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Comment Re:Broken (Score 2) 57

Allegiance is (suppose to be) to the Country and Constitution first and foremost -- not any one particular person, regardless of how popular he may be (among 49.8% of voters anyway) or political party. For the people, by the people -- all the people.

Well, Trump has made it very clear that it's only personal loyalty he cares about. For example, when asked about the firings of several National Security Council members, he stated "we're letting go of [p]eople that we don’t like or people that we don’t think can do the job or people that may have loyalties to somebody else."

Comment There's a really big question unanswered here (Score 1) 59

They say DNG is "open" - who controls the format's definition? As far as I can tell, Adobe is tightly holding onto it with its grubby hands, and "open" just means "we're letting you use it free".

If that's indeed the case, if I have to choose a single corporation to trust - personally I'd pick Nikon (or Canon, if you're in their hardware camp).

Comment Re: Unpossible that. (Score 1) 198

This is part of the equation. The other side is the system run by businesses is run by executives answerable only to shareholders who demand profits and have no incentive otherwise to save lives or make anyone healthy. In such a system, it's better to spend money on appearances and advertising than silly science.

Nationalized medicine is run by elected politicians answerable to voters. If constituents are not being served the politician knows their tenure is on the line. So they make calls to serve the public. They don't have the luxury to delay, deny, defend. Quite the opposite, they are duty bound to the opposite and have the authority to investigate and take matters to task.

Yet, for some reason, Americans believe privatisation of government is going to be better. Trust the free market. Give Elon the chainsaw.

Comment Re: Unpossible that. (Score 1) 198

It's all the time on the sofa. The motorised one they drive two blocks to eat out or spend an inordinate percentage of their lives in traffic.

Additionally, they spend more hours working to maintain the appearance of a protestant work ethic.

And all that stress adds up. It releases stored energy to enable action, but action today is sitting and typing so the body has to refile the unused stress response fuel and store it as the video fat you mentioned.

Leading a life designed to develop controlled consumers through carefully orchestrated anger and alienation is not healthy. It's literal suicide.

Comment Serious question (Score 2) 11

The talks face internal opposition from some Intel executives concerned about widespread layoffs and the abandonment of Intel's own technology, according to the report.

I get the layoff concerns. But it seems to me TSMC's current tech runs circles around Intel's. Does Intel actually have some (apparently well-hidden) superior tech of some sort?

Comment Re: Reading things is "Breaking" them ?! (Score 1) 38

The quote actually references San Francisco rather than Silicon Valley which is slightly different but your critique is not off the mark. Although I interpreted the reference to Saureon's Eye as an evocation of Theil with his penchant for branding his surveillance company with a name appropriated from Tolkien.

Regardless , the point could have been better constructed and I agree with your central premise, Theil and Altman are concrete examples that male toxicity is not limited by sexual orientation.

Comment Re: Really reaching with that Talented Mr. Ripley (Score 1) 38

I don't know. I wonder what Scarlett Johansson thinks about Sam Altman's untoward obsession with her voice.
She'll survive, but others are not so lucky.
What fate has been meted out to O'Reilly publishing in having their books pilfered to train AI as an alternative to buying and reading their books?
Particularly Ripley-esque considering the books were pilphered by those who no doubt owe their careers, in no small part, to such niche publishers and their authors who took great pains and risk in writing and publishing books that became the foundations of the tech industry.

Comment Re: It's not a recession. It's AI. (Score 3, Funny) 20

It's not an economic downturn. Obviously AI is replacing data centers. It's time to double down on the AI bet.

Just look at what AI has done to every industry from bicycles to building homes. It's not just the tech sector. All industries are seeing layoffs as these jobs are replaced by AI.

Comment Re: Humans will cease to matter in under 10 years (Score 1) 125

Interesting paradox. It's also when the Romantic poets felt we started losing our humanity, but at the same time humans started believing that they had an outsized position in the universe.

Not that humans of the Western Civilized proclivity have not long possessed an outsized sense of entitlement. We now feel a need to save the whales, but who can save the humans from themselves?

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