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US can decide to go on a useless 2 trillions USD war. It can find budget for a trillion dollar of tax cuts.

US HAS decided to lose leadership on ecology. HAS decided to underfund fusion and renewables research.

And will still peak its CO2 per capita at a much lower level than US is right now.

The whole point of running such a stand is to get high quality data from players and make the AI learn from them.

You don't 'patch' a reinforcement learning model, you just give it data to train on.

My well-being, expectedly, increased when I stopped caring more about my projects than my clients did. What I was not expecting is that my quality of work remained constant or even improved while I was working fewer hours a day.

Let's not dismiss a more humane explanation: if you know someone likes to wear fantasy shirts, every birthday present is easy to choose!

In some countries like France they will have to comply with the local laws that restrict strongly non-anonymous listing of persons and basically bans some criterion like race or religion (bad memories from WWII). I suspect their algorithms can't offer the guarantees asked by the law for personal data.

Don't forget text plotting, that's the hard part. The technical challenge is not huge, but the amount of small and "easy" features a good plotting lib needs is huge.

Microsoft sucks at many things. Naming things in a descriptive way is one of them.

Alexandra Elbakyan is a perfect example of someone who deserves a presidential pardon.

No, investments typically feed growth, not normal operations, which are funded by clients, ergo the demand-side.

I wonder if we are not overestimating the value of tracking and underestimating the value that Google brings by forcing some "quality advertisement" from their clients.

For people wondering if the version number means something about compatibility with Python 3, it does not: they claim compatibility with Python 3.8.8

The shortages seem to be caused by hiccups in the cupply-chains bottlenecks that have a hard time to adjust to the slowdown and recovery of the economy. It is not caused by a unusually high demand, but compared to its depressed self six month ago, it is comparatively high.

Interest rates are still very low. There is still a strong case to argue that the demand is lagging.

Yes, typically as investment, that feed the supply side.

It removes it from the demand side of the economy, which, in period of low interests, is the part you want to boost.

French here who just defaults to American English on most devices: I never realized that you could have American English with sane unit and date defaults with EN-CA. Will probably use that from now on!

The reason why Google is not accused of hosting copyrighted content is because they somehow managed to sell the fiction that streaming and download are two totally different things. The slightest touch can make that fiction dissipate.

Thanks!

How so?

The policies are directly caused by the laws. If google does not react swiftly, it is considered guilty of copyright infringement. Remove the laws, the policies are instantly removes as well.

> Ok. that's the way Google thinks is the way it should work. Or maybe they just recognize that their AI is causing more harm than good.

Let's be clear. It is not Google that wants it. Actually Google is on the side of calling all of this retarded. It is the state of copyright laws, of the DMCA, of the lobbying by the RIAA. The day the whole copyright ecosystem is updated to accept that computers exist and that people share files on internet easily, Youtube will be VERY happy to unplug all these terrible bots that are there to provide a bad solution to a problem we should not have.

Yeah, god forbids that a company may actually want to genuinely address an ethical problem, amirirte?

> A stalker, not stupid and well-aware about the protection, visits iFixit for a picture of internals, takes a drill, and physically obliterates the buzzer, right through the case. Epoxy or superglue for protection from the elements.

You eliminate 95% of the potential stalkers. It is hard to remember that for most consumers the idea of drilling into a thing made of Apple black magic is a foreign idea.

I agree but let's continue with that story. Let's remember that the beginning of the story was the labor shortage. So not enough people to serve in all restaurants at a competitive price.

Let's suppose some restaurants decide to raise prices. Customers decide to go to a place that's cheaper but... it is packed. Shortage, remember? Free market dictates that higher demand than supply makes the prices go up.

If client CAN go to a cheaper venue then we are not in a position of shortage.

In the end, look at places like Scandinavian countries: salaries are high and going to the restaurant is very expensive. When you think about it, being served by humans is actually a luxury and as global wealth progresses, this should become less and less common.

I really hope that the future of restaurants is either fully automated fast foods or high end luxury restaurants that people work out of passion, and that you can afford maybe oncee every months.

I wonder if ex-googler is not more prestigious than "googler" actually

> Extremely high profit margins (>55%) could trigger a negative reaction, although this was not tested. Likewise, suspiciously low margins (e.g. negative or very low) could negatively impact the effect of trust that drives increased sales.

> Over the following 10 years, these inventions saved 4 million lives and saved 15 million days of lost work/school.

I have a more pessimistic view on that. It means that it took 4 millions death to realize that we could use resources to save millions of preventable deaths if only we invested a bit more in R&D.

Eradicating diseases is not technologically hard, but it requires budget. I wish as a society we would find it more commendable to invest in the obviously good endeavor of saving lives.

If you read it, I have a question: I read two times already the (unsourced) assertion that the renewal of a court system in western europe was due to the crusades. The caliphate had a tribunal system that the crusaders imported back. Is it grounded in truth?

Ah but duels are a different matter, they obey codes and rules and require mutual consent. Last duel in France was in 1958 actually.

I was surprised to read, a few days ago, that until late in the middle age (12th century if I recall correctly), waging personal wars, vendetta, revenges were seen as normal business. It took the Holy Roman Emperor to install courts of justice and force people to go through there and still took generations to drill in the idea that "He looked at my daughter in a lewd way so I put an arrow in his eye" was not a way to do things.