You two have proved me wrong. The US has a super engaged voter base. Right?

WaPo is a mouthpiece for Bezos, and he’d rather have AWS AI be the writers.

Congrats on being in the one in four who did, depending on how easy it is to bot those results. 25%. To a major event.

Let me ask you: When have you watched a political speech, and not just sound bytes? For most people, left or right, the answer is never. A ton of Republicans have never seen a single thing Trump has said or done, outside of what they see on the news. The same goes for Harris. We are a politically disengaged people.

Those who know history are doomed to repeat it with those who don’t.

Why wouldn’t you use AI as a shortcut if you can? Can you actually replace senior devs with AI? I’m sure that depends on the company and what they consider a “senior dev”. Maybe there’s some not-so-senior senior devs that should be worried.

It isn’t. Nonprofits don’t have a ton of money, and implementing strong security controls takes money and time away from other activities. Small businesses have a lot of trouble for the same reason.

Good. There’s a lot of non-programmers who are now bad ones and are using AI to make their ideas real. It’s made programming way more accessible to people who would never learn before.

Sure, but how many foods are we talking here? This sounds like probably <20 rows on a sheet, with columns for ingredients.

Tracking a single cat doesn’t seem like DB work

Why wouldn’t a simple spreadsheet and some pivot tables work?

He just wants mineral rights

No shit, that’s the whole point of what he’s saying. It’s hard to be convinced becuse that’s part of the strategy.

There’s really only two classes: People with “fuck you” money and people without “fuck you” money.

Who would have thought that simply robbing an entire nation and giving all the proceeds to your corrupt friends would lead to an inability to manufacture practically everything? TIL

They’re going to have to start figuring out sentiment without polling, which is a lot harder.

Polling got way harder after everyone ditched land lines. Nate Silver went from near perfect handicapping in 2008/2012 to abysmal predictions from 2016 onward.

That’s an unrealized gain to the tax man, but a bank won’t loan you money against it, because like you said, it could drop to zero. If you hold a short position in a company that goes bankrupt then there’s no mechanism for the value to drop after that point. It’s a glitch in the market that can be exploited, if you’re rich enough.

Spoiler alert: None of them are watching. All they get is the chosen sound bites.

Investors short a company. As the value drops, the value of the short increases. When the company goes bankrupt, the short play reaches full value, since it costs 0 to buy the shares. It also means that gain is unrealized and has permanent value until the short is exercised, which they never do because it’s a taxable event.

Unrealized stock gains are companies that have been shorted into bankruptcy, so the value doesn’t change.