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A source from the linked article: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/685594

> “Pass-through” businesses like partnerships and S-corporations now generate over half of US business income and account for much of the post-1980 rise in the top-1% income share.

I tried it with Gemini, and essentially the answer translated back to English is that "free will is just a carbon-based algorithm."

I've returned clothes on Amazon and they told me just to keep it. I assume that's the equivalent of them just sending it to landfill. At least I can donate it to a local charity.

Also Zappos was clearly founded on the idea of ordering 3 pairs of shoes and keeping the one that fits. They say the returns go back for sale unless used and then go to charity/reuse, but happy to see other sources you have. I think a lot of that Zappos dna went into Amazon's policies.

Works great on my iPhone 13.

All companies with LOTR names are war profiteers right?

If you further type "its an NBA meme", Google AI correctly responds: "The origin of the phrase "Dario is never coming over" dates back to a classic Joel Embiid meme from the peak "Trust the Process" era of the Philadelphia 76ers."

97% score on Charity Navigator.

https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/453236734

Reagan and Gorbachev came within inches of abolishing nuclear weapons, but the sticking point was the US would not back away from building space weapons. As long as warmongers are in control we will continue to live in danger and fear.

What's "obvious" is she was chief ethicist at the most unethical companies on the planet - it's like being a lawyer for the mafia - doesn't inspire longevity, either via scapegoating or preservation of one's own sanity.

Exactly, imagine the huge sums of liability insurance Google is carrying to make payouts when the worst-case scenario happens. That financial burden is a prime driver of their operational safety record.

Mostly I found it odd to open with a comparison of hobbit to human ages when it's well known that hobbits can live to 130.

"best not to blame the students"

There are dozens for every one who didn't get the opportunity to attend an Ivy. The penalty for cheating should be automatic expulsion. I'll note as a hiring manager the college degree won't be worth shit unless the school can show their students have any integrity.

"Blindly trusting" is not the same as "learning some new questions to ask about the validity of the given claims". The Midjourney announcement is not providing detailed medical credentials either.

> never been so much backlash against data centers

Backlash against the proliferation of space junk still has plenty of room to grow.

> explain the thesis

It's all laid out in this insufferable a16z piece if you can see past the ego-stroking.

https://www.a16z.news/p/spacex-and-the-sentient-sun

Tried this? defaults write com.apple.dock expose-animation-duration -float 0.05; killall Dock

Original Singapore results from Debug in 2019 - "greater than 90% reduction in release areas":

https://blog.debug.com/2019/11/singapore-collaboration-achie...

Well, making throw-away things you never use could also be the definition of a hobby ... and hobbies are arguably good, and differ from "work" in that your goal is not to ship a product, but to scratch an itch. For some people AI assisted vibe coding scratches an itch. For others, not. Of course some hobbies turn into an unhealthy obsession, but that's not a new phenomenon.

I used to drive a 2001 S-class ... easily counted nearly 100 physical buttons within reach of the driver. In theory you could use the 10-digit keypad like an old flip phone to enter a physical address into the navigation, but is that really what people want to go back to?

I've definitely worked places where I used the company Xerox machine to print up 50,000 "Unionize Now" fliers.

Yep, I've co-founded several companies and sold them for near $1B in aggregate. My investors and customers are on there, sometimes posting nice things about us. So I give it a thumbs-up and move on. Nothing worth rage-bating about. Mostly I go there to play linkedin.com/games.

See also Asimov's The Last Question

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question

I have been to Rome and Taipei and Johannesburg, and crossing the road is terrifying lots of places.

Would love to enumerate those commonalities. Run by a psychopath? Commitment to violent lethality? Burning billions of dollars for uncertain goals? (ok there's one)

Here's the extracted text https://pastebin.com/LS2LpLZ7

The old argument for being locked in to legacy software costing 6-8 figures a year was that you had no choice. Now you have a choice! Clearly that is better, and everyone should evaluate that choice on its merits, and the stock market sees that people are voting with their dollars. If your whole sales pitch is "good luck when it breaks!" you might want to reevaluate your business model.

Blatant AI author. Here's a better article by humans. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1evvx89559o

Sounds like it's not unheard of in the UK: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/comments/1fabd0c/how_does_you...

I have more confidence that if I reply "never contact me again" to AI it might actually obey, unlike any people that have spammed me.