Most of qwen's model is open source, but qwen max is closed source.
Also if you believe that they are not burning billions for charity, in my thinking making the model closed or restricted is the way to earn return on their investment.
It affects the jury. If the jury watches tv shows that builds the expectation that there is always a bunch of ballistics evidence etc and that it is always fool proof then they will 1) distrust when there isn’t that type of evidence (but enough other evidence) and 2) they will overvalue the evidence when it exists
It affects everybody. I've heard of people arrested in rather more oppressive regimes expecting to be Miranda'd because it's what they know from American cop shows and they thought it was broadly applicable everywhere.
My parents let me fill my tank with gas. They wouldn't let me open an AWS account. Aside from that, if it is misuse of a parents card, then then answer is "chargeback."
I am sure many parents would agree with ”I wanna learn using AWS and I need a card connected to the account. Look here it says you can be on the free trial. Don’t you want me to have the ability to learn AWS and get a better future?”
Chargeback sounds like trying to defraud AWS. If the parent authorises the child to use their card, then the buck should stop with the parent. AWS has done nothing wrong in allowing an account to be opened with a valid card.
Some banks make chargebacks so easy that people just click the chargeback button without trying to reach out to the vendor. I see this a lot - I work for a “vendor”.
I don't have an issue with chargebacks if the vendor has made a mistake and doesn't respond in a timely fashion, but issuing a chargeback because you let your kid play around with a card isn't responsible behaviour. (Not that I think it was a kid in this particular case)
There's also the issue that it's usually a breach of the contract to allow someone else (i.e. not named in the contract) to use your card.
The chargeback is the way of reaching out to the merchant, and quite often the only realistic one. If the merchant disagrees with the chargeback, they can challenge it (which is in turn usually their only opportunity to directly communicate with the merchant).
Most vendors make it so hard to handle that defaulting to chargebacks is sensible (at least when the charge reasonably qualifies -- the kid with a parent's card example doesn't seem appropriate).
If a vendor makes a $20 oopsy, it's not worth the vendor's time or yours to track down their phone number, find that just the phone number section of their website is broken, acquire it elsewhere, see that it recently changed or is otherwise no longer in service, go to their website and interact with the cheapest chatbot solution they could find which somehow costs more than unfiltered Sonnet 4.6, be greeted by 3 help pages which have literally nothing to do with the problem at hand, go through the entire dialogue tree and see that it's useless, ask to be connected to an agent, which spawns a secret dialogue option informing you that you can call 555-5555 to speak to a human being, sit and wait for a voice prompt recorded at half-speed which feels the need to repeat every single choice and interaction back to you, navigate the entire phone dialogue tree, try various permutations of "representative" and swearing to see if there's an escape hatch, be redirected back to the website, ... <magic> ..., somehow eventually connect to a real human being, have your request denied, go back to step one and find a better informed representative, have the charge reversed, notice that the reversal hasn't applied even a month later, go back to step one, find a representative who will actually press the reversal button instead of just saying they did to juice their metrics, and come back several more times over the next year as an automated system repeatedly flags the associated purchase as not being paid in full (since the charge was reversed).
Or...I can send my bank the timestamped dashcam footage of me entering a parking garage, their prices and policies, and me exiting the parking garage, tell my bank what the right charge should have been, let the garage dispute that if they really think I'm wrong, and wind up having the entire charge reversed instead of just the delta I asked for.
I'm sure your vendor is one of the good ones, but my tolerance for bullshit from the rest is pretty low nowadays, and I won't finish going through the official process if it's too onerous. Somebody got a pat on the back saving $5 for the call I never successfully placed, and the business lost $20 on top of the actual refund in chargeback fees.
Isn't USA famous for letting parents take out credit cards on their newborns and pushing them into debt even before they learn to walk? I recall seeing at least a few snippets of movies and TV shows showing that.
If you mean parents using their children SSN to open a credit card, this is because US banking system is always decades behind the rest of the world, so they just accept the number blindly even though technically the children aren't allowed to open a loan yet, being minor.
In theory once the child grows up and shocked that their credit score is ruined, they can file a police report to wipe the debt, but that also means their parents will go to jail, a large risk considering they're likely not in a good physical/mental health in the first place.
Other countries solved this by either having national ID or a working KYC system.
It is possible to defraud a lender and cause your own child grief from bad credit reports and creditors but ultimately the debt isn't collectible or lawful as should be obvious.
Because 16 years old do not have a card with no spending limits, and with very low online spending limits. Most of those cards are even just for withdrawing
AWS doesn't check if your credit card will be able to handle a $5k charge before letting you rack that up, and in fact AWS doesn't support setting any spending limit.
You just have to put in any valid credit card at all when you sign up, use AWS, and at the end of the month you'll have a bill. At no point does your credit card limit or a spending limit enter into things.
I got mine when I was 12, IIRC. Not a credit, of course, it was a debit card, but not all countries bother to differentiate between the two, it was just a “bank card”. And I believe it had a credit card BIN because all local banks did that to get more in processing fees.
I do not specifically believe you can run up a $6000 bill on AWS with a kids card. It beggars belief as does the idea that this is a literal rather than mental child
Would they be given their own credit card, or would it be under the parents? Over here minors can't enter into debt contracts like credit cards, so it'd be a direct debit until they are adults.
The minor wouldn't be the actual person entering a debt contract here, the parents are agreeing to be responsible for the debt. The minor is only an authorized cardholder.
Think business accounts. The name on the card might be some agent of the company but they're not directly responsible for paying the debt. The business is responsible for the debt.
I think you mean debit card? In the UK at least you need to be 18 to agree to agree to a direct debit too. Rarely comes up since they're mostly for bills, but e.g. for a phone/SIM on contract it has to be in a parent's name for that reason.
> In basically all of the western world minors can enter into debt contracts, but are generally not seen as particularly creditworthy.
No, that's not legally permitted in many places. I was under impression that minors can't enter into debt contracts anywhere in EU, but that, too, was an incorrect assumption.
I was under the impression they could do it but there was a high chance of a debt like this being unenforceable, so companies don't want to. Or maybe that's another way of saying they can have debts but not debt contracts.
I'm reminded of the bot @needadebitcard on Twitter 10(?) years ago, that reposted pictures of people's cards that they posted on Twitter for the public to see.
its really easy to use social media bots scrapers and AI img extraction etc. dont even need tons of resources. But i was mostly talking about forums and carders which has never really stopped being a thing.
Russia been saying they will nuke everyone since before the war. They never do anything when meet with strength. Russians even didn’t use nukes when Russian land was under occupation for months. They just raised their fist in the air shaking it and said ”we will show you”.
But I don't think they were really "met with strength". If they had, then Moscow would really have been bombed and I don't mean by drones. I just don't think NATO is going to fight a war with Russia over Ukraine.
If Russia had really been "met with strength" the war would be over, or it would have spread much farther than Ukraine's borders. With respect to the Ukrainians, who have shown incredible bravery and smarts, I'm afraid they have been left to fend on their own, and I don't see that seriously changing.
They did nothing they didn’t do before. They shot some random missiles and drone and kill some civilians in an apartment house/hospital/etc. But it is nothing they wouldn’t do a normal weekday.
You're losing your bet. Also, you might be losing the argument by taking this conversation past the Godwin point.
But, to answer your specific question, no, I do not think it is "wrong" (which is a moral judgment) to fight against people who want to kill others.
This is a complex argument because:
1. I, due to my ancestry, would have been in the outgroup that pretty much any genocidal maniac would be targeting (including that one)
2. I would have been doing my best, back when political means were still on the table, to fight against the idea that letting the bully have his way was the most expedient manner. The whole decade would have gone quite differently if Germany had not been allowed to freely build up the means to invade neighbors willy-nilly.
3. If I had lived in Germany, eastern France, etc. would have been gone with my family way before the onslaught started. If we're letting this looming thing happen, you can have the land and my shopfront. I'm resourceful enough to set up shop elsewhere.
4. Failing (2) and (3), I'd be fighting. But thinking that fighting is the first resort is what allows you to be manipulated by a handful of rich old men who'll send you to the trenches to die.
If we accept that the use of chemical weapons versus kinetic weapons is clearly different even though both were used on military targets, we should also consider whether a cruise missile and an autonomous drone are clearly different. Just because the target has a Russian uniform on doesn't mean it's okay to kill them in whatever way we can dream up.
That’s why we have said it is OK to blow up soldiers but not gas them. Ukraine has followed the international laws and are legally blowing up them. Nothing different from shooting a tomahawk on them.
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