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Comment Re:If you thought SEO/affiliate marketing spam is (Score 1) 15

As if that's different from any other "Sponsored Item" search results?

I really look forward to more widespread adoption of AI search in listings. I hate spending hours having to manually dig through listings to see if the product listed *actually* meets my needs or building up spreadsheets to compare feature sets. This should be automatable. We have the tech to do so now.

Comment Oh no (Score 2) 29

Oh no... they'll just have to... patch their firmware like every other manufacturer has had to.

For those people who bought a Framework laptop, enabled secure boot and rely exclusively on that to protect their computer from booting into an unauthorised operating system.

P.S. their firmware page currently have 11 CVE fixes listed for the lasted firmware.

This is inevitable.
This is how manufacturers should do things.
It's really not even that important.
Making an article about it is scaremongering.
I don't see an article every time Dell has something like this, or Asus, or HP, or ...

Comment Re:Good work! (Score 2) 38

It would be interesting to know how DOJ got access to the wallets but TFA doesn't say.

Yeah, I thought one of the major selling points of crypto was that it couldn't be seized by the government. Obviously, there's still the $5 wrench attack (which is actually a $21 wrench these days, thanks inflation), but having multiple crypto wallets would mean you could just surrender the one with the least amount of coin in it and deny any knowledge of the keys to the other wallets.

Comment As an American it's hard to compete (Score 1) 15

Our healthcare system right off the bat adds between 10 and 15,000 to my cost as an employee. This means I have to bring a shitload more value even before accounting for the wage differences.

I have lost opportunities to both Canada and London and if you're reading this you probably have too. My personal favorite although technically I wasn't going to apply for this was seeing a project in a call center I worked at go to canada to access the cheaper employees thanks to the single-payer healthcare system.

That project was Fielding calls from Americans for a American private insurance company. Basically Canadians telling Americans they got denied.

If we had a single pair of healthcare system it would create millions of jobs but the problem is the Private health insurance industry is worth hundreds of billions of dollars and the last time there was even a small chance of a single pair system they spent half a trillion dollars scaring you with death panels.

Meanwhile we have private death panels all over the place. But those are okay for some reason.

Comment Dude it's 2025 (Score 1) 122

It's time for you to come up with another word for it.

You know how you used to call it bleeding hearts but then it became political correct and then it became cancel culture and then it was woke? You guys tried dei but I think that was a little to iso complicated for the sort of person you're trying to appeal to.

I'm just saying that your material is getting stale and just like how cracker barrel had to change their logo you need to come up with some new branding for a new generation of keyboard warriors and Russian bots networks

Comment It is disturbing... (Score 1) 165

... to see how many here FAILED to understand the point of the TFA.

Let's turn RAM into dollars to see if it makes it easier to understand the fucking point of the article: You have, say, $320 available. And you only need $3 of that to do the job you need to do. Why, for all the creatures of darkness, do you think you have to use all the $320 to do the same job just because you have $320? Is it because the $320 “is free” so you should use all of it? When out of the $320 available, you only need $3 to do the job?

Just because you have 32GB of RAM available doesn't mean you should waste it! And every mentally challenged individual who says, “Oh, memory is free now” should first be burned alive and then dismissed from any and all tasks vaguely related to programming.

Comment I'm American (Score 1) 74

The other religions tend to keep their heads down a little here. We have Christian nationalists in charge right now so those other religions while they will go about their business and try to get converts and tiths they usually aren't quite as politically involved here as the Christians

The scientologists would like to be but they've been dropping off the map as their members fade away. There is also the Moonies but I think they compete a little too strongly with Christian extremist evangelism here so they have a hard time getting a foothold.

The Hindus and the Muslims both kind of keep their heads down. And then that just leaves the smaller religions like paganism and whatnot that aren't enough to have any noticeable impact on politics.

Comment I miss antitrust law enforcement (Score 2) 53

Ordinarily Microsoft would be violating the law if they bundled their AI bullshit with their operating system. That is a classic antitrust violation..

But since we stopped any semblance of antitrust law enforcement 25 years ago that's right out the door and we can all just suck it the fuck down.

Never mind the fact that there are absolutely no viable competitors to Microsoft besides Apple and if you play games apple is not a viable competitor...

The bullshit they are pulling in Windows 11 is exactly why antitrust law exists but we are all so terrified of bureaucrats we forgotten that bureaucrats is a white collar cop.

Ironically we defunded the police it was just the police that took care of criminals like Microsoft. Your ass is still getting a ticket if you're 5 over and the cop needs to make quota this week...

Comment Great man theory has long since been discredited (Score 1) 54

And while Einstein's contributions were enormous he wasn't the only one working on general relativity.

I guess my point is we don't necessarily have to or certainly do not want to wait around hoping for a super genius to make a big leap for us.

What's more the next super genius could be out there but getting crushed by our brutal Dog eat Dog capitalist system that doesn't feed hungry children.

Comment That winds up with the 4000 they replaced (Score 2) 39

There's a bit of exaggeration there I think but they claim to have replaced 4,000 customer service reps. That's about $25,000 per rep which if you account for the cost of an American rep and the cost of an Indian rep that sounds about right.

Labor gets very expensive very fast. So automation becomes a big deal very fast.

The problem is that 100 million or whatever it really is is just gone from the economy. It gets absorbed by Salesforce Senior Management and the big stockholders.

Some of it in a very roundabout way might make it into your pocket through a 401k but those large stockholders have noticed there's 10 trillion in 401K money waiting to be looted so they're working on that. They just opened up 401K investment to risky private equity now that the private equity firms have run out of easy targets...

Meanwhile your job or your business has fewer customers because you can't yank thousands of people out of the economy permanently and not have knock-on effects.

Comment Horseshoe theory (Score 1) 122

So left wing does not mean government like we are typically taught especially in America.

And right wing doesn't mean opposed to government again like we are typically taught.

Right wing means deference to a hierarchy. It comes from the monarchists back in the day who sat on the right wing.

Left wing doesn't necessarily mean the opposite though. What left-wing means is advocating a society where everyone has necessities, a little bit more than the necessities at least and more if society is able and finally that people get a say in how everything is run and governed regardless of their position in a hierarchy.

The right wing is appealing because it gives you a sense of order as well as allowing you to exercise command over people underneath you in the hierarchy.

The left wing is appealing because it gives everyone a say in running things and because it's at least trying to take care of everyone's needs regardless of who they are .

The left wing is very bad at fast action and command structures. You cannot run a left-wing military for example. It breaks down because everybody gets to say and their say is more or less equal. And in a war you need quick decisive action and people willing to follow orders.

The right wing on the other hand is absolutely terrible at meeting the needs of people and protecting civil rights because they always defer to the hierarchy. Your civil rights are entirely contingent on your place in society in a right wing society. This is exactly how it was for the monarchists.

This means that for a lot of things if the left wing starts trying to do them it horseshoes back to being right wing.

If the left wing continues to try and be left-wing and do those things they just fail because the left wing isn't very good at those things. It all just breaks down.

So when it comes to something like selectively taking away free speech the left wing can't do that. They have to abandon all their principles and all the things that make them left-wing to do it. Any attempt to create all sorts of weird special cases outside of immediate obvious harm breaks down very quickly and is either abandoned or well, the horseshoe.

If you look at dictatorships this is always how it goes. It's why communism doesn't work. You never get past the dictatorship of the proletariat because the right wing is better at military violence and once you're left wing revolution starts implementing a right wing command structure to get good at violence and win the war well you don't get a chance to get rid of that military dictatorship.

This is why communist China has a American style Private health insurance system andyou will find people worried about losing their jobs to automation

Comment It's going to be interesting to see what happens (Score 1) 36

It's only a matter of time before AI can replace most common high profit lawyer work. I don't mean the ultra high profit stuff where rich assholes get away with crimes but the run of the bills stuff that keeps lawyers in business.

Think divorce, common lawsuits for harm caused, that's sort of thing.

But lawyers tend to be our elites and ruling class. So I can see them passing laws to protect themselves.

On the other hand that level of automation is worth trillions so I could see the people pushing the automation and the billionaire is using it and abusing it ramming it through anyway. At least for themselves maybe not for us peons.

At the end of the day it's kind of a scenario of a immovable Force and a irresistible Force and I don't know who's going to win.

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