Vimes is talking about being penny wise and pound foolish.
It is not in any way addressing costly signalling, a completely unrelated behavior where purposefully wasteful and highly visible spending on lower-utility products elevates social status, making low-utility products more expensive and more common than equivalent high-quality products.
It's never been the case that more expensive products are better, despite better products being more expensive.
Quality isn't the only reason something may be expensive, and costly signaling will always dominate, whether or not the products are of high quality.
Silver isn't a better material for making jewelry than stainless steel; if anything, it's worse. Jewelry's purpose is to show that the owner doesn't care about costs, but it's not the only way. Buying needlessly expensive technology works too, like cars and computers and phones, and the more expensive ones are not known for lasting long, and they are used for much shorter period of time than a cheap version of the same, despite the cheap one being hardier and longer lasting.
Given its lower melt point and ductility, silver is actually much much better to make jewelry with than stainless steel. Especially if you are also trying to include gold in your piece!
At this point, I'm just going to run a desktop OS on all of my future phones.
I've given up on cell phone software, but I wish cell phone hardware were better. I'm okay with a processor that isn't the latest and greatest, as long as it isn't in so-old-it-draws-watts-at-idle PinePhone territory, but fast processors seems to be all that phone manufacturers care about. They cut corners everywhere else, precluding the headphone ports, expandable storage, replaceable batteries, infrared transmitters, and physical buttons that made older phones much more useful, and they not only make the screens skinnier, but they literally cut off the corners. I want a nice uninterrupted at least 9:16 aspect ratio, if not higher.
Just because you're not logged in doesn't mean that your searches aren't being stored and monitored nor that they can't be subpoenaed. It is possible to be pretty anonymous on the internet, but it's not easy.
Critically Rakoff also eliminates the second criteria for being privileged: confidentiality! His reasoning: you sent it to Anthropic, and they can use it to train or disclose to other third parties!
Exactly; for protection, it must be communications, and it must be between protected parties. Queries from a search engine or large language model are neither communications nor do they involve protected parties.
They can't, because of federal supremacy. Chances are that their regulations on 3D printers won't be allowed because federal supremacy, but they're hoping they've found a loophole.
It doesn't matter how a single party came to run the government, but being the case that it is, there's few checks and balances on the party, so it makes bad decisions it wouldn't have made if it had competition.
Chances are it will eventually be run so poorly that it is no longer unopposed, but the system doesn't guarantee that it is quick.
You can re-use the shells, so all you need to do is cast the bullet, which is really easy, then load the gunpowder into the shells and use a simple machine to crimp the bullet on, and you're done. There's lots of off-the-shelf hardware to do it that is pretty common throughout the US.
I use my computer to do everything whenever I can. If I only have a phone on me, I use the Lightning web browser, which has an option to use a Desktop user agent, allowing me to access the full web page. Using the full version of a web page on a phone is much faster, easier, and more convenient than downloading and installing a client, often requiring an account registration and granting privileged access to capabilities or data, all for what is almost always just a webview of the web page.
It is not in any way addressing costly signalling, a completely unrelated behavior where purposefully wasteful and highly visible spending on lower-utility products elevates social status, making low-utility products more expensive and more common than equivalent high-quality products.
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