To me it reads like the execs at Amazon told the feds about some capability they were excited about, and the government officials either didn't understand it fully or overreacted to some small feature, panicked and went to ban it.

The internet is still on?

Yes and using the information on it isn't "stealing".

And turning off LLMs doesn't cut off access to that information.

Everything is easy when you've done a lot of it, that's how the brain works.

That's coasting though, or at best flow. Neither state makes you better. The entire point of making something easy is to be able to build on it.

I don't think this is accurate. In basically every single game or sport with measurable outcomes, doing things are relatively simple to you (and often enjoyable) endlessly - drives improvement.

If you want to make the argument that it's muscle memory in e.g. shooting freethrows in basketball, then you can see the exact same thing in doing chess tactical puzzles. There's even one successful learning method called the Woodpecker Method where you endlessly repeat over the same series of tactics working to get the time it takes you to do them down to essentially instantaneous. And it works excellently for improvement, and I obviously don't just mean improvement at doing that set of tactics.

The article is from 1 day ago, talks about something that happened two years ago, and includes this quote

> “We tried it,” says drone-maker[…]. “It’s a test. We never implemented it [more widely].”

That’s just advertising. Yes, mom and pop stores can advertise “just like” the multinational corporations can. Guess who gets the lion’s share of airtime and guess who has armies of men+machines crafting the most convincing messaging.

How is someone showing a 3D render with no products or services to buy from advertising to me? In addition, why does that matter if I enjoy the content?

It’s not “just” advertising. Again this is nuanced.

I honesty can’t say it’s better than Jira, the myriad options just make it a confusing mess to figure out how to navigate and put stuff (could be my company is just hella disorganized), and the GitHub tracking is annoyingly eager (just because the first PR has been merged doesn’t mean the ticket is done).

Maybe we work at the same company. I have the same experience. Don't know why people use it.

Say what you will about Jira, at least it’s not a total maze.

Guess you've never seen the administrative side?

On the contrary. I’ve been an admin more than not and configured it from scratch 4 or 5 times.

But even if the admin side is baroque, for a user just dealing with tickets and projects/epics it’s far less confusing.

The mistake you're making here is in the assumption that voters have any meaningful input on policy. Given the overwhelming majority of policy at both the state and federal level is drafted by lobbyists this assumption seems questionable at best.

I think the designation of the US as a flawed democracy is fair. We have free elections, yet (particularly at higher levels of government) rarely see popular mandates translate to governance.

But that's a feature of oligarchies more than it is of democracies.

Evidence suggests the US has been a de facto oligarchy since at least 2014:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...

It's an opportunity to pay off early investors who are unhappy with him cratering Twitter, xAI, etc.

> buyers decide the prices they'll buy at.

Not if they're index funds. They buy at the price it is, until they've satisfied their holdings represent the appropriate share of the market. Which, pre-IPO and early-days-after-IPO, is likely to not be accurate to the long-term price.

This, of course, is why it's wise to wait a while after an IPO for the market to figure out how it values a new stock before it joins the index.

How this is equivalent at all? The proper equivalence would be "You should be happy a random passerby decided to re-wire your home after watching a youtube tutorial and thank him accordingly".