Septimaeus

…it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. -Winston

Alas there are no shortcuts. A democracy’s failures are preceded by those of a society that neglects its duty to leave no one behind, allowing ignorance fear and division to prevail. Fortunately for us, the inverse is at least as true, and we can win.

Inb4 polisci nerds offer specific definition of “rational” that renders everyone rational

IIRC that’s why most labs require multiple samples but IANAMD.

Transient elevation is possible without long term aberrant effects, though the result will have to be explained to future doctors and insurance underwriters who will want to know if it was due to poorly-managed / self-administered HRT or an unchecked gonadal growth. If neither of those things, and no other symptoms present, it’s treated as normal.

Anyone who looks already was

Ruint! But I’m with you. Football is more fun to play than watch, and there are far better justifications for rioting than a game.

Sorry afk. Not sure yet. Few days load balancing on cheap/free services that I usually only use for low priority traffic. Due diligence just takes me longer than it used to so I don’t know yet.

For temporary solutions, DDG and AdGuard-VPN are reliable and check the boxes usually considered most important, but they don’t offer the power user / enterprise features some need to replace mulvad.

Before Mulvad I used NordVPN. So I may reevaluate them first, but in truth I’m close to just skipping all of this and paying the fuck off fee to run my own servers.

Thanks for heads up. Would’ve auto-renewed Monday.

Unless describing UBI, examples of which often entail some form of public wealth investment.

Yeah this is a key realization that I suspect most investors aren’t privy to. With proven viable local, accessible, scalable, and energy-efficient 2TB infiniband clusters and routed multi-agentic stacks of open source models constantly nipping at their heals, achieving longterm market dominance for any of these AI developers is simply a tenuous prospect.

The only legitimate option is to maintain a meaningful lead at the cutting edge of performance and/or offer a superior efficiency/value proposition via SLA guarantees. Beyond that, the brute force options are limited to things like short-term market manipulation (such as outbidding everyone else for existing talent pool, chip manufacturing capacity, etc) or suppression of competition via regulatory capture.

In every case, above or below board, there is no permanent longterm global breakaway strategy, only treading water as long as investors are willing to inject enough funds to temporarily outrun market efficiency.

Once that reality sinks in… pop.

I don’t know. Same for the infrared light thing. Neither sounds like a guarantee.