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Comment · 1 year ago
They don't share chats with others unless you click the "Share" button to share the chats.

They are private by default. It's basically the same as every other AI chat app.

Comment · 1 year ago
Government Publishing Office and Library of Congress provides XML formatted bills and all their amendments and a feed of all changes to every bill.

Oh and on the topic of party politics, Bill Clinton was the one who had them put things online in the first place with the GPO Electronic Information Access Enhancement Act, and Barack Obama and the Democrats expanded it via American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 - not the do-nothing Republicans.

Comment · 1 year ago
Mozilla: Stop lying. Now.
Comment · 1 year ago
As if we needed another reason to hate NYT and their paywall...
Comment · 1 year ago
It was cut because tax preparing companies pay the politicians to cut it.
Comment · 1 year ago
In my experience the paper forms are so much easier and more reliable than using tax software. A pen and a form just works. No account logins and passwords, no janky UI, no advertisements, no issues saving your progress... The instructions are much better too. Each box is numbered and there's an instruction manual detailing what to put in that box. If you make mistakes the IRS will simply correct you.
Comment · 1 year ago
I think machine code and building something like a Forth is way easier to understand than any contemporary programming language toolchain.
Comment · 1 year ago
Somewhat related: What is with the rampant cursing nowadays? In the US people are openly saying f-word in professional settings, in public to strangers or acquaintances, in writing and video... seemingly everywhere even in calm normal conversations.

I don't remember it being like this decades ago. Is it just me? I remember people used to curse only in private conversation, when angry, and never at the office in meetings and professional contexts.

Comment · 1 year ago
Recall.ai is exactly this. Using them at my current company and it works well. It even supports live transcription.
Comment · 1 year ago
How else are product managers and designers supposed to justify their existence?
Comment · 1 year ago
Not Congress - Republicans, who have a congressional majority.
Comment · 1 year ago
They’re hired through outsourcing firms. The company pays the outsourcing firm as a subcontractor. It’s quite common, even amongst the Silicon Valley startups I work with.

My experience is that outsourcing has only accelerated since Covid made remote work commonplace. It never used to be a thing amongst trendy startups.

Comment · 1 year ago
Yes it’s broken. The solution is and has always been a comprehensive single-payer system combined with price controls.

Roosevelt tried to do it almost a century ago in 1935, but the moron greedy traitor racist fascist conservatives blocked it.

Comment · 1 year ago
I think so. Though the premise of MCP betrays that AI isn't human-level intelligent. If it was there would be no need for a standard interface. It would be able to read API docs, navigate UIs to generate the proper keys, enter in billing info, and use all of that to make API requests by trial and error. That's what humans do.
Comment · 1 year ago
Not understanding that businesses don't want open data or open protocols. Internet businesses want to monopolize information and charge rent for it. Capitalists don't want to commodify software, as that means lower profits and competition. They want to monopolize it. That's the whole game, except for companies selling physical goods over the Internet.

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