This is about politics in my opinion. The merger doesn't just include Warner, but also various news outlets, including CNN, a well known democratic organization, in it. The buyer, Paramount, is led by a Trump supporter. His father is too. Now look at the plaintiff side; all suing states are democratic. Their attempt to block is so that CNN will not be run by the opposition. This is not really about anti-competition.

I live in a brand new neighborhood that has underground power lines. Recently the power company installed new sensors that can "detect" risks and auto shutoff power to prevent potential fires. Well guess what? Within the last year alone, there's been several such "auto shutoff" and none of it was due to actual indicators detected. And even if the sensors worked correctly, it'd shutoff power when wind gets strong or there's a fire 50 miles away. Each time could last up to hours. It got so ridiculous that I had to install battery for my solar panels so that my 3 fridges don't screw my groceries.

So if these jobs were granted to those overseas people, it can be argued that there was an oversight in vetting. But building a whole digital escort to circumvent laws is an intentional act. And given that it compromises national security, it must be treason. I don't get it, in the name of saving costs, someone actually knowingly does this? Do they hate their own country or something? Unless the person that created this program is him/herself chinese spy. But if that's the case, how did they get this done without being noticed by anybody in MS?

I think supersonic travel should be only for trans-ocean flights. From west to east coast is 6-7hrs depending on head wind. It takes a good amount of time to accelerate and decelerate.

Imagine peeping Mark, not giving a rats ass about your privacy/confidentiality, look into your data including the encrypted ones. This will become the end of Meta.

So I'm asking because I'm clueless. I know that when exceeding Mach1 there'll be a "boom" sound called supersonic boom. But do these planes first climb to high altitude, head out to sea, before actually achieving Mach speed? If they do that, I don't see such a great impact on civilian lives below. Again, I'm clueless, and appreciate if anybody can help understand how this works.

Anybody still remember DeepSeek? That hype lasted couple days, it sent US AI stocks spiral but then all of its claims were not backed by anything. People forgot about it a week later and all affected US stocks recovered their previous levels. Without being able to provide any proof to their claim, the internet should really stop taking their words at face value.

I imagine one day FSD becomes quite mature and can safely (not 100%) drive around with incident rate much much lower than human drivers. We won't be discussing subjects like this anymore. When is the important question. Who will provide that technology is still too early to tell. Right now Waymo, Tesla, GM, Uber are all testing their stuffs but who knows, a small player may emerge with exceptionally better technology.

My vision for future FSD is not only on the cars but on the roads too. Posts on the road side with sensors that can handle things like range, velocity, pedestrian, etc... all this communicated to vehicles in range so that they can make split second decision without risks. If such autonomy succeeds, we won't need traffic lights anymore.

From previous articles I've read, it seems that Ford laid off people BEFORE installing robots. Now they have to rehire because the robots can't do as good of a job they expected. Wouldn't it have been a much more appropriate call to install the robots, test run for at least a few months, assess how many head counts the technology can replace, then lay off that many? A 5 year old can make this decision.

Good God! I can't imagine a working condition where all my keyboard/mouse activities are monitored. In 2019 I was laid-off and did apply at FB. I guess It was a good thing I landed my new job before meeting them.

Hi guys, I'm asking because I'm clueless. Last time I used Steam platform was to play Counter Strike on the computer. I haven't used it in probably 15+ years. What is Steam capable of today?

From my understanding, this will be voted in November, but the net worth assessment goes back to January 1 this year. The retroactive aspect of this thing doesn't sound right. I foresee billionaires fighting this in courts for years before CA would be able to collect a penny. Suddenly giving up 5% of net worth is not that simple. A billionaire may be worth $5B but they won't have 5% in their bank account to pay. In order to pay, they'll have to sell their assets (most likely stock shares). The sale will likely affect their stake in certain companies, forcing them to lose voting rights, especially ones that they co-founded.

Previously I made statement about CA lawmakers eating shit for lunch, I'm still holding that statement. Some asshole attacked me for saying that and I put him in his place.

Nowadays, everybody talks about AI. Specifically for IT/hitech folks, some decent AI related skills is not hard to get. Took me few hours to really get fluent at getting various AI platforms to provide me useful information in chat mode, from gardening, to cars/electronics/smarthome, to technical how-tos, to cloud computing, to financial explanations. Moving beyond that, it took me few days to get fluent at Claude and Codex. I had them review my code, propose changes to address bugs and adhere to security compliance. I also get them to write brand new code, etc... If employers are now looking specifically for that, spend a few days on those things and you'll get through it fine.

You seem quite mistaken in this.. you didn't "decide" anything. What he'd done and become was not your decision.

Given the hunger for computing, data centers will get built regardless of opposition. They'll just get built somewhere else. When enough number of new data centers built elsewhere and existing ones cannot renew, related jobs will have to move too eventually. It will undoubtedly affect areas with high concentration of data centers like Virginia, Silicon Valley, Phoenix, Chicago, Atlanta. Those jobs likely will move to Texas, Ohio, Penn, Wyoming, North/South Dakota. This might bring about big changes in terms of economics. If enough job migration happens, it'll affect housing price, cost of living of the involved cities. Let's wait and find out.