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Comment Re:Job Security (Score 1) 153

This is what I have seen peeking into cybersecurity groups when reviewing insanely insecure development features in libraries that never should have been introduced or enabled by default. From what I saw they were fine with that and it is up to each individual user of that library to disable the insanely insecure, rarely used features. Job security.

Comment ChatGPT is a startup? (Score 1) 207

Not compared to the startups I've worked with. Two guys on Zoom can be just as effective as two guys in a garage if it's the right choice for the two guys. If you have to tell your "team" how they work best, you're either not a good boss, you've got a crappy team, or both. If (when?) I kick off a startup, I'm not going to listen to some big corporate CEO's tell me how to run it, esp. when they know nothing of it.

Comment Why not both? (Score 1) 160

The idea that companies would employ more than they need for that reason seems unlikely; the knock on consequences in terms of having to pay more adds to the case against. I would tend to blame it on managers wanting to have more underlings - always THE measure of how important you are - along with a desire to avoid having to rerecruit when a shortage of skilled workers is revealed. And remember that tech firms were always pressing for more H1B visas to be issued. Now the zeitgeist has changed (blame Musk's Twitter cull?), so everyone is reversing policy all at once...

I'm not so sure, non-competes have been shot full of holes. As long as you are making enough profit and staying ahead of the competition (or keeping startups from disrupting your market) why not both? MS, Apple, Alphabet, Facebook, Twitter, etc. are all old and slow, it will be interesting to see what all these new free agents do as they are getting snatched up or forming startups.

Comment Re:Remember death panels? (Score 1) 92

This was warned about by those evil republicans because of the cost requirements in that prized democrat bill of ACA.

the warning about death panels was because in the bill it requires that once spending gets to high the panels would decide who gets any type of treatment or is just told to wait until a future year and more funding is available or as is the hope of the bill passers that you would just die.

It always was, things were just gonna get bad enough if we treated the poor that it would get noticed and it has.

Maybe that notice will push the scales back to patients being dumped in the streets because they are poor.

Maybe that notice will push us to join the rest of the civilized world when it comes to healthcare.

Comment Re:Lawyers won't like this, (Score 1) 68

but that is actually a useful and realistic application for AI, after all this nonsense of AI for scriptwriting or picture creating which in order to be useful needs creativity. AI has no creativity and can only reproduce a combination of applicable learning input, which is precisely what the application of law should be.

Unless politicians keep changing the laws, that is (which they tend to do to serve their corporate puppet masters).

A good solution for a very small problem space, but once you get into the real world lawyering does involve creativity on both the tactical and strategic levels. That being said I am all for AI doing more and more for lawyers on both sides. Judges too.

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