Great, we're no longer just the product. Now we're paying to be the product!

A different perspective is that the high prices being paid by US consumers is effectively subsidizing sales overseas where governments negotiate aggressively. If the US began to seriously negotiate as these foreign governments did, then we'd probably see the overall vaccine prices across the rest of the globe rise.

There is a bit of a nuance here that's best captured by industry coverage with a less click-baity headline ("Boeing Warned Of MD-11 Part-Failure Risk In 2011, NTSB Finds"):

This has broadly been my frustration with US discussions on AGI. The US is so focused on the hypothetical threat of AGI, saying that we need to take drastic actions, without really explaining how we're going to get to AGI in the five to seven year time frames they claim. I want to hear them out, maybe even give them the benefit of the doubt, but the jump from the LLM's we're dealing with today to a full blown AGI is theoretically still so massive, it's hard to take the warning seriously without some explanation of why I should take their timelines seriously.

What makes this even more frustrating is that while Silicon Valley goes in circles around the hypothetical AGI threat, China is more tightly focused on how to apply LLM's and maximize their value / reduce risks to all aspects of society. I feel like they're going to jump ahead in actual LLM implementation.

In Elon's mind, only he is brilliant enough to protect us from AGI. Therefore, only he should be allowed to lead humanity on its course to pursuing AI.

This is just asking for an American with Disabilities Act (ADA) lawsuit. However, maybe that's what Trump wants - an opportunity to take ADA to court and chip away at what has been a pretty ironclad set of protections in the US. Like many other things, it probably is something his MAGA supporters who benefit from ADA don't understand... until its too late.

This is partially true. Yes, the subsidies made a huge difference, particularly for state universities. However, that doesn't fully explain the challenge. Part of this also fall on universities whose cost structures have exploded. Some of it is driven by new technologies that have created entire IT departments, some is driven by government compliance requirements (Title IX, research grants, etc.), and some is simply self-replicating bureaucracy. Universities can't simply blame the government, particularly private schools - they are partially responsible as well.

Waymo is learning what every American who went through driver's ed learned: you do not mess with school buses. The traffic penalties are some of the highest short of personal injuries, you have one of the most vocal and politically aggressive voting factions backing them (parents), and even America's mighty SUV's and massive pickup trucks will lose in any collision with the bright yellow armored behemoth. The fact that this issue was so rapidly raised to the Federal level by one of the most states-rights centric localities shows just how seriously school buses are taken.

I'm not sure where you took driver's ed, but when I did it, school bus safety was hammered into us. They made it a point that passing a stopped school bus with a sign deployed got you more points than any other traffic infraction that did not involve an injury or collision. In the US at least, you learn early on that you do not mess with school buses, not just for traffic infractions but even our much vaunted SUV's and massive pickup trucks will still lose badly in any collision with one.

A very shortsighted rich, tech-bro. Are they going to be saying the same thing in three years if we get a President AOC who would use the powers laid out by President Trump to push AI regulations in a different direction?

While I shed no tears for the existential crisis faced by the next generation of consultants, I do think their plight reflects the broader challenge a lot of fields, including technical ones, face in terms of training the next generation. We've relied upon the model of giving basic work to junior employees to build their skill sets and then working them up to more and more complex tasks. Now with AI taking away a lot of those smaller tasks, we have to rethink how we train those junior employees.

34 million customers in a country of 51 million people. Considering underage (20) is about 8 million of that number, 34 million of 43 million adults (~79%) in South Korea. Yes, people may have duplicate accounts, foreigners, expats, etc., but overall, it's still an insane number for that country.

The article made the point that the location was picked in part because it is less prone to earthquakes than other sites for consideration - this is important given the sensitivities of manufacturing equipment to earthquakes. It's not a showstopper, TSMC is built in an earthquake prone area, but there are significant costs in terms of earthquake protections in the buildings, recalibrating tools each time you have a significant earthquake, etc. Abundant water and solid electric infrastructure were also important factors.

They may also not want to go head-to-head for talent, power, and water in Kyushu with TSMC and the other established big fabs.

While the race card is played, I think we should step back and remember that education in general elicits STRONG responses from parents across all ethnic, socio-economic categories. The problems are different, but even affluent school districts get regular and aggressive engagement from parents especially if there is any perception that their precious child is not getting their "fair" share of resources, right or wrong. I feel like race is just one tool in the toolbox that parents will use.

No, no, no. First swallowed polonium-210 accidentally, then shot self and fell out a window as the plane exploded midair.