ameliaquining

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This took place in 2005, nearly a decade before Medicaid expansion went into effect.
Comment · 1 day ago
And so it comes full circle.
Comment · 3 days ago
Why would the government use local LLMs? Compute is a central example of the kind of thing that makes sense to outsource.
Comment · 4 days ago
...no? Whatever value they got from inference they already did is still there? Of course the government still needs to worry about vendor lock-in, but they'd have to do that no matter what, and also general-purpose LLMs are relatively replaceable for most use cases.
Comment · 4 days ago
That's an argument against any descriptive name at all.
Comment · 5 days ago
I don't understand this question, sorry.
Comment · 5 days ago
But some organization has to check all that stuff, confirm that it's accurate, and then issue the certificate, right? So what's lost from having that organization just have a website that maps that information to domain names?
Comment · 5 days ago
Can you give a concrete example of the kind of claim you think QWACs would be useful for verifying, that can't be addressed just as well with existing protocols?
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Why do agents need any of this cryptographic infrastructure? Can't they just check on the certifying authority's website whether an entity is legitimate?
Comment · 5 days ago
I think most American tech people are against most of those things? Why would they not have careers without them?
Comment · 5 days ago
I've usually heard it called "ASP.NET MVC" except when the former part was clear from context.
Comment · 5 days ago
The browser vendors, I think, were at least making a good-faith attempt to address a real security problem; it's not like they made any money from EV certificates. Even if it was inevitably going to be marketed somewhat predatorily, and ultimately didn't work out.

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