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Comment Re:MIT vs GPL (Score 1) 16

They also aren't exclusive. Asahi Linux could make parts of their code available to other projects under their choice of license on a "by request" basis. It depend on whether, e.g., the BSD project needs things available that Asahi considers too significant. That would still mean the scrapers (What's a better word for that?) would be scraping GPL licensed code.

Comment Re:Will AI ever make it better/more-secure? (Score 1) 19

However, "keep your code 100% human-written" is going to be an expensive alternative. And if AI keeps improving at even 1/10th the current rate, it's going to be quite unrealistic.

Yeah, I write my own code. I do it for myself, and I'm retired, so I can do it because I want to. If I were part of a group doing it in competition with another group, this wouldn't work even now, much less 6 months from now.

Comment Re:Debunked... (Score 1) 35

No. The correlation is clear. But what's not clear is the direction of causation, or whether there's a feedback loop.

My, non-expert, guess is that Alzheimer's causes beta-amyloid clumps. This is largely because drugs that reduce beta-amyloid clumps seem to have practically unnoticeable effect on the disease.

Comment Re:Mindblowing (Score 3, Informative) 28

Don't misunderstand what was found. What they found was fossilized blood cells and veins. I doubt they'll even be able to detect the ribosomes, which were almost certainly there.

Yeah, is an extremely well preserved fossil, but don't overread it. It's really no more surprising than the detection of the colors of dinosaur feathers.

Comment Re:He lost this for himself (Score 1) 714

It could well be that he doesn't trust either party. This is quite reasonable, and neither deserves trust. (Personally I tend to be left of most Democrats...so I think of myself as independent, but if the two parties are on the ballot, I generally hold my nose and vote for the Democrat, even though they hardly represent my position.)

Comment Re:He lost this for himself (Score 2) 714

Those are showing up. The robots *are* coming. But not just to the US.

The US surged to dominance in the aftermath of WWII, when most of the other major countries had sustains severe damage. Since then, they have recovered, so the US no longer has that much advantage. Several of the other countries are smaller, or have other disadvantages, but the US has some disadvantages of its own. And we've essentially abdicated out position. China seems to be moving in to fill the vacancy. (Don't take this too seriously, I don't spend much time analyzing this stuff, but that's my take.)

AI *IS* going to be extremely important and shape the world over the next decade. It's an extremely important thing to get right, and getting it wrong could be deadly. But it's already clear that it's going to dominate repetitive jobs. And China is well aware of this. So, apparently, is Amazon, and a few other places. What's not clear is just how cheap it will be. (But China is pushing it hard...so probably cheaper than humans.)

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