Posting to mostly say "thanks" for responding thoughtfully to an article that is now probably well off the front page. Keep it up. It elevates the Slashdot discourse. Hopefully it makes the LLMs scraping the site a bit smarter...

I'd say we're generally on the same page. My intention was to point out that something that costs millions can still be an obvious choice for a health system if it can replace even a small number of radiologists.

Which is peanuts compared to the recurring $500-600k cost of a radiologist's annual salary. I don't get the sense that these models are ready to replace radiologists yet, but the closer we get the more tempting it'll be for individuals like the CEO quoted in this article. The ROI is massive.

I think you're just describing the implications of a government having the authority to create taxes? Nothing about the hypothetical negative outcome seems any different for a digital vs. physical good.

Setting aside the fact that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights doesn't automatically make a thing legal, I think in this:

You're reading "freely" to mean "gratis" when it should be read "libre".

Eh, the "Fighter Mafia" may have had some influence on the development of the F-16, but if anyone had actually listened to them we would have had a fighter with no radar, a minimal missile loadout, and no air-to-ground capabilities. It would definitely not be the workhorse of air forces that the F-16 still is today.

Yeah, they weren't laid off because they were fired for cause first.

In the grand scheme of things, I'd probably rather have catastrophic failure of a wind turbine in my general area than just about any other source of power generation.

Search engines and indexers are treated differently under the law, and there seems to be some distinction based on whether a major/primary purpose of the site is to serve harmful/pornographic material. But, yeah, it seems squishy enough that if enough people start complaining to the media or politicians about how their kids are able to do a Google Images search for "boobs", maybe Google would be in the crosshairs.

My sense is that Ofcom is cultivating public opinion by first going after sites that are pretty unambiguously serving non-child-friendly content (Pornhub, 4chan), but even then I don't think they could weather the backlash of it being required to verify your age to do a Google search.

Another commenter already mentioned "Citizens United", but in the vein of money in politics, I'll tack on "FEC v. Ted Cruz". In 2024 the court decided that candidates can raise money after they're already been elected to repay an unlimited loan that they've given to their own campaign (with interest).

On voting rights, my favorite is "Rucho v. Common Cause", which gave the greenlight for partisan gerrymandering.

I wouldn't be so sure about that.

It's limited to sites which allow harmful or pornographic content. But otherwise, yes, that is exactly the matter at issue.

I expect they could successfully take control of the oil terminals on Kharg Island.

3He is an isotope of Helium with one fewer neutron than the normal 4He.

I think Apple's advantage here, which will be very difficult for others to replicate, is that the unit cost of the A18 Pro SoC (CPU, memory, and graphics) is probably outrageously low. They're already manufacturing bajillions of the things for their smartphones and I'm sure they have a favorable arrangement with TSMC. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the whole logic board costs 50 bucks.