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Comment Re:AI? What's that? (Score 1) 38

Think the point would be that even if you try to opt out of AI summaries, you end up hearing someone read a script that they used AI to generate, or read comments or emails that AI generated without your awareness. Then there's a tendency to adopt speech patterns that you see in use.

So even if you refrain, you are still inundated by the content by virtue of everyone else overusing it without specifying. Even if you have a tendency to recognize AI BS a few sentences in and go away from it, you still read probably two or three sentences and may have influenced your speech a little.

Comment Re: Is it just my Alzheimer's? (Score 1) 66

Inflation is not being treated as noise, if it were then we wouldn't index it away, we would just ignore it. The fact we are indexing it away is due to treating it as a real predictable trend.

However, the purpose of indexing it away is to normalize, due to the recognition that it's not the absolute prices that matter, only their relative relationships

Inflation is a flaw in the measuring instrument we're using (fiat currency), kind of like if you have a metallic ruler and you increase the ambient temperature, then the expansion will make the inch markings on the ruler be longer than an actual inch.

Comment Re:Who thought this service was a good idea? (Score 1) 106

Your Streisand Effect definition is too narrow, imho. The issue isn't disclosure against the company's wishes, it's the increased awareness by the public arising from consequences of the company's initial policy choice of halting operations and service to the Russian public.

Comment Re: Get a warrant (Score 2) 33

Unless a suspect themselves have tested, genetic genealogy can only produce leads for further investigation. You can't be convicted, probably not even accused on your cousins DNA alone... in a state which respects basic civil rights, at least. Which it's an open question how much the US is right now.

Then again, if they don't respect basic civil rights, it's bold to assume they care about evidence at all, genetic or otherwise.

Ancestry is a PE run lobster trap, in a screw of enshittification. They are the sort of company which hikes subscription fees and "forgets" to cancel even though you tell them to. (Very profitable with their elderly customer base). If they're clamping down on police use of their databases, that's because the way they think the wind is blowing, not because of any sort of principle.

People who want to help missing person cases/cases where the police still care about actual evidence, can submit their results to the pretty open GEDmatch instead (ideally testing somewhere which doesn't have subscriptions).

Comment Re:Censorship deal on the side (Score 1) 12

If you think Meta doesn't already censor accounts all over the world on behalf of the United States, I have a space elevator to sell you. For example, make an off-hand comment about how easily Canada could manufacture a dirty bomb as protection against US aggression and watch limitations start to be applied to your activities. Meanwhile, Russian bot pages continue to be treated as honoured guests.

Comment Re:What's wrong with an accounting trick or two? (Score 1) 59

I mean, sure you can mine some crypto, but the perceived value of those is essentially nothing.

The market cap for all those cited coins together is considered about $7 billion (Monero being the vast majority of that). So mining that won't do them any good to recoup expense unless they suddenly got all the crypto-bros to abandon BTC in favor of Monero (Etherium is at $380 billion, BTC is at $1.8 Trillion).

Comment Re:What's wrong with an accounting trick or two? (Score 1) 59

They aren't "video cards", since they generally neither have video ports, nor do they fit in a standard form factor 'slot' form factor.

If the LLM bubble evaporates, the workload appropriate to these devices will be dramatically lower. You *could* perhaps make a go of VDI and maybe someone takes another swing at a cloud gaming service (if someone went all in on Grace, then neither of those use cases would be well served either), but hard to imagine any of those markets sustaining the absurd footprint built out.

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