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Comment that's a dumb take (Score 1) 59

How many people does it take to run a data center after taking up all this property and all this land that could have been used for something else?

You mean like farming, where hundreds or thousands of acres are only "worked" by a handful of people or less? I think there are scores of reasons not to cover the world in data centers better than "but they take up space".

Comment Re:It does it poorly (Score 1) 82

It's been the basis for elite athletes practice routines for years.
Visualization is sometimes mocked by the ignorant, but even the simple act of visualizing EXACTLY what is happening, what you're doing, what moves you're making, how you're moving...all form & reinforce neural pathways, making both the action and the particular precise details easier to replicate.

I wouldn't call this multitasking, precisely, more like a training-based delegation of muscle functions and basic responses 'lower' in the cerebral/intellectual chain. A different part of you is "thinking" (using that word in a very, very broad extent) through the lowest-level protocols of your body's actions, instead of constantly throwing it to your lower brain functions.

Comment Re:Better than an art degree tbh (Score 1) 191

Who gets to decide what's worthless?

Statistics do....

We track what jobs earn what...how many people get accepted in to what jobs on graduation....so, we only offer student loans to degrees that give the student the absolute highest chance of getting a good paying job, one what will allow them to pay off the loans in a reasonable manner.

Comment Re:Trump supports grifting? (Score 0) 51

The same way I felt before you said it.
Barack Obama got $400k/yr as president, $250k/yr after that. Total income about $8m in 2026.
He's now worth $70m.

They live in 4 homes, primarily;
Oahu $8,4m
Wash DC $8.1m
Martha's Vineyard $11.8m
Chicago $2m
~$30m in homes.

That's pretty good for his income.

Comment Re:If he is found guilty (Score 5, Interesting) 179

From what I understand of the guy I'm not a fan and likely would like to see him nailed.

However, in this case...I don't think the govt has a case against him.

If they never got into the phone, how do they know there was evidence on there? How could they proved he wiped evidence if they had no clue what might be on there?

It also sounds like at the time, he wasn't under arrest? He had asked for a lawyer and had been refused?

He's not under any compulsion to give a password is he? They had the phone, nothing forced the authorities to trust anything he said....they could have tried forensics like they'd do if they had a safe and tried a safecracker to get in if the suspect didn't want to give the combination.

I just don't see the case they have....or if they do it has implications far wider for common citizens and their privacy.

Comment Re:Better than an art degree tbh (Score 1) 191

You think only people that make millions pay back student loans?

No, please be serious.

BUT...we do have an incredible number of students that can NOT pay off their loans...hence all this call to have the US Tax payers pay their loans for them ie. loan forgiveness.

We need to quit giving out student loans and scholarships to people seeking worthless degrees....where these kids get into significant debt for fields that lead to jobs that do not pay enough for them to get that loan paid off....basically they become indentured servants for much of their adult life in a manner of speaking.

Let's met out student loans only to those pursuing degrees that are in fields that at least give them a fighting chance to earn enough money upon graduation and actually secure good jobs.

If you want to study underwater basket weaving, then find, do it on your own dollar, but no loaning of money to take worthless classes that do not need to meaningful jobs that earn $$ enough to pay the loans off AND lead to a happy level of livelihood and lifestyle.

Comment Re:Better than an art degree tbh (Score 1) 191

You think influencers don't make money? Why do you imagine people keep doing it?

Sure I do....just like some people become multi-million dollar NBA basketball players, or earn millions doing Only Fans.

I believe that % of people after that goal that attain it are incredibly small.

Again, not massive enough success to risk hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loan debt they'll likely never pay off...

Comment Re:This ladies and gentlemen (Score 1) 222

This is why I otoh assert that legal conclusions are oversimplistically binary - guilty or not guilty - which obfuscates reality in ways that both protect the guilty and harm the less-guilty.

Guilty red-handed - if a guy in a batman costume is LITERALLY ARRESTED IN THE COURSE OF SHOOTING UP A THEATER - that is guilt beyond the shadow of a doubt. The trial should be about 15 minutes, the end execution. No 20 year odyssey of scores of trials, appeals, pleas for mercy, whatever, costing the taxpayers $millions.

Anything short of that, I agree, that death penalty is far too irreversible for the many potential accidental- and potentially deliberate points of failure in any complex system.

Comment Re:Data (Score 1) 84

I think your point is relevant, absolutely, but sometimes a cigar IS a cigar. Chaotic data *can* manifest patterns - eg a "random number generator" might hand you 5 results of 1-1-1-1-1. That may be the result of a *perfectly* random system.

OTOH, as humans we instinctively try to understand/recognize patterns to make predictive leaps. Chaotic data MAY ALSO have very subtle patterns that only appear when you start to do more and more statistical analyses.

The point is we can only take such data as a suggestion for TESTING and investigation.
fMRIs show brain activity in dead salmon. TESTING shows that's noise.
This suggests a periodicity to cataclysms. Only TESTING will help us conclude if this is noise or information.

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