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Comment Re: Evidence of global warming or something else? (Score 1) 11

Oh, so a tiny invertebrate insect (not a mammal) surviving that far north, is a simple by-product of tourism?

Dude, I have some magic beans and a bridge in Brooklyn. Buy them from me. This offer is exclusively for you. Make me an offer.

For anyone not suffering from brain trauma similar to what Phineas Gage had, the reasons are clear. Climate change.

https://www.npr.org/sections/g...

Comment Re:Clippy didn't walk (Score 1) 58

???
Apple bought Next, but I believe that MS developed it's own software after the first few years. Not that I agree any of it is "a great product", but at least until around 1995 most of it was pretty usable. (At that point I switched to Apple for a few years before moving on to Linux, so I don't know about recent MS products, but I'm pretty sure most of them were developed in-house.)

Comment Re:Nazinet (Score 1, Flamebait) 50

FWIW, both the Democrats and the Republicans pretty much fit the Mussolini definition of fascism. "The government working together with the commercial companies to benefit and strengthen the country". There's the implication of centralized control by the government in Mussolini's formulation, but I think a oligarchy or plutocracy would also fit.

I don't think fascism is NECESSARILY bad, but it sure is easy to turn it that way. (Fascism is NOT Nazism. They really are distinct, if compatible, organizational principles.)

Comment Re: What happened to the MetaVerse? (Score 1) 71

Well cameras & lights should be enough for most safe driving. Or at least as safely as people drive. (I'd add mics, but a lot of those people are driving in noisy enough environments that they can't register a loud noise off to their left.) Maybe add vibration sensors.

OTOH, if you want to drive more safely than people, it probably helps a lot to have accurate distance ranging.

Comment Re:bad management (Score 1) 71

The only thing wrong with your comment is that science isn't a "lone genius" driven activity either. That it sometimes seems to be is an artifact of the way histories get written. Without a massive support group, Einstein wouldn't have accomplished anything.

Comment Re:It shows monopolies have already formed (Score 1) 71

Perhaps that should be "The model improvement for chatbots seems to be dying down.", as I think that's the correct statement of what you mean. And that's probably correct. Once you get beyond chatbots, though, the model improvement is continuing.

FWIW, I think chatbots have an intrinsically limited capability. However if you use chatbots as an interface to some other capability (i.e. robots, in various meanings of that term) then the limitation changes drastically.

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