Comment Why? (Score 1) 29
Comment Poison? Who cares? (Score 2) 48
Comment Re:The schadenfreude is real. (Score 1) 54
You're buying a code.
Someone said it was money and said it had value, and people believed it.
Comment Re: Time to invest in the fast-food robot industry (Score 1) 3
Robots are coming to take over jobs regardless of whether the minimum wage goes up.
If anything, I'm actually surprised that there aren't already a chain of fully automated McDonalds kiosks, with just a traveling crew of humans to maintain and restock.
Comment Against the AdWords TOS? (Score 1) 194
Isnâ(TM)t it against the AdWords TOS to be disingenuous with your advertising like this?
Comment Re:a notion of unperfect timing (Score 0) 133
The burning down of the Library of Alexandria is so overrated.
All of the Alexandrian hipsters had long ago left it behind for the Coffeeshop of Alexandria.
Comment Re:Maza calls himself these names. (Score 1) 752
It's very clear from the conext of Crowder's usage that he is being hateful about Maza's sexuality.
Comment Re:Maza calls himself these names. (Score 0) 752
We want every communication to be black and white, but some areas of language use are very nuanced and we don't deal with that very well. It is especially hard for content moderators to deal with.
A gay man referring to himself as a "fag" might be playfully recognizing his ostracism from conservative society.
A conservative man calling out a "fag" might be intending hate and derision, calling out the person for ridicule.
Submission + - Tacoma-based Snopes is locked in a nasty legal dispute (seattletimes.com)
Since 2017, Mikkelson has been locked in a nasty legal dispute with former business associates over control of Snopes, the pioneering fact-checking website that Mikkelson launched with a former wife in 1994 and which he now runs with his current wife from their house in Tacoma.
The dispute, which is playing out in the California courts, has generated claims and counterclaims of financial mismanagement, conspiracy and embezzlement. Mikkelson stands accused of, among other things, using company funds for “lavish” vacations, while he in turn levels accusations of fraud.
Submission + - 'Pumping Heart Patch' Made From Stem Cells Ready For Human Use (bbc.com)
Comment Re: THIS IS FUCKING RIDICULOUS (Score 2) 335
This is designed for high end video editing, period. Marvel Studios and Lucasfilm will think nothing of buying dozens of these, fully loaded, to edit their next few movies.
$6k is an entry point. Apple obviously designed this beast with the high end in mind, then asked, "How can we strip it down to an 'entry level' model for regional TV studios.
And then, because they're Apple, they always want to have Good, Better, and Best options, with the Better capturing the lion's share of sales. So they'll sell a ton of the Better systems in Hollywood.
Submission + - Joseph Gordon-Levitt: HitRecord Is âGitHub For Creativityâ(TM) (venturebeat.com)
Comment Re: cool (Score 1) 705
Yep, ideas are a dime a dozen.
Execution is everything.
When AC hires a sales/support staff for his open source replacement that's even a third as large as Salesforce's, maybe he'll get some attention.
Comment Re:How does it currently listen for the wakeword? (Score 1) 171
The current wake word appears to be part of the Alexa firmware. When the Echo's internet access goes down, you can still "wake" it by saying "Alexa". It just won't process any other commands because it needs the internet to do that, and will instead give you an error message.