It's interesting to combine this news article with http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews from yesterday and ask: ...
It's interesting to combine this news article with http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews from yesterday and ask: is this news item a waste of time? Scott's fundamental assertion is that the news is a waste of time because it can't possibly influence his actions (apart from politically, but he's happy to vote off of voter information brochures provided with the ballot, a kind of news proxy). The actors in this particular Snowden story are heads of state: Obama/Kerry/Hillary on the US side, and Merckel/Gabriel on the German side. At it's heart is the revelation by Gabriel to Greenwald (the author of the piece) that the US threatened Germany over Snowden. We already know that the USG over-whelminging considers Snowden a criminal and a traitor. (And one of his precious few supporters in the Senate, Mark Udall(D-NM) lost his re-election campaign. We already know that the USG has no moral scruples against taking any action it deems in it's interest. It has tortured and killed innocent people, lied to justify invading foreign countries, invaded the personal privacy of allied heads of state, and invaded the privacy of everyone in the world, including private US citizens and corporations. We already know that the US public, the final arbiter of what is right and wrong, isn't outraged by any of this enough to make a serious difference at the polls. What good does it do me to learn about one more way in which my government works against my interests and moral sensibilities?
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I think this release is really going to give them a hard time selling Fable: > On our benchmarks, Claude Opus 5.5 leads in agentic codin...
My biggest problem with this is that this regulation is only aimed at AI.
Because it works too reliably.
OCaml's type system is quite janky and simplistic compared to Haskell's.
This is a very annoying problem, it's infuriating, you pay 10 USD<->20 USD/mo, and the ads are not even removed.
These are markets that are being developed actively by car companies.
> We can see that because people who put their money where their mouths are, like venture capitalists, encourage those behaviors.
So what is the unmet need behind an obsession with sexless/child-like figures?
It's interesting to combine this news article with http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews from yesterday and ask: ...
It's interesting to combine this news article with http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews from yesterday and ask: is this news item a waste of time? Scott's fundamental assertion is that the news is a waste of time because it can't possibly influence his actions (apart from politically, but he's happy to vote off of voter information brochures provided with the ballot, a kind of news proxy). The actors in this particular Snowden story are heads of state: Obama/Kerry/Hillary on the US side, and Merckel/Gabriel on the German side. At it's heart is the revelation by Gabriel to Greenwald (the author of the piece) that the US threatened Germany over Snowden. We already know that the USG over-whelminging considers Snowden a criminal and a traitor. (And one of his precious few supporters in the Senate, Mark Udall(D-NM) lost his re-election campaign. We already know that the USG has no moral scruples against taking any action it deems in it's interest. It has tortured and killed innocent people, lied to justify invading foreign countries, invaded the personal privacy of allied heads of state, and invaded the privacy of everyone in the world, including private US citizens and corporations. We already know that the US public, the final arbiter of what is right and wrong, isn't outraged by any of this enough to make a serious difference at the polls. What good does it do me to learn about one more way in which my government works against my interests and moral sensibilities?
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