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Comment Mercator projection might have harmed Africa (Score 3, Informative) 274

UN is right. Quoting from Wikipedia: "For example, on the Mercator projection, Greenland appears to be larger than the whole of Africa, when in reality it only has 7% of the total land area as Africa. These inconsistencies with area can lead to misrepresentation of the impact of spreadable diseases."

Comment Reddit used to be open source (Score 2) 187

Initially, Reddit was an open source project but it stopped being so about a decade ago. Your backgammon engine was under GPL and Reddit stopped appreciating that a decade ago. OpenAI became closed-source years ago.

These are clear indications of the beginning of an abusive regime.

Slash, the content management engine behind Slashdot is still open source though.

Comment Take India ... (Score 1) 229

Take India, for example. The same people who have been calling India a dictatorship have succeeded in securing a resignation from the Education Minister of India. So calling any country, India or Germany, a dictatorship is so easy and may not reflect the ground reality. I'm happy by the resignation of an elected minister, that India is still a functioning democracy. So is Germany, even more so.

Comment Let data centers finance schools (Score 1) 216

Why not make data centers pay 50% of electricity bills for schools, by implementing special rate structures for data centers proportional to density of power requirement. Initially they'll resist, but due to ever increasing demand, sooner or later they will succumb. It's a won war that we are losing, unbelievable.

Comment Re:It's all about accuracy (Score 1) 150

Oh, you misunderstood the point. The code governing plane controllers is written by human and we trust the human developer who wrote and thoroughly tested the code. That code has nothing to do with pilot or copilot. Your comment on pilot and co-pilot still holds in case AI might take their roles away too but I think before taking away their roles, AI will take away developer's role.

Comment Re: ICE is essential like ZATCA (Score 1) 148

You could have told, there are no militant groups in UAE or quite a few in Saudi Arabia. Exoneration of real culprits like Iraq, Iran and Pakistan will lead to nowhere. I wonder, do you even know where these countries are located and who is neighbor of whom and what kind of diplomatic and trade relations they have among themselves?

Comment ICE is essential like ZATCA (Score 0) 148

ICE prevents formation of internal terror clusters inspired by imported ideologies and imported radicalized people, just like Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority (ZATCA) has successfully prevented clusters influenced by terror networks operating in Iraq, Iran and Pakistan from forming in Saudi Arabia. Trump's praise (or any future criticism) of ICE carries no weight. While evaluating ICE, I'd definitely be careful not to make Ad Hominem fallacy.

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