It's kind of hard to take Kalshi out of this, since the whole premise for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's authority here is that Kalshi is a commodity futures trading exchange, not a gambling site.
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Of course there's a lot more to taking good pictures than the raw sensor, but what I'm saying is that the barrier to entry is way lower than it was in the article's day.
These days everybody can shoot unlimited high-res imagery for free with the phone in their pocket.
The problem with every comprehensive map I've seen is that they are way too comprehensive. If you look at Congo on https://www.openrailwaymap.org/, you might assume the country has a functional passenger railway network, when almost most lines shown were for bulk cargo only, fell into disrepair in the 1960s and certainly haven't had passenger services in decades if ever. Even for first world places like Australia there are tons of supposedly "main lines" listed that are nothing of the sort.
> The president suggested that the MMR vaccine could be "quite lethal" if given at once. He compared it to pouring a bottle of soda into a child's body.
Every time I think my opinion of Trump can't possibly get any worse, he finds a way to plumb new depths.
The IKEA copy, identical except that the circle is more of a triangle, costs $19: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/kyrre-stool-birch-60416925/
Both companies are very profitable, but I'm sure IKEA shifts a lot more units. And the Aalto stool is solid wood and will last forever, while the IKEA copy is probably laminated cardboard or something.
So what exactly is patentable here? Or is this the bone of contention here?
At the end of the day, you can only control your own car, not the environment it's in.
Currently you're just kind of twiddling your thumbs after you submit and run out of ideas.
It was also not immediately obvious to me that you can submit multiple words, so I was wasting time entering and deleting attempts before finally submitting the best one.
Finally, instead of fixed timers between rounds, you might want to have a "Ready!" or "Go!" button.
https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/retraction_app_store_reje...
How well these options work is another question, but "Fewer transfers" does seem to allow more walking. And of course you can straight up ask for walking directions instead.
For reference, a standard bunko paperback in Japan costs on the order of ¥600 (US$4), maybe 2-3x that if you splash out on the hardcover.
He is also rich beyond dreams of avarice and can do basically whatever he wants, but apparently he decided to go hack some more with his buddy Jeff. There's a famous New Yorker story about them: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship...
A data center is a big grey box that sits there humming quietly, and that's it. They do require power and lots of it, but unlikely steam engines they'll happily use solar, nuclear or anything else.
Replace "AI slop" with "legacy code", and you've got basically any large enterprise today.
The timescales are different though: it takes years if not decades to accumulate classic legacy cruft, while LLMs can spew up huge amounts of incomprehensible spaghetti in seconds.
How are you going to prompt the LLM or validate its output if you don't understand the requirements?