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Isn't that only when you include the federal tax credit?

I'm annoyed that the FDA has kept cox-2 selective inhibitors restricted when the data I've seen shows they have lower GI risks and similar cardiovascular risks as other NSAIDs.

The small tribes of the northwest might have used fire for clearing land in their immediate area but there is no evidence that they were managing hundreds of thousands of acres of forests in order to reduce large wildfires.

Supposedly. In my readings the evidence is thin on this oft-repeated claim.

Like I said, I put my money where my mouth is. GOOG's monopoly-fueled glory days will soon be behind it. In tech, if you stand still for too long you will eventually be left behind.

Keeping quiet about perceived problems is exactly the kind of toxic political lack of transparency that Ian is calling out here.

Google is getting beat badly on multiple fronts, even Search, and has pissed away a mountain of goodwill. It's living off of declining 15 year old achievements. I wouldn't call Sundar a steady hand, he has destroyed much more potential than he has created, even if the stock has continued to go up it won't for much longer. I sold a significant position in GOOG a few years ago and I'm certain it was the right call.

He spent the last 9 years in competition with Android so it's not surprising that he has some biases about it

I find it kind of funny that Altman got into this kind of trouble when presumably he is an expert on startup structure after having advised startups for so many years at YC.

Honestly, who cares? CEOs are just for marketing and hobnobbing. The researchers and engineers are what really matters.

I don't think it's exceptional. I've signed probably a dozen engineering employment contracts and don't remember any of them specifying minimum hours or overtime. Isn't that the definition of salaried employee? I agree that "butt in seat" hours can be an expectation but usually it's not in the contract.

Most salaried engineering contracts don't specify anything about time besides an undefined "full-time". I've had several companies very happy with my production at <30 hours per week. But the contracts state very clearly that I should not take another job.

I like how free speech somehow now means silencing your critics.

The fact that no businesses have been willing to distribute via sideloading and save the 30% cut is pretty good proof that it doesnt work.

In Epic's lawsuit against Google they argue that google makes sideloading unusable for businesses by making users jump through a bunch of hoops and scare screens.

Maybe we should change that law.

Now that we've entrenched the ideas that impeachment and the judiciary are political weapons we've broken the checks and balances that the constitution put in place. In the before times Thomas would've been impeached in a bipartisan manner.

This is still repercussions from Thiel's attack on Gawker. In an ideal democracy partisan billionaires should not have this kind of power over our media.

I would think that ChatGPT is also delegating to some other subsystem.

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There's a "Proffesor Synapse" prompt that has been floating around for awhile, people share it and seem to find it useful. So there's some market proof that people appreciate and will gravitate towards popular prompts.

Bernie Maddoff got 150

No. He might be never leave prison again

I just went through Lynx's the <20 CVEs over the last 20 years and couldn't find any that haven't been fixed. Same cannot be said for Chrome or Firefox which have dozens every year.

If you actually learned using this you might end up with a mishmash of British and American pronunciations.

The book Sapiens argues that tech has made us less happy ever since the invention of farming 10,000 years ago, the hunter gatherers were happier and healthier than the farm villagers. But since tech allows the population density to grow we get stuck in "the luxury trap", we can't go backwards or a bunch of people will die. And the unhappier larger village is more powerful than the hunter gatherers so they have an evolutionary advantage.

I think you could apply a similar theory to the modern capitalist world.

This doesn't sound right. Soap is considered nontoxic. We all ingest soap residue from dishes and other hygiene and I've never heard anyone concerned about it.

There is some wiggle in the tidal lock so you could get an earthrise near the edge of the dark side.

There's something going on over there: "From October 9 to October 25, western Mexico has been hit by FOUR consecutive eastern North Pacific tropical cyclones. " https://twitter.com/DrKimWood/status/1717557808147943922

I found this analysis more comprehensive https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/10/nightmare-scenari...

This is an important point. The only solution we're ever offered for security concerns is centralizing more and more control in the platform companies hands even though those same companies are increasingly abusing their power.