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New comment by changoplatanero in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

changoplatanero — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:32:47 +0000

The timing of this coming out today is cause today is the last day of the month/quarter and has nothing to do with Claude.

New comment by changoplatanero in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

changoplatanero — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:25:23 +0000

I thought this article does a good job explaining why some people care a lot about this topic https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/how-youth-sports-supercharg...

New comment by changoplatanero in "WA income tax clears House after 24-hour debate"

changoplatanero — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:26:55 +0000

I think you can in good conscious be opposed to new taxes. This tax is being introduced in a way that only affects the most privileged portion of the population but that's how the Federal income tax was introduced many years ago too. People who oppose the tax are looking forward to a future where the tax burden in Washington might be as oppressive as it is in California or New York.

New comment by changoplatanero in "Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse"

changoplatanero — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 01:43:07 +0000

Was this guy law enforcement? How did he get the addresses of everyone who had bought that model of couch?

New comment by changoplatanero in "MIT Living Wage Calculator"

changoplatanero — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:55:35 +0000

I don't get what the big deal is about mandatory paid vacation. My view is that your total compensation will be set based on the market value of your labor. Some portion of that compensation is given to you in the form of ordinary wages and some portion in the form of paid vacations. If the government mandated paid vacations would it increase many people's total compensation?

New comment by changoplatanero in "Testing Ads in ChatGPT"

changoplatanero — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:32:26 +0000

you can at least pay them to get the ads removed from youtube

New comment by changoplatanero in "AirPods Pro 4 Could Feature Cameras to 'See Around You'"

changoplatanero — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 17:01:31 +0000

My experience working at Apple was that private information does not leave the device. All our training data came from contractors who were hired to perform data collection and not from the general public.

New comment by changoplatanero in "Man who videotaped himself BASE jumping in Yosemite arrested, says it was AI"

changoplatanero — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 20:03:00 +0000

They got him for illegal BASE jumping and now they are going to get him for lying to the police about it too.

New comment by changoplatanero in "OpenAI to Take a Percentage from Customer AI-Assisted R&D Outcomes"

changoplatanero — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 01:13:00 +0000

You're right that its only in rare circumstances that it is attractive to the other side and in fact OpenAI has yet to announce any such deal.

New comment by changoplatanero in "OpenAI to Take a Percentage from Customer AI-Assisted R&D Outcomes"

changoplatanero — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:50:28 +0000

People are way misinterpreting OpenAI’s intentions here. The idea is that OpenAI could propose to enter into joint ventures with industry partners where each side gets a share of the rewards generated by the joint activity. This is would only happen in the cases where it’s an attractive proposition to both sides.

New comment by changoplatanero in "'A full-blown crisis': Americans brace for a surge in healthcare costs"

changoplatanero — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:42:20 +0000

In California, apparently acupuncture is required to be covered. I’d be happy to give up my acupuncture coverage for a lower premium. https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payer/states-essential-bene...

New comment by changoplatanero in "Grok 4 Fast now has 2M context window"

changoplatanero — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 04:43:05 +0000

Anyone can make a long context window. The key is if your model can make effective use of it or not.

New comment by changoplatanero in "OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss"

changoplatanero — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 19:00:57 +0000

You got the right idea there. They wouldn't actually show up in your Fidelity account but there would be a different website where you can log in and see your shares. You wouldn't be able to sell them or transfer them anywhere unless the company arranges a sale and invites you to participate in it.

New comment by changoplatanero in "The Sagrada Família takes its final shape"

changoplatanero — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 23:07:55 +0000

Gaudi wanted it to be a monument to Christ but it ended up as a monument to Gaudi.

New comment by changoplatanero in "California AG to OpenAI: Harm to Children Will Not Be Tolerated"

changoplatanero — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 21:32:17 +0000

I wish so badly that teenage me could have had access to LLMs. That was the time of my life when I had the biggest appetite to learn new things. Books were great but they only go so far.

New comment by changoplatanero in "White House fires CDC director Monarez after she refuses to resign"

changoplatanero — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 03:25:42 +0000

I heard from someone high up in the administration that it’s really hard for some of the political appointments it’s been hard for them to find qualified people, who are willing to take the job, and who haven’t publicly criticized trump. For some of these positions they might not have many people to pick from

New comment by changoplatanero in "Meta accessed women's health data from Flo app without consent, says court"

changoplatanero — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 15:58:57 +0000

"doing everything they could" is quite the high standard. Personally, I would only hold them to the standard of making a reasonable effort.

New comment by changoplatanero in "Meta accessed women's health data from Flo app without consent, says court"

changoplatanero — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 14:58:42 +0000

I wish there was information about who at Facebook received this information and “used” it. I suspect it was mixed in with 9 million other sources of information and no human at Facebook was even aware it was there.

New comment by changoplatanero in "Meta violated privacy law, jury says in menstrual data fight"

changoplatanero — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 02:17:21 +0000

The article doesn't say clearly if it was a decision made by someone at meta or if it's just be default meta used all the information sent to it by app developers for advertising. I feel like each of those two scenarios would lead to different levels of culpability.

New comment by changoplatanero in "Meta violated privacy law, jury says in menstrual data fight"

changoplatanero — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 01:59:49 +0000

I wish the article explained more about what Flo's culpability in this whole thing was. Pretty clearly they violated meta's terms of not sending health info. Was meta's problem that they didn't do enough to screen the data that developers were trying to send them?