Democrats are communists, got it. Right wing bs they been trotting out since the 60's. Republicans are a modern day fascist party. I'm not gonna spam paragraphs of explanation, just look up any definition of fascism.…
Emissions standards have also made it nearly impossible to repair your own vehicle, leading to tons of waste and extra expense. Car manufacturers like these regulations because they're an "eco friendly" way of banning…
Totally unreasonable. A space heater uses 900-1800 watts. Slow cooker 250, TV 175, electric stove 4000, AC 1500, hair dryer 1500. Idling gaming PC? 70 maybe? That's the same as a couple lights. The average house uses…
It's not as good as it's sounds, especially with new Ryzen cores. IBM won't let you do benchmark comparisons, but I've found unofficial ones that show Ryzen is almost 3X performance per thread on general purpose…
This was partially a PR move. Surfside is over 1/3 Jewish and a large number of Israelis lived in the building. Not saying it's "bad" at all for Israel to send in experts. But it's important to realize that governments…
It's because it contains a chemical used to make meth. It has nothing to do with corporate, it's federal law. Sales are tracked nationwide because gangs were bussing groups of people to different stores when they…
Propaganda. Orban is a dictator in everything but name, like Putin. He stacked the courts and government servants with loyalists. He controls over 90% of the media. The election system is corrupted to the point that…
The Hubble was also a redesigned spy satellite. The main mirror design was chosen so it could be built with existing mirror tech made for military imaging satellites. There's probably a dozen satellites out there right…
I for one hope they get a strong talking-to. What a meanie tech giant!
A lot of people don't realize, all high quality voice models are clones. The network is trained to mimic your voice as close as possible. Alexa, Cortana, and Siri are all real people. That's someone's voice,…
It's a repeat of the gilded age about 100 years ago. Unions are dead, gig jobs get around the worker protections that took us 80 years to win. The gap between the richest and the rest is as big as it was then. We need…
Wow that's it? All the privacy invasion caused by personalized ads is only worth that much? More reason to ban it completely
I never knew that about exhaust velocity. So as propellant mass efficiency goes up linearly, power use goes up exponentially? does that make fast interstellar travel impossible?
The corruption runs deeper than that. Something like 50% of drug discovery is funded by US govt, taxpayers. Yet 100% of the profits from new drugs goes to big pharma. They're robbing us.
Japan gets more flak because it's physical and historical isolation plus high cultural homogeneity have resulted in unique societal quirks. Going to western Europe feels like the US. Going to Japan from the west still…
https://www.theladders.com/career-advice/the-generation-that... Baby Boomers had a higher proportion of the nation's wealth at 35 than any following generation. Percentage of US wealth owned by people under 45 has…
I didnt think about that! I personally know 3 boomers that retired last year to avoid exposure to COVID. I don't know a ton of people but thats definitely the most I've known to retire in one year
This seems to imply millennials are lazy. They're the most educated generation in US history, and at the same time, the poorest in at least 60 years. COVID relief funds are only paying them more than their normal wage…
Let's just not compare any country to another because most of it will make China look bad.
China has imprisoned millions of people in one of the biggest ethnic genocides since Nazi gernany. They murder people to sell their organs. The US is a mess but comparing them to a morally bankrupt genocidal China is…
Is that not true? Google and Oracle had a 10 year multi billion dollar legal fight over ~20 lines of code identical between Android and JVM. A non rich individual has basically zero chance of challenging GitHub on these…
COVID will always be with us. The terrifying levels of generic diversity among SARS like viruses in bats should have been a starker warning. The virus is highly zoonotic. Zoos are vaccinating all their felines,…
It's not outrage bait. The thing reproduces GPL licensed code verbatim.
This is the crux of copilot. When I saw it copying RSA keys I knew, it's overtrained. Most of the comments are waxing about philosophical possibilities of copilot copying GPL. Reality is clear in the case, it's copy…
I don't really welcome our new corporate overlords, but why does anyone give a shit what Chinese govt thinks? They're hilariously corrupt, natavist, and frankly crazy. To the point that you can't even admit Taiwan has…
Democrats are communists, got it. Right wing bs they been trotting out since the 60's. Republicans are a modern day fascist party. I'm not gonna spam paragraphs of explanation, just look up any definition of fascism.…
Emissions standards have also made it nearly impossible to repair your own vehicle, leading to tons of waste and extra expense. Car manufacturers like these regulations because they're an "eco friendly" way of banning…
Totally unreasonable. A space heater uses 900-1800 watts. Slow cooker 250, TV 175, electric stove 4000, AC 1500, hair dryer 1500. Idling gaming PC? 70 maybe? That's the same as a couple lights. The average house uses…
It's not as good as it's sounds, especially with new Ryzen cores. IBM won't let you do benchmark comparisons, but I've found unofficial ones that show Ryzen is almost 3X performance per thread on general purpose…
This was partially a PR move. Surfside is over 1/3 Jewish and a large number of Israelis lived in the building. Not saying it's "bad" at all for Israel to send in experts. But it's important to realize that governments…
It's because it contains a chemical used to make meth. It has nothing to do with corporate, it's federal law. Sales are tracked nationwide because gangs were bussing groups of people to different stores when they…
Propaganda. Orban is a dictator in everything but name, like Putin. He stacked the courts and government servants with loyalists. He controls over 90% of the media. The election system is corrupted to the point that…
The Hubble was also a redesigned spy satellite. The main mirror design was chosen so it could be built with existing mirror tech made for military imaging satellites. There's probably a dozen satellites out there right…
I for one hope they get a strong talking-to. What a meanie tech giant!
A lot of people don't realize, all high quality voice models are clones. The network is trained to mimic your voice as close as possible. Alexa, Cortana, and Siri are all real people. That's someone's voice,…
It's a repeat of the gilded age about 100 years ago. Unions are dead, gig jobs get around the worker protections that took us 80 years to win. The gap between the richest and the rest is as big as it was then. We need…
Wow that's it? All the privacy invasion caused by personalized ads is only worth that much? More reason to ban it completely
I never knew that about exhaust velocity. So as propellant mass efficiency goes up linearly, power use goes up exponentially? does that make fast interstellar travel impossible?
The corruption runs deeper than that. Something like 50% of drug discovery is funded by US govt, taxpayers. Yet 100% of the profits from new drugs goes to big pharma. They're robbing us.
Japan gets more flak because it's physical and historical isolation plus high cultural homogeneity have resulted in unique societal quirks. Going to western Europe feels like the US. Going to Japan from the west still…
https://www.theladders.com/career-advice/the-generation-that... Baby Boomers had a higher proportion of the nation's wealth at 35 than any following generation. Percentage of US wealth owned by people under 45 has…
I didnt think about that! I personally know 3 boomers that retired last year to avoid exposure to COVID. I don't know a ton of people but thats definitely the most I've known to retire in one year
This seems to imply millennials are lazy. They're the most educated generation in US history, and at the same time, the poorest in at least 60 years. COVID relief funds are only paying them more than their normal wage…
Let's just not compare any country to another because most of it will make China look bad.
China has imprisoned millions of people in one of the biggest ethnic genocides since Nazi gernany. They murder people to sell their organs. The US is a mess but comparing them to a morally bankrupt genocidal China is…
Is that not true? Google and Oracle had a 10 year multi billion dollar legal fight over ~20 lines of code identical between Android and JVM. A non rich individual has basically zero chance of challenging GitHub on these…
COVID will always be with us. The terrifying levels of generic diversity among SARS like viruses in bats should have been a starker warning. The virus is highly zoonotic. Zoos are vaccinating all their felines,…
It's not outrage bait. The thing reproduces GPL licensed code verbatim.
This is the crux of copilot. When I saw it copying RSA keys I knew, it's overtrained. Most of the comments are waxing about philosophical possibilities of copilot copying GPL. Reality is clear in the case, it's copy…
I don't really welcome our new corporate overlords, but why does anyone give a shit what Chinese govt thinks? They're hilariously corrupt, natavist, and frankly crazy. To the point that you can't even admit Taiwan has…