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Comment Bullshit (Score 2) 34

This is the kind of sensationalist nonsense.

Neurons are not as efficient as silicon in terms of computation. The power parameters reported here are the power requirements for running an incubator and 4% CO2. This is the cost of life support as available in the any standard cell culture in thousands of biology labs all over the world. The energy for computation comes from glucose provided in cell culture medium to the cells, which is more energetically much more expensive than electricity. Cells have a maximal efficiency of about 40% in extracting this.

Also, neurons will die in culture. They will also change in culture. They have to be replaced periodically and the underlying silicon will have to be retrained again for performing computations.

Comment Re:Screwing the rural communities (Score 1, Informative) 215

They can't afford the ambulance.

Donkey cart? The ironic ending of a poor Republican.

Poor Republicans seem to be sadomasochists.

I guess they want to be martyrs against LGBTQ+, which Fox et. al. hyped to be the Worst Thing On Earth, despite the fact Jesus himself never mentions LGBTQ+ in the Bible (although he did belt the shit out of greedy people).

Comment Re:And yet, somehow... (Score 1) 215

They'll find a way to pretend Democrats are the only ones responsible for the rapidly-growing budget deficit.

GOP has been responsible since Reagan. Democrats usually inherent GOP's econ crashes when they get both chambers, which are not a good time to raise taxes.

But the rich do bribe Dems also to have lower taxes. We are part plutocracy, I'm just the messenger.

(Dems perhaps could have put in delayed restoration of taxes into bills, such as kicking in when unemployment drops below 5%. Biden did increase IRS auditing of rich, which helped, but GOP eventually removed it.)

Comment Those who don't foul up history... (Score 1) 93

Yes it's going to change them so that one person can do the work of two.

Or one person makes the mistakes of two. Don't forget the offshoring craze that generated piles of maintenance problems such that at least some staff was often re-onshored. Being embedded in the domain matters.

All the CEO's were gung-ho about offshoring back then also, but ended up with more ho than gung.

Comment Re:Is there something we can do? (Score 5, Funny) 67

I don't like it. They leach off our gravity.

"These freeloader comets need to be deported back to their home star! This is Sparta! I mean Solar System! Other stars are not sending their best comets; these comets have mental, have virus, catastrophe our grammar, flatten dogs and cats, and nobody wants them! If you think the Dino's had it bad! At least Dino's gave us gasoline, God's Liquid Gold [sniff].

They are poisoning the ions and isotopic ratios of our system, damaging our prosperous pro-Solar culture! Even Jupiter wants to leave now! We cannot even tell the gender of these degenerate lumps, so sad. I and I alone have the power and means to stop this horrendous invasion of these unwanted shit-hole clumps of useless dust and smelly gas. Make the Solar System Great Again! [claps]

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