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The reason we learn calculus in high school is because it is foundational for many advanced STEM fields, and we will yield better results during university for the small percentage of students who go into those fields by forcing everyone to learn it in high school. Or, moreso, that's a viable justification for learning it today. Had history taken a different shape maybe we would learn something else, or maybe not. But the point is that calculus is not an arbitrary hard thing we learn for arbitrary reasons.
There are 3 stages:
You are small: Stripe and the like work best because they are easy to set up and your small payments are low risk
Your are medium sized: You start to hit restrictions with these services but can not get any real support. You should work with a small indie processor.
You are big: You can get support (probably) so going with the big powerful solutions starts to make more sense again.
I think I agree more than not with your worldview, but it seems like in this case this was the first time the person tried to improperly use the system... and he was caught and is now being sentenced. So I would say this is an example of the system "working".
I'm sure there are civil rights abuses that happen much more frequently, which we don't here about, but this specific incident seems like something that should be cheered.
Certainty it would be easier to set up an API for a given model than providing what RDS does, to borrow from your example.
This is the flaw in your logic. If the weights are freely available, they can not be sold for much value. That will in turn mean there is no "another OpenAI", because the core product, AI, will basically be freely available.
It also seems inevitable that such sites, will exist. Can you really blame Glassdoor here? Are they supposed to do a thorough investigation for every review? At least it gives some sort of weak signal about the place.
we've come full circle
Sometimes taking the simple view is correct: It's a bad thing to prevent sites from linking to one another. It's a bad thing to interfere with the ability to access information on the Internet for reasons of nationalist politics.
For example, is being able to write the basic SQL query enough, or do you need to know what the difference between a hash join and nested loop is?
Without a pretty deep understanding, I think it can be hard to pick out faults with the ORM, and there is always the chance the ORM might avoid making a mistake you do yourself.
Forging an "ever purer, ever bolder warriorhood"?
I would have to say I agree with the author on that one, that is blather. WW1 was horrific. Different people, of course, responded to the trauma in different ways, but there was nothing "pure" or "chivalrous" about the militarism fostered during and after the war.
I could see it being interesting if it's just games you can run completely in the client you can publish, where you can collect revenue through ads like a YouTube video.