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The other side is lack of colourfast pigments back then. Underlayers would be cheap and colourfast. Top layers would usually be more expensive and deteriorate much more quickly.


Most colourfast pigments are minerals, and many of them are found in the natural world (purple hues being notoriously absent). Ultramarine, cadmium red, and lead white have been known since ancient times.


If you read the rhetoric it is not about removing commercial exploitation of children. It is about removing child bullying, grooming and algorithms that lead to things like misogynist content and eating disorders.

I generally agree with parent commenter - some of this will be helped by the ban but theres a serious risk a small number will go through fringe social media even less policed or normalised than the big American ones and have much higher risk on some of these issues than before.


The bar is incredibly low considering what OpenAI has done as a "not for profit"


You need get a bunch of accountants to agree on what's profit first..


Agree against their best interest, mind you!


I dont think youd get less rich-people-friendly decisions from ccongress. It may well be the opposite. Certainly it removes some of the separation of powers.


No but i think you get more accountability and visibility. Right now we could never do this but in a functioning democracy I think it would be prudent.

In civil law when there is no clear precedent congress gets involved preventing the kind of critisisms we get in our legal system of activist judges ect.


One view is that the western idea of "good taste" was informed by people looking at greek and roman statues and buildings and incorrectly assuming they were always intended to be plain.


Sort of explains a lot doesn’t it


I can see it for programmers. Here you can use industry standard python libraries (shapely, geopandas etc.). Nobody really wants to learn PyQGIS (the python interface for qgis). So while qgis is much more full featured for "desktop" gis (designed to compete with esri arcgis) i can see the use case here for people who want to build their own extensions and port code from this to other python projects more easily.


A huge part of poorly designed roads is wider lanes (and parking spaces) that allow/encourage huge cars. Its been proven that narrower lanes correlate strongly with lower crash and fatality rates (e.g. [0] below) yet lane widths are under pressure to increase with larger vehicles, and every time this happens the vehicles get larger again.

[0] https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2023/narrower-lanes-safer-stree...


I heard the fire department wants wide lanes so they can drive around in those huge behemoths they love.


People living in buildings that are currently aflame tend to be fans of those behemoths. Speaking from experience.


In Europe they're smaller. I don't know if the fires are also smaller.


Surely that's not THE determining factor behind American transportation system.

Because if it is - seems easy and cheap to fix.


But they can easily use more than one lane, why should they care about lane width?


It is part of it. Notjustbikes did a video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2dHFC31VtQ


Higher speeds, too.


Its a division of responsibilities thing isnt it? "Proper coders" in python or whatever provide up to an API. Past that its basically the web devs domain and they live in JS land


Agree, that is why I am confused by his question to me. Like SSR should be the default. Why does your server by default "hydrate" the client bundle. Why can't the client bundle request data as it needs it (then we can only request what the user needs). Skeleton UI it while you fetch. Then you have great page load time because you just return a static HTML+JS bundle that was non-conditionally built. In SSR it talks to the DB before it even constructs the bundle, that is oof right? So you are faster because you don't even gen the HTML until you talked to the DB? I give the user plain HTML instantly and talk to the DB while I give them a UI indicating its loading. SSR just moved the load time to before initial render. Stupid IMO.


> But as long as OpenAI remains the go-to for the average consumer, they be fine.

This is like the argument of a couple of years ago "as long as Tesla remains ahead of the Chinese technology...". OpenAI can definitely become a profitable company but I dont see anything to say they will have a moat and monopoly.


They're the only ones making AI with a personality. Yeah, you don't need chocolate flavored protein shakes but if I'm taking it every day, I get sick of the vanilla flavor.


Huh? They're actively removing personality from current models as much as possible.


Did you mean the GPT-5 launch? They put it back in within 2 weeks, despite the side effects and bugs. It was pretty clear that it's their value proposition.


He means chatGPT means AI to most people.


The process is interesting but just to make the point - I often see Americans obsessing over the implementability of land valuation processes as if its entirely new and needs to be invented when other states and countries have established systems that have been working for in many cases over a century.

For instance below from Australia

https://www.nsw.gov.au/housing-and-construction/land-values-...


You're aware that you're citing the policies of the province that contains the second most expensive place in the world to own a home, right? Sydney is worse than the Bay Area when adjusted for incomes, and most other cities in Australia are almost as bad.


Most Americans spend about 0 seconds of their lives thinking about land valuation methods, unless you count complaining about how their property taxes are too high (which is a global phenomenon in my experience).

And every municipality in the US is able to assess property currently, though how good of a job they do varies of course.

This site, as does reddit and a couple other similar places online, has a very vocal portion of the userbase that spends a significant amount of time obsessing over socialist policies that are wildly unpopular overall and largely impossible to implement at this time.

Don't take it as a representation of Americans overall.


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