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Lovable Sidekick

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  • When the judge asked the DOJ to clarify that nothing could be done if the President ordered the Statue of Liberty bulldozed, the DOJ lawyer said, quote: "I think that’s right, yes.”

    As a legal argument, "I think that's right, yes" has about as much substance as, "Sure, whatever."

  • What's the best food you're had in another country that's not from that country?

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  • Wow, that story took an unexpected tragic turn. But I'm glad you're still paying tribute to this man's artistry.

  • What's the best food you're had in another country that's not from that country?

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  • Brasilian BBQ is awesome.

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  • Absolutely. I was just recalling in an earlier thread a dinner I had in Cornwall near Tintagel, at a family run Indian place. I was keen on trying vindaloo, but the owner talked me down to madras - and I was glad, because that madras was at the perfect edge of my hotness tolerance and was delicious. The vindaloo probably would have been too much for me.

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  • Near my house in West Seattle there used to be a little hole in the wall place called Lee's Asian, whose Seven Flavor Chicken I regard as one of humanity's greatest achievements. Sadly they had to close because developers flooded in and all the commercial rents doubled. Thank you, density-hungry Seattle city council. Density! Density! But hey, at least we can buy $5 donuts now.

  • Have you ever had a productive discussion on the Fediverse or gotten anything positive out of interacting with other users? What was the thread about?

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  • I can't think of an example but definitely yes in non-political tech discussions about subjects like 3d printing.

  • Do you like scrollbars that instantly jump to the destination when clicked?

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  • Yes just get me there, I'm not here to watch the show.

  • His legacy

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  • Max length would have been hella confusing.

  • McDonald's Introduces AI Drive-Thru System, Sparking Customer Backlash

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  • LOL do ya really think customers who still put up with overpriced shitty food are going to balk at the AI? Remember the "backlash" when inflated COVID prices never went back down? And yet here we are. I'll believe this one when I read about empty McD's closing.

  • Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to suspend tax breaks offered to data centers

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  • Well it's not a ban but I guess not trying to lure them with more gifts is a baby step, kinda.

  • 'At some point you've got to make money': Goldman's top AI skeptic warns the clock is running out ahead of OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs

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  • Yeah, it looks like they first turned a profit in 2024, like $25 million and last year it was half a bil. Maybe what I saw was that they lost money for 17 years before that, I dunno.

  • 'At some point you've got to make money': Goldman's top AI skeptic warns the clock is running out ahead of OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs

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  • Don't you worry about Wall Street, let ME worry about blank!

  • 'At some point you've got to make money': Goldman's top AI skeptic warns the clock is running out ahead of OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs

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  • Wat? Capitalism knows exactly how to deal with this situation. People who still have faith in the companies will keep loaning them money or buying their stock or investing in them in other ways, and people who don't have that faith will stop doing those things. Eventually each company will either succeed or run out of believers and die. It's a very common scenario.

    edit: answering the people who mentioned bailouts and government loans, as if to invalidate what I'm saying here.

    1. Bailouts are infrequent special cases where governments intercede when there's fear that corporate failures might cause widespread unemployment or other economic consequences. The entire AI industry isn't even in that leage - it currently employs around 25-30,000 people. The largest one (OpenAI) only has about 8000. The largest of them could fail without disrupting their industry. This is nothing like a situation that would spur an industry-wide bailout.
    2. Same goes for large government loans or loan guarantees. These aren't handed out like candy whenever anyone asks. The scale of the consequences from company failures simply wouldn't justify it.

    The overwhelmingly likely scenario if AI companies fail is mergers and acquisitions. There's even a class of investors known as "corporate raiders" who specialize in buying desperate companies and selling off the assets. None of this is new, it's normal business activity that happens all the time, just part of the ecosystem. Believing AI companies are bulletproof because the government will simply hand them money simply isn't supported by history. For a counterexample read up on the dotcom bubble of the late 90s, when tens of thousands of web startups went under without getting bailed out.

  • 'At some point you've got to make money': Goldman's top AI skeptic warns the clock is running out ahead of OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs

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  • Somebody mentioned today that reddit has been losing money for 17 years.

    edit: my bad, apparently they lost money for 17 years before finally turning a profit about a year and a half ago. Anyway the point is that it can take a long time.

  • What is the best British food you've had?

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  • I love spicy food, and once tried to order vindaloo at a family-run Indian place in Cornwall, but the owner convinced me to have Madras instead. Lucky thing, because the Madras was right at the perfect edge of my heat tolerance. I wouldn't have been able to eat the vindaloo lol.

  • What is the best British food you've had?

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  • It's weird, even americans who actually try hard don't do fish and chips as well as brits who look like they're barely trying.

  • What is the best British food you've had?

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  • You're right, US fish and steak fries are not in the same league as authentic UK fish and chips.

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  • Tbh haggis was the one thing that disappointed me. But the quality varied hugely from place to place. I brought home a canned one the shopkeeper highly recommended as one of the better brands. Meh.

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  • Mine too. She was from Canada.