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If you are the sort of person for whom some finite amount is adequate, you will probably not make billions. I mean this in a nice way. If you are a person who thinks certain things outside money and power are more important, you are unlikely to do the odious things necessary to make billions.
Re:Lula wins election after final votes tallied on Monday October 26, 2026 @03:58AM (#50240531)
Part of being competent is building legislative and other public service systems that run without you being at the helm, and bringing up younger leaders behind you who keep things going upward. Memento mori, and all that.
Re:Demographic "Doomsday" Misses the Mark on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @05:53AM (#50178242)
But the influence only goes one way, not the other, right? There has never been pressure from society to get married and reproduce?
I saw a video recently about someone doing home automation work, put some transmitter in his basement, and all his neighbours' car key fobs stopped working because his transmitter was overwhelming them. It's hard to think of some LLM solution for that.
Re:QGIS bans AI assisted contributions on Monday October 12, 2026 @12:11PM (#50058505)
A good way to look at it is if I can use AI to add a feature/fix a bug, so can the maintainers. My doing it adds no value to the project. In projects where I am the maintainer/an employee, I can extract a lot of value from using AI to build, I don't need anyone's help to do it.
Re:NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect on Monday October 12, 2026 @02:32AM (#50052134)
Then it is not as easy to use as the mechanism you used to sign up, and it's now against the law.
And the US has done this continuously over the last few decades. GP shouldn't have excused Russia, but the US is just as guilty.
Re:The Escalation of War in Ethiopia on Saturday October 03, 2026 @11:19AM (#49945051)
What's your point?
Re:Xiaomi MiMo v2.6 on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @05:23AM (#49798489)
How long will it take to convince them that it is worth it to get into long-running relationships with the US. How long before another populist is elected who will rip up agreements for weird reasons and you have to renegotiate them?
Why does everyone assume that we're the ones keeping money under the mattress, not the ones who would have been paid by money otherwise not spent? All transactions have two sides, no?
If said copy paste behavior allows any app to snoop on any other apps' clipboard content without control, then it's been broken for decades.
It isn't though. For example, the very article we are discussing.
Re:LG responds to TV spying allegations on Sunday September 13, 2026 @02:26AM (#49680637)
I.e. spend more money to do things the TV can perfectly well do. We should make the spying illegal so we can use the devices we buy to their full potential without being sold to advertisers. "Give money to this other company that may or may not also be collecting data and may also sell you out in the future" is a suboptimal solution.
Re:Nvidia is the central bank of AI on Sunday September 13, 2026 @02:06AM (#49680520)
This probably includes little silly games like Candy Crush, and (maybe) others that seem more like "paper" games like Sudoku, Wordle, Connections, etc. Many play those, especially the second bucket.
Re:Thelio Mira AI Linux Workstation: 192 GB GPU Memory on Friday September 11, 2026 @04:56AM (#49655387)
50K without a proper CPU, mind.
Re:Jellyfin 12.0 on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @04:28AM (#49607311)
My only beef with Jellyfind when I used it some time back was inability to resize subtitles, which were huge on a large TV. Could have been lack of knowledge on my part though.
You talk about it as if it's little cliques of students talking about each other in a cafeteria. It's not. It's a giant economy with a giant military that affects everyone's wellbeing.
Re:I Want a Wife (1971) [pdf] on Saturday September 05, 2026 @03:28AM (#49574039)
Get a surrogate maybe? Should tick many of the boxes you have listed.
Re:US diesel prices hit a record high of $5.85 on average on Friday September 04, 2026 @09:59AM (#49564779)
Those others have far fewer externalities than burning diesel to move heavy trucks.
The hope is in a few more years, we'll not have a cult hell bent on accelerating the apocalypse in charge of the largest economy in the world, or are you guys planning something different?
Re:Xorg-Server 26.0.99.901 on Thursday August 20, 2026 @12:12PM (#49376625)
Even xfce will one day move to Wayland.
Re:U.S. Debt Hits $40T as America's Borrowing Binge Continues on Thursday August 20, 2026 @03:48AM (#49371633)
A team of outsiders got carte blanche to find and kill waste in your government. How much did they find?
Re:Europe EV Sales BEVs Jump 50% & Reach 26% Market Share on Monday August 03, 2026 @02:17AM (#49151867)
What's stopping the native companies from making EVs?
Re:Europe EV Sales BEVs Jump 50% & Reach 26% Market Share on Monday August 03, 2026 @02:13AM (#49151829)
You are probably never starting from zero on workdays, are you?
What brands would you think younger people consider a luxury brand? They do make smaller and sportier cars, but 5-series and up, X5 and up, those seem firmly in the luxury car category to me.
Re:Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) on Sunday July 19, 2026 @03:33PM (#48971040)
People usually say "this tv show wouldn't be made today", and it is usually wrong. But this, this would never be assented to by many countries in today's global political climate.
Re:Good Tools Are Invisible on Friday July 10, 2026 @11:04AM (#48860956)
I really don't understand what everyone does that gets in their way on Linux desktop. I install Debian and the packages I use, I open Gnome, I open the software I'm using, I do my work.
Re:Is The Economist Always Wrong? on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @05:45AM (#48829814)
What should you read instead?
That's just the label that changed. Same people, same values.
Re:Tidal AI Policy on Monday June 29, 2026 @01:38PM (#48722383)
You are describing empathy, a human experience.

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