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Is distillation fair use then?

I currently pay $0.005/GB for bandwidth, which works out to a similar amount in Euros. So this tax would constitute a tenfold cost increase to deliver data to France.

Universal basic income is the new trickle-down economics. What it means is the wealthy get most of the money in the economy and they give everyone else a few scraps - the minimum amount possible to avoid pitchforks at their door.

I’ve never encountered in my life a new technology that was adopted this quickly. In just a few years AI is being used in some way by almost everyone, no matter if they’re tech-savvy or not. It’s also interesting that everyone uses it but it’s also pretty widely hated at the same time.

The demand is there - I just don’t think the revenue streams have been fully figured out yet. Ultimately I think the AI providers will converge on allowing their AI to respond to queries with sponsored suggestions, quite simply because there’s too much money being left on the table to not do that.

Google is making these massive investments because they’re terrified that they’re going to be eclipsed or turn into IBM. But Google has way more of a buffer to play the long game than OpenAI or Anthropic.

There’s a lot of focus on the price of Chinese cars but they’re also beating US cars on specs too. Many have fast charging in less than 10 mins - provided the charger is powerful enough. And China is building the charging infrastructure to support that too, with 480KW, 600KW and even 1MW chargers.

I would like to see Chinese EVs allowed into the US market to compete if not on price, at least on specs.

This might be the evidence Republicans were looking for to enact onerous voting restrictions. And they probably didn’t need to do it either: voters are extremely angry right now and Democrats probably could have won the Senate without this. Once again I’m reminded of a Jon Stewart quote: (to the effect of) “Democrats have America behind them…. how will they screw it up?”

Luckily Elon was born in South Africa and is therefore ineligible to be president. Although he has enough money to pull the strings of whoever’s in power, so it probably doesn’t make much difference.

They don’t have a right to privacy when they’re at work. The Supreme Court has said it is legal to film officers, including their faces, while carrying out their duties.

Part of the problem is that the justice system is as slow as molasses. They tried to hold him accountable for things he did in his first term and four years wasn’t long enough.

Yeah, piano playing was a bad example. There’s a reason MIDI keyboard manufacturers try so hard to replicate the weighted feel of a real piano. Your fingers need feedback.

Kids will grow into the next generation of adults and having a screen you can’t touch will probably feel like an anachronism to them.

I personally don’t think there’s such a thing as user error. If a user can’t figure out how to use your product correctly, that’s a problem with how the product is designed.

Built-in chatbots that you can ask how to do something make things easier for users but they may be masking UX problems.