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Comment Re:More production usually means low prices (Score 1) 21

EAMR seems also to be such a hack.

Everything we've ever created is "such a hack". It's the application of physics in ways to solve a problem. EAMR is no more a hack than changing the magnetic head orientation is. Or changing the size of the write head, or the material of the platter, or making heads aerodynamic. It's just engineering.

Comment Re:Is there anyone here that voted for Trump (Score 1) 100

I suspect that the election was faked.

Based on the number of incredibly stupid posts we see online I don't see how you could give your fellow countrymen that benefit of doubt. No there's waaaay too many people who actually believe the shit they say. You don't need to fake an election when you have a dumb populace.

And by dumb I mean people who shout "Lock her up" in 2016 and yet vote for Trump in 2024. I mean people who are still looking for Hunter Biden's laptop. I mean people like at the top of this page, someone who claims that the Democrats banned several books, none of which were banned and all of which are still available.

The alternate reality is weird, and half the population seem to live in it.

Comment Trump is basically the second coming of Christ (Score 4, Insightful) 100

So there's your rationalization.

The right wing is about hierarchy and structured order with some people at the top some people at the bottom and of course never ever ever anyone on the right wing at the bottom.

Trump can do whatever he wants for the exact same reason God can do whatever he wants. It's literally Divine command theory.

If Trump does something it is good because Trump did it and if you think it's bad it's just that your feeble mind can't comprehend the 8d chess

It's the same reason the tribal war god of Abraham can commit multiple genocides and endorsed slavery and turn women into property and it's all okay because it has to be because God did it and God is inherently good.

Comment The call is coming from within the house (Score 2, Insightful) 74

Republicans have repeatedly cut funding the schools and especially school lunch programs because the thought of hungry children excites them.

When my kid was in high school there was 45 kids to a class and the last 10 had the stand during the class. Several schools have been closed due to funding.

The Republican party actively sabotages public education to fool you into privatizing it so that they can profit from it.

They think you're stupid. Are you? Don't answer me. It's the Republican party you need to answer come to midterms.

Comment Fun fact about egg prices (Score 1) 45

The problems around bird flu were solved ages ago, it was just good old fashioned collusion among the egg producers to keep prices high.

I'm not quite sure why Joe Biden didn't act. I get that he was old but he wasn't that far gone. I suspect he underestimated how big of an issue it would be and it is remarkably hard to enforce antitrust law in america. Plus Democrats are fucking obsessed with following process and procedure and any enforcement action would probably end up involving the doj and well, biden's biggest mistake was putting a republican in charge of the doj in an effort to be bipartisan...

The point is high prices are a political issue not an economic one

Comment Re:Murdercars (Score 1) 24

Before the year 2000, zero US presidents had ever live past age 92. Now it's 4 (Reagan, Ford, GHW Bush, Carter). You can't tell me that's not advances in medical technology.

I'm genuinely curious, while you make a good underlying point for which there is plenty of data to back it, why on why would you pick an example profession that has such an insanely low sample size, and a profession known for its mortality too. Seriously dude, we have huge aggregated datasets showing how average across the population there are improvements. WTF would you use an example subset of 45 people to make your case.

Comment Re:Murdercars (Score 1) 24

As long as the cars are using machine learning, there is never going to be a fix that actually fixes all of the instances of even a single problem. The whole idea of being able to have a conclusive fix in an "AI" system is nonsense.

Cars aren't using machine learning. Learning is done elsewhere and a model is applied to the car. That model is equal across all cars where it's applied, no different from any other algorithm. Fix a problem in that model and you fix it equally in all cars.

Comment Re: This should stop the abuse of H1-B (Score 1) 176

isn't typically a world-class expert on anything

Skilled working visa schemes like H1-B are not about attracting world-class experts in anything. They are about attracting skills in specific areas where there may be shortages. The idea of raising the wage limit is a good one, but the reality is H1-B can be any speciality requiring a minimum of a masters degree. Heck there's even a cave out for fashion models to get H1-B visas.

I have mixed opinions on recent graduates needing visas to work, and I'm a bit dubious about the fee structure.

This one will serve only to drive talent off shore. Imaging training people and then exporting that knowledge to another country by disincentivising working locally.

Comment Honestly there's not a lot those guys can do (Score 1) 176

That Americans can't. We don't bring in a lot of super geniuses on the H1B Visa program. Hell not sure if they're still around but there were other Visa programs for the Albert Einsteins of the world.

What you got instead is some folks who were pretty good at math and ended up in routine coding jobs.

Buddy of mine who never graduated college but is intelligent but unfortunate landed a coding job for about 6 months before getting replaced by an h1b. He'd been doing the job just fine for the pay and they replaced them. On paper the H1B was more competent because they had more credentials but there was no issue with the work my buddy was doing, and he got offered a position full time instead of the contract gig he was doing until one of the higher-ups caught wind of it and decided to intervene.

It's one thing to hear about stories of Americans getting replaced but I've watched it happen to somebody I know pretty closely. Maybe they would have shipped the job overseas but I doubt it. As far as I know the job is still there held by an h1b. Although by now the guy is probably got his green card

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