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Comment · 3 days ago
It was so bad that the AI was taken offline for a considerable amount of time and then re-aligned to not generate anything like a person.
Comment · 3 days ago
> Homeland Security finally got one in 2003.

This was heavily affected by them being founded in 2002.

Comment · 8 days ago
What responsibility does the CA that signed eMudhra's intermediate cert bear here?
Comment · 9 days ago
Transit is very heavily subsidized by taxes. In the US, the least money losing system is BART which covers 70%+ of it's operating (but not capital) expenses through fares.
Comment · 17 days ago
A lot of them also block voip numbers. This is obviously just a way to collect cell numbers that are easy to send spam SMS messages to.
Comment · 23 days ago
Yeah, real Measure of a Man moment here
Comment · 1 month ago
People under 18 can enter into contracts for "the necessities of life".
Comment · 1 month ago
It's an effect of "once burned twice shy". Every time there was a "bad" hire they had to change things. People add to the list but no one ever wants to advocate for a lighter process since they might be blamed for it.
Comment · 1 month ago
That theory was based on the idea there was a fixed amount of wealth in the world and it was impossible to create more.
Comment · 1 month ago
The least cynical take I've heard about RTO is that most managers are deeply under-trained to the point of being mostly incompetent. So forcing people into the office lets them do performative performance monitoring and project management. This makes their job "easier" in that they didn't know how to do it correctly in the first place.
Comment · 2 months ago
It's already won. Over 50% of Internet users are on ipv6.
Comment · 2 months ago
The core issue is that it went beyond just not picking a vendor. They labeled anthropic as a supply chain risk. This banned the use of their software for the whole government (and contractors IIRC).
Comment · 2 months ago
Healthcare.gov was a national scandal due to poor performance related to bad requirements gathering.

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