The won't be the first to annoy a judge with imaginary citations.

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* have been far too many

Is there a way to edit? I don't see one...

If it wasn't so easy to kill people by the dozen I would agree. But there have been had too many people who have done far too much harm after mental illness has gone untreated.

The killings ain't gonna stop until people who need help get help. Affordability isn't the entire solution, but is a necessary part of a solution. Using mental health resources also needs to be normalized, as routine as seeing a family doctor.

If you haven't worked on antispam for a consumer domain like outlook, Gmail, Yahoo, etc, then you likely underestimate just for hard it is.

  It's nothing like antispam for companies that only give email addresses to their employees. The attack volume is magnitudes greater, for both inbound and outbound. There is also a much smaller difference between desired bulk mail (like newsletters) and abusive bulk mail.

The amount of email that gets blocked at the IP level is staggering, even though connection based filtering has a high bar because it's so hard to troubleshoot.

It's another world entirely.

The people who think that CS should be a graduation requirement need to meet up with the people who claim that English is the hottest new programming language and sort this shit out. .

The claim that QM was "disbelieved by Einstein" is deeply misleading.

The guy won a nobel prize for showing that light is quantized, and if there is one idea that's key to QM it's that one.

He believed that QM was incomplete, but that's VERY different from saying that he didn't believe it was accurate.

Plenty of physicists today are still investigating the foundations of QM, because like Einstein they believe that QM is accurate, and they also believe that we still have more to learn.

"Just to be clear, tariffs do not always have a deflationary impact; it depends on how they interact with the monetary regime."
- the article you linked to

"If amazon pays the tarrifs they can deduct them from their taxes."

Citation needed. I did a quick search but only found things that contradict this claim.

If that's true, it would significantly affect my view of tariffs.

It would also lead me to wonder why anyone would expect them to help with trade imbalances. If the consumer pays the same amount with and without tariffs, what the point?

Also, does Amazon even pay any taxes? Or are they just putting all of their free cash into datacenter construction and other sorts of investments?

Reddit to bot operators: Sure, go ahead and sign up with negligible validation, we don't care.

Reddit to bot operators who share their results: How dare you!

Mandating tactical solutions to a strategic problem seems like a good way to discover just how creative Google can be at furthering its strategic goals by engineering workaround to the tactical mandates.

What does Chrome have to do with AdSense?

Just for starters...

It tells Google where people go, so they can crawl and index those pages later, and sell ads next to those search results.

It also recently updated its extension API to defeat a popular ad blocker. There's a significant conflict of interest in owning both the biggest and platform and the most popular browser.

Google should be forced to sell Chrome because Chrome is a tool that Google uses to support its monopoly.

VC investing is all about placing a large number of big bets on companies that will mostly fail, in the hope that just one or two will have 100x returns.

After 10 investments, it's a win if 8 fail, 1 breaks even, and one is the big hit that makes everyone rich despite the failures.

So, betting on a series of failed fusion startups doesn't sound out-of-character at all. Everyone in the VC world expects most of them to fail, but everyone also knows that one success is likely to make all of the investors rich despite the failures.

I do. I was cheering for them, because their idea was quite a bit outside-the-box. Basically they were going to shoot a big gun at a carefully constructed target in hopes of triggering enough fusion to extract more power than it took to fire the gun. One of the early atomic bombs used a similar approach, though I don't think first light intended to release anywhere near that much energy per cycle.

I'm sad that it didn't pan out.

Fusion is hard. I hope their pivot is able to raise enough funding for them to take another shot* at projectile fusion.

* Pun fully intended.

There were similar slumps after the 2001 crash, the 2008 crash, and a smaller one around 2012.

We had a good run. Software salaries got extremely high around 2020-2021 as demand for developers greatly exceeded supply. And that bubble popped.

But I don't think this downturn will last longer than the others before it.

Yes, AI is a thing, and that's going to increase productivity, but I've never worked for a company that felt like it had enough people to write all of the software that it wanted written.

(And by the time AI can do that job, it's going to do ALL of the desk jobs, followed by labor jobs not long after. That's going to be a very different world.)

Something Sean Carroll said on his podcast a little while back... these were not his exact words, but the gist was:

If you train a piece of software on every example of written human communication that you can find, the fact that it generates text that sounds something a human would write is the least surprising thing in the world. When it writes something that looks like it came from a human, that probably means that its training data contained something that a human wrote in response to a similar prompt.

I'm inclined to agree.