This game sort of has the opposite effect on me. I was never a big fan of the Metal Gear series, I’m too impatient. And a whole game set around doing deliveries seems boring to me, but it’s admittedly beautiful and has a lot of hype around it. Is it really a fun game?

I mean I still use it sometimes, I just don’t use that app. It used to be one of my heaviest battery drains even though I didn’t even use it more than a few times a week.

People still use the Facebook spyware app on their phone?

But AFAIK they actually didn’t acquire the legal rights even to read the stuff they trained from. There were definitely cases of pirated books used to train models.

Yeah I’m not sure why I haven’t yet. I guess I just keep thinking that there’s some topics like tech that they can’t turn into a propaganda opportunity, but they consistently prove me wrong.

Probably someday, but the article is describing a dedicated orb device that does this.

Ostensibly they should know other rich people, maybe they can make some deal with some of them.

The Russia part is still how it works in .ml.

Why? I don’t want anyone here to whom it’s not self evident to that it’s better here. For it to stay a better place it needs to keep better people who can make their own decisions using their brains.

Even so, are they going to acquire, set up, and use an iris scanner just to remain anonymous on Reddit?

You can try mine as a starting point if you like. It covers most subject areas, has categories so that you can easily delete the categories you don’t care about. Just import the OPML file to any client you like. I like feedly personally.

I’m sure TSMC would become untenable if either the US stopped buying or selling to them, though I tend to disagree and think that not licensing US tech would kill them faster. I’m pretty sure that much of that tech is not available from anywhere else and would just cause a full stop of their business, at least for some time. It’s easier to survive on lower revenue than it is on a fully shuttered assembly line.

There is likely a lot of US tech in that chip. TSMC is just a fab, they don’t have a lot of their own technology, they buy thousands of pieces of tech from all over the world to make their chips. A lot of that comes from the US.

If they are using GPL code, shouldn’t they also release their source code?

See my post above in the thread where I show the laws I am talking about and cite source.

See my post above with citation.

This article summarizes the subsidies I’m talking about. Here’s an excerpt:

For now, the important point is that trucks generally are more profitable than cars thanks to two big government incentives, both of them historical footnotes.

The first is the so-called chicken tax, a 25 percent tariff imposed by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 on foreign-built work vehicles as part of a chicken-related trade war with Europe. If you’re making a pickup or cargo van in the United States, profits should be higher, because foreign factories can’t come close to undercutting you on price.

The second incentive lies in the fine print of Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards adopted in 1975, Gerald Ford’s reluctant response to a crippling Middle East oil embargo that sent gas prices soaring. To protect American commerce, work trucks and light trucks were subject to less-strict CAFE standards than family sedans. Trucks are also exempt from the 1978 gas guzzler tax, which adds $1,000 to $7,700 to the price of sedans that get 22.5 or fewer miles to the gallon.

That’s because the USA subsidizes bigger trucks as “work vehicles”. This practice needs to stop and they need to be taxed more than smaller vehicles.

Until his profile gets high enough that they find some permit he doesn’t have and he gets shut down.

I was working tech in the Bay Area in the '90s, I remember it well.