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    Soldier won $410K in Polymarket bets on timing of Maduro capture, US alleges

    That's what surprised me. How is the DOJ charging and active duty military member with anything? Isn't he subject to the Uniformed Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) first? After his court martial and sentencing to a military prison/work camp, THEN the DOJ can have him.
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    Trump admin seeks medical records of federal workers—for vague reasons

    We know how good OPM is at securing data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Office_of_Personnel_Management_data_breach
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    What the heck is wrong with our AI overlords?

    I think it's funny when people start a sentence with 'Not being X' and then proceed to do X. ;) Anyway, I don't mind the critique. In my original post I referred to trusting your 'gut' which was my way of saying your 'unconscious heuristics', but I do prefer your version. Thanks! So the quest...
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    What the heck is wrong with our AI overlords?

    The part I find most amusing about AI is that they're going about it all wrong. Intelligence is not making decisions based on processing massive amounts of data and taking the most common path. Intelligence is quite the opposite. It's having the ability to make a decision with whatever...
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    “Unexpectedly, a deer briefly entered the family room”: Living with Gemini Home

    I think the whole LLM movement is misguided. It's obviously not the path to 'intelligence'. If I could process the entire internet, I could not make many better decisions than I can with the limited information I currently have in my memory. That's not how we come to 'intelligent' decisions...
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    An NIH director joins MAHA, gets replaced by JD Vance’s close friend

    What about DARPA replacing all the birds with robotic surveillance birds? Aren't they going to do anything about that? I guess that's next after the contrail/chemtrail investigation... I feel like I'm living in the movie 'Idiocracy'.
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    Bike lanes need physical protection from car traffic, study shows

    Why has nobody suggested the obvious safety choice for a road with motorized vehicle traffic, parking, and bike lanes? Place the bike lane outside the parking lane. That way cars pulling in/out of parking are not crossing the bike lane and the parked cars provide a natural 'safety barrier' for...
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    Can a new powerline kit solve an urban apartment dweller’s Wi-Fi woes?

    I live in a 3-bedroom condo where I'm in competition with over 20 different Wi-fi networks belonging to my neighbors. I had no problem with the signal; It was just that all the channels were busy at different times, so no matter what channel my Wi-fi router picked at startup, it would become...