Whose bright idea was it to store nuclear waste right next to an ocean coastline?

It's one git clone and a couple of Claude prompts. What could it cost? 10M tokens?

As I said... not acceptable, but not necessarily nefarious.

I'm all for an arms-length agency that controls police data and equipment so there's no opportunity for people within an agency to cover each other's asses.

I think when you put on a badge and assume the authority it grants over others, you should be held to a much higher standard. This does not seem to be a common enough belief to actual have such standards implemented.

It's unacceptable, but not necessarily nefarious.

You have a case, you have a case number. The interface is stupid and you can't paste it in, you have to type it out every time. And every selected camera is another query with that same field waiting for the 15 character code.

You get bored, you type in crap knowing A) people rarely check if there's no complaint and B) you have a case.

I can't say that's what happens with every system, but that's why the video logs look like this on the ones I've touched. Which is also why we captured logon ID and didn't just rely on trusting the manual input.

You know what they fucked with far less often? CPIC queries. Abuse CPIC and you lose your job because if you don't lose your job, the RCMP pulls the police service's access. It should be the same locally, but it typically isn't.

I read that a lot. In any situation where costs to a business are going to increase.

There are three big pricing methods.
* cost plus Company decides their markup and adjusts prices to ensure that markup remains consistent.
* competitor Looks at what others are charging and adjust your own prices. Can vary according to how the company wants to be perceived.
* value How much is my customer willing to pay?

Value is the closest to of oft perceived view that businesses are universally squeezing every penny they can out of a consumer. In general only 15% to 25% of businesses work primarily under the value pricing model. 10% to 15% do so for goods, mostly in the luxury or very very specialized spaces while in services value pricing is up to 35% to 45%. Not surprising there is much variation based on factors relating to particular market segments. Additionally, companies that are considered as using one pricing model will often put a few thought cycles into the considerations of other models.

In this particular case, the pricing does have more a value component that it often does. The video game market is considered a luxury, is rather elastic and there are many competitors. Prices for video games are relatively consistent across studios. Base prices. In this market the cost plus can, and will, be expressed via bundling, increased shifts to subscriptions and the joys of additional pay to play and (is there a word for pay for cosmetics?). Or just plain quality cuts - no need for a cinematic there and let's just ship with two starting classes. That would likely negate Blizzard's moderately surprising pause in their slide out of the premium studio tier.

No, few things are perfect. But the basic principle is that you cannot own ideas or information.
Intellectual property laws protect secrets, trademarks, copyright and patents.
Copyright relates to the expression of an idea, not the idea itself. The output of a pre-trained AI might violate copyright, but the training itself does not.

There is no "thus". Are you expecting the law to be less than 10 years behind reality?
What has happened is that the distillers have made use of the frontier models in ways that violate the "Terms of Service". You know, those documents that you never even read?

You really believe this or think that lying is justified because you are on the side of all that is good?

a) Tell me who Musk bought SpaceX from? Otherwise he really kinda sorta looks to be the one and only founder. Was curious so did some digging and found he didn't even take an outside investor until six years after he founded the company.

b) You know SpaceX has gone public and their books were opened for the prospectus and for each quarterly report? SpaceX is getting 20% of their revenue from government contracts. If you want to broaden focus, the best estimate I can find is that every Musk enterprise ever has benefitted from $38 billion in government money - that is tax credits, loans, direct contracts, credits to consumers for buying electric. Compare that with $650 billion in total estimated revenue. Care to do the 38/650 math and tell me if it is above fifty percent?

Nope. No matter where you look in the sky, on large enough scales it looks the same. There's no indication that things are significantly different in any particular direction.

There can't be a 'source' of a Big Bang that looks like that. It has to happen everywhere or the sky would show signs that it was all accelerating away from a single point.

What we can say is we don't really have much ability to figure out what happened early on. The conditions are too extreme and we don't have any way to model what might have been going on. That's not faith either, that's, "We don't know and might never be able to figure it out".

Do they? Certain "leaders" find it useful as a divisive issue, or for distraction. But ordinary people are far more concerned with the economy, public safety, education. Maybe immigration. LGBT issues just don't come up so much as in urban liberal communities or colleges.

Which left? mainstream centre-left or woke identity-politics far-left?

Thats good, we need to honestly acknowledge the past. And the present - how does your part of politics deal with the "uncomfortable parts" of diversity? ie group differences. Does it persist in a oppressor/victim dichotomy narrative to explain all differences in outcomes?

I'm not sure about the US, but in the rest of the world, every form of power get subsidies, one way or another.

Better to be subsiding nuclear (and batteries for solar) than coal and gas, I suppose.
Whats this I hear about Trump paying out billions to NOT build wind farms though?
nah - never mind, I'm not sure I can take any more of that stuff.

As a tourist crossing the US/Mexico border, I saw dozens jumping the fence -- was certainly a spectacle. Though from their casual manner and lack of luggage, I expect they were more like a weekly commute than a migration.

The migration situation in the US is insane, and bad for everyone, except those who get the cheap labor. Millions of 2nd-class non-citizens with few rights, reminds me of Dubai.

oh no, it was. Lets check that card:

[x] - AI frontier research model escapes lab and hacks major AI repository
[x] - AI startup floats for > 1T$ .
[x] - Claude Code goes open source
[x] - massive AI cyber-attack from North Korea
[ ] - millenium problem solved
[ ] - P=NP proven
[ ] - unsupervised full self driving released across multiple US states
[ ] - robot uprising
[ ] - AI wins Nobel Prize
[ ] - The First $10B "Solo Unicorn"
[ ] - an AI Earns Full Sovereign Citizenship
[ ] - AI designed pathogen released by terror group
[ ] - Sable 1.0 released

So far, OK

While 'sexual orientation' is usually the preferred term, that argument is not up to your usual detail-oriented posting.
A preference is an internal orientation or predisposition. A choice is the external action taken based on those orientations.
  Our preferences determine (in part) our choices.

Does anyone choose to be gay? or male? Or good or greedy? Can I choose to believe in free will?
  I can choose what to do, but not necessarily what to be.