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ASML is the only real tech company in the EU. Just let them have this one :)

oh dear

Everyone knows it's possible for a statement to be correct and vile at the same time

I really need to spend some time thinking about this one. If something is correct, I don't tend to continue analyzing it further to look for reasons to be angry.

You'd prefer to live in a world where labor is free and we don't need to work for anything? I like the current world better.

ok but is it correct or incorrect?

gemma4 is the same price as 2.5-flash-lite, and performs better.

remember "kubernetes" ?

For all the privacy and competence issues, if it helps cops solve crimes while sitting on their asses, it's going to win.

There are entire buildings full of people in the US and China who sit and think about national strategy for their entire career.

It's not 3D chess, it's geopolitics 101. There is pretty simple logic to why a leader might think you could kill 2 birds with one stone here.

Anybody who's ever looked at a map can see that Iran surrounds a strategic chokepoint for the world's most important natural resource.

what's performance like compared to python ftfy module?

Are you saying if someone gives you something for free, it's immoral if they don't continue giving it to you for free forever?

The children's book "if you give a mouse a cookie" was about exactly this phenomenon

No you're confusing where agency lies.

The Nasdaq 100 is just a fund. Its existence doesn't force you or anyone else to do anything.

People can choose to buy stocks, and people can choose to buy the Nasdaq 100. Or not. Nobody is making you.

Contrary to (apparently) popular opinion, index funds are not people.

So, who is being forced to buy that index?

And who is forced to buy QQQ?

Contrary to (apparently) popular opinion, index funds are not people.

ok, who is forced to buy these ETFs?

These are all products that people and funds can choose to buy or not buy.

but they did. they already got their money. it's the investors who are going to take a bath, not spacex

ok but who is forced to buy the nasdaq 100?

I'm working on a nationwide US parcel dataset: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/landrecordsus/us-parcel-laye....

It's mostly "public" data, but incumbent data vendors charge $90k+ for this data because it has to be acquired and aggregated from 3200+ US counties. This is a lot of work if you aren't using LLMs and agents to do much of the work for you.

I'm trying to make quality parcel data more accessible to everyone.

This is cute reductio ad absurdum, but it does nothing to refute the basic point made

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Chomsky is a perfect example of an academic that should never have strayed outside the academy. Everything he's done outside of his narrow field of linguistics has been an embarrassment.

can you point to this law please? I can find news articles referencing that something may or may not happen but I can't find that this actually went into practice

the fact that the text literally

processing the light that shines on CCD sensor doesn't automatically mean

and I'm the one being pedantic. ok bro. There's a thing called common sense, thinking for yourself, using your own brain to perform inference. Try it some time.

GDPR doesn't protect privacy of data, it regulates how any collected data is stored and used and requires consent of the person.

As a US-based developer, all it does is make it more irritating to build anything that europeans might use because I have to gather consent 100 times. Nothing else changes about the system, you just decide whether to use it or not -- which, by the way, is already a feature of all software right out of the box. So GDPR achieves nothing except annoying all developers and users everywhere.

Now they can simply write consent into the purchase agreement for a new vehicle. No consent = no purchase. It's really simple.

and what sensor do you propose using to make sure people appear awake and alert? a magic device that can evaluate posture, demeanor, facial expression, wakefulness, etc but somehow definitely is not a camera?

yes you've read the text accurately, now it's time to use your brain and consider what it means.

Once the camera is there, the temptation for future governments to use this power for more things than originally required will become irresistible.

also: https://www.google.com/search?q=what+does+slippery+slope+mea...

It's so incredible the difference in mindset across the Atlantic.

In the US, it is MY job and no one else's to make sure I don't fall asleep driving my own car. In the same way it's my job to make sure I don't leave my stove on and burn down the apartment building. Should we also install cameras on every stove in every apartment?

If the US government tried to force-install cameras into our cars to watch us, there'd be a revolution.

This is what we call a slippery slope