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721.
by Zigurd 8mo ago
I hope everyone reading this realizes that commodity futures are useful and easily distinguished from prediction markets, which are a ruse to get around restrictions on gambling.
722.
by Zigurd 8mo ago
The core of the problem the article is about isn't AI or LLMs, it's about scam software that claims to catch cheating. It's crap for the same reasons that crime predictions software is crap. It's selling a panacea, and t
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by Zigurd 8mo ago
Don't try to both sides this. Are there any instances of the Democrats bluffing? Or anyone successfully calling a bluff?
724.
by Zigurd 8mo ago
Not only did the FBI think it worth conducting four interviews, FBI interviews aren't exactly cheerful friendly interchanges. If the interviewee lied in an interview that's prosecutable whether or not it was under oath.
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by Zigurd 8mo ago
It amuses me that Elon enthusiasts are 99.9% people behaving like teen boys who've never had a conversation with a woman. If women were more widely represented among investors and company leaders, I doubt we would be hearing about balo
726.
by Zigurd 8mo ago
Alternatively people here may have realized the techno fascism and adolescent sci-fi fantasies played an unfortunate role in bringing the nation to where it is today.
727.
by Zigurd 8mo ago
When Fermi asked "Where is everyone?" one of the likeliest answers is they stayed home, maybe after they tried not to stay home.
728.
by Zigurd 8mo ago
The first astronauts that get sent to Mars will teach everyone that that was under-curmudgeonly.
729.
by Zigurd 8mo ago
What otheer industries are hyping the need for tens of gigawatts, maybe hundreds? On top of that they are hyping the idea of building utterly unrealistic space stations that would cost 10 times what the ISS cost. So maybe people are focusin
730.
by Zigurd 8mo ago
In any relevant dimension Iran is about 4X or 5X Iraq. Even Dubya knew you couldn't win in Iraq from the air.
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by Zigurd 8mo ago
I would place a bet that there are dozens to hundreds of German engineers gnashing their teeth over this travesty. This is a pure FOMO driven exercise, and the insulting thing is that BMWs management didn't even learn from Hyundai who
732.
by Zigurd 8mo ago
So you think you can solve police accountability and keep the cameras? I admire that level of ambition. Have you got the Nobel prize nominations lined up already?
733.
by Zigurd 8mo ago
Before posting that you couldn't Google the Milwaukee cop who got busted for abusing Flock camera access? From just a week ago? If you want an absolute torrent of abuse search for cops running the IDs of their exes. That's why it&
734.
by Zigurd 8mo ago
> I think those would all be positive. Sure, if you ignore context.
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by Zigurd 8mo ago
The damage is very serious and it won't be fast or cheap to fix. But not "decades." A lot of the people doing damage are susceptible to corruption prosecution. The non-corrupt True Believers are too stupid to avoid being turn
736.
by Zigurd 8mo ago
Fewer nations quietly waiting it out tells me they figure it won't be long and that everybody figures the same.
737.
by Zigurd 8mo ago
It kind of is a video game being played by a feeble angry 80yo button mashing, and a drunk.
738.
by Zigurd 8mo ago
Elon fired all those useless "beforehand" people.
739.
by Zigurd 8mo ago
This comes off as a grab bag of non-issues and non-national issues mixed in with a couple of attractive seeming ideas. For example: Crime is down why bang on that issue instead of the 2000 Americans killed every year by cops? The young vote
740.
by Zigurd 8mo ago
It's written for normies. It may or may not be well written for that audience, but you'll not get the normies to understand and correctly prioritize the factors of the rot under crypto until talented documentarians boil it down to
741.
by Zigurd 8mo ago
I was indeed making light of a grim situation. Not only did the people in Epstein's web commit particularly heinous crimes, those crimes were subsequently used to gain influence over people with economic and national security responsib
742.
by Zigurd 8mo ago
As long as they weren't under-age I could tolerate a couple of Russian prostitutes peeing on him in exchange for a commercially viable Nokia handset business.
743.
by Zigurd 8mo ago
Although I haven't held one in my hands, apparently there's Flutter support for Harmony OS. There are quite a lot of mobile apps implemented in Flutter and Dart, and platform support for alternative phone OSs looks doable.
744.
by Zigurd 8mo ago
"Burning the boats," in the form of getting rid of Jolla (and whatever happened to Meego) is one of those management aphorisms that needs to die. As it turns out, having an alternative to Windows phone would've been a better
745.
by Zigurd 8mo ago
It's kind of interesting that Microsoft is deemphasizing if not exiting making products for individuals to decide to buy. Contrast that with Google, who have to actively cultivate individual customers in order to have a large and relia
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by Zigurd 8mo ago
For Latvians Windows Vista was pretty funny cluck cluck.
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by Zigurd 8mo ago
Cops and DV. And crash coverups.
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by Zigurd 8mo ago
> and possibly operate a car or bike. This is exactly the example I used to show the ridiculousness of humanoid robots. You're not going to have a humanoid form climb into the driver seat of your car and act as your chauffeur. You
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by Zigurd 8mo ago
Surgical robots, and robot pianos both exist. Neither employ humanoid hands. This all just illustrates how humanoid robots are, in multiple dimensions, going down technology rat holes. In some cases better solutions already exist without lo
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by Zigurd 8mo ago
Mayors, prosecutors, merchants, and local press get co-opted by police. This leads to systemic failures that, unfortunately, make dealing with this in criminal law less workable. Sometimes you gotta do what works.

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