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New comment by thomquaid in "OpenAI resets spending expectations, from $1.4T to $600B"

thomquaid — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:13:39 +0000

Couldnt they create value by saving people's time? Like a shovel, or a bulldozer.

New comment by thomquaid in "Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus"

thomquaid — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 23:09:59 +0000

This isnt a vaccine against suicide.

New comment by thomquaid in "Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus"

thomquaid — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 23:08:24 +0000

Hard to beat a half million years of evolution with a nasal spray from last year.

New comment by thomquaid in "RFK's proposal to let bird flu spread through poultry"

thomquaid — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 00:47:33 +0000

Yes the idea is that birds that recover from bird flu will keep producing. You end up with more live birds than culling entire flocks. Some of the birds survive, because of their genetics.

New comment by thomquaid in "RFK's proposal to let bird flu spread through poultry"

thomquaid — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 00:44:58 +0000

The culled birds definitely arent producing. The proposal here is to let sick birds recover from their flu instead of being killed. True, you can effectively stop the spread of the flu if all the animals are dead, but the flu has a high survivability rate, and so once birds recover from their flu, they'll still be laying eggs (instead of being dead). That seems to be the proposed approach. It matches what we did for covid (we didnt cull the infected to stop the spread--it might have worked though).

New comment by thomquaid in "OBBB signed: Reinstates immediate expensing for U.S.-based R&D"

thomquaid — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 02:57:47 +0000

https://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/yearlycompari...

It does seem like things are trending toward less public laws passing over the last decade, as well as record low time in session and other congressional activity.

New comment by thomquaid in "First thoughts on o3 pro"

thomquaid — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 06:37:36 +0000

Approximately $200/month apparently.

New comment by thomquaid in "Doge software engineer's computer infected by info-stealing malware"

thomquaid — Fri, 09 May 2025 11:01:21 +0000

"By searching for his personal Gmail address (which I'm not sharing) in Have I Been Pwned, he appears in 51 data breaches and in 5 pastes. These include a 2013 breach of 153 million Adobe users, a 2016 breach of 164 million LinkedIn users, a 2020 breach of 167 million users from Gravatar, a 2024 breach of the conservative news site The Post Millennial, and many more."

Stop reading Ars and your name will be cleared. This isnt real journalism, it is Ars-washed political talking points.

New comment by thomquaid in "Gorilla study reveals complex pros and cons of friendship"

thomquaid — Fri, 09 May 2025 03:56:40 +0000

I think it is about that. Many of the social behaviors didnt evolve individually, and the social behaviors that end up selected for produced tribes. The group can be more fit than the sum of its parts, and both sides benefit from friendship because two people are about three times as strong working together vs the twice as strong you would expect.

New comment by thomquaid in "Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools"

thomquaid — Wed, 07 May 2025 12:20:54 +0000

Nonsense. Trump led in every swing state prior to election in aggregate poll analysis. Each swing state may have had an outlier Harris poll, but to say no polls existed with Trump leading is definitely incorrect. There were no surprise state outcomes at all in 2024, and the election was effectively over by 9pm Eastern time. Maybe you mean some kind of popular vote poll nationally, but that isnt how the US votes and also doesnt represent 'all polls'. I checked RCP archives and they show 7 polls for Harris leading nationally, and 10 polls for Harris losing nationally.

And let us not forget Harris was only even a candidate for 3 months. How Harris even makes it into the training window without Trump '24 result is already amazingly unlikely.

New comment by thomquaid in "FTC rule on unfair or deceptive fees to take effect on May 12"

thomquaid — Wed, 07 May 2025 03:10:09 +0000

The StubHub example is the abuse that is being banned. Yes, you can bait and switch people and take more of their money than they are otherwise willing to spend if you deceive, manipulate, and withold disclosures. It is (arguably) wrong/bad, but profitable.

New comment by thomquaid in "CIA Director Reveals Signal Comes Installed on Agency Computers"

thomquaid — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 03:35:47 +0000

The hearing today said the messages are not classified, and wouldnt be, given it is a cabinet meeting convo. They said what was withheld by the journalist was sensative information. Sensative is not Classified, Classified is not Sensative. The Sensative material withheld is about an unrelated matter, suggested to be an investigation, supposedly. Im not sure what faith has to do with it. The media is saying there are classified leaks, but the public leaks arent classified or sensitive. The journalist can publish facts showing classified or sensative information if they want to, but so far the only facts in evidence are no classification occurred.

New comment by thomquaid in "CIA Director Reveals Signal Comes Installed on Agency Computers"

thomquaid — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 03:29:43 +0000

CIA director explained that nothing could have been classified because classification authority rests with the secretaries involved themselves. In the journalists opinion, war plans should be classified. Fortunately, we dont rely on Journalists to make that determination.

Fortunately, good journalists do not harm air missions. Unfortunately, bad journalism creates political illusions.

The journalist said he withheld sensative information that the senate hearing today emphasized was regarding an ongoing investigation, and not about war plans. If the whole government is lying, hopefully the journalist is good and publishes facts instead of opinions

Edit: in your clip, CIA director says 'they characterized it as a mistake', not 'he'.

New comment by thomquaid in "CIA Director Reveals Signal Comes Installed on Agency Computers"

thomquaid — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 03:18:14 +0000

He never said he had classified information. He said he witheld sensitive information which is related to an ongoing investigation (and not related to Houthi airstrikes).

New comment by thomquaid in "CIA Director Reveals Signal Comes Installed on Agency Computers"

thomquaid — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 03:15:52 +0000

That is not true. Today at the hearing, the CIA director said there was no classified material. He was questioned if the event was a "huge mistake", and answered "No."

The journalist published the messages. The messages take almost no time to read and are very short.

See for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/live/SNJF-hi4rus?t=7547s

Lots of lies about these leaks.

New comment by thomquaid in "Boeing has informed its employees that NASA may cancel SLS contracts"

thomquaid — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 03:30:19 +0000

The motive is Boeing didnt deliver, doesnt deliver, and cannot deliver.

New comment by thomquaid in "AstroForge selects target for “high risk, seat of the pants” asteroid mission"

thomquaid — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 03:12:33 +0000

well, nothing is really ever lost

New comment by thomquaid in "How to Run DeepSeek R1 671B Locally on a $2000 EPYC Server"

thomquaid — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 12:18:19 +0000

I appreciate both of these comments, thank you both.

New comment by thomquaid in "How to Run DeepSeek R1 671B Locally on a $2000 EPYC Server"

thomquaid — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 12:02:03 +0000

True, but 4.25 is the number we all want to know.

New comment by thomquaid in "How to Run DeepSeek R1 671B Locally on a $2000 EPYC Server"

thomquaid — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 11:59:25 +0000

4.25 is enough tps for a lot of use cases.