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Comment Re: thank god (Score 1) 20

And what would we have in their place?

The credit cards that banks (like JPMorgan) offer their customers. "Alternative payment platforms" can coexist within the same clearing and settlement system as physical cards. And with the same data requirements. Transactions only need a yes/no verification for the amount entered at the point of sale. They don't need my banking and financial history.

Comment Re:It's not this is different (Score 2) 104

We really didn't have the tech back then we really do now.

Yeah, we did. Write out a pseudo-code (English language) description of what you want done. A _complete_ description. Hand it to a machine which generates and compiles the code. Done. Back in the 1990s.

But what we had in the 1990s was a group of middle managers that realized that their status and income depended on the number of warm bodies they had reporting to them. So they fought the move to technologies that would reduce their headcount from 500 to 5. Those people are retired and, increasingly dead. And we have Wall Street investors asking where all that expense money is going when you could just buy a beige box to do the work.

We can't stop AI there is trillions of dollars to be made

Not once the investment community realizes that they are being taken for a ride. Current AI is garbage because it's envisioned as a general purpose tool. We have great AI that can model protein folding or do many specific tasks. But the GPAI push is just designed to part suckers from their money.

Comment Re:the problem is being numb to disasters (Score 2) 188

Numb to emergency alerts. After the WEA system went live, the first one I got was from a Medicare broker: "Call now with your Zip Code and make sure you are getting everything you are entitled to." (The dog whistle for all retired people.)

Amber Alerts are next on my list. Solve your child custody fights on your own time. The recent Travis Decker case (killed his three daughters) illustrated how useless the alert system was. Because they don't issue them for planned visitation. This one also falls into the same catagory as the Blue Alert Program. Yeah, right. I'm going to be staring at the guy in the next car who might be the one with no compunction about killing cops.

Comment Re:Ain't none (Score 1) 42

But I see a flaw in that work. From the article:

However, this study by Clowe et al. made no attempt to analyze the Bullet Cluster using MOND or any other modified gravity theory.

Proof by contradiction would have been much more powerful evidence that dark matter exists. Apply MOND or other theories and show that the results would not fit the measurements. But no. Some people just don't want to test their beliefs.

Comment Re:BMI/ASCAP (Score 1) 191

Clubs make a lot of money charging per head to let people in.

I'll pay to get in for live music. If it's good. But not that canned garbage.

If you took away the music completely, they wouldn't have a business.

I got to bars to talk to people. Turn the damned music down. Or off altogether. I can't hear conversations over that garbage.

Many of the local coffee shops play streaming garbage. When I go in to read my paper with a cup of coffee, I put on noise canceling headphones and tune my radio to the local classical station. Many other people are wearing Airpods and, I'd guess, not listening to the background Spotify feed. May as well turn it off.

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