Interesting in real estate, rental properties, small businesses, etc. are (1) extremely risky and (2) require large amounts of money. Stocks are risky but much less risky than starting a business or renting out homes.

What's the failure rate for small businesses? Rental properties face vacancies, bad tenants, and significant costs for taxes, management, and maintenance. Rental property yield are low unless one gets lucky and but undervalued properties.

Most important, a lot of people only have maybe a few tens of thousands of dollars to invest. That's not enough to do a business by oneself.

Stocks have outperformed every type of investment in every decade over the last century, and that's including many crashes and depression/recessions. Of course, putting all of one's stock money on a single company or sector is gambling, but long-term investment in the broader market is a reasonable choice.

What counts as AI generated? If I use a spell checker? How about a grammar checker? What if the grammar checker suggests replacements? Often those replacements are either corrections of nonstandard phrases or more standardized diction that introduces no new ideas.

What if an LLM is used to insert a phrase, a sentence, several sentences, a paragraph, several paragraphs? At what point does the LLM usage transform the composition into "AI"?

I often use GMail's suggestions to improve diction. I imagine the underlying software has AI components. Are my emails now AI, even though the usage and end results are closer to Grammatik than an LLM, IMO?

I strongly suspect that almost everyone has a different assumption about what constitutes AI writing or assistance.

Statistical contortions might provide copium, but don't prove anything. I gave you a straightforward parameter median household income. Something economists have been using for generations. You had to cherry-pick — and your cherry is rotten, because you complained about the period of COVID lock-downs, much of it presided over by your champion.

And you provided no citations. No wonder, your moderation is so high :)

The value of a phone depends on the potential buyer's goals and expectations. If having a large screen in indispensable, then $2k for that phone may be worth it. If that larger screen adds no personal value, then it's way overpriced. However, there is no inherent value or corresponding worthwhile price that is universal to all people.

In a way, the US Constitution and the Bible are similar in that they are viewed by many to be sacrosanct writings where each individual word holds outsized meaning. Yet, we don't have the original authors to clarify their intent, so we are left to rely on so-called experts for interpretation. In today's world, those interpretations far transcend the original text, despite non-believable claims of strict construction.

The right-wing six on the Supreme Court are right, and everyone else is wrong ... by definition.

Then again, Trump has discovered the fatal flaw of the Constitution, which is that Executive is the only executor of the law. Congress can make laws, and the Supreme Court can issue commands, but they are powerless to do anything because the Executive can ignore anything and do whatever it wants. Yes, there is a theoretical thing called impeachment, but that only works when the majority party retains some semblance of morality.

I am just using a more restricted definition of distributed that you are. In a more generic sense git is also distributed. I was requiring online synchronization in my definition.

Git is not a decentralized database. It is completely independent copies of the database which can communicate to each other. That is not the same thing. A sharded database is decentralized. Git is replicated.

Differentiate decentralized development from git itself being decentralized.

This centralized vs decentralized make no sense. Run multiple copies of Scion and it will behave just like multiple copies of git. Data in git is not spread out in as decentralized way, everyone has a complete clone if they asked for it; just like running multiple copies of Scion. The way you control this is with who has push permissions. Git is only decentralized in the sense that it allows everyone to share in a controlled way.

The kernel development flow under Linus is different. It does not use 'git push'. Instead Linus pulls from his lieutenants, locally tests and inspects. And then he finally pushes to master himself. AFAIK only Linus and GregKH can push to the master Linux repo. Allowing AI to do uncontrolled pushes into a master repository is asking for trouble. There are likely stages in their development process which should be converted from push to pull steps.

My interpretation of their problem is that their CI system was doing git clone and cloning the entire repository, then checking out the head. I agree, the performance of doing that sucks. But they don't need to do that, instead clone with --depth == 1. Doing that copies over the compressed file and then the local check out decompresses them. This is a common problem in CI systems done by people unfamiliar with git details.

And good luck beating git's performance.

The name really should be "full self-driving intelligence".

They don't know how to use git because they are letting claude do everything. Just use '--depth 1' in the CI clones and now git does exactly what they built.

Also Trump is wrecking the economy and nobody wants to acknowledge that

Because it just is not true. Median household incomes in the US are just steadily rising (inflation-adjusted) since he took office in 2024.

that presented themselves as "male" were paid more per task and perceived as more "human-like" than their "female" counterparts

Those complaining loudest are the ones, who can't define the term "woman".

There are many esoteric "games" that are highly useful for specific arenas. Stratego itself may not be that practical, but the ability to train an AI to master an arbitrary game is extremely useful.

Basically all the interesting stuff that you wrote supports that idea that Hegseth was incompetent and had a complete disregard for human life.

Rotten Tomatoes has it at 96% reviews and 95% audience, which are really high scores. Is it Oscar material? Obviously not. It is nostalgic? Absolutely. But we shouldn't discount nostalgia. For food, nostalgia is often most of the enjoyment for "authentic" or "comfort" food and far exceeds any technical merits of the food. Enjoyment from nostalgia has a far stronger effect than technical merits. Same thing for movies.