But then, do you really need a VC at all?

What, did you think Citizens United would only allow conservative organizations to conceal their funding sources?

I maintain that boast remains objectively true (yes, in spite of Biden's decline) every time your guy opens his fool, lying mouth.

Interesting interpretation to say that VC's are now "biased" because they're inclined to fund partnerships - just like they always were.

What has changed is an increase in the number of would-be solo entrepreneurs who shun partnership. What's causing that new bias? Maybe VC's are wary of funding Covid Kids who think they can build an empire before they have even built a team or partnership.

It speaks volumes about who MAGA looks up to as their thought leaders, and it's perfectly on-brand that those people are as easy marks as their followers.

Let's start with Russia.

"Dungeon Crawler Carl"

Now get out there and Read Read Read.

Or maybe their growth-driving breakthroughs were when they were young and thin and quick, but now they've become ossified with over-management and internal fiefdoms, and are trying to turn the clock back.

He just kept talking in one long incredibly unbroken sentence moving from topic to topic so that no one had a chance to interrupt it was really quite hypnotic

I think Tesla would have been a much more profitable company under Apple. Musk certainly got it to a point - over a million cars per year, and the single most popular car model, gas or electric. But more recently with cancelling the small cheap car, and the Cybertruck, and betting the company on robotaxi... Apple wouldn't have done any of that stuff. They'd be improving successive versions and not offending their customers with politics, and making Tesla a super-valuable company.

Sounds to me like a lawyer trying to get their name out there on a first-of-it's-kind suit.

Good luck trying to establish a shred of causation if it's public knowledge that the kid intentionally thwarted safeguards. And then you have to convince a jury or a judge that tricking the AI into talking about suicide is what led to the kid going through with it.

It sounds like hogwash, so it's got about a 50/50 chance of succeeding.

This isn't a technology problem, it's a law problem. The law is supposed to stop authorities from searching things outside of the scope of a warrant. The law is also supposed to impose penalties when authorities fail to operate within their legal bounds.

In short, "stopping them" is the entire point of the 4th Amendment.

Trains are an interesting one. The US has the largest freight rail system in the world, and it is very efficient. Where I live the I-40 interstate (a major east/west roadway, essentially the modern incarnation of Route 66) is paralleled by a railway. Very often you can drive along I40 through the desert and see super-long trains stacked double-high with shipping containers, and just think how much traffic that is taking off the road. And yet, there is basically 1 lane-worth of steady tractor/trailer traffic along the freeway at all hours of the day and night - almost like a virtual never-ending train.

So here is a side-by-side railway and roadway for long-haul freight in which both are evidently viable, yet neither every pushes out the other. This seems to argue against the idea that idea that trains would naturally take over except for some cultural defect in the USA. Freight rail doesn't have to worry too much about niceties like convenience or timeliness (on the order of a few hours parked here or there) like passenger rail does, and it's not because "individualism" or small penis size or whatever people who hate cars and trucks like to blame them on. Freight is almost purely about efficiency, yet they still use trucks quite a bit.

I miss the page-widening posts.

You should Google how often the world mocks the UK for their "heat warnings" or whatever you call them over there, rather than listing all time heat records. Great job pointing out the us and uk use different measurement systems, literally nobody knows that, so it was very useful to learn today, thank you for that deep insight. You will surely be the person to turn around the uk's declining fortunes. Stiff upper lip, I'm rooting for you.