Some jurisdictions require "Certificates of Occupancy" if the ownership of a commercial property changes. This is more about the state of the structure and modifications made to it.

Some jurisdictions require registration with a state or county tax authority. In my state this is called a "business registration". Depending on jurisdiction, you may not be allowed to legally operate a for-profit business without this registration.

So there are frequently government-issued documents that are not called a "business license" but may be required to legally do business.

Have some fucking hope, man.

It does sound like you might be giving / have given up though? Fuck that.

The occasional lottery ticket does not particularly affect my budget, so I buy one now and then with the intent to use it for good should I win.

The era of "I'm too rich / popular / influential / 'important' to prosecute" must end.

If I ever win the lottery, I'm going to create the Joseph Welch Foundation. The foundation will give monetary awards to people who have demonstrably pushed back against corruption, lies, and bullshit.

For those who don't recognize the name, Joseph Welch is who said "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last, have you left no sense of decency?" to Joseph McCarthy.

Too few people remember Welch. McCarthy was the asshole but his name is remembered more. I see this as an error we have made with our societal memory. It would be better to remember Welch, and only remember McCarthy as "that red scare guy".

Likewise!

> Ad-hominem is what you resort to when having no argument ;)

Because that's what meta_gunslinger claimed while you say he was using words "responsibly".

Who do you think "my own kind" are, anyhow?

Sartre didn't respect your kind and I don't either.

Some developers work better with LLMs in their workflows than others. Some problems are easier for LLMs to generate a reasonable solution for than others. Some folks prompt minimally and see what the vibes bring. Others start with a detailed architecture and implementation plan.

The individual results will depend quite a lot on the person, the problem, and the approach. It's not a guaranteed winning formula for everyone.

Sure, government spending can be wasteful. But it's also generally going into the economy. It's buying stuff from companies who use the revenue to pay their employees and supply chains. It's paying government employees who spend their pay on places to live, food to eat, entertainment, etc. Some folks act like that money disappears. Waste or not, governments aren't generally hoarding cash, they're spending it.

Sometimes it works out, in that an unrecognizable word or two is replaced with reasonable assumptions based on the semantics established by the words that came before the signal degraded.

But the bad audio might also result in words that don't align well to what came before, or represent alternate (mis)interpretations. Now this is part of the context and the next several tokens align to this new path regardless of what is said in the audio.

In pre-LLM transcription, you might get a nonsense word or two when the audio transiently degrades, but the specific meaning of the nonsense words doesn't influence the transcription of audio following the degradation.

Careful now, this path allows the weasel option of "Joe Biden was certified as the winner of the 2020 election" and similar "Biden didn't win, but he was installed" bs.