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Obama, Pelosi, Clooney et al have known for over a year that Biden was too old to do this very difficult and important job, yet they never tried to get him to step down, until the debate. This shows that they're more concerned with winning the election than having a competent person in charge of the greatest military power in history. That, says it all. Their interests come before those of the American people, and the world, for that matter.

OpenAI was originally financed by Musk to be open source software, like OpenOffice (hence the name). Altman said on the Lex Fridman pod that he took this to mean open access to all... Make what you want from that. He also explained that to get the money required finance it, they had to make a proprietary corporate deal. It would seem to me that if you name a software non-profit (which it was) Open-(fill in the blank) then it must've been intended to be an open source entity. So, there was a case to answer, however, Altman may not have been at fault in doing the corporate deal, as these LLMs need a lot of money.

La Nina = POW

Better invest in some fat skis

The criticism of Israel reminds me of a quote:

"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."

H. L. Mencken

The casualty numbers in Gaza are reported by Hamas. The numbers are unverified and they do not separate combatants from civilians.

Love how all the nay sayers criticize BTC while their JPY and USD are constantly being stolen from them through deflation by central banks! THAT'S a Ponzi scheme, not BTC. By definition pyramid schemes need centralization. BTC is 100% immune to that shortcoming. Number go up! I've already made thousands with it while your money's been crashing.

When life gives you lemon, make lemonade:

Move the dental clinic that's across the road (see Google Street View), and open up a cafe. There's ample room to make a nice balcony with a great view of the Lawson's and Fuji. And there's plenty of space downstairs to sell tourist trinkets.

The locals are making money, the tourists have their stupid photos, and Japan doesn't look petty and stupid. Problem solved.

***I wrote 'genotype' but meant to write 'phenotype'.

Bob FosseToday  11:12 am JST

Since 1950, 29 percent of Nobel Prizes have been awarded to Ashkenazi Jews

Over 80% of Nobel Prizes have been awarded to men. Are they smarter than women?

IQ is distributed along a bell curve. Males are more highly represented on the tail ends of the distribution for all aspects of their genotype (this is across pretty much all species, by the way, due to having a y chromosome and being nature's play thing, as males woo while females choose - this is what Darwin explained when he put forth his theory of sexual selection in 1859), while females tend to be grouped around the middle. This means there are more really stupid and really smart men, but on average, men and women have the same IQ.

Bob FosseToday  11:06 am JST

tomlives

Suggesting superiority or inferiority based on ethnicity is always wrong all the time. Don’t do it.

No.1, You can't tell me what to do and nor should you.

No.2, Just because a fact is inconvenient it doesn't make it false.

No.3, The fact in question is backed by an undeniable mountain of evidence that available to all. If you're unwilling to engage with it, or unable to do so, it's not my problem; est quod est.

No.4, You're virtue signaling, and most people can see through it.

Could somebody tell me what the ACTUAL speed limit is, here? I see '80' on the expressway, but everyone goes faster. Nobody seems to be able to give me a coherent answer.

Hopefully they'll redirect some of that money to the Japanese Avalanche Network so that we can get daily condition updates rather than twice a week.

It's designed to disperse crowds away from the Yoshida Trail:

The active volcano has three other main routes that will remain free to climb

Seems like a smart way of managing crowds and providing everyone with a better experience.

The article should have focused on this angle, instead.

Japanese police are operating at the behest of private companies. How this could be in the people's best interests evades me.

To prevent deaths, the government makes gun ownership almost impossible, which prevents hunting, which causes a deer infestation, which causes carnage on the roads, which causes deaths.

Good move. France has had a digitized national health insurance card (Carte Vitale) since 1998. My only concern is the name, which is a mouthful in an English context: "Where did I put my My Number Card?"

Living in Sapporo, I hope lll

There is no scientific basis for any of these travel restrictions.

We can therefore assume the government is merely carrying out what their polling is telling them.

Hence the xenophobic sentiment of the policies in place.

I totally get it. They should let him off with a caution.

Well, thank goodness for that. My entire house in Hokkaido is heated using gas, that, I can only assume comes directly from Sakhalin. Sorry Ukraine, but you're not my problem, and maybe if you hadn't been so corrupt to begin with, Russia wouldn't have been incentivised to invade.

Reading so many comments on here portraying her as a victim.

Funny when a woman commits a crime she's always a 'poor soul who found herself in a bad situation and it's not her fault'.

Whereas when a man commits a crime he's just a criminal, and let's throw the book at him.

Russia holds vast foreign currency reserves in Japan - which are currently frozen - so it's in Russia's interest to play nice with Japan if they ever want to see their money back once the war ends. Good move on Japan's part.

I guess that the trans parent in question could 'adopt' her child. But, that begs the question of why not simply grant them parenthood in the first place.

As usual, a fossilized legal system riddled with inconsistencies.

Or, you could just peel and cut it with a knife in half the time.

Networks of that size don't just stop working. They got hacked and they need to admit it. But neither KDDI nor the govt want to admit the degree to which our data is vulnerable/ has been compromised.

I've had mountain sickness high up in the Himalayas and that's absolutely not how it works. It subsides as soon as you come down. The reason the judge threw the book at him is because he won't admit that he fell asleep.

Only 8.8% LNG from Russia is extremely low when one considers how close Sakhalin is. Good to see that Japan was wiser than Germany and Italy by diversifying its suppliers of oil and gas. Depending on Australia for the bulk of its LNG was a very smart move.

The invasion of Ukraine shows what happens when a country is foolish enough to relinquish its nuclear weapons.

One should keep in mind that a lot of the companies withdrawing from Russia are doing so only because of the sanctions. Without SWIFT they are unable to move their profits out of Russia. So don't be fooled by their virtue signalling.

Surprise, surprise: a Japanese company doesn't care about human rights.

I don't think the athletes sponsored by them will take too kindly to that.