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How much of this can be attributed to conservative families finally getting the chance to enroll their kids into private religious schools via voucher programs?

Actually, how much can be attributed to voucher programs in general?

Head patagium

Sounds like a plan. Let's do it 👍

Anthropic didn't lose their lawsuit. They settled. Also, that was about their admission that they pirated zillions of books.

From a legal perspective, none of that has anything to do with AI.

Company pirates books -> gets sued for pirating books. Companies settles with the plaintiffs.

It had no legal impact on training AI with copyrighted works or what happens if the output is somehow considered to be violating someone's copyright.

What Anthropic did with this settlement is attack their Western competitor: OpenAI, specifically. Because Google already settled with the author's guild for their book scanning project over a decade ago.

Now OpenAI is likely going to have to pay the author's guild too. Even though they haven't come out and openly admitted that they pirated books.

Meta is also being sued for the same reason but they appear to be ready to fight in court about it. That case is only just getting started though so we'll see.

The real, long-term impact of this settlement is that it just became a lot more expensive to train an AI in the US (well, the West). Competition in China will never have to pay these fees and will continue to offer their products to the West at a fraction of the cost.

So what they're saying is that this person was clearly qualified to work for this administration.

We continue to believe that teams produce the best results when they're collaborating and inventing in person,

First of all, that's 100% bullshit.

Secondly, what about individuals‽ Ya know, the people that make up "the team."

Studies have shown that individuals produce the best results when they're working alone and not bothered regularly by office bullshit.

...but let's get more specific, because Amazon is talking about innovation and "inventing": Study after study has shown that the kind of "group brainstorming" that Amazon is referring to here produces worse results that having individuals work on ideas alone then pooling them together afterwards.

Literally the opposite of what they're claiming.

Amazon: Believe your own bullshit at your peril. Well, at the loss of tech talent I guess 🤷

As a Democrat, I say don't redact any of them! If there's Democrats in there, everyone needs to know. Everyone needs to know all the people involved!

Stop being pussies and use this as a proper stepping stone to remove your rivals in the GOP! That's how villain organizations are supposed to work!

Also remember who lives in Florida: Old, retired people.

I'd wager that the old people are going to have a much greater body count.

You've obviously never tried to get any given .NET project working in Linux. There's .NET and then there's .NET Core which is a mere subset of .NET.

Only .NET Core runs on Linux and nobody uses it. The list of .NET stuff that will actually run on .NET Core (alone) is a barren wasteland.

Both can be wrong at the same time but one—where the government is constantly tracking and judging their citizens—is much worse. What's even worse than that is if said government isn't a (real) democracy.

The longer a single leader is in power, the more problematic this style of surveillance becomes. Because it can be used against their political enemies at will, crushing dissent before it has a chance to take root.

It's the ultimate wall to (civil) progress and one of the biggest amplifiers of injustice that exists.

If it's written in C# that's a huge turn-off though because that means it's likely to only run on Windows.

I mean, in theory, it could run on Linux but that's a very rare situation. Almost everything ever written in C# uses Windows-specific APIs and basically no one installs the C# runtime on Linux anymore. It's both enormous and a pain in the ass to get working properly for any given C# project.

As an information security professional and someone who works on tiny, embedded systems, knowing that a project is written in Rust is a huge enticement. I wish more projects written in Rust advertised this fact!

Benefits of Rust projects—from my perspective:

• Don't have to worry about the biggest, most common security flaws. Rust projects can still have security flaws (anything can) but it's much less likely for certain categories of flaws.
• Super easy to build stuff from scratch. Rust's crates ecosystem is fantastic! Especially in the world of embedded where it's a godsend compared to dealing with C/C++ libraries.
• It's probably super low overhead and really fast (because Rust stuff just tends to be like that due to the nature of the language and that special way the borrow checker bitches at you when you make poor programming choices haha).
• It's probably cross-platform or trivially made cross-platform.