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You’re basically asking for legal council. The law is precise to a large extent but just as hairy and vague. You’re not getting meaningful answers from a defensive position.

But the short answer is that where is the line depends on jurisdiction, it is often along the lines of what they consider a hobby, a small business, large business, and so on.


I am looking for anything to back up this statement.

> Anything dealing with user deletion should go through a well established, legal approved process.

Which seems prohibitive. As though someone's personal emails/tweets/images on a free account are somehow protected from the whims of a high enough exec.

But as far as I can tell, it is within legal bounds for a business to freely give and taketh away free accounts if they wish. The only thing stopping them from mass account deletion is public perception.


"counsel"

I think you’re correct, although suggesting that open AI is a trickle drown of AI companies is a bit naive.

But the key point is that something good enough always attracts more interest and contributions because a productive outcome is very realistic and tangible.

Open Weight models and competing open source inferences engines massively undermine monopolies; in theory at least.

See how cloud is easy to divest and “nationalise”.


Yes, not only is there always improvements to existing functionality possible due to changes in improvements in general software engineering and mathematical methods beyond it or supporting new hardware features.

Generally, software engineering like other industries is evolving and there is need for different facilities. Consider graph and vector databases featuring, as well as json columns as examples of things you that are relatively recently in common use.


> Consider graph and vector databases

sounds like a revolutionary rather than incremental change, does that get into postgres?


Yes, postgres has all sorts of features that hadn't been planned on or even conceived of (at least AFAIK) when the project started. It goes far beyond the bog standard SQL queries you'll find in introductory material.

A city block demolished or abandoned is pretty close next to each other on the Operational and Out of Service scale when it comes to economic input.

Also, consider VSL (value of a statistical life) which is around 5-10 million in most of developed world.


So each missile costs ~2 human lifetimes to produce? But has the potential to save hundreds if used precisely

In this context the purpose of VSL is generally to consider how much can we spend to thwart attacks that will likely kill at least one person.

Although thinking about how many humans a kill machine is worth is one hell of an idea to ponder


If you find your source of meaning in slowing down understanding and knowledge, you were never it in for the mathematics and some questionable motives. Find the solution within.

You can see all the bad things about modern cultivation but lack of resistance to climate change isn’t one.

Yes, for many swaths and types of traditional agriculture and fishing it will be doom, but this conversation isn’t about local ecosystem but global food production vs population growth.

Food production was never a problem, supply and management is.


You do understand that the hypothetical threat actor here is one who openly disregards international law?

https://www.hrw.org/news/2002/08/03/us-hague-invasion-act-be...

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-imposes-sanctions-internati...


Correct, on most unix-like it doesn’t matter because extensions are for the Desktop Environment not execution.

Do you think at this point you’re just looking for reasons to believe?

Additionally,

> Following the reported strikes, bot traffic from Yandex.Cloud fell about 40%. … Cloudflare customer blocks on Yandex.Cloud traffic also fell 70% during the event period, suggesting that proportionately less malicious traffic was even hitting the Cloudflare WAF from this ASN

But the memes keep rolling. 57 channels and nothing on.


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