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Comment Re:I still don't see how there's a basis to compla (Score 1) 7

Generally courts have said that just because you put something out on the internet doesn't mean you give up copyright to it even if you make it publicly accessible.

Reddit is claiming copyright to the posts made by their users. Or at least that's the likely legal justification for this.

There are also a whole bunch of weird business laws we never think about that exists to protect businesses from other businesses. Basically stuff lobbyists put in place to protect the interests of their employers.

There are even a handful of consumer laws floating around that might be applicable. But after 45 years of Reaganomics there aren't very many of those left. And most courts won't enforce them.

Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 7

It's not about the quality of the content it's about whether the content follows natural human language patterns.

The AI is just being trained to follow those patterns. It's not about generating answers that are accurate it's about generating something that looks like a human being might have written it.

Also sadly because Google is completely overrun by advertisements and low quality bot traffic reddit is the best place to get accurate information outside of a handful of extremely specific specialty forms. And yeah that's where we're at is a civilization.

Comment Re:I love EVs, but (Score 1) 35

The real problem is taxi driver is basically the bottom of our society and we are about to automate it away completely.

When that happens those people don't have anywhere else to go. Even if you want to pretend they're a magically more jobs being created, which mathematically there aren't, the people at the bottom there driving taxis aren't going to be able to get those jobs. If they could they wouldn't be driving taxis.

There is a small handful of people obsessed with working for themselves that kid themselves into believing driving Uber is working for yourself.

Everyone else's basically incapable of getting any other job. Either because they are migrants or they are laid off and the job market sucks or they have to deal with age discrimination or they have a criminal record or whatever.

So once those jobs are automated we are going to have around 14 million people that are civilization has absolutely no use for. We are just expecting those people to go away and die.

We are doing that in a country with a nearly unlimited supply of firearms and only 400,000 cops.

Oh, and as the tax base that pays for all those cops collapses we aren't going to be putting more of them on the streets to protect our sorry asses there's going to be less of them. You can already see that happening in Russia where they have given up on policing outside of the two major cities.

Basically we are going to have roving bands of bandits with absolutely nothing to lose.

About half the people here are rubbing their hands with Glee at the prospect of shooting and killing some of those bandits. There are a lot of people who really really want to kill somebody with their guns.

Funny thing is let's say you do that. Here's the thing. There's millions of bandits and one of you. You have to successfully kill every single bandit. They only have to kill you once and you lose.

But if people actually thought through the consequences of their actions we wouldn't be in this mess...

Comment Impossible (Score 1) 48

Americans simply will not tolerate that level of complexity or nuance.

We are in all or nothing civilization. If we want we wouldn't be in the process of handing over all of our money and electricity and water to a handful of billionaires so they can automate away all our jobs and relegate us all to intense poverty.

Americans suck at complexity and nuance. We are there kick the data centers out and keep our water and electricity or we go without water and electricity so we can have ai data centers take our jobs.

There are plenty of options in between those two extremes none of which have the slightest chance of getting implemented.

It's like the old joke from Winston Churchill, you can always count on America to do the right thing after they've tried everything else. He was only half right though.

Comment Re: People have less cash? Concerned about econom (Score 1) 253

You're so aggro, you're mistaking something genuine for an argument. I didn't say "come to London to look at chargers"! I said "if you ever come to London", ie for work or pleasure, not for a charger review! And then I offered to take you round, which would include showing you chargers. Sheesh, man, I was being friendly!

No, I wasn't suggesting people wait an hour on a highway in the middle of nowhere -- that's exactly where you need rapid chargers, obviously. You need slow chargers at destinations, as I spelled out.

Comment Trump doesn't chicken out (Score 1) 39

He pushes the boundaries of what he can get away with.

So if he can get away with putting his son in charge of a multi-billion dollar company that he has dictatorial control over using the office of President of the United States he will absolutely do it.

The only question is will the general public and the upper crust, especially the upper crust, have a little panic about it or will they just let it slide.

Trump is always pushing the boundaries and every time he does we lose a little bit of our country.

Unfortunately about 30% of the country is furiously masturbating to ice going around beating up brown people so... And then you've got another 33 to 40% that just want cheap eggs and cheap rent and they will literally do anything to anyone to get it. Desperation can make people do bad things...

Comment In other news (Score 2) 44

More than 1,100 public figures need some attention.

The problem isn't super intelligence the problem is hyper advanced automation devouring jobs in a civilization where jobs are a necessary resource required to live as a human being.

If you actually know the history of the first two industrial revolutions job destruction was much faster than job creation and that created enormous social unrest.

You can draw a pretty straight line from the mass unemployment following the industrial revolutions and the two world wars.

And we are about to go into another cycle only this time we have nukes.

One of the things absolutely nobody talks about is just how hard factory automation hit the middle class. 70% middle class jobs got automated in the last 45 years.

The center will not hold

Comment I don't think that's an iron law (Score 1) 62

With that theory ignores is the third group who is actively trying to take control of the organization to twist it to their personal benefit.

That theory is basically just a round about way to say we shouldn't have government. It's literally saying that every organization, and every organization is some form of government, is bad and will always be bad.

What I have noticed about people who despise every kind of organization is a falling to a few groups. You have the true believing libertarians/anarchists whose ideas don't work because people just aren't that intelligent. You got the people getting dazzled by word salad like above.

And then you have the people who are trying to seize control of the levers of power for their own personal benefit and they would like it very much if you didn't believe in the use of organized human endeavorence, AKA government, and would just get out of the way and let them be in charge.

The goal is to get you to get so disgusted with government you have the gate any control over the government and leave it all in their hands.

Comment Re:First! (Score 1) 71

This article is the first that I have seen or heard of these vehicles. If no one knows they exist, how can they expect sales?

Who are you again? I'm wondering if you work in commercial fleet management. Because if you don't, not only can you not have a basis for saying that no one knows they exist, but it is also completely irrelevant that you know about them.

The world is full of special purpose products marketed specifically only at the people who are inclined to buy them. Quickly off the top of your head name 10 models of electric 3.5tonne trucks. They do exist. There's likely whole companies you've never heard of that provide products to major companies who have transportation fleets. Have you heard of an eDaily? Why not? They are a very successful model of electric truck, likely made by a company you've never heard of because you're not in the trucking world, which makes up most of UPS's fleet sales over the past few years in some markets.

Comment Re:Not just EV credits (Score 1) 71

These aren't people. They are corporations exclusively focused on cost. People were the ones who voted a government in that introduced tax credits. The people wanted it.

Corporations will fuck you over any way they can if it saves them a dollar. They don't "want" their current diesel trucks either. They want the diesel truck of your granddaddy, the one that belches black fumes as it drives down the road giving you cancer.

Comment Re:Too specific (Score 1) 71

And yet the lack of policy, availability and willpower of the governments isn't driving fleet sales, bonus points that tax credits are being rolled out. In the meantime DHL has partnered with Peugeot, Ford, Renault, Fiat, and VW to effectively electrify their entire European fleet. It's not just a DHL thing either. American companies such a FedEx have moved to exclusively purchasing Mercedes eSprinters, UPS has new IVECO eDaily trucks as part of their delivery fleet. There seems to be enough fleet orders to support a whole lot of companies in Europe.

It's been a *LONG* time since I've seen a diesel delivery truck here but in America they are still the most common truck.

Most of these car companies have no presence in America so in theory the GM would be have an edge in that market where the only real alternative is Ford's eTransit, so while it's not surprising that GM is halting if they don't have a fleet contract, it's a bad sign that the fleet orders aren't actually forthcoming in the USA.

Once again America is being left in the dustbin of western history while the rest of the western world is putting effort into reducing how many diesel fumes they inhale (note, climate change is here to stay, we're too dumb collectively to stop it, but it's so nice having quiet trucks that don't leave a smelling trail everywhere they go so even for those who don't believe in climate change they should be supporting this).

Comment Re:Gotta have something to complain about, I suppo (Score 1) 33

You don't need a law. Words have connotations, and when people advertise DSL internet, cable internet, or fibre internet, the connotation is that these words mean the final hop to your house. No one sells internet advertised based on what the backhaul infrastructure looks like, precisely because people often have a minimum clue about what outlets are already around their house.

There's no specific law for fibre internet in Germany, it's just basic misleading marketing.

By the way I'm on a Hybrid Fibre Coaxial connection - FTTC. It was advertised and sold to me as "Cable internet" or more accurately "Kabel Internet"

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