OpenAI lost all reported Credit Grants data for September 2024. If they can't do such basic accounting, how can they be trusted with money? Certainly the customer should be very wary of letting OpenAI charge funds.

Do tell... do the roadside billboards require a cut of the revenue? Hell no.

The Indian government would be right to just ban the Google and Apple app stores altogether. People can then use other app stores that don't require a cut of the fees.

That's hilarious because it is Google and Apple that are getting away with whatever they can. There is no good reason why they should receive any cut.

The UK reverses its opinions pretty fast, with zero coherency or stability of thought. If I was launching a crypto firm, I'd stick to the Middle East (UAE, Bahrain, etc.), but always be ready to leave.

One way in which I think about programming languages now is based on the expressiveness of their type system. This goes from say Javascript to Python to Go to Rust to Haskell to Idris to Coq. Along this spectrum, there is a tradeoff of flexibility for safety. I don't think that Rust is the final word in this spectrum by any means, and I also realize that there is a development-time cost to this safety. The counterargument is that if one wants crash-proof code, why shouldn't one go beyond Rust, further along the spectrum...

As a Rust developer, aren't you fighting the borrow checker all the time? Isn't that a bit masochistic? Does it even work out for complex code? Moreover, isn't the compilation speed utterly slow for any big project having a combined total of 10K+ lines? Why wouldn't you just use Go, for instance?

Congress has never granted SEC the power to call cryptocurrencies securities. SEC just decided on its own to start calling cryptos securities. While what the accused did was ethically wrong, the law was made *after* it was "violated". This sets a very bad precedent that government agencies can make up laws and find people to be guilty of them retroactively.

The problem is that the current platform doesn't require any exploits whatsoever to leak data or retrieve leaked data. Just because security is difficult doesn't mean we should stop trying.

TikTok is a security concern exactly because the phones are not secure. After a decade, there is still inadequate app permissioning and isolation. There are no hardware switches either. Data is leaked all over the place. I guess this is what the government wanted, and now they have to live with it.

Yes, fortunately, stevia is not artificial.

I hate to break it to you, but both ery and xy fall under the category of polyols, and the study has found polyols to be suspect. This means xy is now under the microscope too. Until we receive more clarity, I'd stick to stevia.

Those who call crypto a scam show that they don't understand anything about it except that it has price dumps and thefts. Self-custodied major cryptos like Bitcoin and Monero are most definitely not a scam if they were secured using a permanently cold device. They do have price swings but these should go down to what we see for gold as the decades pass by.

Oh it's collected perfectly well from salaried individuals. They tend to suffer the most from this collection.

The Indian government is the biggest thief via taxation. They have the world's highest sales tax, a serious income tax, ridiculous taxes on investments, a currency inflating much faster than the dollar on average which effectively makes it a wealth tax, and this outrageous crypto tax. Its citizens don't really get much out of it, just more heat and more pollution. It's going to face a precipitous collapse in the coming years. People can't survive on toxic air or in 50C heat. Meanwhile, the bribes keep flowing, making the rich richer and the poor poorer.