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Comment Re:Significant (Score 1) 24

RCS isn't a good standard. It was so crappy that Google essentially bought it, added the minimum necessary to turn it into an acceptable messaging platform and made their proprietary version (as opposed to the original GSM's proprietary version) their messaging platform. Er, their fourth (fifth?) messaging platform.

Comment Re:hmm (Score 1) 110

Why? If she's an experienced speaker I suspect the VP of strategic alliances for a multinational private equity holding company is used to talking to a very specific type of audience. We even have a phrase for that that comes from a similar type of speaker: "preaching to the choir."

The real hilarity is that someone from a humanities college thought she'd be a good pick.

Comment Re:Unpopular but correct opinion (Score 1) 110

That, by its very definition, is an area where AI should have very limited use

The definition of AI is essentially:

"to proceed on the basis of the conjecture that every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it."

So no, by definition, the stuff those humanities students do is a prime target. We used to think that the creative humanities stuff was going to be really hard, maybe the ultimate goal for AI, but it turns out it's not.

Comment Re:Also 94% of the bets (Score 1) 84

Of course they are. People who know that the team bus got in late last night, Joe stubbed his toe, whatever. Or just "insiders" who actually know something about the sport and aren't just betting on their favourite team to win the way they do every weekend.

Most betting on things that aren't completely random is going to have a strong element of fleecing the casuals. The actual insider betting (and trading) is a gradient with a somewhat arbitrary threshold too.

Comment Re:Itâ(TM)s should be refunded without needin (Score 1) 103

Sure, there are lots of records for that too. You know that little white bit of thermal paper you get when you buy something? You probably threw it away but lots of people keep them, and the guy on the other side of the transaction definitely keeps them.

Not that that's relevant though. You refund illegal taxes to the entity that paid them and those are all very much documented.

Comment Re: Why is Intel stock zooming? (Score 1) 47

I should have said PC and server CPUs. ARM dominates mobile and embedded of course. It's not a market Intel has ever been a significant player in though.

The reason Intel stayed flat (market cap) even as they pounded AMD in the bulldozer era is that they were also becoming a niche part of the CPU market.

Yeah, this is the impression you'd get, reading Slashdot at least. There's a good chance you typed out your message on a "niche part of the CPU market," and you definitely used several to send it.

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