aeternum

Cybercab? It's already been unveiled and will be start production in Q2.

Makes it even more impressive that Model Y is the best selling car worldwide. If you sell enough, I guess by definition you achieve mediocrity. You eventually become the average simply numerically.

Fred Lambert (Electrek founder) was pro-tesla and was using his site to get a huge number of referral credits. Then Tesla changed the rules on that referral program.

That's what triggered the beef. Fred sold all shares, took down all the pro-tesla articles, and posts nearly exclusively only negative tesla articles since.

Seems both parties were/are within legal rights, but it is clearly bias.

Perhaps humanoids or robodogs will be so cheap in the future that we can send a few to sit at the meeting and listen.

The real reporting now comes from individual creators often with a gopro or cellphone camera and a youtube/tiktok channel.

It's cheap to make, doesn't require state/institutional funding. It's also quite hard to buyout all the creators and thus at least slightly resilient against the usual attack vectors.

Isn't the whole idea of freedom of the press to act as a check to governmental power? With state-run media you tend to get lots of propaganda and little actual news.

Personally, I support a ban on public (taxpayer) funding of journalism. Keep it independent.

The answer is never to have government pay, obviously it then becomes biased as you point it.

If it doesn't justify a human salary then the right answer is usually to eliminate the need for a full salary with tech. Current LLM models do a sufficiently good job of meeting summarization and will only get better. Those could be published and even reviewed by human influencers for newsworthy bits.

We could start health insurance companies that monitor everyone's gait and how often they exercise vs eat fast food to adjust prices. Or credit monitoring companies that watch how often you attend the casino vs. work. Or boyfriend monitoring to check for cheaters.

Not to mention the targeted ad potential.

It's doubtful that there is currently a backdoor or anything that would fail an audit.

The problem is the software updates. Whoever controls those keys has an entire domestic fleet a single firmware update away. Probably won't even be DJI, but some either state or non-state hacker that happens to acquire the update keys.

Ah yes I'm sure it has nothing to do with the drones running closed proprietary software via OTA updates, with encrypted data connections back to China, while being outfitted with 8k cameras, gps, lidar, etc.

China has invested heavily in all forms of energy including coal and oil, not just green energy.

It's pretty biased to highlight only the increases in renewable energy.

It seems one should not always "trust the science"

In my experience, LLMs perform significantly better on readable maintainable code.

It's what they were trained on after-all.

However what they produce is often highly readable but not very maintainable due to the verbosity and obvious comments. This seems to pollute codebases over time and you see AI coding efficiency slowly decline.

All I'm saying is that if a society wants true equality, it cannot have property laws because some individuals will inevitably own more than others.

We must decide which is more important.

In the current age, can something be both unequal and good?

But property laws disproportionally benefit the rich.

The only problem with modern infrastructure projects is that the infrastructure doesn't actually get built. They have become welfare programs in disguise.

In the past the government would choose a competent industrialist to lead the construction such as Kaiser to build the Hoover Dam. Imagine the impossibility of appointing a billionaire industrialist to build CA high-speed rail in this age.

YouTube already slaps creators with demonetization for a wide array of topics and copyright strikes for minor sound clips.

They could easily require creators to label videos that have AI-generated video and also build detection tools themselves. Will they?

Sad.

And perhaps a controversial take but consider the counterfactual: Should it be illegal to fire employees that recent took mental health leave? Get a bad review or put on a PIP? It's already becoming a common strategy to immediately take mental health/sick leave.

Aren't farmers part of the agro-industry?

Yes but the fact it's primarily a Chinese export makes the profit as the cause narrative much less convincing. The US FDA is ignoring evidence to protect a Chinese supplier?

IMO the FDA should do a better job at helping the populace distinguish between these two:

1) Evidence for the null hypothesis (there are enough studies with sufficient statistical power to determine that product likely does not cause harm at a >95% CI).

2) There is no evidence that it is unsafe. (nor that it is safe).

The problem is #2 sounds a lot stronger and often better than #1 when put into English. There must be some easy to understand way to do it, IE an 'insufficient testing' vs. 'tested' label/website or something.

It's a Chinese company selling this stuff so being a commie doesn't save you.

The free spectrum granted to NPR and PBS represents a huge amount of gov funding. Spectrum is worth quite a lot, it should be auctioned and proceeds used to pay down the national debt.

If PBS and NPR had shows of the caliber of Mr. Rogers then perhaps a strong case could be made continuing that funding.

Instead they now focus on messages like this: https://x.com/NPR/status/1491520306036543496

Sell the spectrum and let them compete fairly in the marketplace of ideas. Half the country should not be forced to fund broadcasting they do not agree with.

Overeating now kills more people than hunger, it just flipped somewhat recently.

Very similar arguments were made for slavery. Giving up freedom for a promise of safety rarely the right choice.

While it is possible for the state to inflict violence, it's relatively difficult to scale. The state can freeze your USD accounts with the stroke of a key (as they did for Russian accounts recently). Whereas rounding up and torturing all those account-holders is just obviously infeasible.

>BSV seemed to scale just fine, and you could also store entire files on it, including JSON, HTML or even music or videos

This doesn't pass the sniff test. Everyone must store the full blockchain in order to verify it. So to run a full node you would have to store everyone's JSON, HTML, music, videos. Full mirroring for every node in a distributed system is about as close as you can get to the definition of doesn't scale.

They also confiscate those hard-to-copy tokens if you acquire a sufficiently large quantity and attempt to leave the country with them.

Wait until you learn how much of life is gambling + entertainment. Is working for one of the many SV SaaS companies really that much different?