I was about to ask the same. Surprising to whom? The nafo bots?

Moderately funded jajajaja

Those people are mostly just butthurt they aren’t the beneficiaries of such “cronyism” and think themselves smarter than everyone else, just less well connected. It’s the reason all the ancaps in that hbo documentary with an alias go by John Galt.

It’s part of a 10b5-1. Was it premeditated months in advance? Do they just need a quarterly hit of cash to make payments on their yachts? Who is to say?

“There were certainly things we could’ve done to test it and actually fire it. They would’ve been very time-consuming and very costly,” Mike Hansen, the company’s head of navigation systems, told Reuters in an interview on Saturday. “So that was a risk as a company that we acknowledged and took that risk.”

What insane copium to post hoc justify not verifying your multimillion dollar machine works before crashing it.

The thing I think people don’t think about is it’s really expensive to change your manufacturing process. The transition overseas isn’t just about labor costs, but because you are rebuilding the factory anyways it’s a chance to switch over to a cheaper manufacturing method. You get what you pay for and cheaper methods tend to have cut corners. You can buy high end stuff from China, it’s not like iphones are made there or anything…

There’s a reactionary QBC youtuber, AvE who mostly disassembles power tools and examines the quality of construction, components, and manufacturing methods. He has a teardown of a “Juciero” the $1000 juicer with DRM which is how I found him. He whines about “Chinesium” in the Chinese manufactured tool brands but there’s other “American made” tools on his channel using similar lower-end manufacturing techniques or cutting similar corners.

There’s an interview with Vijay Prashad that comes to largely the same conclusion about superhero movies.

UNRWA is Hamas is a credible but unverifiable accusation? What’s next? Bibi is Hamas?

Don’t forget how ableist they get if you disagree with them.

This is just a gamer (who btw farms montages in low rated btb games) ranting about Trueskill2 based on an out of context paragraph that in context with the rest of the model of skill they are trying to approximate, your teammates’ skill doesn’t really affect your change to win/predicted stats in a given match.

If you want, they have talked about the actual algorithm that then attempts to match players based on their rating. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FoG4Jtpebs

It biases towards matches it thinks will be a fair fight between both teams with bounds on the max skill diff between the best and worst players between both teams. And they adjust these bounds with player population throughout the day so you can get into matches quickly. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/truematch/

I know someone whose kid became really irritable and started having aggressive episodes after a head injury. Insurance doesn’t think an MRI is medically relevant.

It makes me so mad when anglos try to gaslight the success of obamacare and how many millions of additional people are “covered” by it.

People who don’t look at or fret the prices at the grocery store.

My thoughts exactly. Society will have radically changed before these AIs radically change society.

This sounds orders of magnitude more productive than being called misogynist by Neera Tanden at 3am for suggesting she is trying to pull the ladder up behind her.

Dershowitz has been a known associate of Epstein for years though.

I was talking with a friend the other day how the SAT/ACT is just a stat check on your parents’s income. Kids who were just grinding flashcards for hours to just barely pass a class were getting 1500s.

He has an abcs of authoritarianism children’s book he coauthored too. Had to do a double take when I saw that one at the library.

We’ve come 4/5 of the circle jajajajajaja

The core of these bureaucratic machines have intellectually disintegrated. All the incumbents climbed the ranks during “the end of history”, the apex of Amerikkkan power. When it could say whatever and bomb whomever without repercussion. Now these cretins have to deal with the opposite. A world with opposition.

There’s such vitriol in media, which trails White House opinion, for the realist perspective. As foul as those people are, acknowledging the security interest and rationality of other nations is anathema to this generation of leaders.

The Republican party, the more overtly reactionary of the duopoly, after feeding and nurturing a base of football hooligans has become infested with those same people and now openly litigates whether antebellum slavery was a good for the slaves or not.

Chinese interference is when you have unaddressed domestic issues you’d rather ignore and the more you have the more interference they are doing.