Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A. Tucker, Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute, is an economist and author. He has written 10 books, including Liberty or Lockdown, and thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He writes a daily column on economics at The Epoch Times,
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Chris Wood Conserve New Zealand blog.gracefool.com Only 28% of Kiwis think the country is headed in the right direction – a record low. Only 18% think economic conditions will be better in a year. There are many reasons why; such as the rapidly increasing cost of living and major
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OpenAI has trained a model called ChatGPT to interact in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises and reject inappropriate requests. ChatGPT is a sibling model to InstructGPT, which is trained to follow an instruction
You have to really wonder just what Waikato Police Area Commander, Superintendent Bruce Bird was thinking when he admitted that youth crime is “out of control”. Police were allegedly fired at from a passing vehicle in the wake of youth arrests linked to a string of overnight ramraids and burglaries
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The capital’s current mayor (the city has justifiably dumped them at the first opportunity ever since Dame Kerry Prendergast pulled stumps) excitedly announced the introduction of e-bikes. This is fine for the suburbs but a terrible idea for the CBD. Here’s why.
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