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Comment Re:It is about crypto currency. lol. (Score 2) 111

Cardano's ADA cryptocurrency software is the most-likely explanation for OP. One interesting piece of evidence is that AdaCore (the sole remaining compiler company developing an Ada compiler to the latest revisions of the ISO standard for Ada) is clearly diversifying to Rust and C++ recently.

Comment Re:no due process (Score 2) 24

For example, a bot malware could be downloading pirated copyrighted material unbeknownst to an ISP's subscriber. Due process would permit that subscriber to be found innocent. Due process would instead deflect the justice system toward the operator of the malware bot instead, perhaps as organized crime.

Comment no due process (Score 4, Interesting) 24

The main thing wrong with what Universal, Sony, Warner Bros, and major record labels sought was that it lacked due process. Only the ultimatum from the corporate gods sufficed to trigger one-sided one-size-fits-all justice. SCotUS needs to focus especially on the constitutionality or lack thereof of regarding that point.

Comment Re:Sorry I don't get the joke (Score 1) 211

Could you explain it?

DesScorp is obviously saying that The Guardian tries to shape the minds of a labor socio-economic class in the UK that is more pedestrian & proletarian about its blue-collar-focused needs & mental state than The Guardian's editorial board and journalists will ever understand.

Comment Yet another invention reified from science fiction (Score 1) 86

Ayn Rand's _Atlas Shrugged_ had a main character named John Galt who invents an electric motor for Twentieth-Century Motorcar Company that is powered by the Earth's rotation (instead of by batteries and instead of by hydrogen-oxygen fuel-cells and instead of by hydrocarbon fuel-cells). Perhaps soon we will have a volume-hologram clock and a volume-hologram calendar projected above each metropolitan area, which also was an element of science fiction in _Atlas Shrugged_.

Comment gossipy hallucinations (Score 1) 100

All too often AI chatbots give out gossipy hallucinations instead of distilled solidly true facts. Usually AI chatbots refuse to divulge footnotes to all of their (supposedly) quoted/paraphrased sources. Between these 2 defects, the human-being user of (or worse, another chatbot being trained from) a chatbot has no idea in the end what is true fact versus falsehood. At least in real life with an in-person human being, a receiver of information can perceive tone of voice, body language, and other clues to discern confident truthfulness versus making shit up entirely versus intentional-lie deception, but AI chatbots lack that ability to be perceived, speaking only via textual words that can be misconstrued as much as, if not more than, email that for decades has been notorious for being open to outlandish misinterpretation of implied or unintentional meaning as subtext beyond the textual words.

Comment transparency (Score 1) 179

I will trust AI only when I can ask it (and it truthfully answers with the truth) regarding precisely where it obtained the information (i.e., meticulous footnotes) so that I can read that source with my own eyes. Practically 100% of the time when I insist that some AI justify some outlandish or even mildly surprising answer to my prompt-question, the AI simply apologizes, telling me that it has no idea where it obtained that information/hunch/hallucination. Hence, I deem it a hallucination after doing my own Bing/Google/Luxxle/DuckDuckGo/Yandex/Naver to find nothing of the sort. I press again for the AI to reveal its training-data source on this outlandish response to no avail. Hence, this is my Miller Test (named as homage to the Turing Test of AI): can AI provide me as much revelation of its source(s) as a human assistant would be expected to provide in the extraordinary-claims-require-extraordinary-evidence school of thought.

Comment "contained plasma" but did it fuse H to He at all? (Score 5, Informative) 50

The wording of the article, title, etc seems intentionally contrived to mislead the gullible reader to falsely believing that fusion occurred for 18 minutes (not at or above break-even amount of energy but fusion nonetheless). It merely says that plasma was contained, not that even a single pair of atoms of hydrogen fused into a single atom of helium, let alone for 18 minutes.

Comment Re: I agree with AT&T (Score 1) 134

AT&T should be required to refund any corporate welfare that AT&T received for broadband in New York state.

AT&T has received not just billions but tens of billions of dollars to build out Internet access for all across the nation, which they spent on stock buybacks and executive bonuses instead. This problem is much larger than NY.

Clearly, the tens of billions of dollars nationwide were not not all spent in New York state. Clearly, the vast majority of the other 49 states are not passing laws with an arbitrary and capricious rate of $15 per month that is obviously below AT&T's break-even point of profitability on broadband subscriber lines. Hence, the tens of bullions of dollars for broadband in the other 49 states are a non sequitur. Confine yourself to speaking to only the situation regarding OP within New York state.

Comment Re: I agree with AT&T (Score 1) 134

Uh-oh. In the deep red states, how many politicians that voted to ban all abortions have any medical training at all?

Elective abortion (as opposed to spontaneous abortion = miscarriage) is murder, whereas selling broadband below cost is not murder.

Note that it was you, not I, who injected elective abortion into an economic discussion regarding break-even point of profitability in telecom. Elective abortion has nothing to do with the break-even point of profitability of subscribers of broadband.

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