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Comment Re:Twice the work for good teachers. (Score 1) 121

Most of them won't do that. They will just be like "the computer says it's good/bad" and grade accordingly without reading so much as a summary. School districts, who are like churches in that they generally have money and refuse to pay for anything if they can get it for "free", will use this to justify increasing class sizes and worse teacher:student ratios. No one will learn shit.

Like 8 years ago there were kids using cellphones with apps that would solve math problems from a picture (I work K12 and have a long time). This is just going to make society worse and even more machine dependent. Hunger Games just missed the AI element.

Comment *Microsoft has entered the chat* (Score 1) 107

Welcome to the very slow boil of hardware identifiers and TPM requirements cause sek-ur-ah-tea. In reality, you control and own nothing and you can and will only do what we allow you to do with what is ostensibly yours - which, specifically, is buy shit from our 40,000 layers of DRM "store" where we get a 30%+ cut, and repeatedly buying the same thing every time we change something on a whim. Get fucked peasant, pay fealty to your Lord.

Comment Re:WTF is an "Amazon aggregator? (Score 4, Informative) 18

That seems about right, although Amazon famously fucks over successful small business brands on their platform by essentially stealing their ideas and putting out copycats under their own labels.

This sounds like some kind of venture capital bullshit to buy up those labels and put them under one. Think Softbank. I'm not sure how they compete with what Amazon is doing to their own retailers on their platform where they control all the information. From the bankruptcy filing, it looks like they don't.

Comment There is a McDonalds 2 miles from my apartment. (Score 1) 48

They used AI to generate the ad that is on grubhub, it says WcDonalds with the logo and all the M's inverted. There is a picture of a Sprite that has what appears to be a fake Japanese-ish looking language under the logo too.

It's not clear if GH did this or the restaurant but either way it looks like some weird Chinese Amazon rip off version of the real thing. The restaurant is real, I've ordered from and been there before, this started literally in the last 2 or 3 days.

Comment I have invested and lost money in small biotech (Score 1) 107

companies, and one in particular, which are/were listed on stock exchanges where they turned out to be massive frauds effectively losing all the money with plenty of shady dealings, directly lying about trial progress on earnings calls all while C-suite gave themselves massive raises/bonuses, golden parachutes and a corrupt board of directors. Class action lawsuits that go nowhere, etc.

Where the fuck are the investigators for shit like that? The SEC being asleep at the fucking wheel is the reason why short sellers exist at all - particularly the really good ones like Hindenburg and Muddywaters.

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