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Comment Re:Ivermectin is better (Score 1) 205

I'm friends with a couple who took their 6 year old daughter to go live in a country with malaria endemic for a year. Docs put the kid on ivermectin for the whole time

I want you to understand that your post makes you sound like an anti-science delusional nutcase.

Why? Because data about ivermectin side effects is available, but you decided to listen to the the self-comforting anecdote.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Comment Re:This is kind of hilarious (Score 1) 67

When you think about it, you're allowed to walk in anywhere. Look at whatever you like. Listen to whatever conversation you want to. This is well and truly already established. Now that someone can remember everything they see and hear, suddenly we're talking about privacy issues. Lol.

When I think about it, I can see a clear difference.

There were all manner of places where human eyes were accepted, but still/video cameras were not, long predating "smart glasses". From changing rooms, saunas, locker rooms, and bath houses to performances like plays and concerts, and movie theatres to executive board room meetings, and even court rooms in many cases.

There are lots of scenarios where everybody accepts and consents that other people will see/hear them, but do not accept or consent to be recorded.

  Are you really incapable of seeing the multiple clear and obvious differences between "seeing/hearing something" and "recording something" ?

Comment Re:OneDrive Surveillance (Score 2) 51

I find it strange that this simple design philosophy is ignored.

It's Windows.

For years, Microsoft used revenue as a metric to know if a feature was good or not. This gave them customer feedback, and they could adjust accordingly.

Around the time of Vista, it stopped working as a metric because everyone had already bought Windows. By that time, corporate motivation had changed, and the motivation of managers was to backstab each other as they climbed the corporate ladder. So they never really came up with another metric to determine if customers liked their product or not, they were too busy doing other things.

Comment Re: A good trade off (Score 1) 63

The reason the Linux Kernel (and open source in general) is such good code is because they fix bugs when they find them. This enforces a certain amount of quality to the structure and organization of the code, otherwise they would be spending all their time fixing bugs until they figured it out.

Consider a typical corporate bug tracker that is overflowing with bugs, the bug count always increasing. Inevitably this leads to a cludge, where the code is disorganized and almost unmanageable. Working through the code is like working through molasses. If they reversed the bug count vector, so it was decreasing (even slowly) instead of increasing, then soon the code structure would begin to get cleaner and cleaner as well. The correlation is strong.

So this is to Linus' merit, that he doesn't ignore bugs just because they are from AI. It will make the code cleaner.

Comment Re:Spectacular technology, shame about the math (Score 1) 32

From what I can tell, sodium ion is more dense than lead acid batteries but less dense than lithium ion. However the less density means sodium ion do not have uncontrolled fires. Once of the issues with lithium ion fires is most fire departments can't really do much to put some fires other than just let them burn. I would also imagine once the batteries are spent, disposal of sodium is easier on the environment than lithium or lead.

Comment Re:An Example of Market Failure (Score 1) 132

The market optimising for profit and income in the short term does exactly this: AI companies are willing to pay more.

The market doesn't optimize for profit in the short term or in the long term.

In economics, there are two curves: a supply curve, and a demand curve. In a free market, they meet at equilibrium.

Comment Re:Self-reliance (Score 1) 27

They know they U.S.A. Is not reliable anymore.

It's not about the USA. It is not about Trump. It is not about you. Try to not make every single situation America-centric, you self-centered twat.

A minority in Japan really really wants nuclear weapons. The majority doesn't. By "leaving the door open" she is able to appease the minority while not being rejected by the majority. Japanese politics is full of double-speak of this type. If you turned off your American-centric worldview, you might know this. Again: not everything is about you.

Comment Re:Big techs' "browser problem" (Score 1) 32

This is like the little red hen here, but KDE and Mozilla did all the initial hard work, and Apple, Brave, Google, Microsoft and Opera hijacked it all to add advertising and tracking, with security holes that are now being ultra-exposed by new AI vulnerability finders.

This is worth repeating. In addition, Google pushed people hard to install Chrome by nagging you every time you visited one of their websites.

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