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Don't forget that one. All the rights, none of the responsibility.
Why not go all the way and have markets running 24/7/365?
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Looks like what the country actually wants is authoritarianism, so maybe he was just the right politician in the wrong country.
The UK is trialling noise pollution cameras that mail fines to your home, same as for speeding. It's an externality whose days are numbered.
I've given up and am honest with myself about how many human relationships are transient and not worth holding onto.
From that perspective, he's at least acting consistently, and has been rewarded over his lifetime for it.
Punch people/organisations/nations in the mouth repeatedly until they beg for mercy, then keep pounding them until they forfeit their dignity and pledge allegiance.
Everyone, everywhere, all the time. The weaker the better. Until stopped.
Solving business problems using bespoke software solutions surely is the absolute most expensive option on the table, and should be aggressively avoided unless no other options are available, AND the problem is in a domain which is a core competency and market differentiator for your business.
The process of figuring out what your company needs, and how best to solve that problem long term, is dramatically more valuable to a business than software/technology implementation.
They are tools to enable the wills of specific human beings, so the comparison seems fair?
It also includes context about ongoing emergency EU security meetings and the Trump administration.
No single market, no freedom of movement, unfortunately.
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...
He's a super fan of what Putin's achieved in Russia, president for life, absolute control of the political machine for personal gain, and respects his version of the how the world works above all.
For those who aren't familiar https://observablehq.com/@mbostock
I'd say many of the moves towards autocracy in the west are pointing in that direction, for better or worse.
After reading about o3's performance on ARC-AGI, I strongly suspect people will not be so flippantly dismissive of the inherent limits of these technologies by this time next year. I'm genuinely surprised at how myopic HN commentary is on this topic in general. Maybe because the implications are almost unthinkably profound.
Anyway, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and everyone else are well aware of these types of criticisms, and are making significant, measurable progress towards architecturally solving the deficiencies.