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Comment Re:The data intergration elephant (Score 1) 74

"The NoSQL movement is motivated by new kinds of applications, particularly web applications, that need massive scalability and high performance"

I submit that this covers the vast majority of applications.

I'd argue that the "vast majority of applications" neither need to be massively scalable nor of particularly high performance. The "vast majority of applications' are handling hundreds, not hundreds of millions of records and have a very small number of users. This is why you so often find spreadsheets being used as a "database" because they're very small specific problems being solved by individuals or very small teams.

Comment $49 for 80/20 (Score 1) 157

My $49 security cameras do object segmentation well enough to eliminate those two-minute red lights with noone else around except for the autistic cop hiding in the bushes.

That technology is good enough to optimize lights with 80% of the benefit and will continue to improve, getting times down (e.g. traffic wave approaching light about to turn yellow).

The last 20% needs realtime tracking and remote shutdown of all vehicles - which is the true goal of many technocrats.

Be on guard.

Comment Disingenuous (Score 4, Insightful) 87

MOND is a class of hypotheses.

This article is motivated reasoning committing unforgivable composition error.

What a scientist does is test each hypothesis separately and see how theory and data correlate.

What a propagandist looking for funding does is throw out the scientific method to favor his friends.

One MOND hypothesis being ruled out is /progress/.

Since Supersymmetric approaches are obviously not bearing fruit, all options should be on the table.

Even 'stretchy entanglement', non-Mach event horizons, and other odd non-DM, non-MOND hypothesis.

Dishonest tribal people should be excluded from science funding.

Comment Re:Uh oh, (Score 2) 52

Think it'll be a scapegoat?

It seems so unlikely that 'a misconfiguration' could be the cause and somewhat likely that a rogue/malicious/fooled employee did this, so we should assume a preponderance of odds until evidence is provided to the contrary.

At least they didn't get the Whole Parler treatment.

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