Comments by "" (@timogul) on "The Wall Street Journal" channel.

  1.  @smiles3005  You do understand that there is a distinction between what a user manual says and how something is marketed toward consumers, right? You get that?
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  2.  @michaeltru9474 Because they turned all those documents over to the National Archives as required by law, and then the National Archives LOANED those materials back to them for their use. You can't skip steps.
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  3.  DT2024-q4k  Do you believe that Oct7 would have happened if not for the Abraham Accords?
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  4.  @svgs650r  Well, the jury found that it was impossible to tell whether he'd used a finger or his unit.
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  5. And also economists. That part remains accurate.
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  6.  @taylorlibby7642  Walz does not do work for China.
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  7. You mean the last twenty.
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  8.  @michaeltru9474  No, you can't. But you can share your own personal notes with others if you aren't aware that they contain classified information.
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  9. It's tough, because it's a business that basically only works if you have a monopoly over the customer-base, and yet a monopoly is a bad thing in general, because they could then abuse that. On the other hand, if they did push their limits, customers could always just drop them and go back to shopping/take-out. They really do need to push down to a lower price per unit though, figuring out more efficient shipping methods and packing methods.
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  10.  @LyricsQuest  Prices tend to rise higher than the tariff amounts, because that's what businesses do with an excuse. Also, he was talking about a 60% tariff on at least some products. There are relatively few "10% industries" as you put them, most things that aren't made in the US in significant amounts have much higher margin gaps. If the tariffs were aimed at products just on the margins of profitability, then there_might_ be some value to it, but that is not what he is proposing at all. More importantly, the US does not need any of those 10% industries, because we've moved on. May as well cry about the decline of whale oil and canal traffic.
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  11. ​ @leahblake6748  He did not eventually turn them over. They were seized after serving a search warrant, because he had refused to turn them over for many months already, and even claimed to have already turned them over. It's even highly suspected that he still has other documents that he has yet to turn over, but they don't have enough evidence to serve a warrant on it.
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  12.  @jack-of-all-trades1234  I meant the current one, which was a result of the Abraham accords.
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  13.  @jack-of-all-trades1234  By that definition, Biden has had fewer wars.
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  14.  @jack-of-all-trades1234  Where would he be starting one?
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  15.  @davidbrawner7679  You can find full lists of when wars begin and end, but some of the more prominent ones would be in Ethiopia and Yemen. Again, I'm not arguing that he started them, only that they happened on his watch. None of the last three presidents started any wars themselves.
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  16. That's true enough. Considering Trump a viable option is a sign of insanity.
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  17.  @imafrayedknot4  No, he did not offer to turn them over,m he refused on multiple occasions to do so and even lied to them about it. Your memory fails you.
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  18. No, Biden's fine. It's his opponent that is spiraling.
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  19.  @fos1451  It's actually already been done by some states. The solution there is to have "trigger laws," ones which do absolutely nothing, until certain conditions are met, and then they work. So in this case, you pass a law that says "when a certain number of states pass laws that do the same thing, all our EC votes go to the winner of the popular vote." That way, they wouldn't hurt anything until it would actually work. But again, the issue is that you still need to reach that critical mass of states that it would not flip the outcomes, and I don't think we're close to that yet. I think it's unlikely we will be, because the holdouts benefit from the broken system.
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  20. Copyright doesn't work that way. It's very specific, you can't copyright "ideas," it has to be a completed work. You can copyright "The Lord of the Rings," but you can't copyright the concept of "some fantasy adventurers go on a trip." So in theory you could have a million AIs writing a million books, but it would still take a lot of output to monopolize "all stories." Not to mention, if someone did write a book you wanted to go after them over, you would have to figure out a way to find out which of your millions of books it was actually copying.
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  21.  @mrinfinity5557  It's good that he authorized the missiles because it allows them to strike more military facilities, making it harder for Russia to advance their war. Better question, why do you believe this would be a bad thing?
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  22.  @taylorlibby7642  But the important thing to keep in mind about all of that, is that it's fiction.
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  23. Obama did not do that in 08 or 12. It was not an issue in those years. It's only become an issue after Dobbs.
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  24.  @jacobgates1986  "10% for Trump."
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  25. I think that outside of arbitrary "nope" rulings, AI work should be copyrightable. It's just work, an AI run by a company should be considered no different than a work for hire artist. I think that the "training" issue is a non-starter, if a human can look at a ton of art and learn from them and draw better, then there's nothing wrong with that, so there's nothing wrong with an AI doing it either. The issue of an AI work looking too similar to another work should also be handled exactly like with a human though, so AI might get in trouble for this, just as humans sometimes do. The bright side of this though is that you can build AI "similarity detectors" that can compare a finished piece to every piece on record and see if it is substantially similar, so you can catch these mistakes before they become a liability.
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  26.  @doop6769  But he returned them once they were discovered, like Mike Pence did. Most people at high positions in government end up with a handful of documents that they shouldn't technically have, it's not really a major issue. Trump's situation only became an issue because of the massive VOLUME of materials he kept, and how serious many of them were, and how he obstructed justice in trying to keep them.
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  27.  @AmericaFirst47  Which did Biden start?
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  28.  @ryanlutz1216  It would be fair to say that they spend the overwhelming majority of these savings on stock buybacks and c suite pay. The point is that none of it ever goes into middle class employees or lower costs to consumers.
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  29. I assume sarcasm, but it still matters, because if you build some multimedia empire on an AI generation, and then it ever became public, that could just knock the sandcastle completely out from under you. Very risky.
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  30.  @csking6377  Misleading content does not need to be intended to be misleading. The more important thing is that it is misleading. I also find that people who wax philosophical about having a "discerning mind" are more often than not the greatest sheep of all, those who have so thoroughly bought into the kool aid that they have become the kool aid.
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  31.  @24killsequalMOAB  Yes, fund the terrible government spending, because it is in your own best interests to do so.
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  32.  @MoneyMathai  Unfortunately, they love America too much to do that.
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  33.  @x-men69-96  You had the same messes under Trump, the illegal crossings in 2019 were some of the highest to that point. It was just a different year with different circumstances on the ground. If he'd been president the last few years, the same stuff would be happening, only it would have turned out a lot worse.
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  34.  @jeffstrehlow2623  That is my point. It's because "Who wants to buy from seller who treats you as an enemy?" has never been a thing.
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  35.  @imafrayedknot4  But neither does it provide any cover to Trump. The Presidential Records act required that he turn ALL those documents over immediately, and he did everything he could to prevent that.
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  36. Ex-Presidents are not allowed to retain defense documents under any condition. Ever.
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  37.  @hanrenfighterjet  This is done all the time, but the thing is, cities typically aren't surrounded by "empty space," people own that land, and it's already either suburbs, or farm land in most cases. It also means that if you are building on the least-developed fringes of the existing communities, then it's further away from where people want to be.
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  38. Because they think that he'll harm people they don't like more than he'll harm them. They care more about harming others than they care about their own self interests.
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  39.  @rasheedh7043  Russia escalated by bringing in foreign soldiers. This was the response.
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  40.  @likewatermusik  You don't understand. Him telling his people that he did everything he promised is just as good as if he'd actually done it. "Reality" is whatever he tells them it is.
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  41. Yes, but this is not the problem. The problem is that if a human cannot compete with a machine, then his wellbeing is at risk. THAT is the problem that needs solving, not by hobbling the machine, but by disconnecting "wellbeing" from "productivity."
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  42.  @radeon8461  No, that's not how it works, and besides which, even if every one of those documents had been declassified, what he did with them would still be a crime, so I don't know why people keep bringing up the "declassify stuff with his mind" excuse. It would be like saying that a bank getaway driver didn't run a red light.
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  43.  @taylorlibby7642  How is it not fiction? None of that happened in the real world, at least.
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  44.  @WilliamLynch-sd2wd It's not like that's any different than last time.
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  45. I don't think it's directed at him as an individual, so all penalties would still apply to whoever is running the company at the time.
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  46. The report never said that he couldn't be tried, just that they didn't have a case to win, and so felt that it wasn't worth doing. If he was unfit to stand trial, then so would Donald Trump, and we've all seen how that turned out.
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  47.  @khushalgandhi5157  From his father's emerald mines.
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  48.  @MrLegendra  He didn't solve any of those problems. Engineers he paid for solved those problems. Those same engineers could have been equally successful had anyone else spent that money on them.
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  49.  @imafrayedknot4  Also, the documents were not under Secret Service management, they were all over the building in multiple unsecured locations. If there was any "Secret Service lock" then it only involved some small portion of the documents involved, and if a criminal suspect is subject to a search warrant, you want to find ALL the documents, not just the ones most conveniently available.
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  50.  @leahblake6748  No they weren't, but it would make no difference if they had been. Still illegal.
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