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Going through a black hole but it's just a fisheye lens having gravel flung at it, because you forgot to budget for this particular special effect

But don't worry, you can absolutely pass through the Event Horizon in a man made spacecraft just so long as you have the singular force that defines the shape of the universe: ~~gravity~~ Love.

Trust But Verify is a good policy regardless of where your code comes from.

"AI" code is still human code in some capacity. Human code is what it was trained on. What would you do with a module you grabbed off GitHub or a script you found on Discord? Hopefully the same thing.

Second, there are more personal costs. You’ll come to rely more and more on these tools, and your skills will rust.

I mean, if you're curious and you're diligent, you can learn from what the AI chugs out. Skills only stagnate when you trust the AI blindly.

I'd say the bigger problem is that when you're outsourcing junior coder work (even the tedious stuff) to a machine, you're not investing in new junior coders.

Like in the famous cookbook, Artichoke Heart of Darkness

The third party sites will just start getting the max rate, which would effectively eliminate them.

I mean, if they haven't figured out how to game the system, presumably. Even then, if I'm also getting the max rate, it's a push.

Idk. These systems always love to overpromise on both ends - big profits for investors, big savings for customers. It reads like a fairy tale coming and going.

The US Navy has a long and storied reputation for sexual assault. Practically back to it's founding.

Still not half the Archer Zeno was

I guess a simple way might be steal $1B, make $1M off it

The courts generally recognize the time-value of money. If you steal $1 and make $.10 on it, then you've deprived the person you stole from of the same ROI. In fact, you've demonstrated the deprived returns by investing it.

Unless they allow someone to collect for potential gains

So, back to the car example. If you deprive someone of a car and that costs them their job, you're liable for the wages they lost when they lost their job.

Not... quiet. These are punitive damages - above and beyond the assessed monetary damages inflicted by Jones.

As a comparison, let's say you own a car. Your neighbor, in a fit of piqued, drops a cartoon anvil on the hood and totals it. The car costs you $30k to replace. And there's a second order cost on you for not having your own car that you can calculate out to be another $30k.

But the jury doesn't believe a $60k award is sufficient to justify the harm your neighbor caused. So they want to assess "punitive" addition costs in excess of the discrete monetary damage. They cannot assign a number bigger than $750k for this claim.

If your neighbor can come up with a way to make $750k + 30k + 30k of demolishing your car, then they have an economic incentive to do it.

But if the neighbor burns down your $800k house? Or drives a Killdozer through your $1.5M front office? Or puts a 757 through one of your twin towers? Then there's a much higher liability.

Fine if you've got more time than money, I guess.

Plenty of people are impotent or agnostic.

The "you're either with us or you're with the Terrorists" line is some spicy (fascist) rhetoric, but hollow in practice.

Who doesn't work with ICE, at this point?

Thanks for the tip. We'll see if it bares out.

Do get the sense that these third-party sites are going to become an increased necessity, as data-scrappers and trackers try to peg the price of a flight to the credit card limit of the buyer.

But... idk, I'm not seeing anything on this site that I can't find by directly querying individual airlines. (Like so many other budget airline calculators) there's no inclusion of Southwest on the list. And if the odd deal is inevitably just going to be through JetBlue anyway? Why not shop direct?

Idk, there's definitely something fitting about 200 half-starved sailors doing the hover-ass over malfunctioning toilets on the USS Donald J Trump.

Lotteries, 60% is not uncommon, but people like it at the very slight off chance they take the big price.

I think its more that you don't have the time or opportunity to play a hand of poker in the same way you have to buy a scratch ticket at a gas station.

Their competitors have already sold out their entire 2027 production.

Plenty of which will inevitably turn up on the secondary market.

The money they make selling RAM to private consumers is not even 1 promille of their revenue.

The RAM they sell to home-labbers and hobbyists, sure. The RAM they're selling to Dell and Lenovo and Apple? A significantly higher chunk of their revenues. But that's a side issue. These kinds of RAM sticks are largerly fungible.

The new high end AI datacenters are building out specialty hardware that isn't PC compatible. And the real worry is that these firms migrate over to the AI datacenter designs in a way that causes a semi-permanent shortage on the independent PC side.

Yes, but none of them are Chinese.

An enfranchised majority has been picking the corpses of an increasingly impoverished and precarious underclass.

They aren't hurting themselves. One half is making a living hurting the other.