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Comment But why a smart garage door opener? (Score 2, Informative) 106

What does this add over a simple RF control? All I want is to be able to open and close my door from my car and inside the garage. Turning the light on separately is a nice to have (which I do have), but I don't see any reason to network this.

Obviously putting it on the cloud is an even worse idea.

Comment Re:Apparently, States Rights are only important... (Score 1, Insightful) 75

"That starts with enforcing a fucking border. " Why? What do you hope to gain by keeping out a large group of people who want to work in the U.S., pay taxes, raise families, and generally work in jobs native born Americans won't touch? Who's more American than these people? Answer: Not You.

Comment Re:Meanwhile (Score 4, Insightful) 86

It turns out that if kids figure out they're being made to ride an extra half hour on the bus while it winds around its route and back the other way just so they don't have to cross the street, they'll start fibbing about the side they live on, or just getting off. And the driver won't always stop them.

Comment Re:We are so fucked! (Score 1) 130

If we're very lucky, we will only see linear increases in temperature. Far more likely, the ocean has been easing us into our dooms. Far more likely, immense amounts of carbon are going to come out of the world's permafrost, and increasing wildfires will add even more. Then we will see logarithmic growth in global temperatures.

Emphasis mine. LOL. You know that logarithmic is LESS than linear, right?

Comment how about a pardon? (Score 0) 71

I think with the correct amount of monetary contribution to el Bunko, the boy can be brought back into the space program. It's magic!!!

Recall the Honduran president el Bunko just pardoned? The one who helped ship 100s of tons of cocaine to the U.S. Starting several years ago, his "people" started making the "correct" contributions to "Republicans" (read: el Bunko) and, as if by magic, a pardon appears.

Meanwhile el Bunko is blowing up small vessels off Venezuela arguing they are carrying fentanyl. They aren't, fentanyl doesn't come in boats from Venezuela. It comes via Mexico from chemicals supplied by China. Is he blowing up Chinese boats carrying these chemicals? Nope. That's because he never smacks anyone that can hit back because he's basically a weenie.

Comment Re:Has Climate Doom Modeling Turned Into Clickbait (Score 1) 130

"Humans invent things."

No shit, including that anthropomorphic driven climate change is not a problem.

"AI is already chewing through research faster than half the committees publishing these forecasts."

Really? AI is now doing climate forecasting. Do tell. How's it doing on physics? Or chemistry outside of a few edge cases? Mathematics is not science but much science is based on mathematics. Where's the AI research breakthroughs on math?

"We’re developing materials, energy systems, geo-tech and carbon-capture methods that simply didn’t exist when the early models were written."

So what? There's no guarantee these will help climate change. Many might hurt climate change. And you have no way to predict it.

"Pretending society won’t respond, won’t adapt and won’t innovate is probably the most unrealistic assumption in the whole exercise."

Bullshit. "society" has shown very little in the way of adaptation. In fact, "society" is busy pumping more CO2 and Methane into the atmosphere than ever before. The American West is drying out because of it. Does it cause Americans do anything more than move? Not effectively.

Your entire screed is nothing more than whistling past the graveyard.

Comment Re: How can we blame this on AI? (Score 1) 39

There is undeniable logic in that removing all humans solves all human problems.

When machines can sustain a machine economy and population, human mortality and existence will have an interesting mirror. At that point, the machine intelligence will likely already exist in its own unfathomable reality.

It is more than likely that many humans will also want to become machines. Some may even want to become vomit machines. The cycle is complete.

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