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Comment Re:One silly law causes problems (Score 1) 61

Should we then apply the same logic to very fallible human drivers?

The entire positive side to bureaucracies and committees and governments is that they have enough people in them to do multiple things at once.

Usually when someone says something like what you said and I quoted above here, they are trying to argue that human drivers shouldn't exist. Maybe this is true, for some particular set of truths, but there's always a number of ways you can look at a situation. For example, I would argue that no one and no computer should be driving in the bulk of situations we are currently driving in, because cars are a terrible mode of transportation in the cities where most people live.

Comment How hard is it to catch up (Score 1) 25

Isn't it a fake race with fake metrics? We have companies sinking many billions of dollars into some vague development of AI, but without concrete goals or definitive plans to turn that investment into revenue.

I guess if someone wants to declare themselves the winner, they'll simply have to be the one that burned the most capital on this boondoggle.

Comment Re:Wow... (Score 1) 51

First Street very likely doesn't have some magic model that can predict the future better than anyone else.

When you get a mortgage you have to pay for a flood survey. Even my house 700' above the village where the bank is.

Your flood risk is absolutely predicted by the flood history of your location. The bank writing the mortgage has the skin in the game which is why they make the buyer pay for the flood survey.

It sounds like First Street might be liable for damages based on pseudoscience if these Realtors bring a case. It would be interesting to see them present solid evidence that they prospectively beat the existing flood models and survive a cross-examination.

If they've published a peer-reviewed paper then I missed it.

Comment Re:If you want to do business (Score 1) 19

Cheaper to just pay the bribes.

In America it's known as K-street. Or "donating" to an Inauguration Gala. Or hosting a high court judge in a European palace for a couple of weeks. Or giving decision makers absurd private sector salaries when they 'retire'. Or giving the Governor's wife a $200K no-show job. Pick your branch, there's a way.

In India the system is less formal.

Submission + - Yes, tattoos ARE bad for you (latimes.com)

Bruce66423 writes: 'Tattoo ink moves through the body, killing immune cells and weakening vaccine response

'''Tattoo ink doesn’t just sit inertly in the skin. New research shows it moves rapidly into the lymphatic system, where it can persist for months, kill immune cells, and even disrupt how the body responds to vaccines.

'Scientists in Switzerland used a mouse model to trace what happens after tattooing. Pigments drained into nearby lymph nodes within minutes and continued to accumulate for two months, triggering immune-cell death and sustained inflammation.'

Comment Why fire people immediately? (Score 1) 70

Look, if someone makes a mistake abd owns it. We learn from it and move on. If your business is destroyed by a single person's slip up, then perhaps you are not that serious of a business.

The absolutely toxic corporate culture that firing someone is a reasonable first step is why millions of office workers are paralyzed with fear over losing their job. You are not trash to throw away, you're a person that society has invested thousands of dollars and hours into childhood and education.

In reality, people should be let go if there is a pattern of behavior that other measures have failed to correct. Like if they aren't completing tasks, behaving in an unprofessional way, making costly mistakes frequently, etc.

Comment Re:Much as I enjoy mocking Russia... (Score 1) 73

Convicted under the Biden regime just prior to them successfully stealing a billion dollars of campaign funds for an election they already knew she would lose. Why am I not surprised.

Because you are a Russian disruption agent and the idea of an independent judiciary and trial by jury who would never convict someone because the president wanted them to is completely alien to you. There's plenty wrong all over American politics and nobody should deny it, but going after the innocent is one of the best ways of stopping people going after the guilty.

Comment Re:SlashDot is now a dead political site (Score 4, Interesting) 87

Forgive me if I'm skeptical of a man who unleashed grift after grift on simpletons. Like the latest example of his golden cell phone. He accepted orders and has delivered nothing. https://www.businessinsider.co...

Bibles, booze, watches, clothes, all manner of tacky shit https://www.rollingstone.com/p...

Pretty soon he's going to surpass Gene Simmons on marketing made in China garbage.

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