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Comment Re:Taxpayers always foot the bill (Score 1) 20

The hardware is fine. The hacking groups mentioned never interacted with it. Huawei equipment is the most closely scrutinized equipment on earth. They can't fart without security researchers the world over digging deep to be the first to expose an intentional vulnerability. And the in-service software upgrades on Huawei guarantee more frequent security patches that their key competitors. Cisco equipment often runs for months with known critical CVEs because upgrades with firmware patches can take 45 minutes.

I'd much rather use equipment from Huawei because no one performs due diligence on Cisco patches.

Comment Re:"Authentic, lag-free display capabilities" (Score 1) 107

lag free... So, no. But input signals to the TV are displayed in low latency. The signals contain horizontal and vertical sync. There is no buffering. The beam at the current gun position represents the analog values of the signal input as soon as the phosphors are energized.
Most modern laser projectors do the same

Comment News? (Score 1) 25

Who trains AIs in real time?

I was building a lab for a professor some time back. He was concerned about performance because he wanted to simulate financial markets in real-time. I asked him "why not faster?", He said it would provided the response that it had to be real time for accuracy. I asked "time stamped event queue?", he gave me a blank stare.

We all go faster... Except fools

Comment Re: More sattelites in space (Score 1) 108

Leo satellite constellations can be cost effectively launched from Norway on one time use rockets. Of course, Norway is not EU.

The real problem is, there are no companies in Europe capable of engineering a competitive constellation of satellites and more so, there are no European companies capable of mass producing, distributing and supporting high accuracy, high frequency phased antennae array ground equipment. There isn't a single reliable European consumer tech company anymore.

Comment Fact, AI replaces workers (Score 1) 42

It takes hours or days to run a few iterations with junior engineers.

It takes seconds with AI.

AI results are often better than junior engineers,
cost less,
complains less,
Doesn't get sick ...

I haven't hired a new junior for a few years. Ans if AI (artificial intelligence) fails, Fiverr offers the other AI (Actual Indians) for slave wages.

Comment Re:Let me guess (Score 2) 257

India doesn't have slave, they have Dalits. They're much better because in the modern caste system, Dalits aren't people so treating them badly is ok. You can in perfectly good conscience deprive hundreds of millions of Dalits of drinkable water and functional waste removal since it's ok if their babies die of dysentery. They'll just make more anyway.

If you were ever against human rights violations and things like apartheid bothered you, you have to denounce modern India. I personally get nauseous thinking of how every time I spend money that makes its way to India, it supports a truly evil regime.

Comment Re:I wonder what the pattern is (Score 1) 72

Whoa cowboy. Incel any?

People who behave like you just did aren't competing against women or any SJW or any corporate policy. You're just not employable. I'd suggest anger management training, but people who need that really are beyond fixing anyway.

I have never imagined a world where finding a job is difficult. I know as absolute fact I can show up at Sony, sit at a desk and ask for my paycheck next month. And yeh, middle-age cis white male. Same is true for a bunch of other companies. I'll share my secret... I make myself interesting to them and provide value to them. And I treat everyone as I want to be treated...

Hold up, I know you're thinking about that time you grabbed a girl a certain way because you want to be treated like that. I should have said "I treat everyone the way I'd want me to treat them if I were them".

Don't worry. It really isn't them. It's you!

I'm glad I could help.

Comment Britain is rich? (Score 2) 72

Weird. While they can't really compete with the massive trailer park population of the US, I've always seen England as heavily populated by the lower classes. I even take hardship cases from England to help kids that can't afford it, to get an education. I treat their cases like I do my African students. England has a massive number of poor and very poorly educated people.

How can you consider the country rich?

P.S. They have the other extremes to. They generally compete with China, the US, and Germany for the most educated. But rich countries don't have the massive uneducated population England has.

Comment Re:He needs to get it through (Score 1) 39

Why would China invade Taiwan?

Depending on the statistic you choose, about half of Taiwan is anti-China, the other half isn't. China only needs to sway a small percentage of Taiwan to gain the needed support to unify. War is costly, ugly, and makes you look like a bully when you win.

Then there's the US who "Ordered Taiwan" to stop selling chips to certain customers. And the US bullies and controls Taiwan constantly.

But, the US is very smart, they are paying huge amounts to make it so they retain access to TSMC without Taiwan. They are even threatening the Taiwanese job market by moving the jobs which feed much of Taiwan to the US. This should also mean that if the US chose to, they could just hire the people from the US fabs to work for American companies.

In short, China won. No invasion needed. They only needed the US to take from Taiwan what they wanted and lose interest otherwise. Then the Taiwanese will turn pro-China and be the next Hong Kong.

Do you seriously think China has any interest in war when it's so much easier just to make an airplane or sub knowing the US will over-react and end up playing the fool?

Comment Re:Dont let idiot doctors on tv with political vie (Score 4, Insightful) 250

Are you really?

Let me take a stab at waking you up.

The president elect considers childish name calling appropriate behavior. He also is the kind of person comfortable owning casinos which openly prey on the weak. And he started a trade war with China, a country with four times the resources of the US. But this is not the issue.

The US is at the highest risk possible. The "free press" has now, for the sake of garnering ratings has broken democracy. Yes, the vote was the vote, but the flock painted Washington red. If it went equally blue instead I would be just as upset.

The US worked because of constitutional laws that should have kept this from happening. One party is now almost strong enough to have a full supermajority in all branches of government. They do now have the power to gerrymander unrestrained.

I don't care which party is in control so long as their power is limited.

Now tell me. Do you feel safe with a person who calls his peers and colleagues ugly names in a position of nearly unrestrained power? Are you comfortable having a person who built institutions with no other purpose but to sucker fools into playing games guaranteed to take advantage of them power?

Yes, the dens are ugly too.

But you'll argue red or blue, good or evil, etc...

Why are you supporting a system which left you choosing red or blue and not a third or fourth color? Do you want America to fail? Because so far as I can tell, it really just did.

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