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Comment Re:Well, let's face it (Score 1) 54

You don't need it on consumer hardware. Who's going to go through the trouble of hitting your DIMMs with liquid nitrogen? Nobody, that's who. If you are under that sort of threat, you aren't using consumer hardware.

Does it rub me a little raw that a feature of my 5900 has been removed? Yeah, a little, but not very. If it really bothered me, I'd probably make sure to use a firmware where it still worked.

It significantly lowers the dev environment cost for the people who might work on supporting it.

Comment Re:Fiduciary responsibility changed (Score 1) 99

Under these new rules, they can bet big (with your retirement money) on the big payout -which will earn them a bigger bonus if it pays out. They are no longer required to play it safe with your money. Acceptable risk has been officially redefined. Imagine if your 401K fund had bought bitcoin 20 years ago. Imagine if your 401K fund goes all in on OpenAI when they IPO.

Imagine if your 401k bought bitcoin six months ago.

Comment Re:Ask NATO (Score 1) 314

Nah sorry bud, I fully agree with this and I apologize. I read your earlier message as the USA is stepping back from foreign affairs in general (ie, getting involved in wars/etc) - while we're doing quite the opposite. We're transitioning from being a shield for peace and productivity to a loose cannon pointed by the whims of rich people who do not give a shit.

Sorry!

Comment Re:Aerodynamic? (Score 1) 181

If only you could read, you would have read the part of the article which says flush door handles alone can save 1-2 MPG.

It did not say MPG. It said "range". That's significantly different for a vehicle that has a fuel capacity over one gallon, plus it's only going to save that much in the best possible theoretical conditions.

That’s plenty of safety risk, but what about the benefit to vehicle efficiency? As it turns out, it doesn’t actually help that much. Adding flush door handles cuts the drag coefficient (Cd) by around 0.01. You really need to know a car’s frontal area as well as its Cd, but this equates to perhaps a little more than a mile of EPA range, perhaps two under Europe’s Worldwide Harmonised Light vehicles Test Procedure.

Comment Re:Convincing us all the worst about Russia now? (Score 2) 64

This almost seems to be convincing us that the absolute worst statements about Russian culture today are accurate. Invade another country, continue that invasion with warcrimes and drafting of young men to be sent as cannon fodder, barely a whimper.

These are things the citizens would only hear through the news, and Russia is currently a dictatorship, so they do not have a free press.

But interfere with a videogame platform, and now we have a protest. Pretty despicable priorities.

This is something that directly affects people and they can see it with their own eyes, so they know it's happening.

This is why freedom of the press is a cornerstone of democracies.

Comment Re: And this will go on and on. Until? (Score 2) 135

It doesn't seem fair the clients should suffer the burden of bad representation. Even in civil cases. Let alone criminal.

Economic incentive needs to target the right party.

You also don't want them to be selecting for poor representation because they receive the outcome they desire - pushing off punishments.

Comment Re:100m people will have a different job (Score 1) 76

It's a bit like saying that once tractors become commonplace in the 20th century that a lot of field hands were put out of work. In reality, jobs were eventually found jobs for most of them.

In the meantime, I'm sure that the AI which "took their jobs" will be spending money to support the economy in their place.

Comment Re:Phones are not a cause (Score 1) 120

So many of the books available today are also released in "graphic novel" form. People generally say "at least they're picking up books!", but the problem is that all of the actually literature has been converted into imagery and dialogue, and very little descriptive text. Gone are all of the words that were used in the original to convey specific meanings.

I think there's definitely a number of factors but I'm going to die on the hill of "graphic novels are a problem, not a solution." It's like practicing archery by playing a video game.

Comment Re:The Trump Rorschach test effect (Score 1) 212

This is batshit nonsense. If you would pull your head out of Trump's ass for five minutes, you would notice that nobody outside of the US supports or even remotely respects Trump except for our enemies. You seem like the kind of person who thinks it's perfectly natural that the furiously racist south flipped to solid red over about ten years and the blues are still the racist bunch. You are saying "Trump Russia Collusion Hoax", do you even know who Michael Cohen, Paul Manafort or Roger Stone are? What complete horseshit.

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