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Comment Re:Tesla Drives think they're playing Mario Cart (Score 1) 71

98% of traffic problems on highway 17 are caused by dipshits who should never be allowed to use the left lane. 1% are caused by that one dip in the fast lane on the EB side that they don't seem to be able to fix ever. The remaining 1% are caused at the first exit on the inland side when it's busy.

Before Teslas even existed I was passing the clowns who don't know what a passing lane is for on the right on the 17. The only meaningful difference between then and now is that there's more drivers, including more of those clowns. Well, that and that the speed limit used to be 65, so more competent drivers could make it over the kill. Of course, it was killing incompetents, so they reduced the limit and we all have to suffer. This is what happens when you design your nation around the car.

Comment Re: From the 'investing-in-the-future-department.. (Score 1) 37

What gets me is that if the data were actually used in a meaningful way, it could be revolutionary for people. If companies actually correlated things like sleep patterns along with habits, places visited, speech patterns, and socialization during the day, it really could change peoples lives and make for a deeper understanding to help people with their health, habits, social welfare, any number of things.
You could have an AI assistant that provides people for coaching needed to lose weight or to exercise or to stop smoking, etc.

The problem is these companies are too bureaucratic and too penny-pinching and beige to actually do any good or try something interesting and different.

I agree with you, giving a company all this information is terrible. Their stupid, expensive ventures are going to flop as long as they keep doing stupid things with the data, though.

Like a junkie they will keep hovering up electricity and data until they implode.

Comment Re:WTF (Score 1) 40

Why are we so predisposed to falling for this hype cycle?

The people without hope gave up and died.

The people with too much hope are suckers.

The people with just enough hope to succeed but not enough to be suckers took control of the system and manipulated it in ways that make people into suckers, and make suckers into bigger suckers.

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