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Comment Re:So It's OK If Korea Sells Our Stuff For Us. (Score 2) 16

Certainly seems accurate on the surface.
I guess this is what you get when US policy makers don't actually have US-centric agendas.
I hope it's somehow wrong, because it really makes no sense to permit a middle-man to outsource chip-tech for manufacturing while blocking the origin from pursuing that same benefit.

Comment Re: Because it is a 1 party state for the most par (Score 5, Interesting) 286

I can't disagree with your analysis, but also, it doesn't matter to me anymore. That game is over. I already left and am feeling happier for it. Life is on track as desired sans-California. I'm a very small sample set, maybe a fluke, but TFA suggests otherwise. Don't bother convincing me or anyone else that already left that we made a mistake, instead work on changing your state's situation to not be an endless dumpster fire and then hopefully others will elect to stay.

Comment Re: "The Beating of a Liberal" (Score 1) 114

it's probably an institutional bad actor.

That's certainly possible, but it could also be someone running a long-lived public sentiment experiment, or a fed bait or psyop, or something even more off the wall.
Without more information, we'll never really know. In the meantime, I still get a nostalgic chuckle when I see these old troll spams.
I almost miss the one about Cucking Zuck, or something like that.

Comment Now they're getting it! (Score 1) 29

Everyone in the software biz knows that the subscription model far outpaces the licensed version model in terms of collected revenue. This is so true that you can charge 50% your typical full-featured license fee per annum and still walk away with your pockets bulging by the end of year 2.

So, looks like the military industrial complex finally figured out the game. Welcome to the money party, late comers. Now get to work fleecing the American people like you know you've wanted to for all these past years.

Sure, taxes are gonna go up a bit more, but we can always hide that from the populace through clever fiscal mechanics, like inflation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Comment Re:Which is weird (Score 1) 62

Sometimes this is true, but in my (brief) experience within public service systems it more often isn't.
Many times major funding comes with strings attached - ie, must be used for a specific purpose - for example, this is how you end up with a school library upgrade of dozens of new computers when the school (and even the district) has no idea how they'll ever use those systems for any purpose outside of casual minesweeper during free periods. Within the police spending context, this easily turns into 'must spend these X dollars on AI crime prevention systems'. Again, the people making these deals have no idea wtf they are doing, all they see are the dollar signs.

Comment Re:Obviously not (Score 1) 157

Squabbles like this are starting to erode my faith in future iterations of the Computer Sciences.
Next, they'll be constructing buildings under a coordinated logo/banner, trying to prove to the world how right they are by nature of their "success".
You're job is to fuck around with a fancy-ass graphing calculator to appease your boss, so that they decide to keep paying you - please don't pretend to be heralding a new form of life/consciousness/messiah, no one with any real sense will buy that hot trash.

Comment Re:Obviously not (Score 3, Informative) 157

I literally train neural networks

Semantics, but at best you train "artificial neural networks".
Sorry dude, but the algorithm isn't being creative, it's just random noise purposefully induced into an otherwise predictive answer selection path to force bespoke output when repeatedly given the same prompt. There's no real thought going on in that box, it can't do anything that isn't somehow derivative.

Comment Re:To what end? (Score 3, Funny) 147

No one wants to AirBnb to SF to fully experience the sidewalk feces.
If moron investors want to snatch them up to turn them into AirBnbs, let them, and then buy it all back after 2 years for pennies on the dollar.\
The homeless have been sleeping outside since time immemorial, I'm sure they can last another 2 years to get the granite countertops and stainless steel appliances upgrade.

Comment Re:Surface area is supposedly energy reflective (Score 1) 55

I sometimes wonder if the snowy/white landscape theory has any real merit.
Sure, lighter colors are more reflective, but does that matter much outside of localized measurements?
Earth has atmosphere, and overall higher temps mean more water in the air, which means more energy absorption occurs at much higher altitudes, where dissipation already naturally occurs.
Is there any actually solid science on this? Stuff that goes really deep into the knock on effects?

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