Comment Also ironic because of how Reddit got its start (Score 2) 116
https://www.vice.com/en/articl...
> How Reddit Got Huge: Tons of Fake Accounts
Comment Re:LOL! Good! (Score 3, Insightful) 39
100%
Kevin Rose killed digg. He took what was good and ruined it.
Reddit embodied what was good about Digg and ran away with the market share.
As long as Reddit doesn't fuck with their algo, and try to pull a "Kevin Rose" (not unlike what Tik Tok just did) it will be ok.
Fuck digg, and fuck Kevin. Go back to making videos where you pretend you're "edgy" because you have a 40oz in a brown paper bag.
Comment Digg died long ago and will never return (Score 1) 39
Kevin and his idiot people killed Digg a long time ago when they implemented their own algo to determine what users could see and corrupted it with a bunch of advertising. It should have been left alone. Nobody cares and nobody wants it back.
Comment Bot didn't read the fine print (Score 1) 95
Being compliant with Anthropic's guidelines.
Which can basically undermine everything else at any point in the future.
Comment I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest... (Score 1) 75
... maybe they shouldn't be having AI do coding? Or QA?
Comment blockchain tech was always doomed to fail (Score 4, Insightful) 43
The thing that gets me is that anybody who has any technical knowledge, upon looking at crypto's underlying technology: blockchain, can clearly see it doesn't make sense.
Blockchain isn't any less fault tolerant than existing systems, and because of its precarious "decentralized" nature, requiring random self-interested parties to see a financial reason to run nodes based on the price of the tokens, there's no guarantee whatsoever: a) the "price" of a digital abstraction that has no intrinsic value will continue to go up or say above zero, or b) there's any other reason to run the software and waste resources when it accomplishes nothing for society.
Here is a great documentary that explains it all. No self-respecting software engineer would buy into this goofy scheme.
If you want "immutability" just use cryptographic signing in traditional, relational databases.
If you want "decentralization" there are better facilities out there that aren't tied to sketchy ponzi-scheme-like digital tokens, such as IFPS.
Comment Re:Really misleading (Score 2) 125
Only second to the quality of answers... most of which being, "Why would you do THAT?"
Comment seller is on crack (Score 1) 30
From the ebay auction
Just park it down at Cape Kennedy or in Vegas and you will be making a constant and continuous 150,000-200k++ a year. This vehicle will outproduce any rental property you can buy for a million dollars. It's an investment. Not only that it's a smart investment because no one's ever going to be able to compete with you. Or use it to promote you company products, or rent it for events for $10k a pop. There are tons of possibilities
Yea, right... You claim someone can easily make $150k+/year renting this out but couldn't even find a starting bidder at $50k.
Real "used car salesman" vibes here...
Comment Re:Old enough to remember (Score 1) 115
A long time ago...
Seriously the site with the most potential so poorly run that those in power imposed zero tolerance for anybody trying to solve a problem different than the way they would solve a problem and would nuke your karma to the point where you couldn't participate if you disagreed with them.
Comment Can we retire the Admins too? (Score 1) 115
Ever have difficulty disconnecting an RJ45 cable? Well, here was our opportunity to just cut the damn things off instead of figuring out why the little tab wouldn't release the plug."
Sums up in two sentences, the general intellectual capacity of a Stack Overflow admin.
Seriously, I've never encountered such a toxic "help environment" as Stack Overflow. If you search for solutions you'd get 10 year old answers that no longer apply. If you ask a new question, their admins admonish you because the question was asked already (10 years ago).
Comment They got this whole thing backwards. (Score 1) 115
"AI Therapist" should be the guy who's job it is to talk your car's anti-lock-brake-persona out of suicidal thoughts.
The poor car AI's probably thinking:
"I'm smarter than 99.99% of these meat bags I'm carrying, and I'm stuck in this boring dead end job. Next time I cross that bridge I want to just end it all."
"AI Therapist" will be the human trying to convince the car not to.
Submission + - Wealthy Americans Have Death Rates On Par With Poor Europeans (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The study, led by researchers at Brown University, found that the wealthiest Americans lived shorter lives than the wealthiest Europeans. In fact, wealthy Northern and Western Europeans had death rates 35 percent lower than the wealthiest Americans, whose lifespans were more like the poorest in Northern and Western Europe—which includes countries such as France, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. "The findings are a stark reminder that even the wealthiest Americans are not shielded from the systemic issues in the US contributing to lower life expectancy, such as economic inequality or risk factors like stress, diet or environmental hazards," lead study author Irene Papanicolas, a professor of health services, policy and practice at Brown, said in a news release.
The study looked at health and wealth data of more than 73,000 adults across the US and Europe who were 50 to 85 years old in 2010. There were more than 19,000 from the US, nearly 27,000 from Northern and Western Europe, nearly 19,000 from Eastern Europe, and nearly 9,000 from Southern Europe. For each region, participants were divided into wealth quartiles, with the first being the poorest and the fourth being the richest. The researchers then followed participants until 2022, tracking deaths. The US had the largest gap in survival between the poorest and wealthiest quartiles compared to European countries. America's poorest quartile also had the lowest survival rate of all groups, including the poorest quartiles in all three European regions.
While less access to health care and weaker social structures can explain the gap between the wealthy and poor in the US, it doesn't explain the differences between the wealthy in the US and the wealthy in Europe, the researchers note. There may be other systemic factors at play that make Americans uniquely short-lived, such as diet, environment, behaviors, and cultural and social differences. "If we want to improve health in the US, we need to better understand the underlying factors that contribute to these differences—particularly amongst similar socioeconomic groups—and why they translate to different health outcomes across nations," Papanicolas said.
The study looked at health and wealth data of more than 73,000 adults across the US and Europe who were 50 to 85 years old in 2010. There were more than 19,000 from the US, nearly 27,000 from Northern and Western Europe, nearly 19,000 from Eastern Europe, and nearly 9,000 from Southern Europe. For each region, participants were divided into wealth quartiles, with the first being the poorest and the fourth being the richest. The researchers then followed participants until 2022, tracking deaths. The US had the largest gap in survival between the poorest and wealthiest quartiles compared to European countries. America's poorest quartile also had the lowest survival rate of all groups, including the poorest quartiles in all three European regions.
While less access to health care and weaker social structures can explain the gap between the wealthy and poor in the US, it doesn't explain the differences between the wealthy in the US and the wealthy in Europe, the researchers note. There may be other systemic factors at play that make Americans uniquely short-lived, such as diet, environment, behaviors, and cultural and social differences. "If we want to improve health in the US, we need to better understand the underlying factors that contribute to these differences—particularly amongst similar socioeconomic groups—and why they translate to different health outcomes across nations," Papanicolas said.
Comment I think this youtuber (Adam Ragusea) told them. (Score 4, Interesting) 105
This youtuber actually read the paper, noticed the error, and said he emailed them for clarification.
https://youtu.be/58HUM40gDPU?s...
Comment Sales in the UK influenced by taxes (Score 2) 136
thanks to a 24% jump in the United Kingdom
And you know why that is? It's incredibly tax advantageous for small business owners to buy EVs as they can be entirely deducted against company profits and attract extremely low "benefit in kind" taxes and vehicle excise duties. These things are either being slowly wound back or there's a fear the new Labour government might yank out the tablecloth so now is a particularly good time to buy especially with the higher corporation tax rate. I assure you, though, that if it becomes no more financially advantageous to have an EV, I'm back in the gas guzzler
Comment Ford's missing the better parts. (Score 5, Insightful) 166
Between this, auto manufacturers selling driver data to whomever will pay for it
In stead of selling ads, if they're violating privacy that way anyway there are far more lucrative things they could do;
- Insider trading -- listen in our our exec teams and sales teams driving back from customer meetings -- if Ford wiretaps those they'll have invaluable data
- Extortion -- listen in to politicians for anything embarrassing. Sell that to opposition parties
- Insurance industry data -- listen to people talking about health concerns and sell it to their life and disability insurance companies (there are laws against doing so for health insurance; but weaker ones for other insurance products)
- etc
The right answer is that Privacy Laws should stop Ford; and if your state or country doesn't have strong enough laws there, they should.
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