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Comment Re: Taiwan is Part of Canada? (Score 1) 33

Read up on this case. Short version: lady vanishes in Taiwan under suspicious circumstances. Hubby's story doesn't add up. But there's no body or actual evidence of foul play. This lawyer guy gets hired to poke around and ask questions but other than a fishy story and some lies he finds nothing. As a result of his publicity now Taiwan wants the suspect for questioning but even if the US and China had an extradition agreement it probably wouldn't cover this situation since they haven't actually issued a warrant for arrest (etc.)

The only new thing here since the last time he got slashdot to Press Release his story is they managed to win a "Wrongful Death" lawsuit. So IF anything is wrong with US law, it's that you can get sued over an event that has never been proven to have happened, and lose millions of dollars.

Comment Re: That's not actually true (Score 1) 151

Put simply, the Dems keep thinking that because they "deserve" to win that they actually will win. Most of their top leaders live in an echo chamber filled with their own farts, pander to the extreme ends of their base, and completely ignore Centrists and Moderates. The Dem "base" isn't reliable enough to turn out and even if they do, they don't have the numbers to win without pulling in the Independents. Nobody wanted Harris the first time, and barely put up with her as VP. The Dem Strategists should have known that Biden wasn't going to be a strong enough candidate, and if they'd gone all-in early with a fresh Pair of Candidates they probably would have won handily.

Comment Re: Remember ... try not to offend half the countr (Score 0) 151

Most people today don't really understand that the Nazis were originally disliked because they were fascists, not that they were racists. A lot of people who opposed the Fascist ideology really didn't have much of an issue with racism at the time. The shift in tone to despising Nazis for being racists mostly came after the War. Now days I see people (especially on the Left) using the terms "Nazi" and "Racist" interchangeably even to the point of calling Zionists "Nazis," which is pretty tonedeaf.

Comment Re: Don’t care (Score 1) 151

Any time DC starts floundering they pump out a superman or Batman "reboot." Up until the success of Iron Man kicked off the MCU, Marvel's "go-to" was Spiderman, and to a lesser degree Hulk. But they managed to "mainstream" a bunch of properties (xmen, avengers, etc.) while DC has struggled to get any new "franchises" to really gain traction. So back to Supes and Batty they go for a cash infusion.

Comment Re: OpenAI does not dictate AGI (Score 1) 61

Yes, the "bump" is that the fundamental premise of "if we can just feed it enough data it will spontaneously attain AGI" is completely flawed. LLMs and similar models are fancy predictive algorithms which can do some pretty neat suff, but they can't "think" or "reason." For some relatively simple tasks their predictive outputs can seem to mimic intelligence, but the "intelligence" is an emergent property of the data itself as opposed to a result of the algorithms.

Comment Re: Not good at math (Score 2) 54

a lottery is just a voluntary tax where every now and then someone gets to be rich. it's not surprising that some people become irrationally angry over the idea that you don't have to force people to give up their property. and it's understandable that seeing someone becoming rich through the voluntary actions of others would drive these people to the edge of insanity. because both of those concepts completely ruin their carefully crafted Marxist illusion of reality.

Comment Re: Open Source (Score 2) 82

Usually it comes down to matters of scale. Even if Prox shows similar "technical" limits, the practical limits and efficiency "sweet spots" tend to be a lot lower. VMWare certainly has its own quirks and issues but by and large it's still the clear leader. Broadcom knows this, and they know that time is limited, so they're turning the screws as tight as they can before people can jump ship.

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