dpkirchner

Here's what I don't get about this: Trump's main campaign promise was to raise prices for American consumers (via tariffs) and to harm the lowest wage earners the most (tariffs as sales taxes are regressive).

Going against "business as usual" resulted in higher prices, as predicted and promised.

Nearly everyone here benefited from lower prices afforded by reduced trade barriers. This isn't some obscure hidden fact.

Before engaging, let's get this settled: do you believe that the US economy operates on a zero sum basis?

The coin is to decide which terrible person he is going to listen to. And his weirdo followers love him for it.

Google shopping is a great tool to use when you don't care if the items are truly in stock or are sold at the price listed.

It is 100% impossible to secure the system and its use sufficiently to provide reasonable privacy for the public.

An error no frontier LLM would make, eh

I'm ok with Google having that information. Where is the checkbox to enable including useful details in emails?

The fact is that Amazon has at least two customers here: you, the user trying to find an item to buy, and advertisers, likely trying to convince you to buy a lower quality product. Who wins? I'm guessing the advertiser. They are far more likely to have a sales contact, anyway.

Are all of those specialists "in-network"? Have you tried contacting them to see if they truly have availability? It's common for providers (or the insurance carrier), at least in my area, to claim they take new patients when in fact they do not.

(For those not in the know, out of network means costs to the patient are much higher).

I figure if they can't make a functioning website, the odds they can make an app are basically zero.

TIL the prompt cache lasts 1 hour. I thought it was reduced to 5 minutes.

For the most part, the only people that see the grades are you, your parents, your teacher, and maybe your friends. Most of the world will just see a pass/fail result (degree or not), unless you also earn special awards.

By my recollection the devolution started around 30 years ago.

It looks like Radiate is an app-mandatory secondary ticket marketplace, I might be looking at the wrong Radiate though.

I assure you I am indeed uncool.

It's easy, you just need to hold your phone such that your eyes are pointed directly at the ads as they scroll up and down the screen. Thank you for consuming content.

And recording your voice for fine tuning models they could then use to trick your friends/family/banks.

If this were true, far right mainstream media (eg Newsmax, NY Post) would not have the viewership and readership they enjoy.

In any case, few people here (and in general, IME) are suggesting that Nazis should have no platform whatsoever, only that we shouldn't choose to associate ourselves with those platforms -- especially when there are so many perfectly viable alternatives that don't occasionally promote Nazis to your readers.

The last few times I tried to go bowling I was turned away because I was the wrong kind of customer. I didn't know when my kind was allowed (it wasn't on the outdoor signs). Layer I learned the right times but they were all weirdly inconvenient.

They'd even delete chats. You'd see, in comments, someone inviting the author to chat, but the link would (in the present) take you to a 404 page. Did the question get an answer? Did chat ever work? Was something useful shared? We'll never know.

It's recently replaced "honest" with "straight". "Belt-and-suspenders" is still common, I don't know when they'll replace it.

I had Claude make a world cloud from its responses because I was curious to see how big "honest" would be. It barely showed up, so I asked it to just give me the counts and it responded telling me it was trained not to use the word "honest" much because it makes people distrust responses (in addition to showing me the counts).

I wish humans that make up "facts" would admit to it as readily as LLMs do. Even though I know it's just a training trick to ground the response.

Whichever one you are more likely to do with friends and family, I'd say. IME that's TV because we're experiencing the same thing.

If you're alone, it's probably a wash.

And what of passengers?

I'm pretty sure some agent harnesses read both files when present, so this @ "aliasing" is more token efficient.

I wonder if they've deployed Mythos' pen testing against Persona?

If it gives them a leg up, sure, why not?

In person ID requirements all rely on punishing merchants if a minor fools them with a fake ID which aligns the incentives pretty well. It's hard to imagine how that would work online. Do you go to jail/pay thousands of dollars if someone hands their phone to their kid while logged in to Facebook or Google? You would if you sold beer to a kid who was given their parent's wallet.

Without an enforcement mechanism that punishes site owners the whole system fails. And you can't reasonably expect site owners to be responsible for checking ID on every request. So, it's (practically) impossible.

> And I don't really understand the issue people have with social media and ID. You're already required to link your phone which is a massive invasion of privacy

Yep, and we* lost that argument and "think of the children" hysteria won.

* I would bet the same folks opposed to ID requirements now were opposed to phone number then

> How do adults declare themselves as adults without teenagers claiming to be adults also?

It's pretty much impossible, so we should stop trying. It's exhausting seeing politicians et al continue to push for age verification despite it being impossible to be even remotely effective. (I hedge because technically we could demand photo ID for every HTTP request, I guess, but I don't think that's ever going to happen.)

The best we can do is ask parents to raise their children themselves and teach children to be mindful online (as we expect them to be IRL).