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Nah, the point of journalism is also commentary, opinion, satire, not just correct info.
Re:Voxtral 3 on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @03:21PM (#50171353)
> schools

not sure if this is sarcasm or if you've been living under a rock for the past month.

Re:Tesla Roadster on Friday October 16, 2026 @12:03PM (#50120108)
> Stop getting your business/economic news from BlueSky/reddit.

And where should they get them? From Twitter?

Maybe I don't understand exactly what you are saying, but if I do: there is a fundamental difference between Gypsies and homeless people, you are born a gypsy by no fault of your own, but most people are not born homeless. As such racism towards Gypsies is far more heinous because you could have any education, profession, income, housing situation you'll always stay a Gypsy and face the same prejudice, whereas you can (somewhat) more easily stop being homeless.

Now we could have a discussion on whether being poor is a choice or a consequence of societal inequality, but I think more people agree on racism here...

Re:PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock on Saturday September 26, 2026 @07:22PM (#49861572)
still less tedious than ads or no background play
Re:macOS 27 Golden Gate: The Ars Technica Review on Thursday September 17, 2026 @04:41AM (#49738016)
can someone figure out the right invocation of defaults write to script it? I think it would be pretty ironic if that same person used an LLM to achieve it :)
Re:EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member' on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @05:41PM (#49733426)
so Australia is in Europe, but Spain, the Netherlands and Ireland are not?
Re:macOS 27 Golden Gate: The Ars Technica Review on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @05:35PM (#49733352)
how to disable gen ai features

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-250012366

it used to be one toggle

Re:EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member' on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @09:54AM (#49727094)
> Although, no joke, a lot of peoples first reaction is: "They need to compete in Eurovision first. Otherwise they should wait for Australia to join first."

What? First time I hear of this. Honestly, Eurovision doesn't really have anything to do with the EU. We all know the main sponsor is from a non-EU country whose participation is much more controversial than Canada anyway.

Re:Everyone should slow down AI development except for me on Sunday September 13, 2026 @04:43AM (#49681560)
I don't think killing people solves world hunger, we already produce enough food to feed everyone, it's just not evenly distributed.
Re:Will There Be a 7G? on Saturday September 12, 2026 @07:20PM (#49678258)
and that has definitely improved everybody's experience at concerts /s
The fact that corporations have more privacy rights than people is dystopian.
A great example of this triad is driving a car: many people choose to do so every day and a small but not insignificant fraction of them will die because of it.
> Nobody is forcing people to risk their lives to infringe on other people's rights.

Except poverty, ignorance, hunger, addiction, untreated mental illness...

Or you could have a society with a welfare safety net or even viable forms of transportation other than a private car. It appears that places where that happen also tend to have much lower crime rates as an added benefit.
Re:The turbulent AI era is here on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @02:27PM (#49453603)
let's set aside for a second the fact that this is not how things work, but you are off by an order of magnitude

EDIT: parent comment was edited: it used to say $15

Re:The End of Mathematics on Saturday August 15, 2026 @02:56AM (#49308377)
...on openai request to spin up some critihype
Re:Grok 4.5 on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @06:49PM (#48838405)
a non-peer-reviewed preprint with an high schooler as the first author is the best citation you can come up with?
Re:The Private Capture of Public Genius on Monday July 06, 2026 @04:49AM (#48802214)
at this point I'm just confused whether you are talking about north korea or the us
And who is the kingmaker behind those three?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Leo

Look him up and his connections to Opus Dei.

Re:Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @05:00AM (#48552505)
> trying to stay cool

FTFY

Re:Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @04:51AM (#48552436)
I'm pretty sure no Marxist considers Piketty a fellow Marxist, he's much closer to social democracy and Keynes. Piketty advocates for market economy and a global capital tax, Marxists on the other hand advocate for the violent overthrowing of capitalism and collective ownership of the means of production. Can you spot the difference?
Re:Was my $48K GPU server worth it? on Thursday May 21, 2026 @06:41PM (#48229705)
500 TB/25 GB = 20.000

if some have more than one layer it could fewer but that's the order of magnitude

Sweden is one of the countries with the lowest salary inequality in the world. In Eastern Europe 100k a year puts you at what 10x minimum wage? I think that would be considered a pretty high salary in France or Spain as well. I think your friend reaction is warranted, but I don't think it would happen often in Sweden...
Re:How the Turner Twins Are Mythbusting Modern Gear on Friday March 20, 2026 @05:05AM (#47452165)
I'm curious: I do cycle in jeans and a t-shirt while in the city. Up to 45 minutes I'm perfectly fine, but if I'm on the saddle for over one hour I really start to miss the chamois. What's your experience with that?
Re:Where things stand with the Department of War on Friday March 06, 2026 @03:44AM (#47272557)
> 'war'

> anytime a person in power feels like assassinating a leader or taking out a dissident

I don't really see much of a difference nowadays

Re:Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite on Thursday March 05, 2026 @08:06AM (#47261148)
Right, it says exclusive rights, which does not translate to "we siphon everything and you get a tiny percentage of our profits", it means I can choose to say no to all of this. To me the matter of compensation and that of authorship rights are mostly orthogonal.
Re:Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite on Thursday March 05, 2026 @07:28AM (#47260844)
> What have Governments ever created except for laws that stifle innovation/progress every single time?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc7HmhrgTuQ

In all seriousness without the government you would have no innovation and progress, because it's the public school system, functioning roads, research grants a stable and lawful society that allow you to do any kind of innovation.

Apart from that, you have answered to a strawman. I said redistribute, not give to the government. I explicitly worded things that way because I don't think we should not be having a discussion on policy.

I think we are moving to an economy where the share of profits taken by capital becomes much larger than the one take from labor. If that happens then laborers will have very little discretionary income to fuel consumption and even capitalists will end up suffering. We can choose to redistribute now or wait for it to happen naturally, however that usually happens in a much more violent way, be it hyperinflation, famine, war or revolution.

Re:Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite on Thursday March 05, 2026 @05:20AM (#47259938)
Why settle on some private agreement between creators and ai companies where a tiny percentage is shared, let's just tax the hell out of AI companies and redistribute.
Re:15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @06:47AM (#47060027)
The 'long' code for checking apples is shorter, but it's missing the external for loop. So I guess you could say it's not (ahem) an apples to apples comparison.

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