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Comment Re:This could be good, but... (Score 1) 314

Instead, they should be checking for evidence of anti-semitism, white supremacy, racism, homophobia, gun possession, toxic masculinity, that people have their masks on, are pro-vaxx, and that they are staunchly pro-Israel. That would be an ideal use of this technology and I think that's something that we can all get behind as liberals.

That's version 1,1

Comment Re:Gotta love companies using child abuse as excus (Score 2) 314

Yeah, this. Google's AI alerts me that it sees people when a bug crosses across my Nest camera's lens. How can Apple's AI be nuanced enough to identify pornography from ordinary nudity?

Ring Ring... "Excuse me ma'am, I'm looking at naked photos of your daughter on your husbands phone, I just wanted to check and verify what age she is... oh you don't have a daughter, well does he have a girlfriend? How old is she?"

Comment Re:Orwell (Score -1, Troll) 314

Bullshit - you are the one believing the conspiracy that natural auto-immunity is defunct or somehow less for this virus. If you have recovered from covid-19 there is not one damn reason to get the jibbyjab other than "obey my authoritey" - plus these aren't real vaccines or else the vax crowd wouldn't be getting sick right now at the rate they are, as in ie smallpox, ebolla, chickenpox etc.vaccines that actually work, and met the definition of vaccine prior to changing it for covid crowd. These are experimental gene therapy - which yes, for 1% of the population, those in HIGH RISK from the rona, should most likely get.

Comment Re: Misleading (Score 1) 239

You my friend need to study up on your queueing theory. Your fundamental flawed assumption is that the time it takes to die is identical to that that it takes to recover, but it doesnâ(TM)t seem that way. Those that die tend to go quickly whereas this virus seems to take a very long time to clear. Letâ(TM)s use an example, say there is a disease that takes 2 weeks to recover if you are going to recover and 1 week to die if you are going to die and that 100 new people get infected per week After the first week 10 people die, 0 recover completely, by your metric the death rate would be 100% Now the next week 90 people recover but 10 more die, now the death rate by that calculation is 18%, closer to the real rate but still much higher. Every week it gets lower and lower until it converges on the real rate. There is no indication yet that we have reached that convergence with Coronavirus

Comment Re:They didn't die due to "the Internet", etc. (Score 1) 195

More precisely, smartphones combined with Amazon killed them. Internet shopping before the smart phone became ubiquitous wasn't really as big of a competitor to brick and mortar because if you wanted to browse then buy you had to go to the store, find what you wanted, note it down, then go home and order it and *maybe* you could save a little money. Enter the smart phone and now you can you can browse at the store, then quickly check online to see if you can find it cheaper.

Comment Re:Going to be some resistance to this one (Score 2) 180

Apple also has no qualms about promoting the crap out of something, then if it doesn't stick quickly deprecating and removing it, which can mean often times having to re-write entire apps because you bought into the Apple hype about a particular framework and it being the "future" of that kind of dev on mac. I ported a bunch of legacy stuff to Apple's "new" video editing/playback framework(whose name escapes me, this was a while back) only to have that framework totally scrapped and a completely new one put in its place.

Comment Re:Its dangerous: Speculators + Deviation from Des (Score 2) 177

Can you create an algorithm that is sufficiently hard so that coins don't flood the market but sufficiently energy efficient that we don't roast ourselves to death from greenhouse gasses mining computer money? I am opposed to crypto from a purely environmental standpoint, I think there are better things humanity could be spending its limited resources on than a bunch of calculations that prove you did a bunch of calculations.

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