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Comment Re: I feel like with AI there will be no winners (Score 1) 55

As someone who has been accused, falsely, of cheating multiple times, it's inherently disheartening. There's no way to prove you didn't cheat, you can just deny it. There's accusation is enough in more serious ventures to end careers in some instances. Without proof.

I used to work with someone who had a side job at a publishing company, he had a lot of heartbreaking stories from authors who had lost their work when computers crashed and destroyed it. One was in the middle of a legal dispute over authorship as they had a business partner who had been involved. Copious notes were lost, and the remaining notes weren't sufficient to prove who wrote what or provide a strong amount of evidence for the ratio of work.

The one who did the most work? Never wrote again. The other guy? Found another writer to leach talent off of.

Writing, software development, etc, can be a job, or it can be a passion project. Being accused of cheating with a passion project will suck the fun out of it entirely.

Comment Re: Confounding Factors in Play (Score 1) 66

Metastudies are useless for anything but providing a reason to perform another study.

Time and time again metastudies have come to faulty conclusions, because of variables simply not accounted for.

They're great for encouraging and pushing for funding to perform other specific detailed studies. But results from metastudies should not generally be used to influence outside of further scientific study.

And the media should never touch them.

Comment Re: PCI (was Re:easy solution) (Score 1) 135

Yep. There's ways to lessen some pci requirements, but hiding the facts isn't one of them.

Unable to run current up to date versions is also a fantastic way to get compromised.

If you get compromised and it's discovered that you falsified your PCI stays, well, you'll find you can't accept payments any more. Good luck with that. Your customers won't all switch to a second tier alternative.

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