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If you live in an authoritarian system, it’s not just the government you’re worried about.

This is a bad thing unless the digital currency is also privacy preserving.

VPNs are already illegal in China!

Unfortunately, having so much wealth means they can buy the people who decide who gets charged.

LLMs are not Large Medical Expert Systems. They are Large Language Models, and are evaluated on how convincing their output is, instead of how accurate or useful it is.

Coca-cola definitely advertises, famously Santa Claus, but did you also know they do more subversive things like trying to shift the blame for obesity onto the victims?

https://investors.coca-colacompany.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/392/exercise-is-the-best-medicine

The company is J&T Express.

But, of course, when China sails two aircraft carriers through Japanese EEZ, it’s Japan’s fault for flying their surveillance too close by.

EVs won’t be cheap for long if there’s no competition.

You generally don’t want to incentivize the practice of dumping since its goal is putting competition out of business.

If it’s all going to be proprietary nonsense then we might as well support our local businesses, if you ask me.

Less reason to buy a Pixel, then.

If you’re writing a novel simulation for a non-trivial system, it might be best to learn to code so you can identify any issues in the simulation later. It’s likely that LLMs do not have the information required to generate good code for this context.

I’m sorry he put the words “free market” into your mouth when there was none of that in your post. FWIW, Japan would be worse off if cheap rice flooded the market and eradicated domestic rice production.

These need to be washable, otherwise every time I accidentally wear them into the shower I’m going to have to buy another pair.

I prefer the term Digital Restrictions Management.

Is anyone surprised by this? Their entire business model is based on tracking people so of course they’ll want to de-anonymize users.

I’ve had the same thought myself. Also I think the more accomplished someone is at something, the less they bring it up since they must be so comfortable with it, so there’s an even smaller chance of discovery.

I’d like to see more non-plastic toothbrushes, personally!

If this really is lossless, it is incredible. I’m skeptical until I see it in action though.