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Comment Re: I hope they are using Indian data centers. (Score 1) 8

Google canâ(TM)t put them in the USA. There isnâ(TM)t enough power for more huge AI data centers. Indiaâ(TM)s government wonâ(TM)t block solar or wind energy project like Trump will. And they have China getting ready to start building nuclear plants that will be done years before any new ones are built in the USA. Google really has to build the data centers there

Comment But think of the possibilities (Score 1) 37

Just think of the things Apple might do with this money. Innovations such as:
  Another generation of VR hardware that doesn’t come with controllers to make it useful for VR.
  Adding even more buttons to the iPhone, a device with a touch screen.
  Another generation of headphones that can’t stream lossless audio from Apple’s own phones.

This company is turning into a joke. The C in Tim Cook stands for “Can’t Innovate.”

Comment Re: Clean air is good (Score 1) 66

How exactly what I describe here is a Troll, when I am actually sharing my experience as a user of a technology? I luterally feel nauseous (wanting to vomit) when riding as a passenger in a Tesla. Rarely happens in an ICE vehicle, happens in electric vehicles, especially Teslas. No matter how much I get moderated as a Troll, doesn't change what I end up feeling as an EV passenger. There is something about the way these things ride, it makes me want to vomit.

Comment Re: Clean air is good (Score 0) 66

I already hate getting Teslas for my Uber drives and I do quite a bit of Ubering, so to speak. If the number of these Tesla vehicles goes up significantly and I feel like throwing up during *EVERY* Uber drive, I will no longer use this method of transportation. Teslas make me absolutely nauseous, especially when going up or down the hill.

Comment Re:Apple, obsolete your own products (Score 1) 29

Huawei’s newest phone has three screens that unfold into a tablet, the OS does everything a desktop OS does, and it has AI integrated throughout. But we can’t have them in the USA because our government shut Huawei out of the market to protect the jobs of Apple’s loser designers and engineers who can’t innovate anymore.

Comment Re:Unions (Score 1) 136

no doubt. Which is why I only have subcontractors, not permanent employees and almost all of them are in Ukraine. Also as I said, should something like that be attempted, I would shut down parts of businesses and get rid of the people who attempt it, I wouldn't run a business where I had to deal with this.

Comment Re:Unions (Score 1) 136

as someone who owns and runs a few companies, the largest having around 1000 people working in it, I can understand why some people, especually who never built a company, think that the people working for a company are underpaid compared to the people who buolt it. This misunderstanding is easy to develop, people (and many other animals) have a strong built in mechanism responsible for having emotions and feelings related to fairness. This expectation of fairness is easy to channel into a different sort of a feeling - expectation of equality, feeling that equality must be enforced because it may ne argued that it is unfair that there is inequality of outcomes.

So it is clear that there are political forces tbat use thw easiest pressure points in the human condition to achieve low hanging political fruits. The fwelings of unfairness become especially inflamed during harsher times, so an economic downturn can be easily used to pass various socialist, even Marxist agenda, which changes the power balance in the ruling elite (those near the reigns of political power). This is done at the expense of economic health, any amount of political power over economic forces misallocates scarce resources and decreases economic activity in the long run, while achieving short term pplitical goals.

On a personal level, I woildn't allow unions to take over my enterprise, I would rather see the business shrink and restructure than lose control over how it is governed.

Comment Re:Every military that cares about homeland securi (Score 2, Interesting) 194

Military is made of people. They also burn coal, diesel, gas, kerosene. They eat, they need transportation even more than anyone else. If they cared they woild stop themselves first. Look at the wars, look at all of the world militaries. How much CO2 and varoous poisons is produced by them in proportion to the rest of the population? What do wars cost us in terms of CO2 and poisons and all other ways, that military destroys the environment? Will people of this planet stop fighting and disban all militaries of the world? Quite the opposite, the end of our civilization will be accompanied by the biggest acts of aggression, most destruction, largest conflicts on the global scale.

If bombing solved world problems we wpuldn't have any problems, we definitely have enough bombs.

Comment Re:Just speculating. (Score 1) 265

I just flew over half of the planet to the Maldives, these islands will surely disappear sooner than later due to the glaciers melting down. It is nice to be able to visit in the meanwhile.

That said, I won't buy an electric car. Maybe as my fourth or fifth, maybe, but I will keep driving a gas sedan for work and my sports car is just a fum toy, I don't care that an electric one accelerates faster, electric scales also go 0 to 200 in less than a second, doesn't make me want to drive it.

Teslas make me nautios, that is a strong no from me, some Chinese or Korean just are not interesting. Charging time is not there, it must be less than pumping gas, I don't want to plan my days around charging a vehicle. The batteries are too dangerous and the entire thing is too heavy. Cold degrades batteries, heat may cause a fire. No thank you.

I would switch to a nuclear powered car though, that would work for me.

Comment Re:Not cheap enough yet (Score 1) 265

Batteries are about to get significantly less expensive. CATL’s new sodium ion batteries are going into production next year. BDY’s Seagull is already about $11,000 in most of the world. Soon it will be less than $10,000. Huawei and Xiaomi cars won’t be far behind. Of course the USA will keep raising tariffs to protect the losers at Ford, GM, and Stellantis. But in the rest of the world Chinese EVs are going to dominate the market by some time in the 2030s.

Comment Re:Must have been a Musk AI. (Score -1) 50

LLMs are trained based on gradient descent, this optimizes data relationships. What this means is that this story is really talking about noise in the data. The history of the disabled is noose when compared to overall history, the LLMs show this clearly, it is just that there are people who really really want to present noise as if it was seriously important, that is their agenda.

Submission + - Big Tech Sues Texas, Says Age-Verification Law Is 'Broad Censorship Regime' (arstechnica.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Texas is being sued by a Big Tech lobby group over the state’s new law that will require app stores to verify users’ ages and impose restrictions on users under 18. “The Texas App Store Accountability Act imposes a broad censorship regime on the entire universe of mobile apps,” the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) said yesterday in a lawsuit (PDF). “In a misguided attempt to protect minors, Texas has decided to require proof of age before anyone with a smartphone or tablet can download an app. Anyone under 18 must obtain parental consent for every app and in-app purchase they try to download—from ebooks to email to entertainment.”

The CCIA said in a press release that the law violates the First Amendment by imposing “a sweeping age-verification, parental consent, and compelled speech regime on both app stores and app developers.” When app stores determine that a user is under 18, “the law prohibits them from downloading virtually all apps and software programs and from making any in-app purchases unless their parent consents and is given control over the minor’s account,” the CCIA said. “Minors who are unable to link their accounts with a parent’s or guardian’s, or who do not receive permission, would be prohibited from accessing app store content.”

The law requires app developers “to ‘age-rate’ their content into several subcategories and explain their decision in detail,” and “notify app stores in writing every time they improve or modify the functions, features, or user experience of their apps,” the group said. The lawsuit says the age-rating system relies on a “vague and unworkable set of age categories.” “Our Constitution forbids this,” the lawsuit said. “None of our laws require businesses to ‘card’ people before they can enter bookstores and shopping malls. The First Amendment prohibits such oppressive laws as much in cyberspace as it does in the physical world.” The lawsuit was filed in US District Court for the Western District of Texas. CCIA members include Apple and Google, which have both said the law would reduce privacy for app users. The companies recently described their plans to comply, saying they would take steps to minimize the privacy risks.

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