I have a PC I built around 2019 or so... it still does everything I need it to do. After upgrading to an NVIDIA 4070, it runs even the newest games at ultra settings. However, because of a a nuance of hardware requirements, I've never been eligible to upgrade to Windows 11. MS dug their own hole on this one.

Our current "AI" doesn't understand anything, it simple learns tasks (to varying degrees of success, it seems) and performs those tasks with data that it's been fed. There is no motivation, creativity, or ingenuity involved in the process. That's not a bad thing, don't misunderstand... some of the AI implementations are amazing at handling and finding patterns in data, but, AFAIK, that's it. We'd need a fundamentally new model of AI to do this... something that can actually comprehend the data it's dealing with rather than "mimic" human tasks.

Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these?

Oil companies (at least in the US) don't receive ANY money from the federal government. Look it up. This "fossil fuel subsidies" bullshit never goes away even though its a complete lie.

If you own a business (again, in the US, not speaking otherwise), you get to deduct certain costs, typically expansion related activities, R&D etc. In the oil and gas industry this is basically drilling and exploration. So the only "subsidies" that the oil industry gets is the same deductions that any other business in and other industry receive. The only way you could change this is to remove the tax deductions across the board for every business in the US, which would probably cause the economy to go into free-fall. According to US law (IIRC BC IANAL), it would otherwise be illegal for Congress to pass a law punishing any one given industry over another.

As much as I *loathe* the combination of these two words in print in general, this is the epitome of "Fake News."

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/0...

March alone added 196k jobs.

I'm right there with you, it even struck me that people are in any way surprised that attention-seeking youtube celebrities have mental health issues... I mean, that's kind of a prerequisite, isn't it?

Yep, it's not a coincidence that Kim Jong Un agreed to meet with the S. Korean President and the U.S. President about a month after he made a personal trip to China, which was interestingly not too very long after Trump had put the pressure on China to do something about NK.

They'll never give Trump any credit for anything, so this whole conversation is pointless. There's a group of people in this country who hate Trump more than they love their own country, and that's sad.

And disclaimer: Trump is a douche, I know it, I couldn't even bring myself to vote for him over HRC, so I abstained out of disgust, but I try to be intellectually honest enough to give credit where credit is due.

Exactly! People don't understand the idea of negotiating through strength...

As far as DACA goes, it's never reported ANYWHERE that Trump has repeatedly said he wants Congress to pass a law to address the DACA recipients because Obama's creation of DACA via Executive Order was unconstitutional. He didn't rescind DACA out of malice or hate, he did it because it was essentially an illegal action by his predecessor.

On a side note, it's the Democrats that have blocked any legislative solution on DACA recipients because they want to use it as a tool in the upcoming elections.

Not everyone with autism is an 'antisocial nerd' that's living in the gutter, thank you very much. People with autism may be even more productive in some areas than neurotypical people.

Yes, the Americans could start producing iPhones and cars. At local wages, I guess, driving up the prices of those items. So, basically the economy would go up because of lower unemployment, and down from higher prices...

If making people realise that their basic rights are being trampled makes me a traitor, then I'd want to be a traitor any day...

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Thank you, I'll be here all week...

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