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jacksilver

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  • Stephen Colbert Revives Right-Wing Alter Ego to Rip Donald Trump on Free Speech

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  • Also, there are also a lot of legal ways he can cause trouble. Who's believing the bs that the FCC can't make things more difficult for Disney (who owns a broadcast channel)?

  • Dev Culture Is Dying the Curious Developer Is Gone

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  • Ancedotally, I think it's that the average developer is not as curious anymore, but that's because the industry has grown a lot (both in number of people and areas of focus).

    At the end of the day, that's not a bad thing, just something we'd expect to happen.

  • ‘Maybe we should go after you’ Trump threatens ABC reporter asking about free speech

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  • This is what I keep expecting, but there has been minimal pushback on all the horrible economic policies and somehow the economy is mostly shrugging it off.

  • Nasdaq Seeks Nod From U.S. SEC to Tokenize Stocks

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  • I'm sure someone out there is running something on paper still, but that's not how most things are run.

    Additionally, unless people are legally required to do all exchanges on the public ledger (which seems highly unlikely), then you'd still end up with transactions not monitored on the public ledger.

  • The Performance Cost To Ubuntu WSL2 On Windows 11 25H2

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  • Actually, what is weird is WSL apparently ran faster for some things like SSL and some Python Scripting.

    But yeah, overhead costs will make WSL slower in almost all cases.

  • Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype: The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about

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  • I mean, we're hundreds if not thousands of iterations into robotics. Hell, we've probably had tens if not hundreds of attempts to create humanoid robots.

    This is just the current iteration of humanoid robots getting beaten up for not delivering on its promises.

  • California lawmakers pass bill to ban ICE agents from wearing masks

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  • Yeah I feel like doing it and forcing the federal government to bring up a lawsuit would be worth the effort.

  • What was your last “impulse buy” and was it worth it?

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  • Is that finished or still ongoing?

  • Opening folder via SSH from VSCode Web

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  • Job growth revised down by 911,000 through March, signaling economy on shakier footing than realized

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  • Cause they're also trying to combat inflation caused by tarrifs.

    While lowered interest rates can make money cheaper and spur the economy, tariffs are causing inflation to tick up again. So we've got a slowing economy with rising inflation, basically a position the Fed is I'll equipped to deal with.

    In summaru everyone who's not wealthy is in for a fun time regardless of what they do.

  • Nasdaq Seeks Nod From U.S. SEC to Tokenize Stocks

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  • How does a regular database not do that?

    Either it's tracked or its not, the medium for that tracking doesn't really change much.

  • John Roberts temporarily allows Trump to fire FTC commissioner

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  • This has been the playbook of the conservative majority on the Supreme Court to undermine our democracy. Lower courts have consistently been applying injunctions/stays that would minimize disruptions and/or infringements on rights, then the Supreme Court overturn those injunctions/stays without providing a reason (cause usually there isn't a good one). This gives the administration the win becuase by the time the law might catch up the damage is done.

    A great example is the administration's attempt to kill certain agencies. The executive does not have the power to do so, but by waiting around and kneecaping the agencies, the administration gets what it wants.

    Whats more obvious is that the court is obviously afraid to come out and provide reasoning for its decisions. It's all closed door-like rulings because there isn't much good legal reasoning or defense.

  • John Roberts temporarily allows Trump to fire FTC commissioner

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  • That means they effectively allowed the firing. It's not like people can stand around indefinitely waiting for the courts nor can the agency.

    Its letting Trump get what he wants without actually needing to make a real judgment on the legality. At this point the law seems to barely mean anything.

  • Is AI Facing a Trough of Disillusionment?

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  • I think it's a mixture of that and the fact that when OpenAI saw that throwing more data drastically improved the models, they thought they would continue to see jumps like that.

    However, we now know that bad benchmarks were misleading how steep the improvements were, and much like with autonomous vehicles, solving 90% of the problem is still a farcry away from 100%.

  • Stripe CEO Explains Why Stablecoins Are Winning Over Global Businesses

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  • For your first question, I think the average person would benefit from a simple digital currency that let's them exchange "cash" without having to jump through a bunch of hoops. Venmo, Zelle, etc. are all proof that normal people want easy ways to pay each other.

    As for your second point, I'm not sure I follow. But I assume you're implying that crypto is better because it isn't tied to the state?

  • Stripe CEO Explains Why Stablecoins Are Winning Over Global Businesses

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  • So I've been reading into stable coins a lot, because I don't understand why anyone would care about them. And what I've come to realize is they are a benefit to two groups:

    • Financial institutions: Stablecoins have fewer regulations and basically allow for things you can't do with actual dollars/currency
    • People with limited access to financial institutions (think poorer people and/or countries): With fewer regulations it's easier for people to transact Stablecoins than dollars/currency

    At the end of the day, it feels like a "true" digital currency would be the better solution, but everyones jumping on Stablecoins because they're here now and less regulated.

    I think there is potential in a more cash-like digital currency, but Stablecoins seem ripe to break in some unforseen way, especially given the current administration.

    Edit: Edited to fix formatting.

  • A Sitting Senator Just Went Full Mask-Off White Nationalist

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  • I mean if we're talking deaths, it's speculated Trump's handling of Covid resulted in hundreds of thousands of Americans dieing.

    But also, look at things like the recent jobs reports and increased deficit/national debt that Trump is driving.

  • Is AI Facing a Trough of Disillusionment?

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  • We definitely haven't cracked AGI, that's without a doubt.

    But yeah, LLMs are big (I'd say really Transformers were the breakthrough). My point though was that Deep Learning is the underlying technology driving all of this and we certainly haven't run out of ideas in that space even if LLMs may be hitting a dead end.

  • Is AI Facing a Trough of Disillusionment?

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  • That's the issue, AI right now means LLMs not deep learning/ML.

    The Deep Learning/ML stuff will keep chugging along.