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Comment Re:Future tense [Re:FARA Foreign Agents Registrat. (Score 1) 76

I like to think the delay is justified by the fact that IF you think in terms of 1800s tech, America is huge and it can take a while for horses to pull a wagon from sea to shining sea.

It's November 1860 and you just won your election to be the new Senator from Oregon. You have two months to get to DC. Can you do it? (Yes, you can do it in a "mere" 3-4 weeks thanks to rail. But before rail? No way two months is enough.)

Comment Re:Things are going to get pretty messed up soon (Score 1) 30

The first thing will probably be to do something think of the children bullshit to ban local AI instances.

Are you seeing a lot of support for the "people should be forced to use a data center to run AIs, instead of being allowed to do it at home using solar power" position?

What I saw last week, is that "think of the children" means that no one should ever fucking ever let a Republican anywhere within ten feet of a child, rather than it meaning we need to give data centers a monopoly on running AI.

The RAM crisis is it. This is the high-water mark on suppressing competition. It was a clever move, but the consumer market isn't going to tolerate electronic gizmos and video games being expensive forever. As soon as someone decides they want money and opens another RAM factory, the AI companies are in trouble. They have this brief pre-Personal-Computer-Revolution situation going on like 1960s IBM, and the 1970s are coming to fuck their shit up.

Comment Re: Odd morality (Score 1) 131

Dating people at work is generally OK as long as one doesn't report to the other directly or indirectly.

HR usually wants to know so that they can rearrange the corporate hierarchy to avoid such unseemly conflicts of interest. It's their business because it's unfair to everyone else under that dating boss if one of their colleagues is exchanging "special favors" with the boss.

Comment Re:Odd morality (Score 1) 131

Really? So if a dev goes out with a team lead the TL should be fired?.

You've obviously never held a real job.

Every company that I've ever worked for over the decades made this kind of policy 100% clear to new hires, and some of them repeated it at least annually (along with other boring annual training on things like not sending sensitive tech to places like China).

Comment Accusations? (Score 2) 18

The law doesn't explicitly define the term repeat infringer, nor does it say how many piracy accusations it takes before a subscriber can be cut off.

[emphasis mine] Surely they mean convictions, no?

Why would accusations be relevant? I accuse every single member of the Mexican government of having violated the copyright on my work, four times each. They all did it four times. No, I can't prove it, but the accusation stands.

Comment Re:It is not AI (Score 1) 58

It's important to keep using accurate language if you want to think clearly about things.

That sounds like a good idea, until someone says the word "hacker" and then you realize you lost the debate decades ago.

Words' meanings change, and nobody can ever do anything about it.

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