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Realistically food prices need to go up to make this an attractive business for people to get into

I wonder if a wood powered tractor for farming would be more practical than a wood powered car for transportation

I've been doing more and more web dev with JQuery recently. I learned it in high school and I think most of the new JS frameworks are probably worse.

I'm not sure where this number comes from but McDonald's profit margins may be misleading due to their franchise and real estate based model. If you spend $10 at McDonald's that's paid to the franchise and the central McDonald's corporation isn't necessarily profiting $3.

Is the allegation here that a LLM generated code that was very similar to the author's copyright protected code or that they copied the code and then tried to use AI to hide that fact?

U.S. schools are facing a huge and permanent drop in enrollment as the fertility decline starts hitting too.

How is $5/mo a cash grab? Psychiatrists charge more

I couldn't get Bluetooth to work on a car ride recently, wasn't able to listen to Spotify from my phone, and had to listen to FM radio. NPR was by far the best option. Everything else was just ads and annoying disk jockeys.

LibreOffice is still fast to start

The Federal government making funding to a university contingent on them "reforming" specifically named departments whose foreign policy views the executive branch disagrees with (Israel/Palestine policy) seems like a clear violation of the First Amendment.

No

Blow's talk made me realize I'm not crazy when I get frustrated about basic things being incredibly difficult. Drawing a button to the screen when you want to build a software application has become so difficult that most people just use a progressive web app which is 100x slower than is possible. Are the best options for GUI applications in 2025 really Java Swing and Qt?

Copyright law needs major reform. We need to figure out a way to let authors monetize their work while not making complying with the law so burdensome. We've created a system where people who (understandably) ignore the law benefit at the expense of people trying to do the right thing.

It's hard to tell if they're telling the truth about the number of GPUs they have. They open sourced the model and the inference is much more efficient than the best American models so it's not implausible that the training was also much more efficient.

It absolutely is. If security is standing in front of the door to the stage are they going to push past? How is security supposed to remove them from the stage without using force? It's force that's designed to make the protesters look like they're the victim if anyone tries to get in their way.

A peaceful protest would be standing outside on the sidewalk with signs.

Disrupting a talk isn't really "peaceful". You're physically obstructing the talk and daring the conference organizers who rented the room and other participants who want to hear the talk to use force to remove you.

> This is "never-cracked-a-history-book" levels of incorrect. Severe depressions recurred about every other decade, and practically every decade had some sort of Global Financial Crisis-esque financial meltdown. Back then, most of these were called "Panic of <year>" instead of "depression" or "recession", until you got to the Long Depression, which was called the Great Depression before the Great Depression itself actually existed.

This is all true. However, average economic growth rates for the American economy were dramatically higher in the 1800s than they have been in the last 50 years.

Yeah I think the sites broader point is that a lot of indicators of the health of American society start trending definitively down with an inflection point around 1970. The fact that the U.S. went off the gold standard on 1971 might be related to that but it's clearly not the sole causal factor.

I calculated historical American wages in gold terms if anyone's curious: https://github.com/argosopentech/American-Real-Wages

TLDR: wages in 2025 are roughly comparable to wages in the early 80s

An auction is a great idea. If a foreign worker is valuable enough then companies should be willing to pay up for them. Then the American People can benefit in multiple ways, we get the revenue paid into the auction, and we get the economic benefits of high skill foreign workers. Let the market decide.

Currently the lottery gets spammed by IT outsourcing firms: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-staffing-firms-game-...

The American People built this country into the economic powerhouse it is today; we should reap the benefits of all this economic activity not random outsourcing firms.

My guestimate.

The whole above thread is litigating the number of people in the U.K. arrested for speech crimes. It's hard to put an exact number on it but it seems like low single digit thousands (1k-5k).

The numbers from Russia are even more murky but it appears they're arresting a few hundred people a year for speech crimes (150-600). - https://apnews.com/general-news-0274242811894097a9d79f789002... - https://www.hrw.org/video-photos/interactive/2022/08/22/what...

Russia has about double the population of the U.K. so per capita numbers are even more stark.

How would this special court work? Can anyone including amateur scientists access it freely? Are the arguments public?

What's nice about free speech is it's a simple rule, "any citizen can speak about and promote any opinion they have." The fact that it's clear makes it difficult for the government to shut down opposition political speech.

I also think scientific inquiry should be an open process.

You were vindicated in this thread. It's insane that the U.K. is throwing thousands in people a year in jail for speech "crimes". I remember ten years ago when free speech was a sacred value in the West; as soon as non-institutionally-connected people got a platform with social media elites changed their mind though.

They're estimates but I've seen some numbers that suggest the U.K. is imprisoning more people (per capita and absolute) for speech crimes than Russia.

I wouldn't trust the science on something I'm injecting into my body if it was illegal for people to disagree about it.

This is where I'm using the CDN: https://github.com/argosopentech/argospm-index/blob/main/ind...

R2 is easy to use. I think there's an API but I just manually upload files in the Cloudflare dashboard.

I had some issues with the default .dev domain Cloudflare gives you so I bought a custom domain. https://community.libretranslate.com/t/failing-to-download-f...

Cloudflare R2 has been huge for my open source project Argos Translate. Two years ago I was getting swamped with $250/mo+ bandwidth bills for a project with minimal revenue. Now I distribute 10TB+ per month of model weights for $0. I'm still on the free plan

The goal of passive investing is to participate in the stock market while not actively picking stocks. So you're already investing in stocks kind of randomly.

> Just yesterday "the Dow Jones was up 100 points". Ok - no reference value, no percentage change: means nothing to me.

This always really bugged me

Another advantage of a price-weighted stock index is that it's easier to track with a real portfolio because they don't need to rebalance as frequently. To replicate the performance of the DJIA you just have to buy one share of each stock and hold them, you only need to place trades when a company is added or removed from the index.

With a market cap weighted index you have to make more frequent trades every time a company does a buyback or issues new shares.

Are you saying more automation or less automation would benefit people?