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Comment Maybe it'll expose other markets as gambling (Score 1) 27

Their claim is that they are a commodities futures company. If it's found to be really gambling, maybe it will show that futures trading is *also* gambling, as is most stock trading. Investing in a stock that pays dividends is owning a piece of the company and sharing in its profits. Most trading these days gains or loses based on the volatility of the share price. The share price can go up or down based on a wide range of factors that have little to do with the core business. It is gambling just as much as betting on a sport based on who is home or away, or whether you think it will rain at a horse track.

Comment Re:It Will Erase The Historical Record (Score 4, Insightful) 26

How many times have we seen where someone has captured an original website or news story that shows how "history" was later changed? Erasing the historical record is real. So is changing the historical record and trying to claim it hadn't been changed.

Comment Re:Really? (Score 2) 78

Lots of solar panels on a vehicle add negative value. The same money equivalent of panels on a building where the vehicle is parked will generate more power. Besides rooftop solar being cheaper than vehicle solar (and more panels and power for the equivalent price) you can park your vehicle in the shade and not lose out. That same setup could dump excess power to home batteries or the grid and not limited when the vehicle is fully charged.

What is the power consumption of running the AC to get the vehicle back down to a tolerable temperature after an hour of parking in the sun, vs the power generated? A popular thing these days is to cover parking lots with solar panels. The cars are in the shade, and electricity is generated. Will there be special parking spaces for "solar powered vehicles" in the hot sun so they can trickle charge their batteries?

Having a bit of solar to run things like a cooling fan that offsets the heating from parking in the sun is a nice idea. Much smaller and cheaper panels, not generating power to move the vehicle.

And, a 3-wheel vehicle is a motorcycle, not a car.

Comment Re:Don't try to say its meat (Score 1) 209

I looked up three companies that supposedly sell the "real meat" in the US. While they talk up the "real meat" bit, the descriptions of their products include plant protein and/or wheat gluten. The cultivated pork meatball and bacon company sounds like they are making lard in their bioreactors and combining it with your basic pea protein. So if fat=meat, then their product is a plant based meat, flavored with cultivated meat.

Comment A 100 page spec (Score 1) 89

I've worked on projects that went on for months and months with specs much shorter than 100 pages. Assuming the length of the prompt is the equivalent of a carefully crafted and detailed product spec, then a human engineering team could probably do a quicker and better job if they had such detailed requirements before starting on a project.

So many projects I've been on have had marketing chiming in every week, micromanaging development all along. Most of the micromanaging was necessitated by the initial vague and incomplete list of product requirements.

Maybe that's something AI will be good for. It will pump out crap quickly, illustrating the folly of trying to create something with a poorly defined set of requirements.

Comment My Advice (Score 4, Insightful) 30

I've got several older people (and some clueless ones) who rely on me for tech support. These people don't know what an address bar is in a browser and had never used bookmarks. (Or rely completely on shortcut icons on the desktop)
For years I've been forcing them to *not* Google their bank, credit card company, etc.. every single time they want to visit those sites. I've mostly got them not clicking on links in emails or calling numbers in emails or texts. I have told them to go to the site they always go to and then do what they need to. I created bookmarks for them to always go to since typing something like www.bofa.com was beyond them and they would just Google it. I was worried they would click on some ad and not the official link in the search results.
It looks like I was totally justified in not trusting a search to lead them to the proper site, without any other hanky-panky going on.

Comment Re:This isn't news... (Score 3, Interesting) 54

Once upon a time, the differentiation was a Saturday night overstay. Prices could be half if you departed on Saturday vs. Sunday. Some cheap companies forced employees stay longer to get the deal. I did it when on work travel and used a good portion of the savings on some very nice dinners.

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