Weak sovereigns indeed fear corpos from strong sovereigns. And they fear strong foreign sovereigns themselves far more.

Because as scary as corpos are to weak sovereigns, they are terrified of their own sovereigns. To death and beyond. How many court rulings from their sovereign do they dare refuse, even the most mundane ones?

No, his option is to invoke relevant post WW2 legislation about government requiring resources for national defense and prosecute them for refusal.

Notably, it's not just US that has this sort of legislation. As I noted above, this is one of the lessons from WW2, so most of us have some variant of it. Consequences for corpos vary depending on jurisdiction, but they are exceedingly ugly.

Most of the Western nations learn some lessons from WW2 and letting corpos choose to do business with enemies or not do business with government when it comes to national security.

Corpos have the power to do jack shit here other than posture. If government invokes relevant legislation, they'll obey or they'll lose everything and spend the rest of their lives entertaining Bubba and his fiends.

Remember: government is sovereign. Corpos aren't.

How's the biggest problem for US military according to "adults in the room" pre-2024, recruitment numbers doing?

What is his popularity with new recruits?

Could it be that this man is more qualified for the job than any in last decade or two by the objective numbers and you're melting down because you don't know anything about the subject nor care about it?

Example: it's an anti-feature if I don't want bloat and want proper high end translations by a much larger model instead. I.e. google translate, or chatGPT.

They had a problem with him for a better part of a decade. That's why he lived in Middle East for a long time. He's basically exiled outside short, curated visits for specific dealings with pre-approved people because he stood up to Russian attempts at censoring VK and Telegram back in 2010s.

They forced him to "sell" VK to the government affiliated parties, after which he fled and kept Telegram. He's basically a post-Soviet tech bro (far less trusting of government overreach than Western tech bros). Problem is of course he's not trusting of all governments, which is why French grabbed him and are still holding him under house arrest to ensure that their superlegal backdoors remain in place.

Because he told everyone to fuck off. It's why Telegram remains so hilariously popular in nations where government suppresses peoples but hasn't gone all the way to blocking. I.e. the first one to get turned off in places like Iran through government blocking was Telegram, because the likes of Whatsapp have limited cooperation with government when it comes to things like "hate speech" which governments like Iran use to unmask and kill dissidents.

The reason why we see so many bots screaming about how he's evil, he's been got, etc, is because he's the wild card tech bro with a massive chip on his shoulder for government overreach, and who's far less amiable to both soft and hard coercion than likes of Zuckerberg and Musk have demonstrated themselves to be.

When data centers are the size of a Rubik's cube, call me. Until then you can fuck off. AI is no where near energy efficient when it needs huge data centers to "think".

He and his people got genocided by Inuit. 100% genocide rate. They're all dead.

It's just Inuits and Danes that came after there nowadays.

Reality is of course that you're still pretending that reality doesn't exist by twisting every word you can.

Meanwhile interpretation I mentioned above has been used in countless immigration lawsuits successfully, including even the worst of the worst: IS terrorists. Can't deport. Have right to private life and family life.

This isn't even new. That shit was going on back in late 2010s immigration crisis. And since even UK accepts authority of the court in spite of leaving EU, this ruling enabled everything from IS terrorist to rape gangers to avoid deportation.

Or imagine you could use a laser to write data on a spinning disk. That would be amazing!

Am I the only one who misses the pixel 2? It felt like the best phone. I was/am a huge fan of the rear finger print reader, and I must have been one of the few that used the squeeze functionality.

Every later version of the pixel is fine, but has felt like a step down from the 2.

> "Good enough" is exactly the reason that AI is upending the world of white collar work. It might not replace a skilled and experienced employee, but it's good enough.

I don't necessarily have a problem with that. The problem is, skilled workers only become skilled after being inexperienced for a while and gaining experience. If you cut junior, unskilled workers from the job market, you won't have skilled workers in a few years.

In other words, company that adopt AI to avoid paying unskilled labor are shooting themselves in the foot.

Is it really intangible, though? If someone wanted to do a study, I'm quite sure it would be possible to directly measure the effect of law enforcement. Crime rates. Property valuations. Personal income. Business revenue. Diversity of businesses. The amount people walk outdoors. Body Mass Index, calories spent, etc. Since you bring up art, I expect the number of outdoor art installations could be related to law enforcement. If your area is basically little Mogadishu, public art is probably low on your priority list especially if it's likely to be vandalized or stolen and sold for scrap.
A whole host of statistics could be inferred and extrapolated when comparing one area to another.

I picked veal in this case because I would bet this is closer to what you get with lab grown. It takes years of living and exercise to make muscle like from a adult cow. I seriously doubt they can replicate this in a lump that sits in a vat.

Whether you like AI or not, if your profession is about to be obsoleted by AI, AI Is factually bad for you.

Beyond that, it's up to you to decide if it's worth paying a talented human writer to report on local events in a local rag. Most of those newspapers are strictly utilitarian and simply inform the locals of what's happening in their communities. I've never seen any of them dabble in gonzo.

And well, journalism is like football: most professional footballers play in minor leagues and don't earn much, and only a vanishingly small minority earns top dollar playing incredible matches watched by millions.

High-flying journalists writing for classy newspapers will most certainly keep writing their own stuff. But the mundane will probably be taken over by AI because mediocre is good enough for the money.