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Comment I suspect they've always done this (Score 1) 4

But the courts are paying more attention now because it's ai and it's bad press.

But I would bet money if you did a exhaustive analysis of court filings you would find plenty of made up citations that nobody ever looked into.

Then again lawyers are famous for their honesty and decency so maybe I shouldn't make assumptions.

Comment Re:Humans are logical in their self-interest (Score 1) 59

The problem is in the solution. Rationally, those Herdsmen need to hash out an agreementfor the fair use of that land to keep it just below it's carrying capacity.

But what really happens that some 'nobleman' declares the entire commons to belong to him and sends a goon squad to wipe out any herdsman who disagrees. He then 'allows' the herdsmen to use the land in exchange for a painfully large share of their productivity. For some reason he expects gratitude for that arrangement.

Alas, we've moved beyond even that. Now the 'nobleman', seeing that the herdsmen are making do with a smaller commons over the hill but unable to grab control of it sends his goons to salt the earth overnight so the herdsmen will have to 'rent' land from him.

But even that isn't enough for some. They want more 'rent' than any herdsman can pay while still making a living. So they leave the field fallow while trying to grab even more land. For some reason they think they can squeeze blood from a turnip.

If you find that unbelievable as an analogy, explain why there are entire blocks in NYC that haven't seen any space rented in over 10 years, yet the asking price hasn't budged even as the neighborhood has been given over to rats and junkies.

Comment Re:Missing Rust Language Specification (Score 1) 24

Apt is a package manager, adding one more language to it isn't a big deal. A lot of crap is there, moving in, moving out, whatever.

For an important API, yeah, it is probably a good idea if that API is something that you're told you can rely on, but I don't think this is still the case with the Linux kernel, where rust is more of a playground.

So your concern seems a bit premature.

Comment Re:Modern Entertainmet: GIRL-BOSS, WOKE, DEI Garba (Score 1) 59

Don't reply to trolls. He wants you to reply because your comment gets modded up and that keeps his comment visible. Without your plus three comment keeping his comment visible the idea is he's putting out disappear because his low-modded comment doesn't show up on most people's screens. The mod system hides his comment as the low effort troll post it is.

Wait a little bit and let the mods do their job. Now sometimes the mods failed to do their job and sometimes sock puppets mod things up anyway. If that happens that's when you want to step in.

And remember, DEI is woke which is sjw which is PC which is desegregation.

Comment Re:au contraire (Score 1) 59

Bankers in America at least don't really do that. What you're thinking of are large investors. People with net worth over 500 million.

Bankers just loan money. These days they don't give a shit who they loan it to as long as the loan is big and they can justify the loan to shareholders and the government. Which of course is remarkably easy because we don't regulate things properly anymore.

The banks don't care about the quality of the loans because they have set themselves up so that if they go down they take the entire world economy down with them basically meaning we are all in a hostage situation.

The same is true for those ultra wealthy investors by the way.

Thanks though are an institution rather than individuals. That's an important distinction because Banks are, or at least should be, heavily heavily heavily regulated to force them to be run safely and intelligently. The problem is we've gotten so obsessed with free market bullshit that we don't regulate things that we need to be regulating anymore.

Getting back to AI bullshit though that's going to be investors and big shareholders demanding limitless returns and line go up.

Comment The game is actually completely finished (Score 3, Insightful) 3

And you can play it on mame. It didn't get released because they couldn't figure out a way to make baseball profitable in the arcade.

The problem was baseball doesn't break up into easily monetizable chunks like football and especially basketball. So it's hard to get the pacing right where you're getting a user is done before ordering every few minutes. I think older arcade baseball games could be profitable because they were much simpler, usually just boiling down the home run fests. But by the 90s people expected to play a full game.

It's also possible that those older games weren't profitable but operators didn't really notice as much. I won't say that I didn't see the ball games on the floor back in the daydidn't didn't go to arcades very often. Still it was usually football in the '80s and basketball in the 90s

Comment Re:All I can say is duh! (Score 1) 75

It's about half the size of the larger cargo ships too, but still quite competitive. I'm sure they can scale up,

One of the main motivations for ever larger cargo ships is that the square cube law gives you big savings in fuel efficiency the larger you go. It's why the largest ships are limited by the size of the panama canal - otherwise they'd go even bigger.

But if you don't have fuel costs then this ceases to be a motivation. Sure you get some savings in terms of reduced crew count with a bigger ship vs multiple small ones, but again, automation is dealing with that. There are also costs involved in having big ships, such as not being able to go to as many ports (so require more last mile transport), and the costs of updating the infrastructure they require.

Its entirely possible that a fleet of semi-autonomous sail powered vessels could be competitive with giant fuel powered cargo ships on many routes in the future.

Comment Bullshit (Score 1) 226

Democrats are fighting for people to have health care and food. Republicans are fighting to starve children, rape children and steal our money. There is absolutely no comparison. You're comparing the Republicans who are Nazi fascists to the Democrats who are moderately competent administrators who occasionally line their own pockets a little.

This isn't 1994. Republican party went full Nazi and never looked back. There are nothing but pedophiles and Nazis now.

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