I work in an industry that does a lot with Metal-Organic Frameworks. I'm not a chemical or materials engineer, but have learned a lot about them just by being around it. These scientists have developed something that I suppose could be useful in very specific circumstances, but engineering and producing MOF's is generally both very expensive and very toxic. I wonder what real-world problems this might solve.
I concur on all points but this one:
"we need only see Congress get a clue that maybe their rules on mining for rare earth metals need to be updated so it's not prohibitively expensive to mine them"
Not really. The US can mine although it could be better. The problem is the refining, which is admittedly "dirty." I bet, however, that non-monetary incentives in addition to deregulation could make it attractive for full-cycle rare-earth production in the US.
I think you have a vastly optimistic view of what psychotropic medicine can do. It's all just percussive maintenance, same as electroshock. Just pray you don't hit the wrong place too hard.
I think TP's point was, how could any of us know either way? We can't, because the proper research hasn't been allowed and that's a shame.
It was not. It was chanted by those who wanted to reduce the potential pay for 'coders'. Hell, even the name 'coders' devalues what is done for programming.
No it wasn't. It was chanted in the name of destroying jobs for in service of "Climate Change." That's not to say Climate Change isn't real...it is, but those jobs didn't need to be wiped out overnight to fix a much longer term problem AND make a few people really rich.
It's probably a calculation of "Does OpenAI have more money for lawyers than the big studios do?" The answer might be "Yes."
Queue the "AI Safety Department" layoffs and statements from the AI companies that they have no safety protocols to monitor.
By the same token Epic is claiming against Google's "monopoly" (in this case.) The stated legal problem with monopolies is that they harm the consumer. There is no evidence that buying Epic's product direct from Epic or from their store will reduce cost for the consumer. Instead it seems Epic will just be able to charge the about same and keep more of the proceeds. So the consumer remains in the same position, Epic just makes more profit. Epic's whole argument is stupid, because in the end they are the "harmed" party.
Yes, the OSS community perhaps including Universities and the like, SHOULD come together to fill the gaps VMWare currently can fill. But that doesn't solve the problem for schools/organizations who already can't afford to keep their VMWare instances licenses or more importantly patched.
And for crying out loud, VirtualBox does not replace ESXi/vSphere/vCenter AT ALL! It's similar in feature set to VMWare Workstation, but VMWare Workstation isn't the thing anyone is complaining about.
Read my entire comment, namely this part: "If it can provide the same service". I don't know enough about to the two, but I do know that VirtualBox does provide virtualization.
You're right. You don't know enough about the two.
That California was more diligent in tracking covid deaths while Florida deliberately went out of its way to hide its numbers.
And yet, you quote Florida's numbers? Which is it?
"Surviving" is not how I would describe the mode that most U.S. Universities are in.
I think the point is that MBA's are trained to increase efficiency of profit. To that end, fairness is irrelevant.
I don't think that it's a problem of there not being demand. There probably just won't be enough demand to support all of the infrastructure being built. These big AI-players have a choice. They can either bet big and build big now and hope to be one of the last standing when the market shakes out, or they can not play at all and lose for sure. When it's all said and done (5 years?) there will only be a few big AI players still standing, and they are probably names we already know. That is the nature of the tech business.
All hail Oracle Enterprise Apps and SAP. They may suck, but they're the survivors in the big shake-out of that market.
They should just have their Legal AI talk to Disney's Legal AI. I'm sure they'll sort it all out, albeit in Sanskrit.
Of course the administration is looking at taxing some foreign employment as labor imports as well. So it is likely that this is one of a multiple prong approach to a broader protectionist strategy for American knowledge workers. I just hope the current bunch can stay in office long enough to implement it all.
That is the key point here. If one assumes this is a stand-alone policy they may be correct that it will fail, and in any case it may, but it is different than past policy which we know didn't work well for US labor. Further, this administration (whether one loves them or hates them,) is clearly using complex policy on almost every front. Again, I don't know if any of it will work and may not simply because of its cross-dependencies, but what we were doing before wasn't sustainable, so I'm game for a new approach.
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