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Comment Re: seems suspicious (Score 1) 54

Sir, they are clearly listing two distinct outcomes.

Mergers lead to:
1) Layoffs -- due to workload being focused on one labor pool and removing redundant positions.
2) Less choice for consumers -- because you now have fewer independent companies for a product or service.

They aren't saying the layoffs are the cause of the lower choice for consumers. But arguably that's true, too. Off all the people laid off some will not find work at another company in the same function. Some may end up leaving the industry completely for a different career. Fewer people in the entertainment industry means less variety in programming because talent and the decisions on what gets made are now from a smaller pool of people.

Comment Admissibility??? (Score 2) 79

Ignoring the quality loss from a smartphone taking a picture of a screen, was this even a "work" smartphone? Why is the officer needing to use a secondhand image? Surely they had proper legal authority to just get a copy of the original footage.

Sounds like the cop just whipped out his personal device and snapped a pic. How does that pass muster with collection of evidence, Chain of Custody... you know, that stuff that serves to prove the evidence wasn't tampered with in some way on the way to the D.A.?

Comment Re: Capitalism wins again. (Score 2) 207

If you spent time and labor carefully stirring the flour, singing to it, sorting it into little piles and combining those piles, you would still only have a dollar worth of flour no matter how much time and labor you spent.

If you poured the flour into a bread making machine (one capable of matching the quality of the bread you could produce by hand) and napped for a few hours while it did its work, you could still sell the bread for two bucks, even though you hadnâ(TM)t invested significant time and labor.

Expecting direct compensation for the fact of having done labor, rather than for the product of that labor, is the opposite of capitalism.

Comment Gold Rush (Score 4, Insightful) 55

The AI Bros will point to this as evidence artificial intelligence is the real deal and there's money to be made by utilizing it. But Dell is profiting off selling hardware, like Nvidia. Why go on a wild goose chase for supposed riches when you can make money hand over fist selling shovels to rubes in suits.

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