[–] 21 points 1 day ago (1 child)

I do remember there was a time where a lot of full tankers were parked offshore because the price point was "too low". Not sure how that quite equates to negative rates, but I don't know enough about how this value is calculated in that context I guess.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    Oh, I recall seeing a post months ago about this LLM clean room approach being promoted as a service to "help remove license restrictions" on open source projects. They would deliver you a new chunk of code as a drop-in replacement for "restrictive license" existing code.

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    So now a similar approach is being taken to do the same for proprietary applications and games. Fucking hell this is so damn bleak.

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