Bring a case and get a subpoena. Easy peasy, and coming to some courtroom eventually. My bet is on Adobe. Adobe has thousands of patents in various states of pending or active. All of the LLM generated clones are probably stepping on multiple patents, and the LLMs have hovered up those patents in training data. No need to have even seen proprietary code to get caught up in the IP thicket: the purveyor of infringing work will naturally deny any knowledge and point the finger at the LLM. The kill shot will be Inducement or Contributory Infringement.

It's coming. You can take that to the bank and cash it.

All that's really necessary is to convince a jury, or at least appear to be capable of convincing a jury. When cases get into the sort of technical weeds involved with LLMs, there is no predicting the outcome. And you get lots of rolls of the dice.

The scenario where he didn't engage in espionage, obviously. If you have proof he did let us all in on it, because right now, based on what is actually known, as opposed to whatever fictional shit you have inside your head, there is none.

What would the feds put on the charging documents? Screwing around with a whore isn't a felony. They'd have to have clear evidence that he knew she was a spy.

Why? We've had senators and governors and other prominent people in our government with Chinese spies on their staff for years. None of them resigned, or even lost an election. Nvidia's board doesn't give a damn about this, except to the extent it might dent the value of the company, which it probably won't. Corporate boards are not moral tribunals: they don't care who is blowing Jensen.

One of the most inconvenient truths of the 21th century is that the overwhelming bulk of Pacific plastic comes from 10 rivers, and none of them are in the US. But don't let any of that bother you; just blame everything on US consumption and every sin on Earth can be ours.

In any case, when we eventually have BYD dealers on every corner, Pacific plastic with be that much worse, and you'll have many more opportunities to draw comfort from anxiety headlines about Pacific plastic.

If it is, do you think anyone with the necessary scientific credentials to corroborate it would dare take the risk of adding arrows to the "climate denier" quiver? You know the answer and thus, what your expectations should be.

One thing we have to look forward to: In the post-Trump era, there'll be no end in sight to the plastic-ing of the Pacific after we revert to evacuating the last vestiges of the Western industrial base to Asia. Then we can add the Chinese plastic waste load of the entire global automotive supply chain to the Pacific.

I'll stipulate every one of your Russian talking points.

Now, I'll explain why they aren't operative: Ukraine isn't trying to conquer pieces of Europe. Ukraine can be as corrupt as it wants, draft whomever they wish, predict whatever fantastic victories they please, and fail at weapons development as much as they like. As long as they don't go kinetic and start European land wars, its all good.

Putin is way behind the curve on this one: Ukraine has reverted to destroying distillation towers, pumping stations and oil depots. So the data centers are probably safe for the time being. The real issue they'll have is surviving in many kilometers long fuel lines during the Russian winter.

Jay in Kyiv says it best: These are the sort of problems you face when you invade a peaceful and much smarter neighboring country.

If you want the truth about why "affordability" might be a problem for you, look no further than this summary ("...would need the green light from those major mobile carriers...") and extrapolate that to essentially everything that costs too much, because that is exactly where it's coming from. Whether it's incumbent hospital networks deciding whether to permit new competitors in their territories, or incumbent universities deciding whom they will and will not permit to be accredited, and thus be eligible for government subsidies, government-backed debt, or any number of other examples where incumbents have wheedled themselves control of some measure of government apparatus to limit and control competitors.

In any case, none of this is "Capitalism." Actual "Capitalism" does not involve this sort of dysfunction. It certainly has other dysfunctions, but private-interest incumbent control over government gatekeeping is not among them. That's a different problem, and rational people don't confuse it with "Capitalism."

And all of this exists because every time one of your ancestors felt some frustration or suffered some grievance, real or imagined, they called the cops and created another opportunity for some wonderful new bit of "fairness" to be enacted into law. That's what you're really paying for. That's the price of your romper-room world, and why your elders have the jaws of a vise cranked down on everything today.

Who are you and what have you done with rsilvergun?

Broaden your scope: Both the America revolution and the US civil war were consequences of prosperity. Subsisting people spend little time pondering pamphlets or worrying about ratios of atmospheric trace gasses. The Left and its simple minded and reactionary hair-shirt solutions to all problems are certainly their own worst enemy. That's a key point as well: the enemies they imagine, including all the churches and all the fictional Nazis that live in side their heads are nothing by comparison.

Of course you believe this. You have no concept of actual warfare. Your whole worldview is what you've been fed by comfortable, secure establishment media that hasn't dealt with an actual military threat in about 80 years.

No son, job loss and "disinformation" are not worse than kinetic warfare. You're a poster boy for the consequences of excessive peace.

This is the language of someone that's never been more than a few hours away from a source of food.

Taiwan is a island of people that don't want to be enslaved by a totalitarian hell state, and China will not hesitate to nab Taiwan at the very first instant they think they can pull it off. All your 8-D chess thinking is just you filling your head with shit. Stop doing that to yourself.

The only reason Taiwan hasn't been blockaded and starved into submission is that China lacks the 2-3 additional aircraft carriers and naval air wings they'll need to ensure the success of that mission. That's it. No other reason. And you're likely to live long enough to witness the truth of that.

When that day comes, do yourself a huge favor: recall this discussion and take it to heart. If you do, the good news for you is that perhaps you'll be able to salvage some of your remaining years free of the cognitive damage you've indulged.

I doubt that. This isn't the nifty fifties and we don't moral panic over blowjobs anymore. Clinton was poking girls with cigars in the Whitehouse and the Bezos beams dick pics around to women. Jenson could handwave this, and she can't "Me Too" him because she's a spy that did it for her government.

There is no alternative now, and there won't be an alternative for years.

Globalstar is far too low bandwidth for Ukraine's needs. Amazon doesn't have the ambition or nerve to risk building anything that approaches Starlink in the kind of time frame that is relevant to the Ukraine conflict, and they don't have the vertically integrated launch platform with the airline-like capacity and reliability of SpaceX to make such ambitions affordable, and they don't have the ambition or nerve to build that either.

Love him or hate him, for better or worse, Musk has the ambition and nerve to do these things. That fact is everything: the essential, exclusive ingredient. And Bezos et al. don't have it. You may wish they did, and regret they do not, but don't kid yourself.

The valuation is what mystifies me. Maybe, before Starlink, a constellation of 25 communication satellites was worth a few billion. Maybe $10 billion with IP, lucrative contracts and whatever spectrum they hold. After Starlink?

No. Just no.

Globalstar equity holders have played this one well.

It's supposed to be a benefit: better competitors that aren't governed by shiny-object leadership are supposed to take advantage and punish such clowns. That's the real cost of centralization, IP law and regulatory balkanization: the clowns rely on these to insulate themselves from the wolves that would otherwise end them.

Makes me think of the "bad faith" trope we see with some frequency from certain folks.

Recently some blowhard Reddit mod(s) went ham on AI in open source, and essentially outlawed discussion of any open source projects that are not purely organic from their little Reddit sandbox. When it was pointed out that this is pretty unworkable since significant open source projects, including Linux, Mesa and others are allowing AI generated code, they backed up. And that's all fine I suppose, except they characterized the response to their stupidity as deliberate "bad faith" misunderstanding of their original announcement. It wasn't that at all; it was exactly what you should expect when get all chesty with the world and can't handle the blowback, but they've adopted the cop-out of calling these self-inflicted episodes as some sort of "bad faith."

I see this often enough now that anytime I see someone claiming "bad faith" I assume I'm dealing with another nasty little shit-bird trying to cry-bully their way.