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Comment Re:Holy cow! (Score 1) 35

>That museum deserves to lose its entire collection.
If it were a privately-owned museum I might agree with you.

As a publicly owned museum owned by the people of France, I can't agree with you.

I will say that more than one person involved in the Louvre's security needs to be sacked if not prosecuted for criminal negligence, assuming any such laws apply.

Comment Betting against CERTAIN COMPUTING (Score 1) 68

> Betting against computing has never been a good idea since before I was born.

Betting against "computing" in the broad sense may be a bad bet, but betting against CERTAIN TYPES of computing technology has been a good bet. If you put all your money in long-term bets on home/business ADSL technology in the early 2000s, you would've taken a financial bath as other technologies, like copper-cable-tv-based tech, wireless tech, and fiber tech overtook ADSL.

Will "what we call AI in 2025,"* as a type of computing technology, be a market success or a flash-in-the-pan while something else does the same job better or cheaper? Time will tell.

* the definition of "AI" changes over the years

Comment The "alternative" is implied (Score 1) 35

If your product/process is necessary for society and it can't help but use large amounts of electricity, use cleaner/greener electricity.

What this might mean in practice:

When building a new plant, build a solar/wind/other-relatively-green electricity plant next to it.

If you have a large plant that can be retrofitted cost-effectively with greener power, do so.

If you can't, investigate ways you can buy green power from the grid without impacting the bottom line. This may mean pooling your resources with other large companies to build a centrally located green-power plant.

All of these are years-to-decades-long projects, not something that will be done in 2-3 years much less in the next quarter.

Comment A warranty canary would make more sense (Score 5, Insightful) 60

In countries that can't make you lie but can make you not tell others about their warrants, a warranty canary is a good, legal way to communicate that a court or police force has seized data and put you under a gag order.

In countries where the government can "make you lie" by making you continue to say that there has been no government data-seizure, warranty canaries are useless - "killing the canary" will get you in the same legal hot water as announcing "the government took your data."

I wouldn't be surprised if some of the countries whose police or court actions were leaked to Israel take whatever legal action they can against Google and Amazon.

Comment If China is the threat apply the same rules to all (Score 1) 89

Only allow manufacturers to ship "China-contaminated" network routers or similar equipment if detailed specifications of the "China-contaminated" parts are published that show nothing hostile is in the device AND there is a feasible method to prove that the "China-contaminated" parts of the hardware match the specifications.

If China is not a threat then leave TP-Link alone.

Comment Re: What's the problem? (Score 1) 262

>Didn't some politican comment that Jesus isn't Christian, or didn't have Christian values, or something...?

Most Christians accept the "start date" of Christianity to be Pentecost, which came after the Crucifixion.

So, yeah, Christ wasn't a Christian, at least not while he was in his pre-Crucified corporeal state. He was Jewish though.

On the other hand, he pretty much defines "Christian values."

Comment Re:I want more than merit and skill (Score 1) 262

>Is there any evidence that "diverse lived [sic] experiences" matters in any way when it comes to putting together an effective work team?

First, sorry about the typo, thanks for fixing it.

Now, to answer your question: Diverse lived experience (in the "real life" sense, not the "I studied different algorithms than you in college" sense), if a team has any responsibility to think about what future customers might want, diversity is helpful. Say I'm a candy manufacturer and I'm wondering why my new candy bar isn't selling well in certain zip codes associated with immigrants from [country]. I'm thinking about hiring a consultant but first, I ask my team for input. Someone chimes in saying "I grew up in [country], the package's colors are associated with bad luck over there." I just saved myself some consulting fees.

Okay, this example was contrived, but you get the basic idea.

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