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What I’m hearing is it cost several hundred dollars to pay for an agent to handle emails at ~$0.10/ea.

It was not that long ago that i was watching Top Gear UK talk about how much they admired the US for its libertarian ideals, and how Americans don’t tolerate things like speed cameras on a cultural level.

Within a decade, we ushered in CCTV and automated plate readers to a degree that would make the CCP blush.

The reason a vendor can fleece public services in the first place is, somewhat ironically, the limited access to free public records by independent journalists. I’d reckon we need more freedom of information, more regulatory oversight, and more participation by the public. The cynicism that governments are inherently dishonest and feckless (rather than being designed as-such by the self-interested lobbies pushing this cynicism) is one big reason such corruption has become so prevalent.

I see this kind of argument a lot, but I have to assume the very noticeable ignorance of collective bargaining power in this framing is intentional?

I do believe social media should be verboten for younger people, although I believe it should be enforced by good parenting rather than legislation. That said, we live in a society, and sometimes that means our libertarian ideals don’t work on the large scale. I reserve judgement for the people of the UK, their government isn’t without its serious faults, but less regulation doesn’t seem to be the panacea Reagan and Thatcher sold it to be.

It’s intravenous. You should try it!

…who have quite conveniently already stolen and trained on all the copyrighted images. Thanks AI!

Same.

In America, I am _much_ less likely to encounter a friendly exchange with a a stranger than I am to be accosted for spare change by people for whom our obscenely wealthy systems have failed and/or decided are not worthy of assistance, so even small cities around rural areas have huge populations of unhoused people with a variety of deep-seated and untreated conditions.

Also, although I live in a medium-sized metro area with >8M people, it’s in the South, and I have zero access to public transportation. I prefer to use AirPods for music/podcasts/radio in my car, where I’m alone either way, so that I can more easily answer hands-free calls (which is necessary for my job).

Our society’s problem isn’t with AirPods, they’re just a symptom of the broader social decay that 80-years of inequality and deregulation has brought us.

Well that soured quickly. A wiki is only as good as the human experts who volunteer to contribute towards it. I’m not sure there are any in this one?

The parent comment is demonstrating the exact type of internet savvy critical thinking that you’re ostensibly arguing for, but you seem to be reflexively defensive.

VSCodium was better on this front last time I tried it, and since Microsoft seems intent on allowing the Extensions to be a wildly insecure free-for-all, I am seeing fewer and fewer reasons to stick with the official version.

Is it the reply to ‘HELO’ that enables things like tarpits?

Like if my server replied with ‘HI PLEASURE TO MEET YOU 127.0.0.1 THAT NAME SOUNDS FAMILIAR ARE YOU BY CHANCE FROM BOSTON MY MOTHER IS FROM BOSTON WELL QUINCY ACTUALLY BUT DO YOU KNOW 127.0.1.1 THEY ARE A REALLY GOOD FRIEND OF MINE YOU SHOULD MEET I HEAR THEIR DAUGHTER IS A DOCTOR DONTYAKNOW AND YOU COULD…”

etc, etc?

Well, now when she wants to know the symptoms of dehydration, she can purchase some sort of Gatorade really convenient like.

Or that the tariffs were ham-fisted, arbitrary, and lacking in rational justifications. I’m not sure one can draw too many firm conclusions from that particular “policy”.

I’ve nothing empirical to back this up, but it’s my understanding that shiny objects like bottle caps are prized toys, and the sort of thing one might be gifted by corvids who have taken a liking to you. I have heard plenty of anecdotal evidence that crows will exchange gifts with one another, and with humans, to develop and nurture positive relationships.

Someone pondered a correlation between intelligence and some notion of “evil”. I personally believe empathy and altruism are highly connected to intelligence, and the act of giving a gift to another is suggestive of both attributes.

There are also examples of altruism in other species not frequently considered intelligent. Vampire bats will regurgitate food to share with others, even if they are not tied by familial bonds and even if there’s no other tangential benefit to the individual giving up its own nutrition. We have also recently observed female tigers caring for and protecting another female’s cubs while she feeds, which is novel behavior to observe in typically solitary tigers.

We’ve repeatedly watched that trust abused and exploited in these last few years, in both public and private sectors (including specifically in this field). I broadly agree with you, but I tend to think it’s a finite resource that’s eroding rapidly just now.

Imagine how many tokens Claude would burn waiting for litigation, not to mention letting it reconsider now that it understands the problem completely!

I have a large collection of old scanned electronics manufacturers' product catalogs, reference manuals, and datasheets. While browsing through them, I noticed their covers frequently featured classically competent, well done graphic design and typography. This is a gallery of some of the highlights.

It depends on what’s included in “our”.

They should (and frequently do) require ID for delivery. The postal carrier will literally check ID before delivering the package. It costs about $8 extra. Any company that’s not using these services is exposed to some dire consequences if/when ATF comes knocking.

Tangentially related: https://youtu.be/F4SmgrAmdUQ

“When nothing belongs to everyone, the rich will own everything, including the rebellions against them,”

When I saw that on the second day of token-based pricing I’d already consumed my usual monthly spend on GitHub Copilot. That’s when I fully realized that it would never be economical, nor useful, to solo shops like mine.

Are there really 10-100x undervalued companies listed on indexes that haven’t been noticed?

Is that normal? To promote a research paper in ArXiv so heavily? I think the parent comment’s concerns still apply, saying a large, well-funded YouTube channel is specifically releasing coordinated content to promote this prompts more questions than it answers, in my mind.

That level of personal wealth is inherently immoral and doesn’t *ever* happen without exploitation.

Maybe, but somehow I doubt the American Heart Association is planning to open a chain of pork barbecue restaurants to support its mission against heart disease.

Wouldn’t that involve modifying someone else’s prompt?

The same argument could be made about any public service. Certainly, if libraries were funded to the tune of $1000 for every household, they would be very different places.

I believe there are standing precedents about cash bail that state that it should not be used unless there’s a demonstrable risk the defendant will flee otherwise. The problem (one of them anyway) is that as a component of the process, it’s highly unlikely to be challenged to such an extent it makes it to the circuit courts where such precedents are made. Bonds should not be used, in and of themselves, as punishments, or as leverage for prosecution. If a person is a danger to themselves or others, they should be denied bail. If they are a clear flight risk, then the bond should be set accordingly to ensure compliance. If they are neither, they should be released on their own recognizance and afforded the right to fully participate in their own defense.

Edit: also not a lawyer