> Whether or not you believe the United States' leaders, whether or not you think there was a better way for them to achieve their goals (something something Obama deal) is up for debate. But it's very facetious to say you "can't think of a single way in which the United States came out ahead in the war," when the United States' leaders have been publicly announcing it for nearly a year.

This comment doesn't make sense to me; if one doesn't agree with the US leaders then one can perfectly well say that one can't think of a single way in which the US has come out ahead. In fact that's just another way of saying that one doesn't agree with US leaders; there's no contradiction here.

That comment mocked German customers; it didn't mention companies at all.

I read it like the customers where German based companies.

Obviously B2B given the context

> The commenter didn't say "I don't like that the only two serious competitors are from the USA and China"

That's literally what the comment said:

> Still not sure how I feel about China of all places to control the only alternative AI stack, but I guess it's better than leaving everything to the US alone.

I.e. it would be preferable if, for example, Europe was in control of the alternative, but having China and the US is better than just the US.

Do you have a link by by chance? A quick search didn't turn anything up.

No, I am checking my emails (it was in 2012), and all the links are broken.

however I could dig out the references to it. Apparently it was a course by Prof. Alex Aiken and karpathy was a TA.

This repository seems to be a future version of the same course. https://github.com/gboduljak/stanford-compilers-coursework

Edit: found the videos from the course on the archive https://archive.org/details/academictorrents_e31e54905c7b266...

Ah yes, I remember this one. Very challenging indeed. Thanks!

Seemed to really accelerate around 2007-2008 when Facebook became massive and turned a bunch of kids into billionaires overnight. After that it sort of turned into a gold rush, and we were the shovels.

Hah, nice catch. I found that my brain actually corrected this as I was reading and I had to look back again to see the error.

Plenty of people worked to ban handguns only to have it shut down by SCOTUS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller

This was the title used when I came across the video. Apparently YouTube uses many different titles for A/B testing but this is the one I got. Can't edit it now, unfortunately.

EDIT: seems like dang or team took care of it, thanks!

I remember thinking that wheeled suitcases were funny the first time I saw them. How silly I was...

> Those who liked being able to be able to rent a movie without planning days ahead are stuck with streaming now.

Just want to point out that public libraries often have great DVD collections (also music, games, and more) and are often underutilized. Definitely still a viable way to watch a movie for many folks.