Correct. The rest of the economy has been in this state for decades.

Not here they aren't unless you intend to live on potatoes and carrots. In the winter anything fresh is shipped a considerable distance so it's even more expensive.

What's cheap is flour.

You are assuming proper maintenance which is not guaranteed. The phone box is still in my yard, but wires do nothing. The box on the corner got ran over by an 18 wheeler because it's a tight corner and he had a double trailer. It sat mangled for six months before someone showed up, bent it more or less back into shape and used electrical tape to hold it together.

I dropped my land line before that because Frontier refused to fix it.if it worked at all there was a loud hum on the circuit. So I was finally forced into a cell phone which cost less than Frontier was charging. I need the phone to call the power company if the power goes out and the internet to contact the phone company if that quits working.

A futures market is a prediction market as well. Most futures contracts are bought and sold with no intention of taking delivery. They are regulated at the federal level.

Straight forward gambling (activities where outcomes are determined by chance) is regulated by the states. However the Commerce Clause clearly grants the power to regulate interstate commerce to the federal government.

So we have a proper jurisdictional argument about who gets to regulate prediction markets and presumably who gets to collect the tax on innumeracy.

If the betting pools take money from across the country they are likely to fall under federal jurisdiction. That's my take on it, but I am not a lawyer, and I don't gamble either.

"We haven't seen yet someone with a certain amount of creative credibility go full-metal AI on something, and see how people react. I think it's necessary. How do you know where the line is until somebody crosses it?"

The Beatles like the Vietnam war were an early boomer thing. Both were over by the time I was old enough to care.

Ironically I asked Googles AI and it said;

In the United States, you generally cannot sue someone for "general incompetence" alone. To win a lawsuit, you must prove the individual had a legal duty of care to you, breached that duty (which translates to professional negligence), and caused actual, measurable damages.

So if the contract did not promise that X% of Apple customers would subscribe to ChatGPT by Y date I think the lawsuit is doomed.

Apple could point a decade of consistent bungling with Siri as evidence that ChatGPT should have known better. Companies not doing their due diligence results in judges saying the legal equivalent of "sucks to be you, now go away".

For the record I have an iPad deliberately chosen because it is incapable of running AI.

"OpenAI believed that the companies' partnership, which wove ChatGPT into Apple software, would coax more users into subscribing to the chatbot."

I really doubt Apple promised that X% of Apple customers would subscribe to ChatGPT by Y date.

I suppose that they could sure Apple for completely bungling the AI rollout, but suing a corporation for incompetence seems unlikely to succeed.

Does ChatGPT plan to sue users who choose to not update to an AI capable OS or AI capable hardware? Then I might have to worry.

Someone has a entitlement problem

"Destroying communications you have a legal requirement to retain for X number of years can land you massive fines or much much worse."

But which ones are those? A tiny percentage of the whole. Attached files that are important get downloaded and saved in the appropriate project file. Receipts get stored for six months. Everything else over 90 days gets deleted. I checked and currently my total email storage is about 25 MB.

"Some employees said colleagues were using the software to automate additional, unnecessary AI activity to increase their consumption of tokens -- units of data processed by models. "

The AI blurb (oh the irony)

"Midas World is a 1983 science fiction novel by Frederik Pohl, a "fix-up" novel that expands on his classic short story, "The Midas Plague". It explores a future society with extreme abundance due to automation, where the poor are forced to consume a quota of goods to keep the economy running, while the rich live simply. "

Don't underestimate the amount of water it takes to keep down the dust. It's not done with lawn sprinklers.

https://www.istockphoto.com/ph...

As a motorcycle rider feathering the clutch is a normal action.

Industrial variable frequency drives usually have high torque at low speed setting often used with conveyor belts or positive displacement pumps. This sounds like the same sort of idea.

It looks like a normal in-sector rotation to me. Nvidia moved first, now the others in the space are following.

You need to do the math. I live in an all electric house up north. 12 KW goes to the various heating units. The stove is rated for 11 KW if everything in on like say Thanksgiving dinner. The water heater is 5 KW. I can't read the clothes dryer tag but it's on a 30 amp circuit just like the water heater.

Then add a dishwasher, microwave, and a vacuum cleaner (which is a surprisingly big power hog).

So the 200 amp service is pretty well loaded if all that is on at the same time, and that is what you have to design for. Sure a Smart home could juggle loads to some extent, shutting off the dryer and the water heater if the load goes up too high, but the prioritization is not simple.

And don't whine at me to get a heat pump. I have one and I like it, but it stops working at -5 F, then it's up to the resistors.

Just for reference my wintertime power use is three times summertime use. Last year I used the heat pump in AC mode for part of 21 days, typically 6 to 8 hours. It is in heating mode from mid October to the end of April.

Don't forget the earthquakes.

However I must applaud them for using dirt from the ground. Dirt from the sky doesn't tends to be too fine grained. Dirt from the ocean is also substandard.

"We have more land than we could reasonably populate and plenty of natural resources. We could absorb enormous numbers of people and we would be better off for it."

Plenty of open land, perhaps. Plenty of water, no.

https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu...

Even the open land is questionable unless you want to build a new city in, for example, Dixie Valley Nevada. Or maybe southern Owyhee county Idaho. But you still have the water problem.