Losing weight and not drinking alcohol.

I wouldn’t be surprised if it stops performing as well going forward but the selection criteria is always going to result in an ETF that isn’t likely to be shitty. If you’re looking for more diversity outside the US, I’ve been buying some EUAD this year. Other than a bit of gold its the only new thing I’ve added to my portfolio in reaction to Trumpism. Its working out so far but of course things can change, do your own research and due diligence, etc.

Increasing, but I think still unlikely. I think the most likely scenario for that to happen is he loses his primary but stays in as an independent.

Don’t be a dick.

Potentially yes, if you use existing IP to make music, doing it with a computer isn’t going to change anything about how the law works. It does get super complicated and there’s ambiguity depending on the specifics, but mostly if you do it a not obvious way and no one knows how you did it you’re going to be fine, anything other than that you will potentially get sued, even if whatever you did was a legally permissible use of the IP. Rightsholders generally hate when anyone who isn’t them tries to make money off their IP regardless of how they try to do it or whether they have a right to do it unless they paid for a license.

That feels categorically different unless AI has legal standing as a person. We’re talking about training LLMs, there’s not anything more than people using computers going on here.

Where does the training data come from seems like the main issue, rather than the training itself. Copying has to take place somewhere for that data to exist. I’m no fan of the current IP regime but it seems like an obvious problem if you get caught making money with terabytes of content you don’t have a license for.

Shit, I missed that.

You are thinking of someone else, this is the guy who writes deranged children’s books where Trump is the king.

More progressive overall but he has a history of making anti-gay statements.

I used to live across the street from a relatively popular tourist attraction and would occasionally get tourists standing in front of my windows and commenting on things in my apartment. Once my girlfriend and I were eating breakfast in front of an open window and someone tried talking to us about how expensive something was in our apartment. Besides that the only regular rudeness was groups acting like they own the sidewalk. Usually its large families but I do remember one time what looked like a Russian oligarch trophy wife surrounded by an entourage of stereotypical body guards that had people swearing at them because they were not letting anyone else use the sidewalk as they headed for the tourist attraction.

Assuming I am physically in the same place, I will fall to my death. If I somehow survive the fall I would be severely injured and alone in the wilderness. Within a few days I would probably die of either my injuries, dehydration, or hypothermia.

No. Haggling has zero appeal and makes me feel like an asshole. I want a set price that is predefined, and I want the purchase process to have minimal friction. I don’t want to have to argue with someone when I buy things.

In the before times when we still had the rule of law, mandatory voting would almost certainly require an amendment to the constitution or else the Supreme Court would block it. Under current precedents the government generally can’t compel political speech.

If you’re referring to our exchange, you either misunderstood me or are misrepresenting what I said. I said that the odds of rates going down are decreasing because of Trumps idiocy. The Fed are increasingly more likely to raise rates than lower rates, but if Trump forces rates down it’s going to blow the whole thing up. The market is not going to like that at all because the Fed maintaining its independence is integral to the functioning of the US economy.

Breaking Bad. I made it part way through the first season before giving up. Everyone loves that show but I just couldn’t enjoy it.

From what I read his parents owned a store that started getting extorted, which is why he fled El Salvador originally at 16 to live with relatives in the US. Whether he is or was in a gang or not in a gang is completely irrelevant to the fact that people have a right to due process. Maybe he does deserve to be deported, but what has been done to him is not a deportation. Also a changing administration does not have any relevance to the court decision allowing him to live in the US, unless you’re suggesting the rule of law ended too? Until a judge says otherwise, he can not legally be deported to El Salvador. What has been done to him is a crime.

That makes a lot more sense, there was no mention of a stepmom when I read it.

It seems odd his mom is a sheriff given her criminal record. I would expect abducting a child to a foreign country would disqualify someone from law enforcement.

If that happens the economy will break and buying a house will become even more difficult rather than easier. There’s no scenario where Trump seizing the Fed makes housing more affordable.