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Comment Re:More things wrong with the world. (Score 1) 24

given current divorce laws, she will wind up with the house and most of his money

That depends on jurisdiction. Community property states have more reasonable divorce laws.

The community property states are Arizona, California, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin.

If you don't live in one of these states, you can move there, live for six months, and then file for divorce, even if your spouse lives elsewhere.

Kissgate was in Boston, so Byron is screwed if his wife files first.

Comment Re:Welcome to Company Town! (Score 2) 40

Most major cities grew out geography first and foremost.

Also you cannot build a major city with detached housing alone, that's a very 20th America-brained type of thinking. I mean go to Europe and see the cities that have structure going back centuries, how much of it was detached? A minority to say the least, if thy had the means to build taller they would and did when they could.

Agreed on artificial growth boundaries and one of those is single-home-only zoning pretty much anywhere but especially in major cities around the city centers and transit locations.

San Jose is the tech capital of the US and most of it looks like a podunk Florida suburb, not a modern city by any stretch and then we all wonder "why are the houses so expensive" because you are only putting like 6 homes on every sq/km.

Comment Re:Format (Score 2) 79

For a comparison, go read up on how complex the TIFF standard is [...] 120 pages long.

A comparison needs information of at least two items.

Here is the length of the specifications for each document format:

  • Latest OOXML: 7000+ pages.
  • Latest Open Document Format: ~1050 pages

Add on top of that misleading naming schemes and OOXML has a considerable higher complexity.

Comment Re:Word missing (Score 1) 12

And the list concept concerns me. Are these lists appealable? If not, then they're abusable.

Also, the line between "AI generated" and "non-AI generated" is ever more fuzzy. AI is used for upscaling. AI is used in cameras to enhance images taken. AI is used to make the sort of minor edits that are done the world over in Photoshop. Etc. There's also the fact that this is done with image fingerprinting, which is fuzzy, so then any images that have minor modifications done with AI which get added to the list will get the raw images flagged as well. The thing people want to stop is "fake images", and in particular, "fake images that mislead about the topic at hand". But then that's not "AI" that's the problem in specific, that's image fakery in general (AI just makes it faster / easier).

And re: fingerprinting, take for example, the famous case of the content-spam creator who took a photo of a woodcarving of a German Shepard, flipped it horizontally, ran it through an AI engine to make trivial tweaks to the image, and then listed it as his own. I'd think any decent fingerprinting software would catch both versions. And if it's not flexible enough to catch that, then I have to wonder how useful it is at all, since images constantly change as they move around the internet, even accidentally, let alone deliberately.

Comment Re:May have been oversold... (Score 1) 47

This certainly wouldn't be the first time that something perfectly on the up and up was abandoned for PR reasons

The article notes the qualifier "for services used by the Pentagon" which could mean that Microsoft's contracts with other parts of the US government will continue using the program.

Also, I would hardly consider this "something perfectly on the up and up" since it skirts the security requirements and definitively undermines expectations.

Comment Re:"risk creating" (Score 1) 74

From what I have read and heard anecdotally from others, what you are describing is not a one-off. There are several businesses that take this approach, and (from what I gather) it tends to be most popular in sales departments.

It's called Stack Ranking and it causes problems when people need to cooperate (like on programming teams), because people won't cooperate, they'll backstab each other. It's entirely counterproductive.

It works ok on sales teams when salespeople operate independently of each other. (ie, the more they work together, the less it works).

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