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Comment Re:Trump a "lame duck" president? (Score 1) 116

Those who believe a Democrat Congress (or the courts) will be able to significantly derail Trump agenda are naive.

Even more if you think they'll roll back the power grabs and demolishing of democratic institutions. Both parties like having unregulated power, just not in the hands of the other.

Comment Re: They should pay (Score 1) 19

"The only question should be: how much is it worth?"

Well, no. You only get to that question after you answer "should they be allowed to do that?" It's not clear why you're trying to reframe this in a way that ignores copyRIGHT law.

Not totally true. The real question is "how should they be allowed to do that". Copyright law potentially doe allow this as long as Google gets a license. It can be incredibly useful and valuable, for example you can get the AI to rewrite an existing recipe with nuts and wheat flour to one without either for a person who is allergic or to show what a local area would look like after a proposed development went ahead from an angle that the developer wants to hide.

Some use will be allowed because Google has plenty of content partners. Some amount more should be allowed. How it's going to be done is going to determine how much of it can happen and whether it helps the normal people or only big companies.

Comment Re:The 1D10T planners are at fault (Score 1) 22

the problem lies with the 1D10T planners of the companies involved, not with the sovereign internet concept

If they had planned with proper redundancy and safety, their competitors would have got ahead of them and they would have lot the market. Their companies would likely not exist. As it is, now, they control the Russian market and their downtime is more a problem for their customers than themselves. This was the correct engineering decision.

This is the reason that such services cannot be left to private industry alone and you need some regulation.

Comment Re:Trump a "lame duck" president? (Score 2) 116

I don't know what you mean by this, but let's just review.

First Obama had an SC pick, but the Republicans refused to hold hearings and he didn't force the issue, so you got another conservative. Then Trump selected two more who he thought would be loyal, and rammed through their confirmations despite serious issues with them.

Democrats seem to be unwilling to use those tactics, and okay they shouldn't be normalized. But also women have lost their bodily autonomy and that's a pretty serious problem. Even if you don't care about that, the fact that the system for selecting SC justices has been shown to be extremely lacking should be a concern.

Hopefully this is the US pulling back from the brink, but I'm not going to celebrate just yet.

Comment Re:just buy a tape drive then (Score 1) 38

The drives are very expensive and kind of shitty. I wish someone made cheaper LTO-8 drives, and that they were more robust and didn't cost so much to service. You can't get parts for them either, which would make repairs a lot cheaper.

I read that Huawei were coming out with their own tape format a few years ago, but it doesn't seem to have reached us.

Comment Re:Trump a "lame duck" president? (Score 2) 116

The Democrats seem kind of useless anyway. Under Biden they could have at least tried to reverse the SC ruling on Roe v. Wade, for example, but just... Didn't.

I have a feeling they won't do much this time either. You don't interrupt your opponent when they are making a mistake, and clearly Trump is not helping the Republicans at the moment.

Comment Re:Laundry folding? (Score 1) 55

Yes. But folding clothes is not high on that list. Of the entire wash cycle, that's literally the easiest part. Now if it could put together all the socks into matching pair and store them away, we might be talking.

I would consider that folding clothes. One would assume the ability to hang shirts as well, which is the 90% time sink for me.

People are going to want to buy this and keep using it for literal decades, because they'll see it as an appliance, not an electronic toy.

Other companies have moved us away from that model. It used to be that you buy a washing machine and you're done for most of your life. Ok, maybe you'll need a second one one day but that's about it. Not anymore. I'm on my third fridge since moving into this house a decade ago. They barely offer repairs anymore and it's often cheaper to buy new. It's ridiculous, really.

And this is why I try to avoid buying products from those companies. That said, if you're on your third fridge, maybe don't buy from that company ever again. I've never heard of any fridge lasting less than a decade except perhaps Samsung.

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