Let's have a look, shall we?

Shortly after the Post story broke, social media companies blocked links to it, while other news outlets declined to publish the story due to concerns about provenance and suspicions of Russian disinformation.[8] On October 19, 2020, an open letter signed by 51 former US intelligence officials warned that the laptop "has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation."[9] By May 2023, no evidence had publicly surfaced to support suspicions that the laptop was part of a Russian disinformation scheme.

All that proves is that hindsight is 20/20. At the time the story was suspected by experts to be bogus, and in your view an impartial news media would have run with it anyway? The "fair and balanced" media certainly did. You might also recall that nothing came out of the laptop "scandal" other than a gun charge for Hunter. The idea that the laptop implicated the "Biden Crime Family" remains domestic misinformation. Moving on.

"On January 10, 2017, CNN reported that classified documents presented to Obama and Trump the previous week included allegations that Russian operatives possess "compromising personal and financial information" about Trump. CNN said it would not publish specific details on the reports because it had not "independently corroborated the specific allegations".[126][134] Following the CNN report,[135] BuzzFeed published a 35-page draft dossier that it said was the basis for the briefing, including unverified claims that Russian operatives had collected "embarrassing material" involving Trump that could be used to blackmail him. BuzzFeed said the information included "specific, unverified, and potentially unverifiable allegations of contact between Trump aides and Russian operatives".

So Buzzfeed published the dossier, and you're mad at CNN? Unrelated, while the more salacious details were never proven, the broader claims that Russia interfered with the election and the extensive ties between Russian nationals and Trump campaign people were true.

TL;DR - To demonstrate how biased the mainstream "liberal" press is, you offered up two detailed examples of them treating unverified information responsibly.

A reduction in the ratio of workers to non-workers on a global basis is going to make the society poorer, period. It doesn't matter what accounting games you play to try to get around it, e.g. in the form of a promise stated in law (i.e. Social Security) or promissory notes in computer files assigned to specific individuals (i.e. the Stock Market). What that might accomplish is shifting the distribution of wealth, probably even further to retirees. But on a global basis, the amount of wealth generated each year must equal the amount consumed. There is no real long-term storage of wealth. Only lending agreements to allow somebody to buy now pay later by matching them up with another party who wants to do the reverse.

Interesting contrast. In the US, there are 144 colleges with endowments of over $1B. In the UK, there are exactly 2 with 1B EUR each: Oxford and Cambridge. No other college in the UK has over 300M.

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I understand the knee-jerk reaction to the title, but this reeks of someone who never even read the publication. The very first mainstream publication to advocate for gay marriage. One of the only skeptics of the Gulf War at the time.

The world needs more thinkers, and fewer knee-jerk reactions.

Uh.... not even close. There might be a particular reason the felt tip is still made in Japan, but I can gauran-damn-tee that it isn't because Japan is the only one who make quality items at scale.

The trick I've had to use was to get to the MVP, maybe 800-1600 LOC, and then draw some lines where you see the seams, have it refactor it into 3-6 main files, and split it across there. Then close the conversation and start a new one, and keep iterating. Once a file gets over ~1200 LOC I ask it to split that file and refactor, and summarize any particularly tricky chunks of code. I haven't tried adding new complex large features on an existing codebase, but it seems to be really good at spinning up and iterating on MVP/POC up to ~5000-7000 LOC. I've been burning through my "programming ideas" backlog/list in my spare time with good success, particularly in rust.

For the loss of basic writing skills.

How about if this one guys is 1 million times better off and he uses his insane wealth to install a raging fascist in the White House who ruins everybody's lives and threatens world peace?

I can easily do without the technological disruption this one guy, and all the other guys like him, bring about.

is fine if it doesn't create obscene inequalities and equally obscene psychopathic billionaires. If that's the cost of disruptive technology, I'm perfectly happy to hamper it.

I was about to say the same thing. It's really a sad statement on the state of processor development when the metric isn't an awe-inspiring number of operations per second but a depressingly high power consumption value.

Did you even watch it before running your mouth?

I'm tempted to agree. But I will say this, you know how people say, "ohh, I had all this apple stock, but I sold it in 2008 because I was already up by a factor of 10." And now it's up by another factor of 50. Well, this is then, for some small number of companies... but which?

You know what company I think is poised to make a vast amount of money on AI? Waymo. (That is, Alphabet, as in google). I know, Alphabet is already valued at $3T which seems pretty insane...

Someone should go to jail for this

Please, please call it MAGAputer.

What's wrong with running a secondary coolant loop at hundreds of degrees? Assuming we have all this energy to play with (run a compressor).

The economics, on the other hand, yeah you wouldn't think so. But you would think Bezos would pay somebody to run some numbers before backing the idea in public.

In the old days I would have said the DoD (now hosted at http://war.gov/ - impressive!?) would surely pioneer this. But these days big tech is so much richer than even the military-industrial complex.