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They don't share chats with others unless you click the "Share" button to share the chats.

They are private by default. It's basically the same as every other AI chat app.

Government Publishing Office and Library of Congress provides XML formatted bills and all their amendments and a feed of all changes to every bill.

Oh and on the topic of party politics, Bill Clinton was the one who had them put things online in the first place with the GPO Electronic Information Access Enhancement Act, and Barack Obama and the Democrats expanded it via American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 - not the do-nothing Republicans.

Mozilla: Stop lying. Now.

As if we needed another reason to hate NYT and their paywall...

It was cut because tax preparing companies pay the politicians to cut it.

In my experience the paper forms are so much easier and more reliable than using tax software. A pen and a form just works. No account logins and passwords, no janky UI, no advertisements, no issues saving your progress... The instructions are much better too. Each box is numbered and there's an instruction manual detailing what to put in that box. If you make mistakes the IRS will simply correct you.

I think machine code and building something like a Forth is way easier to understand than any contemporary programming language toolchain.

Somewhat related: What is with the rampant cursing nowadays? In the US people are openly saying f-word in professional settings, in public to strangers or acquaintances, in writing and video... seemingly everywhere even in calm normal conversations.

I don't remember it being like this decades ago. Is it just me? I remember people used to curse only in private conversation, when angry, and never at the office in meetings and professional contexts.

Recall.ai is exactly this. Using them at my current company and it works well. It even supports live transcription.

How else are product managers and designers supposed to justify their existence?

Not Congress - Republicans, who have a congressional majority.

They’re hired through outsourcing firms. The company pays the outsourcing firm as a subcontractor. It’s quite common, even amongst the Silicon Valley startups I work with.

My experience is that outsourcing has only accelerated since Covid made remote work commonplace. It never used to be a thing amongst trendy startups.

Yes it’s broken. The solution is and has always been a comprehensive single-payer system combined with price controls.

Roosevelt tried to do it almost a century ago in 1935, but the moron greedy traitor racist fascist conservatives blocked it.

I think so. Though the premise of MCP betrays that AI isn't human-level intelligent. If it was there would be no need for a standard interface. It would be able to read API docs, navigate UIs to generate the proper keys, enter in billing info, and use all of that to make API requests by trial and error. That's what humans do.

Not understanding that businesses don't want open data or open protocols. Internet businesses want to monopolize information and charge rent for it. Capitalists don't want to commodify software, as that means lower profits and competition. They want to monopolize it. That's the whole game, except for companies selling physical goods over the Internet.

Cool. Though I see a job with Ghost listed under co-ops but the Ghost Foundation is not employee owned or a cooperative.

When a collection of such propositions is stored in a computer system, we call it a database.

Is it? A database is a place data is stored and retrieved. It is literally a data base. No more, no less. Whether it logically models a domain may be completely irrelevant to store and retrieve data.

I would argue that a database should not logically model a domain. Why? Because every database must store and retrieve data. Therefore data should be modeled to store and retrieve data as efficiently as possible. And the structure that most efficiently stores and retrieves data most likely does not logically model a domain.

As it is now, wood pulp and waste products are recycled into plywood and wood composites by binding them with glues and resins. This process allows us to take the wood pulp and produce wood beams and boards without using the glues and resins. With the added benefit that it's even stronger than existing wood composites.

If I understand correctly this process enables recycling wood pulp and waste with less inputs and less environment impact.

Trees are still farmed for the wood. This is only a method for processing the wood into a stronger material.

2-3 a week? I’m jealous. I’m just a programmer (or “IC senior software engineer” in corpo-speak) and I have 2-3 per day. Most days I only have about 3-4 hours after lunch to get any work done.

Government? Republicans. Republicans are the ones fighting against government funded research. Let’s put blame where blame belongs.

What's the advantage to a trike? Heavier load? Two wheels is less parts, less maintenance, and most importantly better maneuverability.

and it mostly sucked

Citation needed. If you're referring to the USSR, please pick an economic measure that you think would have been better, and show why the calculation problem was the cause of its deficiency. USSR was incredibly successful economically, whether it was GDP growth, technological advancement, labor productivity, raw output, etc. Keep in mind all of this occurred under extremely adverse conditions of war and political strife, and starting with an uneducated agrarian population and basically no capital stock or industry.

The Austrian economist Hans-Hermann Hoppe writes of Hayek's calculation problem:

[T]his is surely an absurd thesis. First, if the centralized use of knowledge is the problem, then it is difficult to explain why there are families, clubs, and firms, or why they do not face the very same problems as socialism. Families and firms also involve central planning. The family head and the owner of the firm also make plans which bind the use other people can make of their private knowledge […] Every human organization, composed as it is of distinct individuals, constantly and unavoidably makes use of decentralized knowledge. In socialism, decentralized knowledge is utilized no less than in private firms or households. As in a firm, a central plan exists under socialism; and within the constraints of this plan, the socialist workers and the firm’s employees utilize their own decentralized knowledge of circumstances of time and place to implement and execute the plan […] within Hayek’s analytical framework, no difference between socialism and a private corporation exists. Hence, there can also be no more wrong with the former than with the latter.

Is financing your lunch a sign of societal decay? Maybe, maybe not.

Yes it absolutely is, and everyone involved is a piece of shit.

Whatever you think you need to have saved, know you probably need more. I quickly blew through my rainy-day funds.

Huh!? Forget canned food and go-bags. If you only have a few days worth of savings that is an emergency. I hope I’m misunderstanding what you mean by “rainy day funds”

What is “the left’s cultural position?”

Current membership of BRICS (BRICS+) is larger GDP than G7.

Either side!? Only the USA speaks of China as having no right to exist and attacks Chinese sovereignty openly at every opportunity.

The USA started the trade war, not China. US leadership and its propaganda news channels constantly speak of war with China. Not as a war to defend US territory but as a war to topple the Chinese government. The current defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, wrote in his book "American Crusade: Our Fight to Stay Free", that if Trump could return to the White House and Republicans could take power, "Communist China will fall—and lick its wounds for another two hundred years".

Hegseth said China “are literally the villains of our generation”, and warned, "If we don’t stand up to communist China now, we will be standing for the Chinese anthem someday".

BRICS is larger than G7 now by GDP and most of the world has deep trade relations with China.

US bluff is called. They can’t win a war with China, militarily or materially.

US wasted half a century and trillions on lost wars, instead of investing in its citizens. China did the opposite. And those fruits are just beginning to ripen.

Considering the constitution only enumerates the power of naturalization (NOT residency) to Federal government, there is no clear power granted to Feds for things like residency visas.

Controlling the border from foreign enemies is a far cry from the Federal government asserting the right to determine who gets to simply live and work within the states.

The Supreme Court makes a mockery of 10th amendment on so many issues, whether it's drugs, healthcare, immigration, gun control...

I want "sanctuary cities" because the whole idea of "illegal" people is tyrannical and inhumane.