Comment Endowments (Score 1) 143
Comment Re: Surely (Score 1) 152
Comment Re: Surely (Score 1) 152
Comment Yawn... (Score 1) 107
Still trying to extort money from IBM after all this time. Nothing like a business model made up entirely of rent seeking.
Comment Re: Are Wars Blurring Lines... (Score 1) 45
Comment Re:Wait, what? (Score 0) 196
It's important to realize that the so-called far-left Democrats idealize Bolshevism while the far-right Republicans idealize Fascism, both of which are forms of Big Government Socialism.
So if the Democrats are in power and they want to increase the size and scope of government the Republicans will go along with it 80% of the time. Because they know they will eventually be back in power and have more tools of power to control.
They will balk the other 20% of the time so they still have something to run on and false promises to make to their voters.
The base of both parties is mostly against all of this.
Comment Re: wait, what? (Score 1) 88
Comment AI and Robots (Score 2) 181
Comment Re:Oh it's not feasable (Score 1) 191
That and Russia has suggested destroying the orbit if Starlink doesn't stop enabling terrorist attacks by NATO proxies on its people.
The AI cut-off dive bomb tactic is a blatant warcrime.
Comment Re:Oh it's not feasable (Score 2) 191
Space Data Centers are in the same category as fully autonomous self-driving cars within eighteen months that he 'promised' in 2019.
You can watch the 'Autonomy Day' video on YouTube. People financed Model 3's on the promise of renting them as robotaxis while they were at work.
Physics is a hard stop on false promises.
It's OK to back difficult challenges with no underlying physical impossibilities that's engineering. Radiating heat into space is a physics problem.
I didn't believe the robotaxi promise then and I don't believe the space data centers claim now.
If there's a new topological physics breakthrough then let's see the paper and get the Nobel Prize gears turning because that would revolutionize technology on and off planet.
I'd love to see it but I don't believe it.
Comment Risky Business (Score 4, Interesting) 89
Reddit isn't wrong about bots but odds are what they really want is your identity. That earns money.
The trouble is people in Saudi Arabia will use old. to read about liberation topics or people in the US will read about drug topics, or whatever the mala prohibita are that will land you in prison for things that are perfectly legal in other jurisdictions.
Even people with accounts who read other subs logged in.
"Just create a new anonymous account" is what people will say who don't understand how identity correlation works. Sure there are ways that 0.0000001% of the population can manage securely, but that's not how this will go down.
The UK just arrested an American attorney who was critical of UK politics and they have multiple people in prison for clicking 'Like'. If you think they won't arrest somebody for reading the wrong sub, give it a few months.
Also, don't connect through Heathrow ever again.
Comment Re: I'm OK with stupid (Score 0) 126
Comment Re: Global Warming is Hitting Florida Hard (Score 0) 126
Comment Re: Color me surprised... (Score 1) 216
> I used to think that. Then I looked at the math. The amount of money possessed by the billionares and a trillionare pale in the face of the size (and needs) of the actual economy
The Derivatives Market recently surpassed 1 Quadrillion Dollars.
Notice how none of the politicians are talking about taxing that? It's all a show to stoke up conflict between the lower classes.
On the other hand, the same people do want to put AI in charge of totalizing Central Planning, because "this time Communism will work", because Magic LLM Dust.
We just need an AI Surveillance Police State to bring about the Great Utopia.
Every single time they say the same thing but with different nouns substituted as Madlibs. Then millions die.