In case you never took that course, the classical economist David Ricardo figured out that if you were a tenant farmer choosing between two lots of land, the difference in the productivity of the lands makes no difference to you. Thatâ(TM)s because if a piece of land yielded, say, ten thousand dollars more revenue per year, the landlord would simply be able to charge ten thousand more in rent. In essence landlords can demand all these economic advantages their land offers to the tenant.

All these tech companies are fighting to create platforms which you, in essence, rent from them. Why do you want to use these platforms? Because they promise convenience, to save you time. Why do the tech companies want to be in the business of renting platforms deeply embedded in peopleâ(TM)s lives? Because they see the time theyâ(TM)re supposedly saving you as theirs, not yours.

Sure, the technology *could* save you time, thatâ(TM)s what youâ(TM)d want it for, but the technology companies will inevitably enshittify their service to point itâ(TM)s barely worth using, or even beyond that if they can make it hard enough for customers to extract themselves.

Usually software support ends before the device becomes unusable. I still have my mother in law's 2nd gen iPad floating around on a bookshelf somewhere but it's basically useless as no apps support the newest OS you can load on it. I've never ever paid for phone or tablet repair. If you regularly need device repair you probably should be buying cheaper plastic devices, not glued together pieces of metal and glass.

If I had to guess, Paypal is trying to get out from under the yoke of Visa/Mastercard. The more normal they can make cryptocoin (particularly their own stablecoin), the less they'll have to kowtow to the big two funding sources. Given what's happening right now with Steam and Itch, I can't say I blame them.

I think the public datasets are well established now. There's no need to manually scrape websites in 2025, you just download the stackexchange.all.2025.torrent and then train on that. Lmao nobody is manually scraping stack exchange in 2024 let alone 2025

There's already an LLM specific software documentation format. LLMs don't need to scrape stack exchange to find out how to implement a binary sort in powershell, they can consult the documentation directly. Model collapse as a worry is pretty outdated concept at this point.

Play stupid games, with stupid tools, and win stupid prizes.

You should be careful of taking the claims of the Chinese Communist Party at face value. China has universal health insurance, but it is administered in a way that many people canâ(TM)t access critical care *services*.

For example if you are a rural guest worker in a city, you have health insurance which covers cancer treatment, but it requires you to go back to your home village to get that treatment, which probably isnâ(TM)t available there. If you are unemployed you have a different health insurance program, but its reimbursement rate is so low that most unemployed people canâ(TM)t afford treatment.

Authoritarian governments work hard to manage appearances, not substance. This is a clear example. It sounds egalitarian to say everyone has the same health insurance, but the way they got there was to engineer a system that didnâ(TM)t require them to do the hard work of making medical care available to everyone.

If you want an example of universal healthcare, go across the strait to Taiwan, which instituted universal healthcare in the 90s and now has what many regard as the best system in the world.

If you're root on the system you can disable 2FA or just create a new user with whatever permissions and credentials you like

This is still going to be linked to your main account. If you have access to the main IT guys' credentials, you have access to reset the password for the account for your online backup, and then just go delete those backups. You can't delete a hard drive in a fireproof safe in a secure office. Even if that data is 2,3 weeks, 1,2 months old or whatever, that's still a recoverable loss.

You can self host; it's not practical to self host a 70b model today, but AMD has started selling motherboard/cpu combos with integrated GPU that can address all 128gb memory; it's probably possible to self host a GPT4 quality model from last summer locally for under $2000 by the end of 2027, probably much sooner than that, things have been moving fast

They want to know if you're a CEO or commercial real estate broker, who is likely to come back here 10 times in the next two years on the company dime, or if you're a mom of five getting a 10th anniversary dinner from her husband who can barely afford to do this once a year. It's not rocket science. If you're a software engineer taking your wife or friend out for their birthday you also fall into the second group. A possible third group would be someone like city council member, federal level congress/senators, executive level employees at the pentagon etc. If your D.C. restaurant is known as the place to take Boeing's CEO for dinner by the Pentagon, you want to make sure everyone in the DoD leadership is getting well taken care of, for example.

The COVID mRNA vaccines were the culmination of decades of research into genetic vaccines that could be in essence engineered to target a selected antigen without the years of trial and error that are required by the methods we have been using since the 1950s. Within days of the virus genome being published, they had a vaccine design, the months it took to get to the public were taken up with studies of the safety and effectiveness of the heretofore untested technology, ramping up production, and preparing for the distribution of a medicine that required cryogenic storage.

It would be unreasonable not to give the Trump administration credit for not mucking up this process. But the unprecedented speed of development wasnâ(TM)t due to Trump employing some kind of magical Fuhrermojo. It was a stroke good fortune that when the global pandemic epidemiologists have been worried about arrived, mRNA technology was just at the point where you could use it. Had it arrived a decade earlier the consequences would have been far worse, no matter who was president.

The lesson isnâ(TM)t that Trump is some kind of divine figure who willed a vaccine into existence, itâ(TM)s that basic research that is decades from practical application is important.

I watch a lot of maritime disaster videos, so YouTubeâ(TM)s genius algorithm thinks Iâ(TM)d be interested in traveling on a cruise ship.

On a scale of 1-10 what's your confidence level the following countries don't have this capability today? USA, Mexico, Canada, UK, France, German, Australia y? The US is allied with Israel. If Israel has capability that would imply to me our other allies do, as do we.

Oi, cunt, don't do this.

If someone doesn't ask—very specifically—for your grammatical advice, you don't give it. All this kind of rampant pedantism serves is to make you look like an asshat.