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EclecticKant t1_jeg1xl5 wrote

It sounds crazy because it's not what it's being asked of openAI, the regulator complain that openAI hasn't put anything in place to check if the user is a minor, which is a reasonable complaint. They are not asking openAI to collect more data for the sake of it, but to refuse access to minors

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Griffinhart t1_jefx3zr wrote

Back in the pre-rona days, I did actually work for a tech company that gave us a transportation stipend (AFAIK it was given to all employees). It was ~150USD per month, IIRC. Didn't cover my commute time, but it did cover the cost of bussing to the office and back every day. (~1hr and 2.75USD each way every weekday; I was otherwise making 28USD/hr (later 35/hr) as a junior SDET.)

Then 'rona happened and the transportation stipend went away. Instead, we got to apply for reimbursement for the cost of our Internet every month, up to a maximum of 70USD/month (which was nice, although my home Internet cost ~85/month).

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dangerbird2 t1_jefwkus wrote

The problem with virgin orbital is that they did exclusively air-launched rockets, which have a hard limit on the payload size that makes manned flight pretty much impossible (i.e. if it won't fit under a 747 wing, it won't fly). Moreover, air-launched rockets have been all but obsolete ever since Space-X and Rocket Lab have proved first-stage recovery to be reliable and extremely economical.

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