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Could easily change the rules so real humans get government insurance, but companies do not.

And perhaps have the insurance pay out only once per year per person too, so that when multiple bank failures happen at once there is not much benefit to splitting funds.

i think Google would see more success if they kept the CEO and everyone at the bottom (ie. doesn't manage anyone), and fired everyone else.

Build a whole new management tree - the current people all do a terrible job.

Utility scale power price varies widely by location and exact time of day.

LLM's aren't very latency sensitive and can therefore move to wherever power is cheapest.

Right now that's places next to aluminium smelters (which also like very cheap electricity 90+% of the time).

If there was a reliable profit to be made, a third party would do it.

I suspect the real profit is made by also being in a position to adjust laws and rules to make sure your investment survives, as well as turning low rated bonds effectively into government bonds. All those things are at the expense of others in the bigger picture.

Iceland let it's banks default, and is now doing rather well.

In fact, bank failure and then having the government only guarantee ~$50k of funds per person is a good way to hand wealth to the people and take it from corporations and the super wealthy.

Wouldn't work in a city like NYC where nobody knows their neighbours and a chunk of houses are empty and only owned by shady shell companies as investments...

Oh I've built the same too. But it took me a few hours to work out the quirks, when it should just be the default.

So I can expect an entirely-rust Linux kernel to be available next week then?

Frustratingly none of the coding harnesses seem to default to just firing up a docker container with the working directory mounted and letting the AI run wild inside the container.

I would prefer a 999 year login cookie.

A well designed browser stores the cookies with similar security to the built in password manager anyway

Microsoft could easily make a rulebook for drivers, and say any company which violates the rulebook can only send open source drivers, or even ban them from driver distribution entirely which would quickly kill a consumer hardware brand.

For this to work, your bed needs to be entirely flat.

A 0.1mm hump will ruin everything, even if it's okay for most 3d prints.

Hopefully they have a sandblaster mounted to the same train to clean the rails first, else they're gonna have to do this again every year...

There are already webcams which do this- but they use a mime trick for 'multipart/x-mixed-replace'.

That's basically the server telling the client 'That data I just sent you, well now replace it with this new thing'.

No JavaScript needed, and can work with plain http and jpeg

You can also deliberately have the server sending data at the right rate for the right playback time.

Easy enough to add a delay() each frame if your server is python/nodejs/PHP/whatever

You have to do it when the customer list is too big to keep a counter per customer.

Both Android Auto and Chromecast are great ideas, but so incredibly flakey.

The number of times I've heard someone say 'oh it's disconnected again' is extreme.

To be honest, some court ought to simply demand Google makes it reliable or refunds all money people paid for the phones as the product is not fit for purpose.

Insiders who have locked up stocks but still want to sell could presumably just short the stock and take out a loan secured on the stock to get the financial effects of selling, without actually selling...

I wonder if that's what's happening with ~$1T of stocks currently locked up...

Kinda impressive to not even require a page refresh.

Maybe they don't work weekends and turned it off early?

Considering that regular supermarket foodstuffs contain hundreds of thousands of substances, most having no effect, but some harmful and others helpful, and people eat different diets fairly randomly, we are already doing this experiment, we just aren't collecting the results.

This is going to mean that demonetization decisions will have to be fully automated, and not reviewed by a human at YouTube.

Fun times ahead!

I wanna see some combined treatment of drugs which have shown marginal effects in trials.

Eg. Combine the most promising 50 drugs, each at super low doses.

Low enough that side effects probably won't be bad, and if some prove entirely ineffective it doesn't matter.

But then, deliberately don't mix the ingredients precisely. Some people will get 10% more or less of each ingredient at random. Make precise records of this.

Now you have a natural experiment. Gradually increase dosage of elements that prove effective, and decrease ingredients which prove counterproductive - and you'll have a huge dataset with tens of millions of people wanting dementia treatment.

Probably not actually. Transferring one kilobyte across a network link has such a low value that the billing costs of aggregating it cost more than the revenue.

So instead you take a probabilistic approach - charge the user for a megabyte of data transfer 0.1% of the time, and bill nothing 99.9% of the time.

Now the typical cost is the same, the users bill is probably accurate to the cent, but you have divided the number of billing records by 1000.

Listening to two talkers at a time is certainly doable...

As is talking whilst listening to another conversation - eg. Giving a lecture whilst eves dropping on the people talking at the back of the lecture theatre.

However, having a two way conversation with one person whilst listening to another is really hard.

Not sure why.

How exactly does Microsoft link their gdid to a hotel booking?

Hotels last I saw don't collect an obscure gdid...

Did this victim use edge and sync their browser history or something perhaps?

I don't see a future in which those bondholders don't get paid back.

The company has plenty of revenue, and if needed can just turn off the r&d tap and become a boring company. Terrible for the shareholders obviously, but the bond holders will be fine.

This strikes me as a huge amount of custom code and technical debt. Every new software dev probably has to learn this.

Why not a sticky master election per user, and have no special data centers?

People were probably saying the same about the declining population of the dodo. "We'll all starve".

Yet the world goes on, and usually future people tend to not care so much about mistakes of the past.

I assume this is mostly to frustrate efforts to proxy large numbers of user requests and responses and use it to train competitor models.