Restaurants often use paper checks because many of the kitchen employees rely on check-cashing services instead of traditional banking.

Without the paper checks they'd have to use money orders or something. Maybe cash.

It seems like the counter-suit for inflicting emotional duress would have a possible higher cap, though.

Since his own duress, if any, was used to commercial advantage it would be hard for him to argue it as a financial harm, a necessary feature of a tort.

They probably stand out a lot if you're creeping some chic on the subway.

She's gonna notice you're staring, when she sees the camera she's gonna get even more pissed.

It's not like having glasses is permission to creep.

I mean... maybe software companies will finally start to optimize code instead of expecting cheap hardware to cover for them?

The nastier alternative is people are forced to push more of their data into the "cloud" for computing and storage, ironically, because now only the datacenters can afford upgrades...

The medical industry already profits greatly from medical testing. Testing earns the industry lots of money; then, patients with positive results receive follow-up treatments, which nets the industry even more money.

Everyone screens for cancer now. Breast cancer. Colorectal cancer. Prostate cancer. The list goes on. (I'm even a cancer survivor myself.) And yet, to this day, studies question whether more testing results in longer life spans. Generally, it does not. Meanwhile, all the testing and treatments and post-surgery therapies reduces one's quality of life, especially the older one gets.

The cited article says it best: "How could it be that many cancer screenings don’t have an impact on overall lifespan? While screenings prevent some deaths from cancer, they don’t prevent all...At the same time, cancer screenings have associated harms such as false positive results, overdiagnosis, and overtreatment (not to mention the financial cost of all these cascade events). It could be that the benefits of screening that some people receive get washed out by the harms that others experience when looking at screening on a population level."

We are already pricing ourselves out of paradise when it comes to medical care, and full-body MRIs are only going to make it worse.

When challenged it will spew some words representing the form of a counter-argument, prefaced with an apologetic tone. Probably with even lower accuracy than the initial slop.

When you get your accounting from "IIRC" you end up somehow, miraculously, being stupider than that stupidity box people stare at.

(The US Government's entire budget across all IT and AI research for 2025 was $11B)

Considering your username I'd have expected better, except that this is slashdot so expectations are pegged pretty low.

People get tricked and become really fanatical for a few months, and then they slowly mention it less, and then a couple years later they avoid the subject altogether.

They're never wrong about any of it, though... they won't even admit that they changed their mind.

So you were tricked by the word "hallucinate," and don't have the educational background to understand the subject matter.

The links are called Slashvertisements. The "summary" is the first paragraph from the link.

Any other random facts you need to get off your chest?

You gotta log in if you think anybody is gonna read that long of a rant.

I don't see any reason not to trust the Autobots, lets just put it charge of everything then!

The Cloudflare captchas just loop back to themselves for me on over 90% of sites that use them. But a few work.

I believe they're selling an anti-adblock service to sites, and pretending everybody is blocked for a different reason, through creative categorization.

The internet was created by the military to allow university researchers to collaborate on weapon research.