Comment Re:Must be mostly slop then (Score 2) 25
Because Youtube is about half AI slop these days.
If "3x more" means proportional, then TT must be about 150% slop.
Probably a pretty good estimate...
Comment Re:Crime details (Score 1) 53
If only he had lived in the US, he could have appealed to the Supreme Court!
Or "donate" to an appropriate "charity".
Comment Re:Does this mean Sam Altman's going to prison? (Score 2) 53
What tripe. Heart surgeons? Structural engineers? You sound like a cliche machine. Please, find me an example of this fantasy. Spend the tokens, bitch.
When I registered for college, during the orientation they said that pre-meds are the group most frequently caught cheating.
Money is a big motivator. And not always for the good.
Submission + - About that DC terror plot
An anonymous reader writes: How come this disappeared from the news so fast? When I search for updates on the story all I can find is repeats of the week-old stories of five arrests, and some mentions that their trial may be held outside DC.
What about the other score or so of conspirators they were looking for? Are they still on the lam? Have the drones and explosives been found?
I've been laughing at people who claim that the assassination attempts were fake, but this is really out of bandwidth. Was there really a plot, or was it just some Stupids talking large on the internet?
What about the other score or so of conspirators they were looking for? Are they still on the lam? Have the drones and explosives been found?
I've been laughing at people who claim that the assassination attempts were fake, but this is really out of bandwidth. Was there really a plot, or was it just some Stupids talking large on the internet?
Comment Color me skeptical. (Score 1) 1
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Comment Re:Must be mostly slop then (Score 1) 25
Alas, pretty soon you won't even be able to find real porn.
Comment cue Juvenal (attributed) (Score 1) 76
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Perhaps appropriately, the original context had to do with someone trying to control his wife.
Comment Re:For those who don't get it... (Score 1) 27
Are you going to make Welsh the national language?
No!!! Even the Celts were interlopers.
And probably not the first.
Comment Re:A mirror into the future of the West. (Score 4, Insightful) 27
And this is somehow better "In the East"?
No, it's just that we naively didn't expect it from "the West".
Comment "fake" (Score 3, Insightful) 34
is the new "normal".
Comment Re:Recall? (Score 1) 59
IIRC, a "recall" is a notification of a defect in a car that needs addressing. If that can be done OTA, it's still a recall.
Comment Re:Industrial scale (Score 3, Insightful) 73
With the right hype, and a high enough price tag on the machine, the coffee snobs will be all over this.
Comment Re:In related news, (Score 1) 105
Small difference: drugs are known to be harmful, and illegal. The harm of social media to developing children has only recently been documented
If it is known that social media harms kids, then doesn't the state share some of the blame? Why is there no law?
If it is not known (or only recently came to light), can you really blame the social media companies? You could blame them for trying to block relevant legislation, but not for harm done in the past.
If the harmful effects were known to the companies and they kept it quiet, then you'd have a case, morally speaking. Bit like the tobacco firms.
If it is known that social media harms kids, then doesn't the state share some of the blame? Why is there no law?
If it is not known (or only recently came to light), can you really blame the social media companies? You could blame them for trying to block relevant legislation, but not for harm done in the past.
If the harmful effects were known to the companies and they kept it quiet, then you'd have a case, morally speaking. Bit like the tobacco firms.
Comment Re:Child harm? (Score 1) 105
ISTM that the perps are most often social conservatives, such as leaders of regressive religions.
If that's the case, I shudder to think what it was like in the Middle Ages. Or in certain countries today.
Comment Re:taxing unrealized gains is problematic (Score 1) 288
So how about closing that particular loophole, and make them pay capital gains on the profits that they do realize? For instance, by taxing such loans with no "normal" repayment schedule as dividend. We've had similar issues, with business owners borrowing money from their company with no intention of ever repaying it, thus avoiding dividend tax. A new law caps these "non market conformant" loans at 100k.
A cash grab like this is pretty sickening. Even in the rather socialist leaning country I live in, this would probably not stand, local courts and the ECHR might well consider similar taxes to amount to appropriation, and illegal.
A cash grab like this is pretty sickening. Even in the rather socialist leaning country I live in, this would probably not stand, local courts and the ECHR might well consider similar taxes to amount to appropriation, and illegal.
