It’s the thing American IP companies care about the most.

As always US wants the data, they just don’t want anyone else to have it for free

I guarantee you that American data is going to Chinese companies. Temu has your data. Alibaba has your data. Bilibili has your data. They’re just getting it by purchasing from American data centers.

Most people are perfectly content to pay a reasonable price to get access to the things they want. But if you make that impossible, they’ll find other options.

That’s a sliding scale, though. Streaming comes at a fixed price.

Listen, I appreciate the perspective, but this is just an ad.

My man is going to get a permanent desk at TrashFuture if this keeps up.

Nevermind how cybersecurity is a niche field that can vary by use case and environment.

At some level, you’ll need to learn the security system of your company (or the lack there of) and the tools used by your department.

There is no class you can take that’s going to give you more than broad theory.

That link isn’t resolving.

I’m going to recommend it be changed to “The Gulf,” since it meets all criteria for a name change - most importantly that it be a name in common usage by locals.

So now when I refer to “The Gulf States”, I’m typically referring to Alabama and Florida and Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

You have drug cartels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_drug_trafficking_allegations

Memorization is not the same thing as critical thinking.

A library of internalized axioms is necessary for efficient critical thinking. You can’t just turn yourself into a Chinese Room of analysis.

A well designed test will freely give you an equation sheet or even allow a cheat sheet.

Certain questions are phrased to force the reader to pluck out and categorize bits of information, to implement complex iterations of simple formulae, and to perform long-form calculations accurately without regard to the formulae themselves.

But for elementary skills, you’re often challenging the individual to retain basic facts and figures. Internalizing your multiplication tables can serve as a heuristic that’s quicker than doing simple sums in your head. Knowing the basic physics formulae - your F = ma, ρ=m/V, f= V/λ etc - can give you a broader understanding of the physical world.

If all you know how to do is search for answers to basic questions, you’re slowing down your ability to process new information and recognize patterns or predictive signals in a timely manner.

Learning how to evade and disable AI is becoming a critical thinking skill unto itself. Feels a bit like how I’ve had to learn to navigate around advertisements and other intrusive 3rd party interruptions while using online services.

This isn’t a profound extrapolation. It’s akin to saying “Kids who cheat on the exam do worse in practical skills tests than those that read the material and did the homework.” Or “kids who watch TV lack the reading skills of kids who read books”.

Asking something else to do your mental labor for you means never developing your brain muscle to do the work on its own. By contrast, regularly exercising the brain muscle yields better long term mental fitness and intuitive skills.

This isn’t predicated on the gullibility of the practitioner. The lack of mental exercise produces gullibility.

Its just not something particular to AI. If you use any kind of 3rd party analysis in lieu of personal interrogation, you’re going to suffer in your capacity for future inquiry.

Reminds me of the time Vivek Ramaswamy bilked investors for over a billion with a phoney Alzeheimer’s drug

he helmed the leadership of Roivant, a multi-billion-dollar American pharmaceutical company he founded, and gallantly relinquished his CEO role in 2021 due to his unwavering stance against ESG principles, despite facing opposition from his liberal workforce. While this narrative might seem appealing, it is akin to the endless “flip-flops” that have plagued his campaign—an elaborate work of fiction that unravels upon a modicum of scrutiny.

Let’s start with the basics. Ramaswamy has funded his campaign through the sale of over $32 million in Roivant stock options in February of this year. This could lead one to believe that Roivant, based in Bermuda, is thriving and that Ramaswamy is a great entrepreneur. Except the company reported staggering losses of $1.2 billion in its financial report of March 2023. This isn’t a one-time slump: In March 2022, when Ramaswamy was still Roivant’s chairman and a major shareholder, the company reported an annual loss of $924.1 million.

Ramaswamy’s defenders may argue that Roivant performed better during his tenure as CEO in 2021, but alas, the numbers tell a different story. The reality is that Roivant’s finances were abysmal under Ramaswamy’s watch. During his tenure in 2019, the company’s net operating loss exceeded $530 million. By 2020, the losses had doubled to over $1 billion, accompanied by a 65 percent decline in revenue.

Apple’s outsourced just about every other aspect of its business to Chinese tech companies. I don’t see why this would be different.

just like we don’t use communal bath houses, or community heating, or unfortunately mass transit

Spas and apartments and buses/trains do absolutely exist. Only the former is considered “luxury” in the US, though.

Yes, group services can be a lot more efficient and more reliable but they’re also out of your control

Wasn’t Solar City’s whole gambit to effectively buy everyone’s roofs and lease them back for a fraction of their real market value?

I don’t think you escape “Own nothing and be happy” just by throwing up a few hundred watts of solar on an extension cord.

If you generate the power where it is used without pollution, we should.

Generators take space, require maintenance, and have a certain optimal capacity that isn’t necessarily hit on a given roof.

For wind energy in particular, the bigger the turbine, the more yield per $ spent. If you go out to Corpus Christi you’ll see these enormous turbines - $10M to $50M / ea - that generate on the order of $24 to $75 per MWh, or $.024-.075/kWh. Home wind/solar don’t get anywhere close to that.

Prime placement of units, distribution across a wide area, and a degree of storage capacity means you’re going to get better and more consistent yield.

Why would DeepSeek supposedly get more downloads from the app store?

Just for starters, its been in the news non-stop for weeks.

Patreon has it’s own internal hosting, yes. But is it still leaning on Azure/AWS? shrug Probably.

I’ve been getting NewPiped down, myself.

But it’s nice to see alternatives floating.

Hidden Figures. More or less “The Help” for NASA dweebs.

It concedes that black women were instrumental in developing and executing a successful space race, but gets really cagey around questions like “Why did NASA only have a White Men’s Restroom to begin with?”, “What caused us to omit people like this in films like Apollo 13 or The Right Stuff?”, and “How come the women who pioneered implementation of Fortran at NASA weren’t able to pivot into senior administrative roles, private contracting firms, or academic positions like their male peers?”