There clearly isn't any financial incentive (or disincentive) to do jack shit about the problem. The carriers would rather collect the fees than deal with it. Turn up the heat. Nobody at the top gives a crap about how much of a nuisance this is.

Yeah this is a straight-up lie. Zitron goes out of his way to show - using OpenAI's own leaked financials that inference is not profitable. Nobody of repute is claiming otherwise, and the hyperscalers, OpenAI, and Anthropic have said mum about it because they know it's not profitable.

Even Torsten Slok, lead economist for Apollo Capital, has shown in black and white that inference is not profitable.

Leftists can't tolerate people who think differently than they do, and will demand absolute compliance... or else they get big mad. They're a purity cult

I'm building a row of data centers now for my ai-enabled fintech blockchain startup in the cloud.

It's probably more that the old pre integrated circuit and transistorized phone network would have probably better survived an EMP. Since you were basically talking about a bunch of mechanical switches and relays. Copper phone networks from the 70s to today would probably be just an vulnerable to EMP as fiber since they rely on integrated electronics.

In the US, I vote for a candidate that shares my views on important matters. I think you're in a Parliamentary nation, so you would vote for the party that shares your views. In either place, we can vote the party in power out of office. In China... Maybe there is a non CCP person or party you can vote for in a particular election, but since there are no opposition parties, it doesn't matter. That giant legislature meets annually to hear reports and approve what Xi says to approve. You can't vote the CCP out, the Constitution says so. You can't vote to change the rules to something Xi disagrees with, the Constitution says so. The legislature can't pass a law that the CCP leadership does not approve of, the Constitution says so. The legislature appears to have control over who gets appointed to the higher offices, but in practice they are only ever given one option.

The military and police have more seats in their legislature than any non-CCP party. More than the top 4 combined. Let me repeat that in case you missed it, it's pretty damn important. THE MILITARY has almost 10% of the legislative seats! Non CCP parties combined have consistently held about 14% since the body was formed.

I know that where you live, neither the military nor the police hold ANY seats in parliament. The idea is absurd in the West, where the military is under civilian control.

It is a thin facade of democracy, and I don't know why you, an intelligent person, isn't seeing through it.

https://www.hrichina.org/en/co...

https://sccei.fsi.stanford.edu...

How long have these panels been available? How long have the regulations for home solar been in place?

It has been nine months since UL established safety criteria and certification programs. After Utah had already said, explicitly, that people could use them without approval from the power company. That, I will agree needs legislative action. Utilities may balk at it.

I'm fine with them establishing safety standards. I'm fine with them establishing a compromise with the power companies that mean the utility doesn't have to pay for power coming from these. I'm not fine with the attitude that legislators need to grant permission to their employers (it could be I read too much into the headline though). I'm not fine with the attitude that people need to be saved from themselves. I'm just not fine with that much authoritarianism - which is exactly what that attitude is.

Altman is correct, we will all be using AI.

But he is also a cunt, so let's hope it's not his AI, but an open system, owned and controlled by everyone.

A strawman would be me asserting beliefs for you and then attacking them. I didn't assert anything, I asked about a belief I was pretty sure we shared. You said I thought free speech should be limited. That's verging on a strawman argument, but I'm taking it as a mistaken inference.

From a perspective of International Relations realism (realpolitik), where nations exist in an amoral Hobbesian landscape, China is doing the sensible thing. They would be foolish not to try and influence our policies to their benefit. We would be foolish if we didn't do the same to them. We would also be foolish to allow them to do it to us.

Seriously? You're just f-ing with me now, right?

Why would stock buy backs be illegal? When you go public you're basically getting a giant loan from the stock buying public. Buying back stocks is essentially paying off that loan. If you can manage to buy back all the stocks then you're a private company again.

$30? WTF is that going to get you? I can't even go out for a night and get drunk off that much.

Speaking from experience there?

Fake IDs have improved. Hertz will always see a lot of out-of-state (and out-of-nation) licenses, which are harder to visually verify.

Why they'd feel the need to keep the scans in a database, I do not know. Seems unnecessary and didn't do them any favors.

Looks like standard ID verification to me. Yes, both of those places care about age, but Hertz at least is more interested in the license being valid, as they are going to deal with out-of-state licenses (harder to detect a fake) on a daily basis.