If I were an adversarial state to the US I would certainly applaud all those initiatives and Big Beautiful Bills from the current US administration.
In time, it seems to me that those will drive the US economy right into a solid brick wall.
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This is the only power they have left.
The UK government has lost control of what happen in the physical world on their own island so now the bureaucrats play a fantasy game where they are gonna enforce their rules and dominion in their former colonies or the digital world.
So ... if the USA was ok with kid pornography then everyone else in the world would be forced to be ok with that too?
Sorry but other countries are totally right to block whatever they deem to be USA shit.
realo commented on Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears telegraph.co.uk/business/... · Posted by u/pera
Speaking of Netflix -
I think the image, video, audio, world model, diffusion domains should be treated 100% separately from LLMs. They are not the same thing.
Image and video AI is nothing short of revolutionary. It's already having huge impact and it's disrupting every single business it touches.
I've spoken with hundreds of medium and large businesses about it. They're changing how they bill clients and budget projects. It's already here and real.
For example, a studio that does over ten million in revenue annually used to bill ~$300k for commercial spots. Pharmaceutical, P&G, etc. Or HBO title sequences. They're now bidding ~$50k and winning almost everything they bid on. They're taking ten times the workload.
As long as you do not make ads with four-fingered hands, like those clowns ... :)
https://www.lapresse.ca/arts/chroniques/2025-07-08/polemique...
realo commented on More women than expected are genetically men (2016) novonordiskfonden.dk/en/n... · Posted by u/pavel_lishin
The article isn't talking about trans people, it's talking about Androgen insensitivity and similar genetic disorders. AFAICT from a quick read, they are no more curable than Downe's Syndrome is.
I know all that. Sorry for the too subtle cynism of my previous comment!
realo commented on More women than expected are genetically men (2016) novonordiskfonden.dk/en/n... · Posted by u/pavel_lishin
tl;dr: "One in 15,000 males is born and grows up as a girl. .. this group is up to 50% larger than previously assumed"
Well... that would be more than 20,000 USA-ians. Soon targeted for deportation? Or maybe some therapy ... you know ... to make them 'normal' again.
realo commented on More women than expected are genetically men (2016) novonordiskfonden.dk/en/n... · Posted by u/pavel_lishin
Nothing in biology is really binary anyways. Male and female are just useful groupings because we’re a sexually dimorphic species, but as with anything in nature, that’s mostly a spectrum anyways, with strong representations at the anchoring ends.
There is a certain degree of muted cynicism in the parent comment that is quite delightful...
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Could you link to some analysis on this?
There you go.
https://pedestrianobservations.com/2019/03/03/why-american-c...
And if one asks Claude.ai , one gets this:
Bottom Line: US infrastructure costs are dramatically higher than Europe - often 10-30 times more expensive for transit projects, with subway construction in NYC costing $3.2 billion per kilometer compared to just $100 million per kilometer in cities like Madrid.
I guess my ignorance shows here but I can only be impressed by their perfect symmetry, the perfect round little balls etc...
I understand skill was certainly required, but how were those made, exactly 2,000 years ago?
Hand-woven rugs, on the other hand, are largely unique in design and created by a single person.