well don't be so harsh, I'm very happy about the hardware that is now available for my numerical recipes.

would not have it without the "AI", and with the appropriate algorithms it does make a difference.

Why deny the truth, it is out there.

Then the Moon isn't a moon either. It orbits the Sun, the Earth only causing a small wobble in its orbit.

Who needs research when the Department of Cleanest Pollution will guarantee your safety?

Why should you waste time selecting equipment and learning how to use it properly to measure something, when the "AI" can give you an answer right now and for a much, much lower price*?

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* per measurement at hospital prices, excluding the initial purchase cost, with accuracy limits as described in the small print, if in doubt see your doctor, any and all liability declined.

Measuring blood pressure properly is kind of hard.

It could be you measuring it incorrectly, the doctor measuring it incorrectly, or both.

So not really surprising that you get widely diverging measurements.

Yes. These days anything at all is AI and will continue to be until this meaningless cliche stops to sell.

You demonstrated you ignorance already, no need do double-down. The very definition of a "free market" is a market where only current supply and demand determine price and output.

Ah, did you you accidentally switch on the web camera? Congrats, it is working.

What he's saying is that he's an indoctrinated idiot without even basic idea of how this shit works.

Zuck was one of several government projects along the same lines back then, and he got lucky, that's all.

"Free market" is a stupid propaganda cliche that is devoid of meaning.

There are two kinds of markets - competitive and markets with restricted competition.

The markets with restricted competition have the unfortunate feature of "economic profits", money in excess of the economically efficient rates of return. There is only one profitable way to invest this money, and it is to "invest" it into the political process, that is, to bribe the political system so that it extends and even institutionalizes the lack of market competition in favor of the companies that make the excessive profits.

Competitive markets are better in theory, but in practice there is no such thing - theory and ample and incontrovertible empirical evidence show clearly that a competitive market is an efficient, but unstable structure and that in the absence of regulation, even random fluctuations will lead to restricted competition and eventually full-blown oligopolies or monopolies.

Moreover, the power is concentrated in the hands of the executives, which means that this development also hurts investors, especially the small ones who don't have direct access to the government.

It is no accident that the most corrupt administration the USA has had at least since the end of WWII is moving away from regulation, protection of competition and protection of the small investor, it is all a reflection of the shift towards "free marketization", that is, blatant corruption of democracy in politics and competitiveness in business in favor of the new robber baron class.

No, no, he wasn't on that list, the list doesn't exist and besides the files have been released and they are a big nothingburger and you must stop just criticizing and consider instead the yuge positive changes that the Greatest and most Admired President with a #LANDSLIDE MAGA MANDATE has achieved so far and all the other achievements, too, like the Noble Price he did not get but must because who else has stopped the 9 vicious wars between Aburbijan and the country that stole Dubbya's wristwatch?

What a traitor! The FBI should disappear him to Alligator Alcatraz for this kind of anti-American propaganda.

I see the username, but I'm genuinely interested, when was that?

Wikipedia breaks it down like this:

Registered as republican/teabag party/trump party:
1987-1999 -> 12 years
2009-2011 -> 2 years
2012-2025 -> 13 years, or
a total of 27 years

democratic party:
2001-2009 -> 8 years

third party:
1999-2001 -> 3 years

No worries, they'll get Alan Greenspan out of the coffin for some more of that wonderful quant easing.