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Comment Re:I don't understand why this is considered... (Score 3, Insightful) 154

Reddit doesn't owe you anything. Facebook doesn't owe you anything. Twitter doesn't owe you anything. Slashdot doesn't owe you anything.

The law says they do owe me something.

Turn your brain on.

On second thought, I think Bill Gates still owes me $100 for helping him test his email tracking program back in 1998 when I forwarded that email for him.

You do know that wasn't Bill Gates, right?

Comment Re:Ivermectin is better (Score 1) 207

I'm friends with a couple who took their 6 year old daughter to go live in a country with malaria endemic for a year. Docs put the kid on ivermectin for the whole time

I want you to understand that your post makes you sound like an anti-science delusional nutcase.

Why? Because data about ivermectin side effects is available, but you decided to listen to the the self-comforting anecdote.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Comment Re:OneDrive Surveillance (Score 2) 68

I find it strange that this simple design philosophy is ignored.

It's Windows.

For years, Microsoft used revenue as a metric to know if a feature was good or not. This gave them customer feedback, and they could adjust accordingly.

Around the time of Vista, it stopped working as a metric because everyone had already bought Windows. By that time, corporate motivation had changed, and the motivation of managers was to backstab each other as they climbed the corporate ladder. So they never really came up with another metric to determine if customers liked their product or not, they were too busy doing other things.

Comment Re: A good trade off (Score 1) 65

The reason the Linux Kernel (and open source in general) is such good code is because they fix bugs when they find them. This enforces a certain amount of quality to the structure and organization of the code, otherwise they would be spending all their time fixing bugs until they figured it out.

Consider a typical corporate bug tracker that is overflowing with bugs, the bug count always increasing. Inevitably this leads to a cludge, where the code is disorganized and almost unmanageable. Working through the code is like working through molasses. If they reversed the bug count vector, so it was decreasing (even slowly) instead of increasing, then soon the code structure would begin to get cleaner and cleaner as well. The correlation is strong.

So this is to Linus' merit, that he doesn't ignore bugs just because they are from AI. It will make the code cleaner.

Comment Re:An Example of Market Failure (Score 1) 133

The market optimising for profit and income in the short term does exactly this: AI companies are willing to pay more.

The market doesn't optimize for profit in the short term or in the long term.

In economics, there are two curves: a supply curve, and a demand curve. In a free market, they meet at equilibrium.

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