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Seems not tinfoil and rather plausibly a pragmatic decision by the prosecution.


Would be a good day to have that enshrined in case law, maybe the US government would let me work on rocket GNC if code can’t be export controlled at all


when did local prosecution got a training in international politics and commerce interests?


Federal interests can easily tell the local prosecutor "hey, don't prosecute this, it risks setting bad precedent".


The market is liquid enough to absorb a sale for $400K.


Sure. Presumably also the developers at FooLabs would like to continue having a job developing Foo, and the broader software community would like to continue benefiting from additional features and improvements to Foo, which probably wouldn't happen if developing Foo was economically unviable.


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Instruction is not the only way to interact with an LLM. In tuning LLMs to the assistant persona, they become much less useful for a lot of tasks, like naming things or generating prose.


California benefits from a dominant market position. If you have the choice to found where the investors and the talent are, why would you pick Canada when the tax is the same?


Here's an alternative perspective: the low activation energy and addictive design has resulted in people crowding into the dating app strategy (to their own detriment).

If this is true, real-world approaches might be a better strategy than they historically have been.

There's a poll that indicated most young women want to be approached more: https://datepsychology.com/risk-aversion-and-dating/


approached more... by whom? what does that person look like?

and where? there used to be 3rd places, community events (church, etc.), etc., where this could happen.

i mean i'd like more good looking people hitting on me at convenient times, too


There used to be churches, indeed. I can look over my screen and see one about thirty yards away.

Apart from churches, there are quite a few community events and activities I can think of that could draw on the unattached: tree plantings, park cleanups (I know there will be one in my neighborhood on Earth Day), tutoring, soup kitchens, etc.


I figure not every restaurant has the money/motivation to invest in the mobile POS and so it's still not super common.


Handheld card readers are price competitive, or at least marginally more expensive. I’d attribute it more to the time investment of switching POS systems.


Everything is weird in the US so can't tell how different it would be, but in Chile you can get a handheld personal car reader [1][2] for around ~25USD to 50USD, even if they needed something more specialized I really can't see them becoming prohibitively expensive, even the matching POS from the same company is just like 400USD[3]

[1]https://sumupchile.com/products/lector-air?variant=399949779... [2]https://sumupchile.com/products/lector-solo [3]https://sumupchile.com/products/punto-de-venta


I can get the same deal here if I look for it, nothing special about Chile, etc. Most restaurant/business owners aren't tech savvy and will switch when their equipment fails, not to keep up with tech trends.


No one is literally spitting, but Apple intentionally creates enough friction that Android users really do regularly get excluded from group chats in the US where iMessage is the convention for group chats.


Chat app friction is not being spat on which is what the OP literally said. Perceived inconvenience is not persecution.


You may not have ever experienced this yourself, but it's a known cultural phenonemon. Here's a New York Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/29/technology/personaltech/a...

> Over time, the annoyance and frustration that built up between blue and green bubbles evolved into more than a tech problem. It created a deeper sociological divide between people who judged one another by their phones. The color of a bubble became a symbol that some believe reflects status and wealth, given a perception that only wealthy people buy iPhones.

...

> On dating apps, green-bubble users are often rejected by the blues. Adults with iPhones have been known to privately snicker to one another when a green bubble taints a group chat. In schools, a green bubble is an invitation for mockery and exclusion by children with iPhones, according to Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that focuses on technology’s impact on families.

> “This green-versus-blue issue is a form of cyberbullying,” said Jim Steyer, the chief executive of Common Sense, which works with thousands of schools that have shared stories about tensions among children using messaging apps.


That's very unfortunate and all, but, again, it's not spitting. I don't think it's correct or good to say you were spat on by iphone users for having an android phone as if you were being persecuted for your religious beliefs or race, especially if it literally never happened. You can just factually describe events. The OP doesn't need to lie or grossly exaggerate.


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Holy shit you really are this obtuse. The last time you were in a meeting and someone said "well my hands are tied..." did you boggle and demand of the room to explain the invisible rope?

No. I would calmly listen to what they were telling me. What I did not do was swear and declare they were being really obtuse. And I would certainly not claim they were literally spitting on me just because I got an answer I didn't like or that was inconvenient to me.


But their hands aren't literally tied! I mean, they literally said their hands were tied! And there was no rope! They were a fucking liar!

Look, either you have a basic understanding of how human communication includes metaphore, analogy, imagery, equation, in which case you deserve to be derided mercilessly for wasting everyone's time with a bad faith argument, or you don't, in which case I apologize for picking on someone handicapped. I don't like kicking puppies.

You can pick! I'm super generous that way!

And, since this needs explaining, I know that you are not literally a puppy. I would not literally kick you, or a puppy. You see, the word "puppy" in this context is just a stand-in to express the concept of something helpless and innocent and powerless and good-natured on top of all that.


Fo someone who doesn't like being metaphorically spit upon, you sure do like swearing at me and calling me names.


What a great way to prove how you didn't deserve this terribly unjust ridicule.

Please quote where I said I felt spit on and didn't like it.


Bi-gram aka pairs of words


I think it was a rhetorical question.


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