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Comment Re:Close but it's just a little bit stupider than (Score 1) 213

The core tenet of the right wing, which we constantly confuse with conservatives because the right wing are extremists and they would very much like you to think of them as being conservative and therefore safe, is a unflinching belief in the benefits of the hierarchy.

This is definitely a harmful and cancerous view, but it reaches across the aisle. Limousine liberals at the most obvious, but also city people who hate country people, etc

Comment The reason you don't enjoy work (Score 4, Interesting) 80

The reason you don't enjoy work is because if your manager sees that you are happy, he thinks you are not working hard enough. They find a way to achieve their success metric of making you unhappy. This happens in a lot of offices. Success metric achieved.

If you were happy, you would do better work, and more efficient work. Unfortunately, "better" and "more efficient" are not success metrics (in many cases).

Comment Re:I remember the 80's and 90's (Score 1) 117

Oddly enough, I’ll bet the vape record beats the shit out of it.

Why do you think that? I would expect vape to cause fewer lung cancers.

For example, cigarette smoke is rich in benzopyrene (which is mostly absent in vape, but still present in small quantities). In the lungs, benzopyrene reacts with cell DNA in a way that causes G bases to convert to thymine bases. Sometimes the conversion happens on the P53 (tumor suppressor) gene, leading to cancer.

It's thought that benzopyrene causes about a third of the lung cancer tumors. Of course, there are other carcinogens (60 or more) in cigarettes. Vape is still a health problem for the user, but it's better than cigarettes because there are fewer carcinogens.

Comment Wait and see if they were right (Score 1) 23

What does Anthropic do that Bedrock can't?

AWS's big sell is that it is a 'one-stop-shop' for all your infrastructure and hosting needs. My bet is when the dust settles the GenAI applications that are actually valuable will get migrated to where the rest of the resources are, especially as any capability gap shrinks.

Comment Re:Reality has a well-known liberal bias (Score 0, Flamebait) 213

Wales is really indefensible, he pretty much stole Wikipedia from Sanger and a lot of the original investors will support that version of events. Sanger is also who you have to thank for a Wikipedia that is a community project and not an enshitified mess of ads that Wales originally envisioned.

Slashdot won't care about any of that thought, because the karma farmers here won't see past their virulent anti-Christian bigotry.

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