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Apparent it's working again as of the evening of Oct 24th

I agree it's probably more a Trump+Putin thing.

A lot of the war developments have been unexpected and would have been difficult to plan for. I mean

1 - Putin was thinking of invading. I thought US/Biden would say no or well attack you but it was more I'd prefer you didn't but won't do anything so invasion.

2 - People thought Ukraine would collapse but no

3 - Tanks and artillery - people thought that would be the thing but no

4 - Drones render tanks almost useless

5 - Starlink becomes a thing on naval drones. Also not expected

6 - Become used on things like the Hornet AI drone made by Eric Schmidt - not expected

7 - Musk/Trump recent flip not wholly expected

And many more

Hobbling starlink, dropping Russian oil sanctions, blocking patriot delivery etc. isn't rhetoric.

Yeah but as a European those things are livable with FB/Google/Amazon/Boeing all provided decent service if annoying at times.

But siding with Russia invading Europe is a different category.

I think what happened is Merc and VW wanted to sell into China. Part of the deal was they had to build factories in China and allow Chinese imports the other direction. It was very profitable for a while but is now causing issues.

Come Democrat control of the house in a couple of week, subpoenas are going to be flying.

Most of the regulations in question are not safety. More stuff like not being able to fire people.

Not really.

China mostly. They got undercut.

>Strictly speaking, according to the Constitution, we aren’t officially at war because only Congress has the power to declare war. https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/i...

He's following Putin I think, it's a special military thingy.

I used to use a Thuraya phone and those are fairly small and light and use geostationary. Not much bandwidth though.

I think working but in a more voluntary manner as the robots will probably be capable. But people like having something to do.

He seems to be a big fan of Putin so he'll probably swap places and be VP to someone.

I think one of the good things from AI research will be to better understand how brains are wired up in both us and birds.

I'm not sure about the 100% terrible bit as I presume they'll try diagnosing as well and then check with what the robot says and maybe learn from it.

With the meaning that Feynman meant it was true then and now. From QED:

>The next reason that you might think you do not understand what I am telling you is, while I am describing to you how Nature works, you won't understand why Nature works that way. But you see, nobody understands that. I can't explain why Nature behaves in this peculiar way.

We understand part of it but not how it works.

The Americans seem kind of ok with that? Surprises me as a non American.

I mean it was pretty obvious he was in with Russia whereas Rubio seemed quite decent. Why did the republicans choose the asset?

Musk has largely delegated the decisions to the US government which I guess could force things if needed.

It's true there's a difference between Ukraine's people and elites but it skips the larger issue of this being a war of choice by Russia that could stop tomorrow if Putin chose.

I think hobbling Starlink is the wrong direction - they should increase access to let Ukraine take out missile launchers in Russia.

Or Oceania if it wants to get ahead of the curve.

I'd thought it was all nonsense but there is actually a Times article with two named smokers:

>Avi Schiffmann, a 23-year-old AI founder living in San Francisco’s Bay Area, is among those embracing tobacco at a time when the habit has largely gone out of fashion among health-conscious young Americans... Schiffman runs Friend, a startup that has created a $249 pendant that functions as a wearable companion to cure loneliness.

and

>Stephen Campbell, 27, the co-founder of Revamp AI, said smoking had become a networking opportunity for young entrepreneurs who, until now, had rarely left their desks.

and

>Another San Francisco tech worker said: “My very strong belief is that AI is going to solve a lot of human healthcare issues and that we will see cancer cured over the next 20 years through an AI-powered breakthrough. This gives me no incentive to quit.”

Seems more twenty something founders who think it's cool rather than Anthropic guys.

I think it could work quite well if you don't get over ambitious with it. Claude with a publicly available prompt to follow a sensible publicly available and voted on might do better than the orange wonder.

So that's two reasons to take up smoking.

Thanks. Not seen it before.

Seems these days after the likes of Jan 6th rather than get mad the dems ignore it for 3 years and the voters reelect.

I think saying /active is the real front page was different. I didn't know it existed. I tend to use https://hn.algolia.com/?q=&query=&sort=byPopularity&prefix&p... myself.

I've been to a lot of countries and it was mostly trivial. China was tricky although I see on the web now you get round the great firewall just by using a foreign esim. I think places like China put in a lot of effort.

Because the models aren't so good yet?

When they've tried to get one to run a vending machine it seems to end in a mess usually.

They've tended to be gullible for one thing. People can say this is an emergency, transfer all the money to my account or WW3 will start and everyone dies and the models are not so good at calling out bs.

For most practical cases a vpn is enough. I use the free service with VeePN's Chrome extension and that does most things. They nag you to upgrade to paid every now and then. I think there's also a free one in Firefox now.