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Comment Re:Daddy can't get you job if he's poor. (Score 1) 32

As a long-time volunteer training urban youth in trade skills, what I observed is that daddy isn't around, at all. I personally drove some of them to businesses to apply for jobs, because their parents couldn't or wouldn't. Yeah, it's tough for these kids, but I have seen some work their way out of poverty, given a chance.

Comment Re:They better sue Russia too. (Score 0) 43

I would agree with you *if* the chip makers are selling their chips in good faith. If, however, they are selling them through questionable channels, and they knew or should have known that the chips were destined for Russia and/or Iran, then they would be complicit in the misuse of the technology.

A gun store that knowingly sells guns to gang members, is complicit in the crimes committed by the gangs.

Comment Re:not about AI (Score 1) 54

Agreed. Quality is quality, AI or not. If you hadn't told me it was AI-generated, I wouldn't have known. There's plenty of stuff like that out there, even before AI was a thing. Show me a funny / catchy ad made with AI, I don't care about the AI part of it.

Comment Re:Now that's a plan. (Score 1) 39

The problem is, if they replaced some C-level execs with AI, the others would have to learn how to type prompts, and the company would discover that they don't know how to type.

Or if they're using voice-control, they'd find out that the AI needs you to actually specify what you want, and we'd find out that the execs don't know how to specify what they want.

Comment Re:That's nice Adobe (Score 1) 20

Oh don't worry, they've got this covered. That request to "blur the background" is probably about all it can do. This is an ad, for goodness sake. The ad is always going to tout the very best thing the feature can do. All the good stuff--the reasons people already buy Photoshop--those are still going to be paid-only features.

"Adobe, please erase my ex from this photo." "I'm sorry Dave, you're going to have to sign up for a subscription for that functionality."

Comment Re: no... (Score 1) 72

Whatever. You are sidestepping the point.

How does that work when two people disagree, and can't come to an agreement? Who makes decisions about who to hire? Who decides when it's time to let somebody go, and who carries out that unpleasant task? Who decides what projects are higher priority? Who reins in executives who want everything right now? Who do you go to when you want to talk about your next pay raise?

All these tasks are done by somebody. That somebody or somebodies, is acting as a manager, when they perform these functions. Just because you don't call them managers, doesn't make them "not" managers.

It's kind of like Walmart calling cashiers and stockers "associates" or Starbucks calling them "partners." It's essentially a euphemism.

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