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Comment Re:Mixed feelings, actually.... (Score 1) 21

No, there is no AI bubble. A bubble happens when valuations (stock prices) wildly exceed revenue - that happened during the dot.com bubble - companies with *no revenue whatsoever* were valued to the moon. And no one seemed to notice or care.

Todays situation with AI is not that. Revenue is massive, is growing wildly, and stock valuations are really not overextended - given the reasonable estimates of future growth for the companies. There is a huge amount of money being used to build out more AI, but that is largely coming from money the companies *already made*. Expect that to keep going for 2-5 more years, and end up with some excess capacity (similar to the build-out of the railroads back in the day [sigh - good times]) - there is always over-building.

We have had a recent bubble- but that was in quantum computing. Wild valuations on companies with no revenue to speak of - and that basically peaked and popped in November.

Comment Re:Pyrrhic Victory (Score 2) 192

i kinda wanted to think it was drunken kung fu, crazy wisdom, or 4d chess

That's always the claim.

It is rooted in the "madman" theory, and it isn't complete bunk, but vastly overrated. Acting like (or being) a crazy asshole is its own form of predictability.

And in Piggy's case, it is a cope masquerading as a boast. When he can't bully, the dipshit just has nothing else. He's strategic about nothing except protecting his fragile ego.

So he does utterly stupid things like attacking Iran while claiming the goals were secret so he could retcon whatever he wanted. The reality is he's decompensing - he's losing badly in court and public opinion. The weird kidnapping of the Honduran president made him think he knows better than all those egghead generals, and he stuck his dick in a meat grinder. And all the while he gets a little more demented, retreating up his own ass, mincing about the drapes in his oh-so-pretty ballroom/citadel from which to claim he can't be ousted as Supreme Ruler.

Which would be fine, except he's taking the rest of the country with him while making everyone hate us.

Trump is a shit stain on the underwear of the nation. He needs to go.

Comment That's about right (Score 4, Informative) 192

And it didn't even really pull the heat of the Epstein stuff, so it failed there, too.

On the bright side, the dipshit also badly damaged his coalition.

But yes, Stumpy: - spent upwards of 12 digits on war porn without any plan,
- got badly outplayed by Iran on one side, Israel on the other, and China playing adult in the room,
- destroyed the Freedom of Navigation the world depends on for trade the US used to guarantee,
- spit in the face of our allies, yet again,
- demonstrated to the world that the US cannot be trusted to keep commitments,
- turned the most active Iranian protests against the regime in decades into very public demonstrations defending it.

Oh - and we're not done. Iran says the ceasefire isn't on yet, because US/Israel is violating several of the provisions, and the Strait is not, in fact, open.

This is that fucking idiot failure Don Trump's gift for Americans.

Comment Weak PR (Score 4, Informative) 118

This is an attempt to reduce fear, but it seems like a pretty sophomore effort.

They have enough money for really good PR, so I have to imagine there are... personalities interfering. Or maybe just one.

Going to be fun watching the hustling as they try to IPO with a CFO who says it won't work.

Comment Re:Of course they are (Score 1) 91

But if the whole concept of a confrontational negotiation over pay makes you feel queasy, you can do what I have done in the past.

Hand them your current pay-stub. Do NOT let them keep it, or copy it - I hope that goes without saying.

Then just say "Here's what I make now. Make me want to come here."

Worked pretty well.

Comment Only idiots would (Score 1) 51

That's an extremely short-term analysis.

Your red-pilled lawyer will soon have a reputation. They'll find their client pool shrinking, judges not giving them the benefit of the doubt, and other lawyers not referring work to them.

They'd better do a lot of slop cases quickly and hope the money lasts, because that strategy is going to tank their practice faster than they graduated law school.

Comment Gullibility (Score 3, Insightful) 5

"Incognito" has been redefined to mean "we'll pretend we don't know who you are."

More generally, if you're talking to a robot that runs on someone else's machine, you should not be surprised if the machine owner spies on you. Maybe it shouldn't work this way - I'd say it definitely shouldn't, and the big outfits acknowledge this by pretending it doesn't - but that's the world we live in.

The assumption should always be that these robots are front ends to Zuckerberg's & Google's user profiling systems. Your robot talk therapist or cofounder is trying to help Nestle and Ford manipulate you. And let's not forget LEOs and intelligence - we haven't heard much about how they're targeting this stuff yet. But they would be incompetent if they aren't.

Comment Re:The REAL enemy here. (Score 1) 53

The release date really isn't the right question to ask. The right question is - when was the last time someone bought a copy of this game expecting to be able to play it? Not every user bought theirs 10 years ago. If I bought mine last month I'd be pretty incensed.

If the company stopped selling it and removed all copies from stores 5 years ago, expecting to end of life it this year, that's one thing. If they have been continually offering it for sale and pull the plug on everyone arbitrarily, that's quite another.

If the latter is the case (NPI), then I think having a court decide is appropriate.

Comment Re:Human Nature vs Policy (Score 1) 73

Agreed - especially in the area of autos. My wife's car is about where I think the sweet spot is. It has lane assist, with auto steering to stay in lane, and keeps a selectable min distance from the car in front. That's it. I only use it on the highway. And I think that is a great compromise - you have to keep your hands on the wheel, you don't have to really do much - you are just kind of going along with the car. But you are still there to take over if needed. And I disengage ["manual override engaged!"] if traffic gets really heavy, I enter a work zone, etc. Makes long trips a lot less tiring.

Seems about right to me.

Comment Re:too bad (Score 1) 314

The founding fathers knew English pretty well. If that had been their intent, the Second would have read:

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the [members of said Militia] to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed"

Since it does NOT say that, and says that Citizens have the right to keep and bear arms, that is what they meant.

To address some of the other ideas you included - several countries require their armed forces, and equivalent to National Guard, to indeed keep their weapons at their homes.

And at the time the Amendment was written, private citizens owned cannons, and even entire small warships. There was no talk of limiting it to small arms (muskets) - because the idea of that seemed ludicrous at the time.

Please do some research - I am disappointed at the lack of perspective of someone with such a low UID. Sad!

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