Probably the pipes get ugly if the plumber is trying to install 11s and 22s. Probably they will have a different idea.

Right, and on the other hand they are risking state prison.

If they are acting illegally, they could in theory face state charges for assault and battery. In theory. Because they have no arrest powers. Maybe. Right? That’s the tricky point.

So they would have to be super confident to not find out the scope of their authority.

The article is also full of bullshit and it gets basic history wrong. The agreement was never made, but to the extent it exists anyway, it was never supposed to be about a monopoly that’s destroying shit. Once upon a time, not even very long ago, there were competing search engines.

I know tech writers want to write stories that sound fancy, but if they don’t know the facts and the history then they need to find someone to proofread their work more carefully.

And maybe that’s okay, isn’t it?

Protests turn into riots when the police wanted to, exactly then, and very rarely before that point.

We can blame the officials. Don’t let the heckler’s veto work. It’s murder of course, but it’s also bullying. And capitulation only makes it worse next time. They’ll always have lunatics with guns.

Why? That question always has multiple answers. Are you asking for a historical timeline? That might be the true story, but it also might not feel compelling.

Above all else, remember that Reddit feels many sources of pressure. They want money and users, but they also need to limit spam, and they don’t wanna piss off the rich stock holders, either.

qpdf is handy for merging PDFs. Command line but quick to learn for most usage.

I don’t think we can accept your argument, because in point in fact Hong Kong was an independent country. Certainly trying to disagree but now we’re getting into a definition question, but if that’s going to stop us from applying the proposed principle, then we can do that in every situation.

Just what is a right, anyway?

Well no, it’s not, because they have multiple monopolies. So we should blame them and blame government for not stopping them.

You’re straw manning. Please don’t.

Recognizing that violence has in fact “been the answer” to various circumstances in the past, and will be in the future, is different from saying everyone should pick up a gun today.

Violence is never the answer … if you ignore all of human history, yes. Sadly, it often has been, though.

Historically you are wrong, though. Mixed pressure has value and can be effective… But surely you know that, right?

Obviously the situations are different. We all know that. The point is that it’s hypocritical of a company to say hey, let’s ask our employees to do more by throwing AI at them, and then getting pissed off when potential employees do the same thing.

Although I think it’s more funny than anything else. The company found out that people are gaming the system, which means they have a really shitty system, and rather than change how they interview people or what types of questions they ask, they’re just acting obstinate.

I think we’ve seen enough changes in social media platforms over the past few decades to say that your claim is true until it’s not. As payments to content creators fall, and as garbage postings increase, the actual value to the average user of the site is clearly decreasing. So we’ll see how long YouTube is relevant.

So you’re saying that other options do exist but some companies don’t want to use them because Microsoft is very popular, which is kind of a circular thing, and I understand, but it’s a sign of laziness, not quality.

I think he’s trying to bait people into threatening his life, so that he can send people out to their houses and arrest them. What he doesn’t realize is that most people are smarter than that, and they won’t talk, they will simply act as necessary in order to defend themselves.

Many people in the world, they don’t know the difference between an expert system and an LLM. Or, to phrase it a different way, many people think that AI is equivalent to generative AI.

I think that’s largely a result of marketing bullshit and terrible reporting. Of course it would be good if people could educate themselves, but to some degree we expect that the newspaper won’t totally fail us, and then when it does, people just don’t realize they got played.

On a personal note, I’m a teacher, and some of my colleagues are furious that our students are using grammar checkers because they think grammar checkers are AI, and they think grammar checkers were invented in the last 3 years. It’s really wild because some of these colleagues are otherwise smart people who I’m certain have personal experience with Microsoft Word 20 years ago, but they’ve blocked it out of their mind, because somehow they’re afraid that all AI is evil.