I live in B.C. and applaud losing the time change, but think the choice of time zones going forward wasn't the best.

I'm expecting major buyer's remorse this winter when people realize that the sun sets at 5 in December and January, and doesn't rise until 9.

...laura

As our sensors improve what magical things will we be able to build (think cellphone to a boomer) and how will capitalism create a scarcity and meter text messages (remember the early plans?) just to get us used to thinking that texting is an expensive, very scarce resource?

Is this more evidence than NLP is AI-Complete?

"As intended by their creators."

Did society ask for it by bullying them in school?

What if there are no hu-mans that care about you (slashdot moderators are just like rveryone you meet irl), so a chatbot is the best thing left?

Why shouldn't you exercise Caveat Emptor? Especially with cryptocurrency, designed to be libertarian, where you are responsible not the state?

"he made the bet, and being in jail is the outcome."

Does he think that since bitcoin went up and all his investors were made whole, his bet eventually paid off and they jailed him prematurely because a competitor of his spread rumors and his employees said whatever it took to get plea deals?

Remember when you were just anthropomorphizing when you thought your pet had emotions? With such a record of catastrophic mistakes, is the charg of misanthropomorphizing impotent?

"How much more tax are you willing to pay to support that?"

How much more tax do I currently pay for mass transit I never use? $500 car tabs, anyone?

Gemini:

"The Regional Transit Authority (RTA) tax rate on car tabs for residents living within the Sound Transit boundaries in King County is 1.1%. This translates to $110 per year for every $10,000 of your vehicle's calculated value. [...] The Regional Transit Authority (RTA) tax is strictly used to fund the construction, expansion, and daily operations of the Sound Transit mass transit system."

What prevents you from using AI to educate them the right way?

Are you going to hold your savings in Chinese currency? Or forego US stock market returns and hold Euros?

What if you subsidized US electric cars and let them compete freely, rather than cherry-pick some convenient reason why they should be banned? Since the dollar is the US's dominant export, can we easily afford it?

"the waste heat that's dumped outside has some potential to worsen local urban climate"

Do datacenters use more efficient cooling than residential AC (Copilot says yes)?
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Why don't heat dome doomers mention that the AC they recommend you turn on makes the heat dome that much worse?

Why doesn't google publish the top search item on a continuous basis like the debt clock?

Why was it a secret? Is this a case of manufactured scarcity incentivizing arbitrage, so is your real problem with capitalism itself?