You must not get out much, I see it (feces) every day.
Harvey Milk ran on a platform of cleaning up the poop, it was just dog poo at that point, but its a big problem here.
If we eliminated the street-poopers SF would be a much much better place.
“Perhaps BBC needs to geofence and make their articles unavailable globally.“
I live in the US and had no problem following along with the article. Why should everyone else be denied access to the BBC because of your reading comprehension issues? Perhaps, in the future you should just ignore HN posts based on BBC articles.
“Europe remained the main destination for U.S. LNG exports in December, with 5.43 MT, or just over 61%. In November, 68% of U.S. LNG exports were to Europe, LSEG data showed.”
Of course there is a global market for all fossil fuels.
You are acting like the demand side is all that matters. Using your analogy, Walmart can reduce their customers’ rice consumption by 50% by the simple act of only allowing 250,000 tons to appear on shelves.
Irrelevant question. I was using your imperfect analogy to demonstrate that Exxon can reduce customer oil consumption by reducing the amount of oil Exxon supplies.
While I do appreciate your deep insight, I am missing a bit of nuance in your response. Perhaps you can help me understand why Exxon reducing its supply of oil would not reduce its customer’s consumption of its oil.
Let’s pretend you have a job. You drive 20 miles each way to go to work. When you need gas, you buy it at the Exxon station every 3 or 4 days. Suppose the Exxon station closes. What are you going to do? Quit your job, default on your mortgage and become homeless? No, you’re going to buy gas somewhere else. So, did Exxon reducing its production of gas reduce your gas consumption? Did it move your house closer to your job? Did it make your car more fuel efficient? No, it did nothing except maybe slightly inconvenience you.
Open an economics textbook and look up the phrase inelastic demand.
And yet you can’t articulate a single logical reason why reducing Exxon’s oil production will reduce demand for oil. Not even a hypothetical scenario of how it might work. Interesting.
How do you figure? It might be tough in tech, but pretty much every sector is looking good. Unemployment rate, GDP, unemployment claims, inflation, consumer confidence, and disposal income all look good.
Should have pointed out that I'm talking about Canada. Our GDP isn't great, and although unemployment is stable, the participation rate in Dec was 61.6%, down from 62.5% in Jan 2023. So, fewer people are working.
Anecdotally, people around me have been having a hard time finding work in various fields, even as experienced professionals.
The sum total of a life can’t be reduced to an algorithm. We are so much more than that!
A human actor brings the sum of their life to each role. Joy, anger, fear, sadness; these can’t be felt by an LLM running on an Nvida chip in some random data center.
Our humanity matters, and it saddens me that you don’t seem to share that belief.
Most voice recordings are not for artistic purposes. I feel you’re falling for a false choice fallacy, because there’s a world for both kinds of performances.
Furthermore small companies without a budget are enabled to create things now that they were not able to do before because they don’t have the money for many voice actors for multiple languages. Even large companies may prototype things and create placeholder recordings.
