Republicans have always been hypocritical about states' rights.

Abortion was a states' rights issue until RvW was overturned, and suddenly they wanted a national ban.

They want the Feds to overturn state-level pot legalization, ban sanctuary cities, etc.

That was three years ago, which is an eon in AI terms.

There have been vast advances since then.

That is nominal GDP based on a very weak currency.

In PPP terms, Iran's GDP is about $1.2T, about the same as that of Illinois or the Netherlands.

Then the future will belong to China.

Better start learning Mandarin.

Indeed. I pay $20 per month for Cursor, and it works great.

Why should I pay 15 times that much to be Elon's beta tester?

Does enshittification count as innovation or is that a separate category? If the former, then within the last week. If the latter then... I dunno, can't really remember back that far.

And when I hear "touts his experience with 'all facets of mergers and acquisitions' on his own LinkedIn page, including experience working with leading private equity firms" I know to run away *very fast*. It's at about the same danger-sign level as someone who "touts his experience with all facets of torturing puppies, including experience working with leading child slavery firms". How much do you not want to deal with a company run by this person?

There has never been a greater need for Air Force One to be a 737 MAX...

YOB? You mean the dementia patient?

That's the dilemma, don't sell them H200s, they'll produce their own alternatives. Do sell them H200s, $yellow-bogeyman-scare-story. If it was me I'd hold out for the homegrown stuff because you know the US is going to flip-flop another dozen times before, or if, you get the goods.

Set the password while stoned, a garbage dump of files and data, random old copies in forgotten backups, is he auditioning to be a corporate IT admin?

I was thinking more that the mosquitos were avoiding the vegan, not the effects of what they'd eaten :-).

Was she vegan perchance?

It is called Model Collapse, and avoiding it is a hot research topic.

If you punish companies for firing, you get less hiring.

Countries with inflexible labor markets tend to have higher unemployment.