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is it though?

the person riding transit benefits themselves, and their landlord, and the people driving.

they also benefit their workplace, by both working there, and not having to store a car there, and then anywhere they spend money at their destination, or the transit stops they used.

the value of the transit line is all over the place

declining services here would mean that transit station stops gwtting service though, decreasing your property value

typically people want to live nearby transit stations because it means you can get places cheaply.

the property value goes up because of increased demand for it

if they are, the equivalent effort of analysis done on public transit also doesnt show it.

instead you need to find the overall economic benefit and related government revenues from each transit trip, not just the cost of the trip alone

canada has raw uranium. russia runs the centrifuges, im pretty sure on canadian uranium, too

has fossil fuels been profitable? or just had most of the costs externalized? same with solar and wind - the negatives have been written off as free, whereas the environmentalists from russia have pushed to make sure that nuclear has every possible cost counted against it

why is profit the right descriptor?

wouldnt you instead count the net benefits to the whole economy from having that cheap and plentiful electricity?

UK is under russian attack. same with canada, germany, sweden, etc.

you can see from russia's response to losing starlink, that the answer is sending people out to die bringing a radio repeater to put into a tree

shipped anything? or shipped your order in particular?

based on the messge, Id guess they used some form of amazon fulfillment tool where maybe its also a third party fulfillment network that amazon sells, and said fulfiller screwed up royally? or it was fba and amazon itself screwed up?

in a typical situation said seller would be banned for misconduct, so theres almost guaranteed to be something special going on?

maybe they're ukranian and their fulfilment center was recently bombed out? Usually amazon would still take on the bad debt to make customers whole though.

(I used to work on the seller banhammer, opinions my own)

the other part about canada is that quebec didnt sign on to the canadian constitution, so its only the quebec charter, which is a law like any other

... right wing freedom of speech is defined with a simple rule.

you're allowed to say anything you want as long as bari weiss determines that you are sufficiently zionist and wont say anything that isnt zionist enough

I dont think countries build military bases for the explicit purpose of a drunk american talk show host to drop 3 bombs in a row on it to make sure the firefighters and EMS all die trying to save children

its clearly a democratically approved legal act though. If its as evil as you suggest, the better approach would be to convince your peers that its evil and thus should be made illegal

what makes ai special here? a person following an SOP that involves polling an incomplete dataset will have the same 2-3 months in jail

more code faster is competing against some of the largest tax hikes of the last ~70 years, economic uncertainty on what the taxes tomorrow will look like, combined with an energy crisis.

whats the large hits that have happened in the past couple years?

I think ai has raised the floor quite heavily on what it takes to be a large hit.

all those vibecoded pushes are people building bits and bobs and variations on each other, instead of buying it or using a common service. If it could be done by ai, it will be written off as unimportant.

the userbase of the future is 1, maybe 10

incentives are not aligned to improving products.

the important thing to microsoft is still finding new ways to make money, not to make your clicks faster. they might even be using their new velocity to make clicks slower with an ad in between.

there's alao much less incentive to build things to share. people can just make their own widget app and not need yours

i just have the claude scheduled job kinda tool running, but at the grocery store i can spot something and think of a meal, then ask claude if any nearby grocery stores have other key elements to the meal on sale.

its pretty handy.

i was trying to get a nice setup for finding what shows are happening around me, but theres just too much stuff, and im not having a good hook time for when i check

Nike here would have also bought adidas and new balance and vans and toms, such that most stores only sell Nike monopolized brands

watching nothing and going outside or barefoot is the real alternative

they were suggesting that you take the agent out of the run time tool usage

Im really not seeing the comparison.

nfts were about trying to make inherently not scare things scarce, and to try to get people involved in a ponzi scheme

the oil being drilled and mined is exceptionally useful, and people buy it even when you dont need to go to war or get weapons. War would still be happening in the middle east without oil, its a key trade route between Europe and Asia.

the oil dependence exists because it lets people get work and labour done without hiring labourers.

if you put up 1GW of solar panels, you will definitely get rich off of that, and whenever people start building giant solar farms in borth africa, we will see armed militas conquering each other for control over the profits

if the recyclers really think the aluminum in that can is valuable, theyll fush it out if the garbage or the dump to get it.

putting that sorting and disposal on end customers was a business way of offloading their making single use trash problems on somebody else.

point any blame for cans in the trash where it belongs - can makers

you should indeed be able to, but maybe buying art shouldn't be allowed at all, with people only being allowed digital recreations.

why do you need more than a picture of the rembrandt? there's so much good artwork easily available that the rembrandt is only worth money because hoity toity people want to store their money in it and in the future sell it again

fold kinda does too, for setting the first combined value that you are assembling, and thus on an empty list you end up with that wrong value, same as the for loop

> I'm sure everyone would love non-technical people to stay behind dozens of security patches for apps they may use everyday because they forgot to press update.

this is identifying the tension yeah, but if a review process regularly takes weeks or months, then the security patches are still missing

defining the workflow such that the operation is a set of relevant questions

im not seeing it.

youd ask it to pick a location on the ast to add something from the grammar?

i dont see how this stays confined well enough? make a new output space every time? does that end up auto-regressive?

id say yes. a linear classifier that classifies between red and yellow balls will hallucinate on blue.

linear regressions hallucinate in the simpson's paradox.

the model output can be quite confident and not representative of reality

if it puts a high confidence value on a wrong answer, thats still hallucinating, no?

llm hallucinations are high probability tokens that are incorrect vs the real world

if you hold people liable, then they will want liability insurance.

what's the point of liability insurance if youll never be held liable?