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Might be worth trying to get your gov to pin down the number of users or process to get gov id supported on any new platform.

They likely wont specify 100k people or 10% of population or whatever email/petition but it at least records the requirement that other OSes exist and requires a process to support

Laws are ultimately defined by the boundary and edge cases.

The godly person, doing no wrong, that through unfortunate circumstances, is brought before the court does not advance our understanding of a law.

It's the messiest case, by unscrupulous persons, in unconscionable circumstances that ultimately decide if the execution of that law gives the public more or less rights than on initial interpretation.

There's a building near my office. Never technically finished so empty for 10+ years. I believe the two owners had a disagreement.

One day a crew turns up and starts jack hammering away a gangway. Its technically now two buildings; one of them is still unfinished and empty, the other has now been finished and is up for rent.

In terms of my utility I would prefer things renovated, changed, or rented out to funky things than have ghastly empty buildings

I was told capitalism made for efficient use of resources.(inb4 oh you sweet summer child)

If the land isnt being used efficiently the owning entity should fail and a new productive use made.

Whether thats tearing it down for the public to get better use of the land; rerouting roads, community swimming pool, park etc. Replacing with a more economic building; factory, stadium, appartments (zoning not withstanding). Or a more productive entity getting use of it.

Bagholders being entrenched and protected are becoming a weight around the neck

You don't even need to step foot on US soil for the US to be a risk to you

c.f. Kim Dotcom

Agreed.

Scale is what matters.

Being in public and being incidently recorded or photographed by a set of separate, independent recorders is substantially different than an all seeing panopticon, controlled one entity who can collate, analyse, track, trace through time (maybe years back).

It's not you who determines guilt. And surveillance is more likely to be used against you for minor asinine things (if only to justify its own existence), than used for you in major incidents it is claimed to be installed for.

The question is whether companies would tolerate their own process if their employees did that recruiting process at a different company. They obviously do to some extent via plausible deniability; I have a 1 hour "doctors" appointment this afternoon, or I'm taking leave on Monday. Using it as cover to attend an interview.

Would this company permit an employee taking 3 months unpaid leave to provisional hire somewhere else and have free choice whether they stay or go at the end of it.

Many jobs today require 3-6 years of training, either degree, deploma, or apprenticeship. There currently isn't the economic incentives in place vs ditching the old guard and hiring new.

Previous positions need to go through the process again merely to arrive at the bottom of thebl ladder

A lot of blue collar trades - mechanic/electrician/builder etc following the `flowchart` is the `law` of the land and process is written in blood and liability

Whereas IT/Ops/developers see themselves as artisinal, free thinking, intellectual beings. Where skill is related to shortcuts, hacks, and thinking outside the box compared to following process

Maybe Anthropics efforts to thwart deepseek from distilling their model is bearing fruit.

So their strategy now is to try get as much raw content for their inference. You're being "paid", via discount, for your use

If the aim is to burn tokens in a plausible manner why not go one step further, without getting users accounts banned, use those tokens as a distributed distillation effort.

Publish all the generated content into a data source, think open crawl, so open sourced models (open training not just weights) could use it as input.