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Additionally, many of these cases were only partially created using AI or aren't proven to have actually used AI or used AI in a creative and non-conventional way and that's what they won for.
If your neighbor offers you $50 to mow their lawn, turn it down. President and Supreme Court justice aren't side-jobs.
She told well-documented lies to investors that made it a much more attractive investment. They invested and lost money. It's basically public information who the victims are. Clear-cut fraud and very easy to prove.
For patient fraud, you probably need to track down the people who were actually harmed in a material way (attempted fraud isn't a crime). That's going to be a small subset of the people who got tests and it's going to be hidden away in private medical records. Doable if they really had to, but why bother when you have a slam-dunk case for something else.
Lack of browser diversity is bad because it puts too much control in the hands of the only browser vendor.
Lack of browser choice is bad because it puts too much control in the hands of whatever browser vendor they use.
We need both for a healthy web.
The law is very explicit: no mergers or acquisitions where the "effect may be substantially to lessen competition". Not "will" lessen competition, "may" lessen competition.
The law as written should prevent basically any merger between large competitors. Judges have watered that down with bullshit about customer harm that appears nowhere in the law.
I will be shocked if I live to see a year where AI kills more people than cars do legally.
Bronze weapon technology had a moat because it required scarce, imported resources. Even if they learned the techniques, most people couldn't make them.
The resources for iron weaponry were readily available; they just needed to learn the techniques.
Many Bronze Age empires had complex centralized bureaucracies and are generally considered states.
There should never have been a type `int` that holds a variable amount of bytes; it should have been the modern aliases like int_least32_t and int_fast32_t that actually communicate the possible size of the value.
All that leaves is born wealthy and small business owners. The small business owners aren't going to last long if their only potential customers are the generationally wealthy and the working class.
When the crossover will happen is impossible to say because future US administrations probably won't pursue such mindbogglingly stupid policies.
When they visit 1970s Earth in State of the Art, they have to be very selective about who they send because many of them would stick out like a sore thumb even after cosmetic surgery.
They were willing to sacrifice nearly a trillion lives in the Idiran war, which was voted on by the entire population. Even after that vote, it was very easy to opt-out and I get the sense that most of those who did were motivated by genuine pacifism rather than personal fear.
The most dangerous and uncomfortable jobs like Special Circumstances and Contact seem to have an enormous surplus of volunteers and it's even hinted that there might not be any need for humans to do most of those jobs; they exist just because humans want to do them.
With how insanely cheap solar and batteries are getting, it doesn't make much financial sense to build new nuclear plants anymore (for grid generation, they're still great for things like military ships).
To me, it seems more likely to concentrate power among people who don't want to make things better and make it easier for them to resist ever changing.
Something like waiting until male puberty is already pretty far along and doing extensive strength training and then transitioning and competing immediately in a sport that puts a heavy premium on strength. I think most sports already have rules that would prevent this.
For someone following a more normal transitioning trajectory, there would be zero advantage; probably a significant disadvantage.
A blanket ban is just pure bullying, especially for childrens' sports (which are primarily a social activity, not a consequential competition). Individual sports can have rules to prevent the (primarily hypothetical) abusive cases without preventing children from participating in normal social activities. No one is saying that someone who's 200 lb of solid muscle and started HRT a month ago should be able to compete against girls in football or powerlifting, but pickleball, sure go for it.