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Your analogy works against you, given that tons of professional athletes come from poverty.

In most modern societies, we regulate all sorts of things that people would otherwise willingly do to their own detriment. We ban drugs; we have labor laws; we have usury laws; we require seatbelts; we have securities regulations; etc. (Notably, until very recently, this included most forms of gambling.)

So the mere fact that losers are voluntary does not, IMO, make the situation good.

Cool. Here's something he said today:

  TRUMP: "They're all crooks.  The Somalians are -- what they've done to Minnesota -- the Somalians.  They're crooked as hell.  Ilhan Omar.  Crooked as hell.  They're all crooks.  And we got 'em."

Really earning that good faith!

Life imitates art:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeKX99gZpYs

> It used to be that they only had to say no to more junior engineers’ handwritten PRs, but now they have to say no to a barrage of AI-generated code, some of it generated by managers and VPs who are politically difficult to say no to.

Holy cow. I worked at a big tech firm but left the industry prior to the emergence of InstructGPT et al., so I haven't experienced LLM code generation from the inside. Is this really happening -- upper managers and VPs proposing code changes they generated with LLMs? I don't think I'd survive.

Sorry, maybe I should have been more explicit.

Facebook, Discord, and Twitter may sell "your data", but when they do, it's likely by selling distillations of their internal databases. (Or, of course, through vulnerabilities like the one the Cambridge Analytica Facebook app used.)

Small-ball Web sites like KGO, on the other hand, just get proposals from data aggregators to plop a snippet of HTML/JS on their site, and they get money for it. There's no control on the number of quality of them.

Big sites can't do that because they'd risk introducing serious vulnerabilities that would compromise accounts. No one has a KGO "account" to compromise. And the amount of revenue they'd provide is likely peanuts to someone like Facebook.

So: they're for revenue.

They're needed for extra revenue for KGO-TV. (Which is owned by Disney.)

You can do that with iPhone, too, using the (poorly named) "USB Camera Adapter", which splits out a USB type-A jack. (I assume you need a similar adapter on most Android phones, too, since I've never seen one with a type-A jack built in.)

Here is the actual quote you are defending:

    TRUMP: "When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best -- they're not sending you [points at unidentified people off-camera] -- they're not sending you -- they're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us.  They're bringing drugs; they're bringing crime; they're rapists and some, I assume, are good people."

There is no apparent indication in that video that the people he's pointing at are Mexican.

"Land of Opportunity" is in fact a long-used nickname for the United States, so your position appears to be mostly rejected.

That's not my read of the message of those ads at all.

You really weren't paying close attention to their rhetoric, then.

Yup, and that requires extra labor to fulfill, which will cost money. Luckily, I haven't heard anyone complain about high prices of groceries lately, so I'm sure everyone would be fine with that.

No goods or services were produced in your example, so GDP would not be affected. Purchases of securities are not goods or services.

Margin interest is tax-deductible, but only when you're using the loan to buy more securities. So, in context, a CEO who "works for no salary" and just takes out loans secured by their stock holdings to fund their lifestyle does not get to write off that interest.

Not to say the "no salary" thing isn't silly anyway, of course.

What U.S. tax code provision allows an individual to write off (non-primary-mortgage) loan interest?

That's not what GDP means.

This is unethical.

Hm. I read that as saying that their users are writing more code with the assistance of LLMs, thus placing more stress on their systems. I do not read it as making any comment about their own practices.

Right. In other words, the clock cycle is already made to be long enough to allow a word-sized SUB to settle. An XOR-with-self surely settles faster, but it still has to wait for that same clock cycle before proceeding.

Well, I hope I'm not, but yes, I will be quite disappointed if so.

Start here: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/07/tim-...

Wait, so... cat -v not considered harmful, then?

Fair enough, sorry :)

If so, I apologize.

This is some serious revisionist history. GPT-2 wasn't instruction-following or even conversational.

Does the boss not understand that they could get Claude to write them a script and a crontab entry (so they don't have to ask you) -- and then run it forever (so they don't have to pay Anthropic, or risk temperature randomness)? Best of both worlds...

Or, like, a cron job.

The book is "Empire of AI". This blog post explains it pretty well: https://blog.andymasley.com/p/empire-of-ai-is-wildly-mislead...

Basically, the author (of the book) compares a data center outside Santiago to usage of water by humans, erroneously imputing that the average human uses only 200 cc of water per day.

> Plus, if you live in a red state, they've likely refused to take the subsidies

No. Individual states can refuse Medicaid expansion, but that does not have any bearing on the health insurance marketplace / premium tax credit ("subsidies"), which states cannot opt out of.