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  1. David Mayer

    After market tumult, Trump exempts smartphones from massive new tariffs

    More than you could reasonably imagine.
  2. David Mayer

    Researchers find AI is pretty bad at debugging—but they’re working on it

    My brain says that the other half it provides a solution that it claims helps but it doesn't solve the problem and wastes substantially more time than would otherwise been spent on the problem, possibly leading to a scenario where using the AI actually reducing productivity. That's why I asked.
  3. David Mayer

    Russia’s space chief is “very unhappy” with “hostile” US policy

    This system works on video, not still images; the motion detection technique used is extremely robust, incredibly powerful and already eliminates massive portion of the noise.
  4. David Mayer

    Russia’s space chief is “very unhappy” with “hostile” US policy

    The video claims that even incredibly noisy images are a non issue, which makes sense. From the comments:
  5. David Mayer

    Russia’s space chief is “very unhappy” with “hostile” US policy

    You guys remember the conversation about detecting stealth aircraft with cheap cameras and powerful computers, well, looks like someone gave the problem a crack and that it works better than any of us imagined. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-b51C82-UE
  6. David Mayer

    Russia’s space chief is “very unhappy” with “hostile” US policy

    My point exactly.
  7. David Mayer

    Russia’s space chief is “very unhappy” with “hostile” US policy

    This vulgarity has no place on ars.
  8. David Mayer

    Holy water brimming with cholera compels illness cluster in Europe

    Why would God do this?
  9. David Mayer

    Streaming price hikes more likely amid uncertainty around global taxes, economy

    This becomes more true for more people every day and the prospect for a change in this trend is limited.
  10. David Mayer

    Streaming price hikes more likely amid uncertainty around global taxes, economy

    Taxation in countries with a functioning democracy generally isn't the result of greed.
  11. David Mayer

    Russia’s space chief is “very unhappy” with “hostile” US policy

    Say it ain't so!
  12. David Mayer

    Researchers find AI is pretty bad at debugging—but they’re working on it

    Claude is not an thing to which applying this term makes sense.
  13. David Mayer

    Researchers find AI is pretty bad at debugging—but they’re working on it

    And the other half?
  14. David Mayer

    Amazon’s Chinese sellers to raise prices or quit US market as tariffs hit 145%

    I think that may be the healthiest critique of economics today.
  15. David Mayer

    Amazon’s Chinese sellers to raise prices or quit US market as tariffs hit 145%

    Economics is the study of human behaviour. If you ignore a large part of how humans have behaved in the past and how they behave today, your conclusions about how they will behave well be flawed. I'm not making an argument in favour of or against any given economic system, or tools like currency.
  16. David Mayer

    Amazon’s Chinese sellers to raise prices or quit US market as tariffs hit 145%

    This take is completely divorced from the reality that is the mostly healthy unemployment rate for nearly the entire time period in question.
  17. David Mayer

    Amazon’s Chinese sellers to raise prices or quit US market as tariffs hit 145%

    One of the first things people are taught about economics is the story of how currency was created as a result of the deficiencies of barter, while COMPLETELY ignoring what came before barter, credit/debt based economies, and what came before that, people just doing what they can to help the...
  18. David Mayer

    Amazon’s Chinese sellers to raise prices or quit US market as tariffs hit 145%

    You do realize that free trade reduces the likelihood of armed conflict, right?
  19. David Mayer

    Amazon’s Chinese sellers to raise prices or quit US market as tariffs hit 145%

    LOL
  20. David Mayer

    Elon Musk wants to be “AGI dictator,” OpenAI tells court

    When two enemies fight, celebrate quietly.