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Nah, he is just too incompetent to completely run it into the ground.

Unless tou know they are malicious narccisists, them attributing it to malice is the logical thing to do. Plus hate and pig-headedness are common movitators for malice…

There are some middlemen positions that add value, like many distributors who smooth out the transportation between manufacturing and retail, but there sure are a lot that insert themselves into the supply chain to suck money out without adding anything.

Even though debt collectors are 0/3 in the times I’ve used them, it’s at least something to fire off a final ‘fuck you and your credit’

What a glowing recommendation!

There is a launch pad thing using springs or compressed air to give them a boost or they wouldn’t go as far.

The explosion is just for sound, and it is funny if the timing is off.

Any position in the for profit medical payment processing profession, it should be single payer through taxes instead.

Any investment position that exists to leech money out of successful companies instead of providing cash to improve the business. Basically any part of.a vulture capital firm.

Any pseudo pretend medical profession that has decades without evidence it works like chiropractors. I’m fine with mediums and other charlatans that at least put up a ‘for entertainment purposes only’ sign and don’t have a history of causing injuries to their clientel.

Anything involving targeted advertising since it relies on scooping up personal data.

Debt collectors. The businesses took the risk when they loaned money or provided some kind of service on credit. Selling debt to collectors who maliciously lie and guilt people into paying money they don’t really owe or tricking them into paying debt that would disappear after a period of time is horrible. There are no respectable debt collection companies.

But Newsom said he is opposed to the new bill’s mandate on operating systems. “I am concerned, however, about placing a mandate on operating system (OS) developers at this time,” the governor wrote. “No major mobile OS incorporates an option for an opt-out signal. By contrast, most Internet browsers either include such an option or, if users choose, they can download a plug-in with the same functionality. To ensure the ongoing usability of mobile devices, it’s best if design questions are first addressed by developers, rather than by regulators. For this reason, I cannot sign this bill.”

Oh fuck off Newsom.

They’re supposed to be good a transformation tasks. Language translation, create x in the style of y, replicate a pattern, etc. LLMs are outstandingly good at language transformer tasks.

That it generates correct answers > 50% of the time is actually quite a marvel.

So good as a translator as long as accuracy doesn’t matter?

The users’ assumption/expectation of the output being factual is what is wrong.

So randomly spewing out bullshit is the actual design goal of AI models? Why does it exist at all?

Hallucinations is a fancy word for being wrong.

There both tends to be a delay while the effects take hold and while pay for the general population is stagnant while prices rise, there hasn’t been a corresponding rise in long term poverty.

It is complicated, but things like the ACA reduced a lot of medical debt stress and low unemployment are working in the other direction from increased inequity. The states that decriminlized or even legalized weed had corresponding drops in crime as well.

Side note: Some cities have had spikes in crime, because it is never a perfectly even change everywhere.

I think you replied to the wrong post, since I did not say that.

None.

Crime is primarily driven by poverty and other inequities when social supports are lost or dismantled. For the most part people turn to crime when they don’t have other options available.

They are great to have both to confirm what we think we know and they occasionally result in surprising discoveries! In this case though, the headline made it sound like a surprising discovery.

Well, yeah. If you do the work as your primary job you will have more time to do the work than if you only do it in your spare time.

The thing with meditation and repetitive physical practicing can easily have something like chi that descibes the feeling of getting thigs right in a way that some people take literally magic. Like how focusing on moving something can feel effortless because practice has made it a whole body motion. Or how thinking about punching past something makes it easier to hit it harder because your brain is less likely to subconciously pull back on impact.

The mental part of martial arts is like medidation. There are real world benefits, both mental and physical, and having a long history that intertwines mysticism means a lot of people are going to start to believe their own hype.

No, single payer as in who pays the bills, not centralizing everyone’s medical history.

Yeah, but every manufacturer should have decades of practice by now. Whatever approach they took should be reliable by now.

My auto bright feature barely ever turns them on for more than a couple of seconds since it seems to be triggered off by reflective signs. So on empty roads with signage I have to turn them on manually if I don’t want them to flick to dim constantly.

Seems like tech that should be a lot more reliable by now, instead of the two of us having opposite experiences.

Imagine a single payer world where our medical information being shared had no monetary impact.

Yeah, people can do other malicious things, but there wouldn’t a financial incentive for the companies or agencies that have access to it.