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Comment Re: Odd morality (Score 1) 129

Dating people at work is generally OK as long as one doesn't report to the other directly or indirectly.

HR usually wants to know so that they can rearrange the corporate hierarchy to avoid such unseemly conflicts of interest. It's their business because it's unfair to everyone else under that dating boss if one of their colleagues is exchanging "special favors" with the boss.

Comment Re:Odd morality (Score 1) 129

Really? So if a dev goes out with a team lead the TL should be fired?.

You've obviously never held a real job.

Every company that I've ever worked for over the decades made this kind of policy 100% clear to new hires, and some of them repeated it at least annually (along with other boring annual training on things like not sending sensitive tech to places like China).

Comment Re:Odd morality (Score 2) 129

The spy is more worrying. US Gov and a lot of other big customers would not find that funny at all. I'm still surprised though... he made so much $$$ for everybody. This could be the black swan that brings the long-awaited AI market collapse.

Comment Re:Seems like a good way to... (Score 4, Interesting) 18

They could have set the QoS tag to the lowest level for capped welfare accounts but it sounds like they just wanted to be dicks about it.

Had they behaved decently it's unlikely NY would have taken notice. Maybe other providers will take notice?

I dunno, patronize a better company if you can find one. Higher prices will likely nudge customers to switch even if they don't know the cause.

Comment That's rich (Score 1) 247

This guy, along with Al Gore and Hazel O'Leary led the effort to kill the Integral Fast Reactor which was operational by 1991 which simultaneously solved the nuclear waste and energy generation problems.

From what I can tell getting this going was the only thing GHWB did right.

It's said Gore did it to pay off Greenpeace, Kerry did it for the Lincoln Labs tokamak project, and O'Leary did it for Big Oil (like Ford killing Project Liberty). Later Gore parlayed this betrayal into his slide show grift.

Now 35 years later we need cleaner energy, huh? Yeah we flippin' told you that in 1992. And we'll be buying our new reactors from China.

PS China still runs 90% coal. Be careful with the analogies.

Comment fails to act (Score 1) 20

Testing AI isn't an enumerated power of Congress.

NY is just doing their job* yet have to bitch about it. That's a clue about how well this will work out.

Given the pace of government it's not crazy to think that a two year old model will be certified as licensed and NY residents won't be allowed to use newer models.

The effectiveness will be as a jobs program for a few people. Or for a few politicians to take corporate bribes for a repeal.

* I haven't read the NY Constitution in decades ... "presumably"

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