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Captainant

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  1. More simply put: we live in an oligarchy. Once you are sufficiently wealthy, you are above reproach
  2. A fascist, using the levers of government as a cudgel? That just sounds completely preposterous!
  3. I think this is missing a big opportunity in linguistic data science. Parents are thick, complex documents that are hard to parse through. If the USPTO were to do a feature extraction (which uses genAI mechanisms and models) on its corpus of patents that would greatly simplify the process of checking for prior examples when processing new applications. Transformers are still being explored and learned about, but they already have great use as a tool for processing large and disparate sets of data - like patents. Retrieval augmented generation and feature searching through documents is going to be very transformative. A customer of mine is exploring a similar technique for getting their arms around their huge fleet of contracts where every region has their own way of doing things and nobody in their central governance wants to take the time to read hundreds of thousands of contracts. It's allowed them to get hard, verifiable data out of their paper and start using it at scale to inform future decisions making They're absolutely NOT using it to originate contracts though. That would be lunacy.
  4. I always thought it looked like a weird artifact from a busted scene render or videogame level
  5. If this weren't grift for privatization, this would honestly be a good thing. TSA is a boondoggle and security theatre. That said, I'm not sure how you'd non-invasively and safely change security procedures at every US airport
  6. I guess this is the Purdue Opiod thread now Giant Companies Took Secret Payments to Allow Free Flow of Opioids Drugmakers including Purdue Pharma paid pharmacy benefit managers not to restrict painkiller prescriptions, a New York Times investigation found.
  7. No shit there's something they aren't telling the public lol. When the F117 was being designed and tested there was a huge slew of UFO reports, and the government response then was very similar to what it is now. Plus ya know, all the """UFO's""" have had FAA-compliant lighting so I'm gonna put my chips on the government testing new equipment and not aliens or adversaries. We shot down a fucking balloon with an F-22, I don't think we'd sit on our laurels for an aerial assault
  8. He's certainly a whiny little bitch that farms clips for maga He's been raging at """WOKE!!!""" for a fuckin while now
  9. Extremely notable: the same general is in charge of their nuclear defense forces https://apnews.com/article/russia-explosion-head-of-nuclear-defense-forces-killed-9656bce946a9f552454df9debe5fbd18
  10. There's been a decade plus long effort to make gaming discourse extremely hostile towards anyone that isn't an incel white dude. It was a whole thing called gamer gate, and I can't blame a publisher for just turning off the comments. And again, as far as "girl power fatigue" I would argue that that's largely a self-inflicted grievance. It's not like there's been zero games made for dudes and only games made for ladies lol. There's a big segment of people online that are just programmed to be BIGMAD every time there's something outside of the typified videogame sterotype
  11. some good secondary sourced stuff on that whole dust off. Crazy shit, 40 special forces members and US combined arms just completely smoked 500 professional mechanized troops
  12. @Incredulity in shambles
  13. Lol, reminds me of the switcharoo on "No taxes on overtime!!!" turning out to be just getting rid of overtime
  14. Hey as long as none of the deceased are of the Executive Class, then there's absolutely nothing we can do about it.
  15. I've handled operations for several projects handed over to my customers from ACN, and it's always been integration hell with zero documentation and very poor code quality. And then on top of that, the customer got rid of most of their engineering/dev staff because "it's cheaper to contract out projects and we got a great rate from them". The majority of interactions I've been a part of have ended with either ACN leaving before the project finishes, or the customer nearly completely scrapping the ACN work and redoing it themselves. There have been successful projects, and ACN does have some heavy hitters, but they're the exception more than the rule from my first-hand experience over the last decade or so. My point being - their association with Arthur Anderson did not harm their reputation or ability to get customers one bit. And my customers that have been burned before by them always keep reaching for them again and again and get similar results every time
  16. It's wild how they're getting out into an industrial index when they haven't changed their product or offering at all and simply just bought a large tranche of a single asset. It defies logic
  17. Inb4 Binance gets discovered cooking their books and selling coins they don't have. It's the terminal stage of every crypto exchange.
  18. What fate? Creating one of the largest and most successful business consulting firms that continues to propagate their toxic business plans? And besides, Enron is BACK baby! They've got billboards up off WB I-10 coming out of downtown Houston. Who gives a shit about fraud these days, honestly
  19. Just left the Vatican and off to the next big area. I really enjoyed the puzzles and tomb exploration so far, and I like that Indy isn't so tough that you don't have to worry about sneaking around. But when you do get into a brawl, it feels great to beat up a few fascists with Indy dropping one-liners the whole time. Its great
  20. Veep was incredibly optimistic
  21. Fuckin LazerPig has been to Kiev and front-adjacent a few times too. Even got the air raid experience on tape while they were filming
  22. Bernorange owns a precious metals and crypto message board fwiw, so he is the truest of believers
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