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Legislative branch in Brazil never deadlocks. Coalitions are a very natural part of our democracy.

Yeah, they will just make deals. Seriously doubt there will be a deadlock. Hope they at least manage to impeach the supreme court justices, which is what we elected them for.

So what?! Nobody is saying otherwise. But PT vastly misrepresents how close it is to fascists and dictators. Love them, but hate to publicize them.

Why is it that this a concern to you but it's not a concern when the US and European powers align themselves with Saudi Arabia and Qatar?

I agree with you.

I'm glad I'm not the only one that feels like this whole article is a waste of time.


Not really. We don't have an LLM integrated with govbr, and there's a shit ton of things that are still scattered (granted with integrated login), like pretty much all tax agencies, detran etc.


New files are unstaged by default in git. If you’re doing git add -A, that’s on you. There’s nothing wrong with the tool.


Why are all the displays placed at 90°? That seems like bad UX.


They're meant to be seen from across the station.

(They could have put multiple displays, but noooooo.)


That’s not even close to being true.


You both need to provide citations my dudes.


The first person hedged their statement with "I heard once" so it's likely true regardless of whether the rest is accurate.

In a similar vein it has been said (by me, just now) that DeBeers is actually already out of diamonds and manufactures then de novo from the compressed ashes of orphans.


I heard that De Beers donated 99.6% of all of their profits so I am not sure what all the hoopla is about them


Effective altruists concur.


Right but I heard that the recipient of the donation was the Epstein-Trump Boarding School For Children.


Well, I heard it was the Epstein-Trump Boating School For Children, which taught vulnerable youngsters how to get away from Epstein’s child-rape island.


Unfortunately, you misheard. It was the Epstein-Trump Motorboating School For Children, and what was taught was...not what you said.


I actually lol’ed :-)


“I heard” = hearsay. Citation needed. (I mean, I heard the earth is flat - but it’s not)


I'll provide a citation since I'm in this industry and watch it closely.

De Beers currently has about 2 billion worth of diamond stock in its holds. This equates to about... 5-6 months of sales volume. It used to be worth more but lab-grown and other re-valuing initiatives have dropped the worth of their hoard.


AI coughed up a bunch of references that put their stockpile estimate at around a year. Might have been more at one time but nothing close to 100.


You know "load bearing" as an expression existed before AI, right?


You know that the usage has gone up something around 1000x since AI right?

Nobody outside of actual engineering or engineering adjacent like construction used load bearing up until about 6-12mo ago. Now it's everywhere.


Knowing the author through his work, it doesn't surprise me he's using that expression. And quickly searching on the blog, he's used it before.


It's yet another borrowing of the prestige of technical terms -- propagated by LLMs, but in rampant misuse by poseurs even before AI: inflection point, exponential growth, order of magnitude, evolve, viable, ...


> You know that the usage has gone up something around 1000x since AI right?

Seems to be going up and down in usage, if you look at Google Ngram + Trends: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%22load+bearin... https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%22load%...

Seems Google Trends say ~50% "interest over time" around 2004, which Ngrams at that same time has about half the occurrence in books compared to around ~1926.

As the labs adjust their models to become more human, less repetitive and more of the population starts catching up these patterns, we'll see it become less used again, starting the new loop of the repeating cycle.


I'm calling it: if Bret Devereaux is being accused of posting slop, we have officially achieved peak unhinged claims of “this seems like AI”


If it’s easy, where’s the evidence? Nothing you wrote is evidence for anything, at most “educated guesses”.

> Countries without an extensive bureaucracies are all failed state

This is such a ridiculous statement. There’s so many different levels of bureaucracy across the developed and developing world that you can’t really put them all in a single bag.


You’re on for a ride. Set at least 50k on the side for that.


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