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Comment Re:So what's the actual advantage to this? (Score 1) 6

That could also be done with a BASH script, but as TFA points out BASH isn't always available or up-to-date.

That seems like a ludicrously specious argument. Bash is pretty much always available on any of these platforms - and exactly how "up-to-date" would it need to be to run a script?

Besides, you know what's not available on pretty much any brand new system? Homebrew.

Comment Re:Social Norms (Score 5, Insightful) 141

Say a guy had a camera out and was snapping shots and taking video on the subway of everyone. Would that be considered acceptable?

No, it would piss off a lot of the other passengers - even though it is legal behavior.

Talk to someone who does street photography about their confrontations sometime.

Comment We know how this will play out (Score 1) 54

Members of the current administration will certainly talk about anti-competitiveness, along with a copious amount of Trump spewing random unrelated crap when he gets asked about the merger - but then Netflix will funnel money to Trump in some manner and the deal will get done.

Netflix might buy into the ballroom, it might promise to develop "Trump: The Making of a Beloved Modern King", or money will quietly flow directly into the Trump family's pockets. One way or the other, this is going to be allowed to happen.

Comment Re:Singularity already happened long time ago (Score 1) 44

and all the inefficiencies and bugs and chasing our tails and nobody being able to write software efficiently and securely is just the AI...

This is where the conspiracy theory falls apart. Specifically, you were expecting the cheapest programmers to make non-shitty code. It's effectively a proclamation that MBAs are not to blame for the shitshow we're in.

Counter-conspiracy theory: AI created the programs and material to make MBAs before astroturfing the internet to promote their effectiveness to dumbass executives. All of this so that MBAs would statistically sabotage software across all sectors to keep programmers from the truth.

Submission + - Idaho Lab Produces World's First Molten Salt Fuel For Nuclear Reactors (cowboystatedaily.com)

schwit1 writes: The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy announced this week that researchers at INL have successfully created the first batch of fuel salt.

Fuel salt is a molten salt mixture used as both a carrier for nuclear fuel and coolant in a molten salt reactor, a type of advanced nuclear reactor.

The fuel salt is critical for conducting the world’s first fast-spectrum, salt-fueled reactor test, known as the Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment (MCRE).

The test will help inform the future commercial deployment of a new class of advanced nuclear reactors, something a number of Wyoming-connected companies are proposing to build.

“There is a lot of push for this,” said James King, project lead for the Molten Chloride Experiment at INL. “We need to have a lot of different options so we can move away from less safe power generations methods.

“This is one of those technologies that can move us to better safety.”

The liquid form of the salt fuel means the fuel can’t melt. The technology would also offer another low-carbon alternative to generating power.

Submission + - USA will bar visa applicants who combat disinformation (npr.org) 1

ClickOnThis writes: The Trump administration wants to bar visa applicants who combat disinformation and hate speech from entering the USA on work visas, on the grounds that they practice 'censorship.' From the article:

The directive, sent in an internal memo on Tuesday, is focused on applicants for H-1B visas for highly skilled workers, which are frequently used by tech companies, among other sectors. The memo was first reported by Reuters; NPR also obtained a copy.

"If you uncover evidence an applicant was responsible for, or complicit in, censorship or attempted censorship of protected expression in the United States, you should pursue a finding that the applicant is ineligible" for a visa, the memo says. It refers to a policy announced by Secretary of State Marco Rubio in May restricting visas from being issued to "foreign officials and persons who are complicit in censoring Americans."


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