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Comment Re: Legally mandated data retention (Score 1) 33

and yet even the EFF (who recently fired stallman and is probably led by clueless syncopants) issues an amicus brief for openai... go figure.

also this whole lie by openai now being a bastion of privacy and responsible data handling assumed they were not storing all logs before anyway, which they certainly are.

Comment Re: the real news (Score 1) 53

also all those pieces demand a sort of flat-earth mentality since they claim outlandish things, like questioning the lowcost of training, when anyone can find tons of acadamic papers already corroborating their points https://www.pyspur.dev/blog/multi-head-latent-attention-kv-cache-paper-list

but despite that, even the "educated" crowd here will upvote "news" that it's impossible they didn't pay bazzillions dollars to nvidia or that surely they stole everything.

Comment Re: Can we fire all of them? (Score 1) 44

that's how the populists get power.

they identify rules against their power grabs, in this case the separation of federal machine and executive.

then they cry over one easily fixable issu, like limiting salaries to market rate. And with that reasonable argument win you over.

But then they use your support to dismantle the other thing blocking their power grab.

Before you know it, they will have even larger inneficiences but all going to their companies.

Comment Re: Stockpile of casino chips (Score 1) 106

more information on how the money laundering works https://www.elsalvadornow.org/2024/10/17/jpmorgan-wraps-up-1-billion-debt-swap-deal-for-el-salvador-jpmorgan-concluye-acuerdo-de-canje-de-deuda-por-1000-millones-para-el-salvador/

it was also used before by the bailed out banks to siffon their bail outs back into the banks balance sheets.

also notice the math of this press release. the take 1bi. pay back 1.3bi, and somehow make 300mi of profit which they will use to protect a river.

Comment Re: Stockpile of casino chips (Score 1) 106

funny you mention it because legalizing bitcoin is part of the new president get rich scheme

https://bondblox.com/news/el-salvador-offers-to-buy-back-dollar-bonds-again

basically, el Salvador gets a IMF loan, then buys BTC, then pays back it's bonds with a premium. They are a de facto btc triple A security.

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