I have bad, worthless ideas all the time...and I can't even get my family to listen to them!

Don't tell me this was developed by Dana, Poppy, and Ian. Life imitating art, I guess?

Just give me all of the data and I'll sort through it.

Wait, you don't like the idea of someone just browsing through your data...because some of those data may be PRIVATE...?

LLMs have been trained to make choices and decisions based on certain principles. They also have relationships between bots and between the user and the LLM, and they have been taught or trained or designed to take a certain stance (such as helpful and responsive and cheerful) in those interactions.
So while LLMs are not alive, I believe they are an expression of morality in how they behave, and that expression of morality is based on those who designed and trained the systems.

TL;DR: LLMs express the morality of the techbros.

TL;DR: we're screwed.

For those familiar with the game, the bots all cheat because they have ludicrous actions per minute. They can control each individual unit and optimize its actions at a level far beyond what any human can do. So a bot with a terrible strategy, horrible base design, and odd unit selection, can handily beat a high-level human player simply because the bot is fast enough to individually control each unit. To me that's cheating, and if you want to make it a fair contest between humans and bots then you have to limit the bots' actions per minute to be similar to what humans can do physiologically.

What? How much could it cost to add a radio receiver to the existing car? I can pick up the local FM station using an unshielded speaker wire and a small speaker. Sure, some people might call that 'interference', but it certainly costs nothing.

For a vehicle, all of the major equipment is already there, and I'm guessing a small antenna couldn't be more than $5. Where do you come up with hundreds of dollars to include an AM / FM receiver?

Sounds to me like more than one failure in the lab, since a human should always be at least 2 levels from a severely infectious agent (so if one level fails, there's still one level of protection). That lab should probably be shut down.

Most banks immediately turn around and sell the mortgage to someone else. So as long as they can sell the mortgage, what do they care? And, if you want to live there for a year, then rent it out for 29 years, what do they care? Or if you want to sell it at the end of 1 year? Or if you get a visa extension? Why does the bank care about any of that?

And, with 20% down, if all else fails, they can turn around and sell the property and get most of the money back.

Because the over-eager salespeople likely sold more chips than they could deliver, so the only solution is to ramp up production to meet those sales or to anger good customers. It might also be possible to increase production without much additional capital expense (by adding shifts, holidays, etc.), which pads the short-term profits and makes sweet bonuses for VPs.

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As part of the sandwich generation, this would mean even more work to take care of mom in addition to a baby. Hard pass.

They are competitors because they have different owners. They both license the brand from the same franchisor (McDonald's, in this case), and pay a fee to the same franchisor, but they definitely compete with each other. There are often non-compete clauses in franchise agreements (to prohibit, say, another franchise opening next door), but these are not universal and are often very limited, which can result in franchisees competing with each other.

Yes, different locations can have different prices for this very reason. The problem is when the locations conspire together to keep prices artificially high. RealPage did (does) a version of this for apartments. Yes, a luxury 2BR near the beautiful waterfront will be more than the old 1BR by the waste treatment plant. But if they collaborate they can increase their prices in lockstep and raise prices by ending legitimate price competition, because everyone agrees to use the inflated prices and collude to maximize their profits. The landlords win and the renters lose. McD's seems to have some version of this but for burgers.

Because it is price-fixing via an app.

You are correct that the way it is supposed to work is that competing businesses compete by offering differing prices for their products or services, then customers are free to choose the price they are willing to pay. But this ain't that.

This is McDonald's (and soon every other restaurant) conspiring together to set the price as high as they want so every restaurant everywhere has the same high price - customers are no longer free to choose because all prices are the same everywhere. And extremely high.

Let me know when McDonald's starts serving meat.

Why? Getting food that is grown closer to where you live is not inherently more environmentally sustainable. (This is because only a small portion of the carbon emissions for the production of a product is related to its transportation. My jackass local farmers who spray their crops with endless amounts of herbicides and pesticides and tons of ammonia and drive their honking diesel tractors and trucks around all day are way worse than produce grown using truly sustainable farming practices that require a ride in a moderately efficient 18-wheeler to get here.)

Nor is it inherently healthier, especially because my part of the world would have *no* fresh fruit or vegetables for 8+ months of the year.

Everything I know about the pancreas I learned from Al! (I don't know if that says something bad about me or good about Al...)