I don't doubt that the Iranian regime has committed some atrocities during the recent protests. However, I would discount any person/source who - supported the Iraq war, cheered America/Israeli bombing of Iran in 2025 and has nothing to say about Israel's genocide in Gaza, as being a reliable source of information on Iran.

does it matter if you are the one on the receiving end?

It doesn't work that way. The dedicated machine for running agents will have very limited utility because it will not have access to anything it needs like your credit card to automatically purchase stuff on your behalf etc.

> credit card to automatically purchase stuff on your behalf

Why would anyone _want_ that?

Or, let’s pretend for a moment they did, wouldn’t it make more sense to grant access to a purchasing account (e.g. Amazon) with payment info pre-linked?

Especially given the “record absolutely everything for evidence” approach companies are taking, giving them auto access to payment info isn’t very smart.

Any idea roughly how many $100M offers have been made. I initially thought that there were maybe 1-2 such offers and the remaining were maybe around $10-25M. However, judging by this particular case and another report where a $1.5B offer was made to a someone at Thinking Machines, I think that the actual number of such offers is much higher.

Any idea if the Googles/Apples are offering similar retention grants to prevent key employees from leaving?

Nvidia is also going to keep improving, so it will be a moving target.

That's true, but the advantage of having a head start does eventually diminish. They won't catch up to Nvidia in the next couple of years, but they could eventually be a real competitor.

I was curious so I looked it up, it turns out that the men’s world record for a mile is 3 minutes and 43 seconds, the women’s is 4 minutes and 7 seconds. These are the very best in the world at their prime. I would conjecture that less than 50% of adults in an industrial society would be able to run a 7 min mile, which is less than twice the world record times.

> Less than 50% of adults

That's a fancy way of saying "around 5%".

You knew this when making the booking? Why didn’t you book a hotel instead? Airbnb or the host have no incentive to change if people like you keep going back. They will change only when it starts to hurt their bottom line.

> You knew this when making the booking?

You know about the cleaning fees at booking, but not necessarily the "rules" about cleaning.

Anything not disclosed in "house rules" section at the time of booking is not your responsibility.

Cam here to say the same thing, the map appears to be overly smoothed and does not capture the sharp rainfall changes that often occur due to the local topography - e.g. when going from the windward side of a mountain to the leeward side.

For example, according to the map the rainfall at world's wettest place Mawsynram, is about 4300mm, which is about 35% of the the actual. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mawsynram

I remember that during the early nineties, when I was kid, I often used to see over a dozen vultures perched on my maternal grandparents’ terrace in New Delhi on summer evenings (I visited them only in summer). A few years later I noticed that I didn’t see them anymore and occasionally wondered why. Then years later I started seeing articles about Diclofenac killing vultures and then it clicked. Just thought I’d share.