Artificial scarcity is definitely nothing new. Look at the diamond industry, for example. Diamonds are common as hell, but they regulate the supply so severely in order to sell these cheap chunks of carbon for thousands of dollars.
If there’s no competition in a market willing to race others to the bottom in terms of price, there’s no incentive to actually produce a reasonable amount of something people want. You can just withold supply and charge way more.
Maybe the D6 system?
They increased, actually. There were more millionaires in these places after the increased taxes on wealth than there were before.
Sounds like your average resident of TERF island.
Those two are in the same party though
Unrelated to the main topic, but I have to single out this line:
Following the shooting, the Trump administration vowed to “permanently pause” migration from all “third world” countries
Saying “permanently pause” is like saying “quietly shout.” It’s not a pause if it’s permanent, you uneducated fucks.
Anyone know if someone has ever put together a checklist or routine to perform when migrating from one email service to another?
I’d love to get off of Gmail, but trying to wrestle with 20 years of account signups, purchases, subscriptions, etc. is a Herculean effort I’m struggling to put into practice.
In her defense, the doctors in China would sooner recommend herbal teas and tinctures over actually seeing mental health specialists.
I’m guessing she is not in the camp that recognizes actual medical quackery though, haha. Sorry you have to deal with that.
Well it’s a dictionary, not a calculus textbook. You can’t expect English majors to know how numbers work.
Take your pick:
Man bursts into tears. “But Lemmy,” the pope says, “I am an American Catholic.” Good joke. Everyone laughs. Roll on snare drum. Curtains.
Articles I’ve read mention that it tends to taste pretty bad, basically an earthy, watered down type of taste.
It’s the Pluribus episode 5 ending.
Or the origins of the lost mines of Moria.
Just make sure the steam d*ck is inserted into the right port.
It’s an international assessment of academic performance. They test students around the same age range and compare their results to other countries and to performance of previous years.
The graph shows that performance is dropping relative to previous years (presumably a global trend, I don’t see a specific country listed), but whether the metrics are meaningful is something I’m not qualified to say. Assessments like this are always debatable.
The parents would be mostly Gen X in this graph, I think. Gen Z are kids born in the late 90’s through early 2010’s. So early Gen Z started graduating from high school around 2012, with the last of Gen Z graduating right about now.
This graph ending at 2022 would place that last cohort around the testing age rage still, I think (Wikipedia says that the test is intended for 15-year-olds, so in 2022 that would be kids born in 2007).
I think that’s the wrong way to look at it.
Let’s frame it this way. English is not the world’s best language. It’s pretty bad, honestly. It makes little logical sense, pronunciation is all over the place, and it’s inconsistent even between native speakers. Yet like 2 billion people speak it, even in places where it’s not the native language, because the UK spent so long as the dominant world power and just saturated all international discourse long enough to make it the most convenient common tongue. And so English becomes the most commonly used language for international discourse in the EU, despite the EU having just one member state (Ireland) where English is the majority, because it’s too inconvenient to switch to anything else.
Programming languages can fall into the same trap. LLMs today can have the majority of their code trained on a small set of popular languages. They’ll be likelier to produce that kind of code reliably, which in turn motivates vibe coders to prioritize those languages over other options that may be more purpose-built or appropriate for the need.
A new programming language that is massively better, more efficient, and easier to use can come about, but an LLM might never excel at it. Basically, a new language precludes itself from success with LLMs. The LLM will suck at it because there is substantially less training data to reliably model from. There will never be enough training data because fewer people are using it. Fewer people are using it because shitty vibe coders just rely on what the LLM can do well. The cycle repeats.