Ant bets that the deal specifies WHICH US data it is trained on? None of the liberal stuff, just right wing data. I think TikTok is going to end up being the video version of twitter really quickly.

They say it will price them out, but that depends on the break point. The reason they like H-1Bs is they can get workers who will work for less and work more hours because they are trapped in the H-1B structure and are terrified to lose their job, because then they will be deported. So if they truly make $15-20k in profit for the company, will changing to a US based worker who likely will want a higher salary and not work crazy hours be worth it? My guess is they just lock in the H-1Bs for more years and pay them less to keep their profits up. Or they try outsourcing straight to India again and skip bringing them to the US at all.

Nowadays, that cool kitchen cabinet is made in a factory, ordered from a catalog and installed by your carpenter.

Does anyone whose net worth is less than a cool billion hire someone to make a custom cabinet onsite?

I call it a collision.

I don't call it an accident because it is a likely, forseeable consequence.

Goofing off at work posting to Slashdot.

"EVs can lose almost half their driving distance when temperatures drop"
"In January, Seattle-based Recurrent, a company that tests and analyzes EVs, found an average range loss of 20% in extreme cold"

No one would say 20% is almost half. That is not how numbers work.

If managers of active funds want us to invest more money with them, why don't they simply outperform an ETF index fund that has a 0.05% expense ratio? Are they dumb?

Publicist faces stunned fans and tells them, "Calm down everybody. That was the "evil Captain Kirk" from Episode 5."

(Fans restart their chatter and demand for autographs as if nothing has happened.

The "word on the street" is that statins, medicines that lower bad cholesterol although I think it is hope over experience that they raise "good" (HDL) cholesterol, don't do much of anything for people who haven't had a heart attack. Once you have had a heart attack, their benefit to living longer is unmistakable.

Someone point me to a source saying this is wrong.

cardiac patients are being treated differently than when the original trials were done.

The time a ball takes to drop off the Leaning Tower in Pisa, not as much.

I am prescribed metoprolol even though my ejection volume was measured at 60% during the hospital stay, at 55% two years later when I reported an episode of chest pain.

I was once taking an ACE inhibitor for blood pressure control 30 years prior and went to the ER when my upper lip puffed out making me look like a duck. They told me this was angioedema, but at the time, no one thought the ACE inhibitor was the cause. Since then, ACE inhibitors are said to be the leading cause of patients going to the ER with angioedema.

I rather like my metoprolol. Combined with following the cardiac rehab instructions for 30 minutes vigorous walking each day, I am getting both reduced resting heart rate and lower blood pressure. I fall asleep at night much easier. On the other hand, I get sleepy mid afternoon and would take a nap if I didn't have to work. I also feel like the moving truck I once rented that had a governor on the motor in that I max out in my exertion for heavier activities than the fast walking.

Back on the day, someone commenting on Slashdot would make the pendantic reminder that it is properly called "GNU/Linux."

Oops, I guess I just did. And you kids, get off my lawn!

BMW charges a sub to not have functioning turn signals.

I know it is a little bit more complicated than that as is the case with every natural language, but I thought the characters in written Chinese are highly stylized drawings of physical objects.

Why don't we standardize on the Chinese character for these different functions and operations instead of inventing a writing system and then changing it with every hardware release?

PN junction?

Forget it, he's rolling.