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Comment Re:We welcome America (Score 1) 56

I know how much the feds get, the state, the local, the schools - down to the penny.

Not really. The feds turn around and give a bunch of money straight to the states, and most states give a bunch of money directly to schools and localities.

But how is what size of entity gets money important anyway? In all cases, the money is divided up and doled out to countless individual programs. *That's* what's important, and our system gives you no particular clues to track that.

Comment Re:I don't pay attention anymore (Score 4, Insightful) 91

I used to pay some attention to this stuff like 5-6-7 years ago. I'm done... I do not care anymore. I'm sick of the constant scare tactics and hearing about how every goddamned thing is attributed to climate change. Let it happen at this point, just SHUT UP ABOUT IT.

This article is about the climate actually changing ... and you're mad because that's attributed to climate change?

Comment Re:Oh no! (Score 3, Insightful) 85

How horrible! Imagine the nightmare of taking three seconds to plug in a network cable and have reliable, stable, fast connectivity.

I think that the point was that the fancy recliners were useless, because they probably don't have ethernet jacks like the desks do.

But IMHO, the actual reason that these lounge chairs are useless is because to get real work done, you need a couple of big monitors, a real keyboard and a real mouse. And if you're in a "collaborative workspace", a white board and a table might be a better investment than recliners.

Comment Re:Seems fair to me (Score 5, Interesting) 39

Because I think it's perfectly fair to copyright the elements described

Well, what you think is wrong.

You can't copyright a game's mechanics. The game is played on a 5x6 grid. A grid is not copyrightable.

"Green" for correct and "Yellow" for almost correct is universal.

Lists of available letters in word games are very common. Arranged in Qwerty you say? I'm sure we can find more than one game who did it first.

If the original authors did it, it would have been equally stupid. But they weren't that stupid.

Comment Re:"Demons and monsters"? (Score 0) 75

So, essentially, this thing was trained on a steady diet of pro-life propaganda and death metal album covers. What a combination.

Nah. It probably found instances of modern women talking about how their abortion allowed them to secure wealth and a nice career for themselves, and then correlated that with ancient practices of sacrificing children before demon-gods for wealth, power, and a good harvest, and then generated the image.

I wonder if the most influential data sources can be extracted from the system. I'll have to ask later.
Anyway, I recall that research has shown that if you limit AI to giving answers that only confirm with a particular worldview, the quality and accuracy of results goes down dramatically.

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