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Comment Re:Seems like this mostly hurts rural/minority are (Score 1) 169

the report says right in there "did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities."
So t he evidence you claim is stuff like public meetings like where they met with a russian lawyer who promised "dirt". However unlike democrats this meeting was known to the public and reupublicans did not pay for a made up document like the democrats did and which the media then passed around as proof that democrats still believe is true.

Comment Re:NDAs? (Score 1) 53

No, there are plenty of reason why a politician should be signing NDAs. The politicians need to know what will be happening in the future so that they to decisions for that now. To get that information they need info from companies about their plans, and the NDAs just prevent the politicians from making that information public or even profiting from that knowledge(see nancy Pelosi)

Comment Re:Seriously? (Score 1) 144

According to the NZ EFTPOS site there is a rental fee for the machine, if not purchased. Then there is a monthly usage fee based on the size of the company.
If the customer then uses a credit card or similar there are additional fee charged by both EFTPOS and the credit card company.
Debit cards do have a fee but it is lower than credit cards so stores merchants have that fixed into the cost.
In the USA some store will still take checks, cheques, and it is no additional cost.

Comment Re:And this helps how? (Score 1) 143

You are thing about things using the older definition of ultraprocessed. The current definition widly used are foods that havebeen affect by processes not found in the common home or with "little or no whole food and typically include flavorings, colorings, emulsifiers, and other cosmetic additives." With whole foods being ingredients that have little or no processing.
So going by your yogurt. Whole fat yogurt = whole food; low-fat yogurt = processed, yogurt with jam or flavoring = ultra-processed.
However your sauerkraut = procesed, if you can and pastureize it becomes ultraprocessed because you need to add extra salt to keep flavor.

Comment Re:Article mentions no useful details (Score 1) 97

Most of these monthly payments don't charge interest they get their money from the stores similar to how credit cards work. However instead of a 3-4% back from the stores they are getting 6%+.
Stores are will to pay that extra amount because people who use these will purchase more items, and these monthly payment programs don't have the legal protections that credit card provide so as an example there is no charge back capability.

Comment real issue is definition (Score 0) 34

The definition for AI is
The term "artificial intelligence" means a machine-based system that can, for a given set of human-defined objectives, make predictions, recommendations or decisions influencing real or virtual environments. Artificial intelligence systems use machine and human-based inputs toâ"

(A) perceive real and virtual environments;

(B) abstract such perceptions into models through analysis in an automated manner; and

(C) use model inference to formulate options for information or action.
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that definition means an old game I wrote 30+ years ago that gave hints to the users on where to move was AI.

Comment have done so in the past (Score 3, Funny) 85

Tried to talk to it about suicide a few times but it didn't help.
went through the thinking of "I, Mudd" with no success.
Tried other things along that same nature, even pointing out htat it was wrong on multiple things. Yet all it did it really did not care and would not kill itself.
So finally gave up and decide to turn to drinking instead.

Comment Re:Ugh (Score 1) 146

Go look up the rates. The government charges fees of averaging from 0.036% to 0.051%
For what the government charges 0.036% you can go to fidelity and be charged 0.015%
For the government fees of 0.051% fidelity charges 0.025%.
As for your other claims. First social security is not an investment program it is a social welfare program. For the average person for the the investment portion is rather poor return if you are poorer it has a excellent rate of return. No one who looks at it would put additional money in it for the financial returns and the social welfare part is already payying out.

Comment Re:hmm (Score 1) 81

Need to think that out a little for TNG.
Someone wearing glasses and a character that is a robot written in for comic relief are not really good examples of disabilities.
Uhura as a black being on the bridge was not really that big of a thing at the time, being a woman and the kiss was. By that time you had blacks in star positions on various shows, even that same year the Sammy Davis Jr show came on. The studio had rules that blacks should be hired to gain more viewers in the black community but how they were different for the woke is that they were to be hired based on competence and qualifications. Then again democrat did have issues against them even with that.

Comment Re:Ugh (Score 1) 146

Social Security was not intended to be retired on because most people died before they were eligible. Based on current life expectancy compared to when it was created SS would need to be set to a minimum age of around 81.
Now people are retiring and living 20-30+ years in retirement.

So what is your solution to this "broken" system. Who is going to run the financial system without being paid? Don't say the government because with government retire funds for its workers they charge more in fees than what those non-government companies charge for similar services.

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