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Comment Re:Good thing we have immigration. (Score 1) 206

Reagan himself was the first to grant citizenship to millions of Hispanic immigrants. Both sides of congress enjoy the thought of immigration - one side approves it because it increases short-term corporate profits by importing workers who willingly do the same tasks for a fraction of a native professional's pay, and the other side loves illegal immigration not only for that reason, but also because it ensures a massive future voting block of the descendants of those immigrants who are very likely to vote for their party for the rest of time, flipping states like Texas and all but guaranteeing the demise of their political rivals

This is my prime example of republican overton window shifting. The greatest republican to ever exist, Ronald Reagan was in favor of granting amnesty for people in the country illegally.

What would happen today if any republican proposed that?

Comment Re:Good thing we have immigration. (Score 0) 206

The people who cry the loudest about illegal immigration remain silent when you talk about prosecuting companies who hire illegal workers. Remove the incentive for people who cross illegally. But that would never happen. These same people would throw a fit when they find out what the real price of construction and agriculture labor is. Cry about illegals all day while enjoying cheap tomatoes and roofs.

Comment Re:Solving many a crime (Score 3, Interesting) 42

If the enhanced image leads to other evidence, they might crack some cold cases.

As the person who has been responsible for responding to law enforcement video requests and occasionally (three times) testifying as to that process and their authenticity, it's exceptionally rare (never personally seen it) for CCTV footage alone to convict someone. Most of the time it leads the police to a suspect, usually because someone they know recognized them (not for nothing that the police frequently publish these videos/images) and then the idiot convicts themselves by talking to the cops (pro-tip, never do this). Less frequently it leads to other witnesses and/or evidence that gets them convicted.

Most of the time it doesn't do a damn thing because the crime in question isn't worth the police resources to follow up on, even if you have something pretty damning, like a legible license plate.

If AI enhancement results in more arrests for crime, I'd wager it comes about largely through the police releasing the enhanced images to the media, with the suspect(s) then being outed by their friends/family. Cops go talk to the suspect, he's an idiot and thinks he can outsmart them, and ends up saying incriminating things. Same as today, it'll just be higher quality images on the local news.

Comment Re:another example (Score 3, Insightful) 136

It's a generalization but it's all over the internet and in the most disparate fields: India management means problems...they need to update their way of teaching and their overall approach to society if they want to be appreciated and welcomed on the world stage.

This is some racist ass bullshit and the people modding it up should be ashamed of themselves.

If you want to condemn India for something, condemn them for copying the worst parts of American capitalism.

Tell me, how many Indians do you see here? I count zero. You might be able to claim one, if you discount the fact that Ms. Amuluru is a natural born US citizen, about as Indian as I am German, but whatever, even if you include her I doubt very much she was a decision maker when it came to the aggressive cost cutting -- err, I mean "optimization" -- that lead to this, this, or this.

Comment Re:Sympathy for the Devil (Score 4, Informative) 136

I don't really think it's incumbent on me to prove to you that the perspectives of myself and others are valid.

That said, have you tried to find a non-astroturfed product review for literally anything these days? Have you not noticed how Google -- who used to have the philosophy of getting you off their page as quickly as possible -- has plastered search results with "panels", using data stolen, err, I mean "borrowed", from actual webpages, and frequently directing you to other Google products and services? The last bit is the straw that broke the anti-trust camel's back on both sides of the Atlantic.

That's just Search. If you've worked with G-Suite/Workspace, you're well aware of the anti-consumer changes they've made to that product over the years. If you've come to rely on any Google products as part of your personal or professional workflow, you've probably had the discomforting experience of having the rug pulled out from under you. Is it really a wonder how they managed to go from being hip, cool, and disruptive, to the focus of so much ire?

I weirdly prefer working with Microsoft, despite their countless flaws/problems, and that's saying a lot. If you had told me 10 years ago that I'd feel that way I would have laughed in your face and asked how high you were. Hell, I became an Apple user because of a multitude of negative experiences with Nexus phones, specifically, the complete lack of QA/QC Google maintained over that flagship product line. Dismiss this as an anecdote if you want, it's not, the Nexus 6P ended in a class action lawsuit, countless people had the same lousy experience I did. Android had me for nearly a decade. If you had told me at any point prior to October 2016 I'd end up an iPhone user, again, I'd have laughed in your face.

If the products still work for you, great, but don't discount the multitude of voices saying they're inferior to yesterday's products and deeply frustrating to use.

Comment Re:Sympathy for the Devil (Score 5, Insightful) 136

That is a very angry bit of editorializing, and it's entirely misplaced.

No it's not. You're not wrong about Instagram and other platforms but even the Gen Z'ers who think those platforms == the Internet still use Google. With the possible exception of Reddit (always a toxic place and now that it's public it seems highly probable they'll add 'enshittification' to the toxicity) what platform can you use to find recipes, instructions to repair a broken appliance, swap a part on your car, reviews on some product you're looking for, experiences people have had with credit cards, airlines, etc.?

Google is still highly relevant, for better or worse, and the erosion of their core product is so commonly known that it has been covered by the MSM. Google Search is objectively less useful than it ever has been. Google (err, Alphabet) as a company lost its way a long time ago, probably around the time "Don't be evil" was removed, and it has been run by the same MBA asshats that ruined everything for at least the last decade if not longer.

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