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Re:Why are good developers so wary of agentic development? on Thursday October 29, 2026 @01:09PM (#50292449)
this assumes it's easy to differentiate between the two groups.
Re:Google AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @06:27PM (#50281817)
Definitely. Paper trail is an absolute must. Use machines to count the paper ballots and then if anyone wants to contest the results they can pay for a 3rd party to hand count the paper ballots.
I imagine a lot of people dont have the luxury to avoid entire areas
Re:Bill Gates: The turbulent AI era is here on Thursday August 27, 2026 @06:50PM (#49472289)
It's not invalid, but it's completely unrelated to his opinions about A.I.
Re:DHS Quits Granting Green Cards–Almost on Saturday May 23, 2026 @05:50PM (#48251901)
Do you have any personal experience with the immigration system at all?
He's actually agreeing it reduces the need for engineers to produce the same level of output as now. He's making the argument that companies would then desire more output to capitalize on additional ideas/projects. I could see it going either way, but likely demand will fall.
Re:EFF is leaving X on Thursday April 09, 2026 @02:19PM (#47707412)
X "impressions" are not worth very much
Re:What Young Workers Are Doing to AI-Proof Themselves on Monday March 23, 2026 @04:21AM (#47486677)
average salary of a high school teacher in seattle is 90k plus you get summers off.. doesnt seem too bad..
I dont know too much but Jensen Huang seems like a good guy
I would imagine very rich people have extremely good lawyers though that can tell them very accurately if they will get off if it goes to trial.
Re:How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @03:40PM (#46891397)
well ideally more power should be distributed amongst normal people
Re:How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @03:40PM (#46891386)
couldnt you have control shares that weren't worth money?
Re:How private equity is changing housing on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @01:39PM (#46208726)
What about a law where you couldnt use over a million dollars (to exclude normal people) a year of any asset as collateral for a loan unless you paid capital gains on it at its current valuation?
Re:AI isn't replacing jobs. AI spending is on Sunday November 09, 2025 @02:52PM (#45868569)
American devs should support the hire act bill
Re:Charlie Kirk shot at event in Utah on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @04:52PM (#45203509)
guns are a very efficient tool for murder or suicide. They absolutely will increase the number of deaths due to their effectiveness. Whether that's worth the societal price is up to the people.
This would be very helpful for American jobs.
Still, I'll take it
Re:Please Fund More Science (2020) on Saturday May 24, 2025 @04:37PM (#44083663)
It's possible private funding could build a better incentive structure but still a shame there's far less public research being done
Re:Claude 4 on Thursday May 22, 2025 @09:32PM (#44068980)
I think you would need the biological components of a nervous system for some of these things
No one private citizen should be able to hold that much influence
As someone more on the left I would condemn and hope any politician of any party who engages in corruption is held accountable.
Re: on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @02:14PM (#43016998)
Hiring someone who was part of the Com and who was already terminated once for leaking secrets seems like a pretty big security violation, whether or not it was signed off by someone.
Re:Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4B Bid for Control of OpenAI on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @02:19AM (#43009944)
Why would musk want another AI company or is this just to get back at Altman?
Re: on Monday February 10, 2025 @05:36PM (#43006184)
And I'm sure Hilarys email server was cleared and authorized by those with authority. That did not stop the right from making it a huge issue
Re: on Monday February 10, 2025 @02:18AM (#42997707)
If people are scared to speak out anonymous reporting is all you'll get
Re: on Monday February 10, 2025 @02:11AM (#42997683)
Well I remember a certain freakout from the other side about Hilarys email server... This seems like a far greater security violation
Re:More Speech and Fewer Mistakes on Thursday January 09, 2025 @03:53PM (#42649699)
Well there is a lot of connections between Trump and Russia. Wiki here shows quite a few: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_between_Trump_associates... I'm not interested in auditing the entire thing, but like I said whether what occurred was "collusion" is something that cannot be fact-checked as it will always be a matter of opinion
Re:More Speech and Fewer Mistakes on Thursday January 09, 2025 @04:15AM (#42643363)
You could argue a particular person spent 44 billion but its a fuzzy argument. It's hard to tell..
Re:More Speech and Fewer Mistakes on Thursday January 09, 2025 @04:10AM (#42643338)
I think someone said it but there's a difference between facts and making an inference about those facts. The evidence in Trumps case was maybe he had a conversation with a person of Russian descent on Day X. That in itself is a fact. Does this fact or other facts like it mean he "colluded", whatever the definition of colluded means, is a matter of opinion. Even in a legal framework, where "collusion" has a definition, its still up to a jury which can get it wrong. Fact-checking is extremely complex as you are alluding to and cannot be simplified the way it has been thus far

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