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Comment Re:did he use an auto pen on this? (Score 1) 64

Actually, I think every president at least since Eisenhower has gone beyond the written job description. I.e. used the executive branch to push things that Congress didn't authorize. It could quite plausibly be true even further back, perhaps back as far as G. Washington. Lincoln definitely did so, and so did FDR, but I don't know enough history to say that they all did.

Comment Executive Orders do not over-ride states. (Score 1) 64

The executive Branch executes the laws the Legislative Branch votes into power. The president has no power to make laws except as granted by Congress.

Congress has granted the executive branch a bunch of power, AI is new and Congress has not granted the President much powers over it.

Whether the current Supreme Court will obey the intention of the Constitution or Congress is another issue.

Comment Re:Why aren't the bugs all hallucinated? (Score 1) 29

I'll assume you are being serious.
1. Not all AIs are equivalent to ChatGPT.
2, Mistaking something that isn't a vulnerability for a vulnerability is relatively low cost.
3. Finding one vulnerability that's real can be extremely important.

NOTE: It doesn't NEED to be perfect. If it's "good enough" then it's good enough to be useful. Things that aren't vulnerabilities are relatively cheap to check.

P.S.: You shouldn't have needed this explanation.

Comment Re:“Country” (Score -1) 213

Slashdot is a US site. You have freedom of speech here. You can say Trump is a piece of shit.

It's the same in Europe. You can go online and say Trump is a piece of shit, too!

I thought the US was under a tourism boycott already. Remember those German prostitutes who got deported from Hawaii to Japan?

America is closed. Don't come. Tourism economies suck. You don't tip, either, which is why you get spit in your food and poor service.

Tell all your friends America is closed, too. Stay home. We built a Disneyland in Paris for this exact reason.

Submission + - 97% Of Buildings On Earth 3D Mapped (nature.com)

Gilmoure writes: Imagine a video game with the world's buildings already mapped in basic spatial dimensions!

"Scientists have produced the most detailed 3D map of almost all buildings in the world . The map, called GlobalBuildingAtlas, combines satellite imagery and machine learning to generate 3D models for 97% of buildings on Earth.

The data set, published in the open-access journal Earth System Science Data on 1 December1, covers 2.75 billion buildings, each mapped with footprints and heights at a spatial resolution of 3 metres by 3 metres.

The 3D map opens new possibilities for disaster risk assessment, climate modelling and urban planning, according to study co-author Xiaoxiang Zhu, an Earth observation data scientist at the Technical University of Munich in Germany."

– nature.com

Comment other way around. (Score -1, Troll) 138

:Roll Eyes: Would they kick their own babies out once they hit ten million?

They do not have to think about that because, their birthrate, like most Europeans is below replacement rate. 1.29 children per woman. To keep their population stable, they need immigrants and should accept them.

What this really comes down to, like all immigration debates, is racism. They don't like the color of the skin or the religion of the immigrants.

Comment Re:I laughed (Score 1) 55

For Aldi, which uses Instacart, I assumed it was because there is no 'fee' for pickup, but they have to pay someone to shop for you. I consider the difference a convenience fee.

That said, by not shopping in store, I end up getting only what is on my list and end up paying FAR LESS than I would if I was wandering around.

Comment Why was it choosen (Score 1) 65

I get the fact that there was huge malfunction in the system that was supposed to limit each donor to less than 10 people.

I get the fact that there were inadequate/mistakes screenings.

But the real question is what description led it to be chosen over 200 times by the customers?

Hypothesis: Tall, handsome, doctor.
Null hypothesis: Kind, loving, honorable

Anyone willing to bet on the null?

Comment Re:I laughed (Score 1) 55

A lot depends on how much you believe their explanation. I don't. In fact, I suspect the person making the explanation didn't know the reason, and either invented what they thought would sound good, or just read something someone else handed them.

Corporations don't have a "central mind" that knows all the things they are doing and why they do them. To get a reasoned answer takes a long time, and usually isn't what they want to deliver anyway.

Comment Re:All of the above? (Score 1) 27

I assume that at least some of the tension here is that facebook hired these guys to be the hotshot golden boys of sucking less at AI; so it isn't just an it's-only-money thing

Maybe it's about salaries: the golden boys are being paid much more than their perhaps equally-qualified colleagues?

Comment Delivered groceries should be cheaper. (Score 1) 55

You do not get to choose the product and the product could easily be from a grocery store 100 miles away.

There is no good reason why grocery delivery in the super expensive cities - New York, Zurich, etc. should be expensive. It should be cheaper. Grocery stores on the outskirts of the city could easily set things up so that they deliver food at a steep discount to the high priced grocery stories in them becuase they could pay literally half the rent.

But Demand is so high for food and the inhabitant are so used to paying high prices that they charge MORE for the food than the neighborhood grocers let alone for the delivery.

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