Well websites like AirBnB tend to make it as difficult as humanly possible to automate stuff like this, so maybe?

Although that likely only lasts until they learn how to block LLMs effectively.

We may get to a point where they have a hard time distinguishing. Perhaps it can be made in their interest to open the API for everyone (i.e. convince the bean counters)

I'm never quite sure what to think of papers that have a conclusion and then build a mathematical model to support it.

Science starts with hypothesis and predictions.

Yes, but it's easy, and incorrect, to start with an answer and build your work backwards rather than proving your hypothesis with evidence.

It's somewhat interesting how the wisdom of the crowd and economic theory for rational actors are usually combined as an argument for free markets.

While the reverse is not used as an argument against unchecked wealth.

My understanding is that unchecked wealth only remains that way until its owner acts irrationally on a stock exchange, at which point it is quite rapidly checked and becomes someone else's unchecked wealth.

Which is to say that Elon Musk can inflate any market he wants, but only by losing sums of money that will become increasingly significant as more and more people find out about the free cash giveaway.

I’ve used it.

There’s no functional difference in how markets work when 99% of wealth is owned by a handful of kings vs 99% of wealth being owned by a handful of oligarchs.

I don't really think so. You just swapped the term king to Oligarchs. In fact the Oligarchs are even worse because people think that they have freedom when they might not in fact have such freedom in the first place.

I swapped “kings” plural for “oligarchs” plural

I am laughing if its a joke lmaooo, just now realized it all of a sudden lol

pardon me I wrote king instead of kings and what you wrote in this comment felt like questionable to me first but now comical LMAO.

But my point still stands and aside from this mistake, I am curious in knowing the real answer to my question even now!

I don’t have an opinion on if it’s worse or not because some people mistakenly think they are free.

I meant that from the perspective of how market forces play out, hyper concentration of wealth into a few actors looks the same whether the title of the those actors is “king” or “oligarch”.

You start losing the wisdom of the crowds effect the market gives if you have a handful of people making the decisions for the entire market

> Trouble is that, [...], even if they include the charging and refilling bits they can be cheap enough to throw away after use.

Well that is fixable, it's even one of the solutions posited here. Just make them artificially expensive by adding a deposit, which you'll get back when you return it to the shop (instead of throwing it away).

But they don't need to be taken back anywhere. They are reusable. So this just ends up back at what I said about "taxing waste".

Give it some slack, it's probably doing its best to inexplicably run windows.

Disagree. Windows for embedded runs extremely well, though can take a minute to boot.

My underpowered cash register that hadn't been updated in a decade could run POS on top of Windows 7 Embedded POSReady buttery smooth.

Occasionally they would start performing poorly, and it was always a network issue.

They should really update those links. Could be a coincidence but about half seemed to redirect me to a service that was discontinued or continued under a different name.

Ah I hadn't realised development is falling behind a bit (addon last released 6 months ago, though it's possible it doesn't need updating I guess)

Could just be the webpage to be fair, but it's not a great look.

After trying a few others I do think I was a bit unlucky with my first few tries.

Both of these do, in a way. They just differ in which gaussian distribution they're fitting to.

And how I suppose. PCA is effectively moment matching, least squares is max likelihood. These correspond to the two ways of minimizing the Kullback Leibler divergence to or from a gaussian distribution.

I mean we've had to cope with users for ages, this is not that different.

Hey we have the same tree!

    (()(()((())((())(()())))))

Mine looks weird but it's decorated:

    @star
    @lights
    @balls
    def christmas_tree():
        n1 = Node()
        n2 = Node()
        n3 = Node()
        n4 = Node()
        n5 = Node()
        n6 = Node()
        n7 = Node()
        n8  = Node(n1, None)
        n9  = Node(n2, n3)
        n10 = Node(n4, n5)
        n11 = Node(n8, n9)
        n12 = Node(n6, n7)
        n13 = Node(None, n11)
        n14 = Node(None, n12)
        return Node(n13, n14)

    christmas_tree()

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