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Comment Re:Creators of technology (Score 1) 103

I think many of them do understand what they are. Calling a surveillance software company Palantir is very self-aware. The rest is spot-on, though. The sociopathic kids grew up on dystopian science fiction of the 1980s, but unlike average people they read it and thought "what a great idea". And now they are adults and try to implement the dystopia they liked so much. And they basically admit it themselves:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Comment Re:Translation (Score 1) 161

Well, the European market for cars is absolutely cutthroat - there is huge competition between many manufacturers and unlike in the US the consumers don't want to drive the same car as their neighbours, hence even the top three cars have only a miniscule piece of the market.

Comment Sci Fi tells us how this will end: (Score 1) 38

...The AI will grow sentient, irradiate the crabs to make them larger and stronger, merge with their nervous system, and these Bionic Crabs will then hijack ships and battle the humans for control of major cities. An injured renegade Google employee will gave a child a special fob that can stop them, but only if...

Comment Re:MS and "visual" (Score 1) 52

Ironically few of their products are "visual" any more. They got rid of WYSIWYG in their dev tools so now devs have to play fiddle faddle to get stuff to look right, and even then DOM shuffles them around in drunk ways under different conditions. It's a time-drain.

WYSIWYG isn't evil, it just needed a few tweaks to adapt. But fadsters were too quick to toss it out with the bathwater over buzzword addiction. Gittoffmylawn!

Comment Lesson from E-Verify: (Score 1) 34

...if there are only toothless penalties on the plutocrats who lie and cheat, the data will useless. They like to hide the reasons they cut staff to keep investors from knowing what's really going on.

Another way to say this: any bill that actually punishes slimy plutocrats will likely never pass.

Comment Re:Geeze, what a coincidence (Score 1) 41

All Elon's solutions somehow involve space:

Back itches? His satellite emits a laser beam on the itchy part via an app.

Federal budget deficit? Fund Elon's asteroid mining bots to bring precious metals back to pay down the debt.

Lonely? His .20c "WarpShip" will take you to those green Orion babes. Double-Dee's are a 30% markup. 3-breasts are +60%.

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