawsuit. Even if they casually or unwittingly deleted it before, they're on notice now to preserve it.

The allegations are pretty serious, and digital paper trails through emails could be quite damning if people were specifically asked to bring along intellectual property from a past job. Assuming news reports are accurate, at least a few of those requests came through emails and text messages, so it would be a big deal if anyone deleted them.

I'm not an AI lawyer, but isn't it a legal requirement to not delete documents that may be related to a court case once you're informed that you may have documents related to a court case? If so, they could end up in court themselves if they do delete them and aren't friends of powerful political figures who will protect them.

You don't get high-trust behaviour in a low-trust society. And you don't get a high-trust society when you import tens of millions of low-trust people and put them in positions of power.

Political grift is the norm in most of the world and governments have imported it into the West en masse. People in low-trust countries don't go into politics for the good of their country, they go into politics to make their family and tribe rich.

Dude, we're well into the "loot the treasury" phase of late-stage democracy. Pretty much everyone in a position of power is looting everything that isn't nailed down, which is why the reaction to the left shrieking "MUH TRUMP IS GRIFTING!" is just "yeah, whatever."

If it's legal for Congress it should be legal for everyone. Politicians just want to keep the grift for themselves.

He's creating a "middle class" - they will get the info after the regular insiders, but before hoi polloi.

He should have thought of selling multiple levels of higher tiers.

I love scapegoating individual developers as much as the next guy, but if you take a look at the Win32 API, you'll find loads of fun "features" such as:

- Every single function that takes a string has two implementations: one that ends with the letter A (and takes its strings as ASCII) and one that ends with the letter W (and takes its strings as UCS-16). And then it has a preprocessor-define (with no suffix) that gets expanded to either one implementation or the other, based on your compiler settings.

- windows.h defines preprocessor-tokens for min() and max(), which means any C++ program that ever calls std::min() or std::max() will error out with a very strange compile-time error, if it included windows.h first; the work-around is to define NOMINMAX first to prevent windows.h from polluting the namespace.

- Modern windows is perfectly capable of arbitrary-length file-paths, but ships by default with a 260-character filepath limit anyway, "to preserve backwards compatibility with older software that expects that limitation to be enforced". To get correct behavior you have to hand-modify your registry; otherwise you find out about this limitation when you go to unzip a .zip file and the unzip mysteriously fails even though the .zip file is valid.

These are all defects that other OS's simply don't suffer from, either because the other OS's were designed correctly from the beginning, or because the people in charge of the other OS's long ago took the hit (in short-term breakage) and fixed the problems rather than letting them linger forever to preserve backwards compatibility.

All Windows developers (good and bad) have to deal with these issues, probably forever, and every line of code they add to work around these problems has to be supported and debugged and tested as well, hence the damage compounds.