I would guess most K5 computers that are still in use (and actively updated with new kernels) are probably not desktop computers, and don't run a normal linux distribution. Think things like C&C machines and ATMs. Linux runs just fine on many many computers that would struggle to run Ubuntu.

An easy way to avoid this is to just -- not bet in the "prediction markets". This isn't like the stock market where your 401k is tied up in it, it's a literal casino with no rules. Very very easy to avoid.

Alternate translation: Oh my god we employ over 6000 people but we're snapchat! there's no way we need to employ this many people! what's a good excuse to cull the herd?

I would argue that the LLMs that Anthropic produces don't *have* a body

There are a lot of Christian denominations, and they don't all hold the same values. The Evangelicals are loud, but they only make up about 25% of Christians. It's also important to remember that "Evangelicals" aren't one cohesive group either, and vary wildly from church to church.

All of this to say "the evangelicals you know" might not be a good representative sample of Christians.

That we'll all pay for, whether we like it or not!

Hiding under my desk with my head between my legs also doesn't *really* protect me from a nuclear attack, but at least it's something

So, false equivalence -- running linux 2.6 would be much more similar to still running unpatched windows XP. Also, it's very true that a well configured firewall really does protect against a lot of things, but I think it's a pretty safe bet that that firewall doesn't run windows...

But bitcoin is a *sure thing*!

- Douglas Adams

seems like they need to invent a few of those

yeah but it's different, because I *am* absolutely right.

Feels like you forgot about the IE6 days, when the internet was completely broken and standards didn't matter, because IE6 support was the top priority for any web page. Absolutely dominant, especially considering how broken it was.

Allow me to posit the following: we could very well be minding our own business but still strongly influence the rest of the world. For example, if a company wishes to do business in America -- the world's largest and most lucrative commercial market -- they must comply with US laws. This is no different than any other country. You may not like it, but that's how commercial business works, and it'd be no different if someone like North Korea had the market everyone wanted. You'd just be complaining about a different country.

Don't like it? Don't do business in the US and you're free to do whatever you want. You'll be excluding yourself from probably 70% of the available market, but you're free to make that choice.

Don't forget, your argument can be turned around quite easily: you could mind your own business and stop trying to tell the US how to do business according to your wants/needs. Funny how that works.

You're blissfully unaware of how national sovereignty works.

Good luck getting the US to accommodate an Interpol extradition request for 4chan and its personnel. There's no reason the US would agree to it since 4chan has violated no US law. So long as 4chan operates in the US exclusively and violates no US laws, they are effectively beyond the reach of the UK government. They could presumably nab some 4chan executive if they ever visited the UK, but all one has to do to avoid that is just not visit the UK.

This is how international legal disputes have been handled since the dawn of international legal disputes. Don't trust me, look it up, I'm sure chatgpt can fill you in.