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Comment Re:Glad to hear it (Score 2) 93

In the US, here are the true left-wingers: Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez, Mamdani, and not very many others. Not Biden, not Obama, or any of the others on the list that right-wingers love to hate.

To add to this, people like Sanders aren't crazy left-wing extremists, either. In most other developed countries, they would be mainstream left-wingers.

Comment Re:Misinformation is the new information! (Score 5, Interesting) 78

Since this was a case of mistaken identity, it's going to be very hard to prove knowledge of falsity or reckless disregard.

The summary says that it was someone with the same last name but a different first name. It's a pretty reasonable argument for reckless disregard when simply checking the first names of the two people would have solved the mistaken identity problem.

Comment Re: Add to list of odd units of measure (Score 1) 73

The issue isn't knowing what a beach ball looks like, it's that there isn't a single standard size, so using it as a unit of measure is useless. The other balls that were listed are all used in professional sports, so they have a specific size. A beach ball could have a diameter anywhere between 0.25 meters and 1.5 meters.

Comment Re:But why a smart garage door opener? (Score 1) 126

All I want is to be able to open and close my door from my car and inside the garage.

You're assuming that everyone has an attached garage. I have to keep a remote on top of the clothes dryer by the back door to the house to open the garage door. And the garage door is only visible from inside the house if the back door is open, so it's a bit of a pain to check if the garage door is open or not.

I looked at the RATGDO a while ago, but decided the convenience wasn't quite worth the price. I may easily change my mind in the future, though.

Comment Re:I haven't followed this case too much... (Score 1) 39

The only decent thing to do is to keep these anonymized. If they become public record every bit of personal information entered into chat GPT will be public knowledge. SSNs. ID card scans. affairs. mental problems. Health problems. There shouldn't even be a question here.

All of the logs would certainly be subject to a court protective order, and everyone involved takes them very seriously. Anyone that got caught publicizing protected information would be in very deep trouble.

Comment Re: Stable Coin (Score 3, Informative) 62

To expand a bit, the reason that economists say low predictable inflation is good is that it encourages spending and investment and it discourages hoarding cash. If there was continuous deflation (such as Bitcoin), people would just sit on their money and let it increase in value instead of using it to power economic activity.

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