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Re:RSS Beat Microsoft on Monday September 08, 2025 @10:25AM (#45168702)
This is definitely false, see Facebook's pivot to video.
Not really baseless when he was caught with classified documents after he was selling them to the highest bidder.

Yes americas right wing courts blocked justice from being applied in this case but this would hardly be baseless.

Why are you using full self driving as part of your driving?

Weird ask imo.

The cops lied about where the suspect was identified?

So the warrant was granted from false pretense.

Re:Results of "Humanity's Last Exam" benchmark published on Thursday January 23, 2025 @02:08PM (#42806968)
This is always the answer for anyone who thinks LLMs are capable of "intelligence".

It's good at answering questions that its trained on, I would suggest general intelligence are things you didnt want/train the AI to be good at answering.

Re:WTF Happened in 1971? on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @10:59AM (#42712509)
Amazing that it all actually accelerates in the early 80s with Reagan who kicks it into overdrive with the collapse of unions.

But yeah, it was the "gold standard" and not the collapse of the labor movement, there's nothing stopping us from taking back the value of labor except it comes out of the pockets of our oligarchs.

Except the research doesn't show this at all.

However, having wealth provides tutors, better schooling and teachers which lead to better outcomes from having better mentors, opportunities and education which leads to...

and so on and so on.

So your solution is boots on the ground and regime change? it's gone so well in the past it definitely will in the future. /s

Maybe instead the US should honor their commitments which would include the Iran Nuclear deal that was scrapped for no reason 5 years ago.

Re:2013 Airbus A-380 can be yours at 'just' $25M on Friday January 26, 2024 @01:06PM (#39145724)
Pretty sure the US requires planes to be maintained according to the manufacturers requirements in order to use US airports.

I suppose you can travel to your hearts content in africa and Asia, but you wont be able to land in Europe or NA.

Re:U.S. federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $8T on Thursday October 05, 2023 @02:48PM (#37782465)
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals.

It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.

This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

Re:Tech workers demand high salaries despite hiring slowdown on Friday September 15, 2023 @04:28PM (#37528715)
I've found the issue isnt high performing engineers, they're gonna get paid.

The issue is middling engineers and junior engineers where before they would expect a 130k-150k salary in a tier 1 city, those offers are gone.

Re:A serious case for dynamic scoring (immigration) on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @05:07PM (#37329147)
I like this idea, i always thought a salary floor of 150k-200k was a good idea, but the auction seems even better.
California is in the top quartile of safest states in the US.

Your complaint is that rich people wont have their property taxes jacked up and they haven't "eradicated" crime.

As a response to the fact that California is as close to the French Riviera as we have in the US.

Re:US SEC sues Coinbase, one day after suing Binance on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @02:43PM (#36217274)
Nike shoes and baseball cards are clearly commodities.

If you were to stake your Air Jordan's with coinbase and Coinbase told you in a years time you'd have 2 pairs, it would become a security.

Employee owned businesses combined with strong labor unions.
Re:How AI Is Catapulting Nvidia Toward the $1T Club on Friday May 26, 2023 @09:49AM (#36084091)
I'm still holding ~600 shares of NVDA from a $1,200 investment back when I thought it was amazing that this company made cards that made Quake 2 look incredible.

300k Investment on $900 dollars.

No different than spending money on the military to accelerate heavy arms ordinance manufacturing instead of hospitals and schools.
Re:Gmail is showing ads in the middle of the inbox on Friday May 05, 2023 @10:44AM (#35829880)
Same idea as here: https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/

Gmail is being Enshittified.

I'm all for making it easier for my indian friends to become a citizen of the USA.

However, it seems strange to complain about the US naturalization process, when its not easy for me being a US citizen to become a citizen of india.

https://indiancitizenshiponline.nic.in/Ic_GeneralInstruction...

Citizenship of India by naturalization can be acquired by a foreigner (not being an illegal migrant) who is ordinarily resident in India for twelve years (throughout the period of twelve months immediately preceding the date of application and for eleven years in the aggregate in the fourteen years preceding the twelve months) and fulfils other qualifications as specified in third schedule to the act, 1955.

In addition:

1) A copy of valid Foreign Passport

2) A copy of Residential Permit/LTV

3) A copy of Bank Challan in original amounting to Rs.1500/- deposited in the State Bank of India.

4) One affidavit from self (applicant) and two affidavits from two Indians testifying to the character of the applicant in the prescribed language available in the application form. Affidavit to be allotted by Notary/Oath Commissioner/ DM.

5) Two language certificates certifying the applicant’s knowledge in any one of the Indian languages specified in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution. (A language certificate from a recognized educational institution or from a recognised organisation or from two Indian citizens of the district of the applicant).

6) Two newspaper (circulating in the district in which the applicant resides) cuttings of different dates or of different newspapers notifying his/ her intention to apply for citizenship in the prescribed language available in the application form.

Proxy wars are wars not fought by ones own military. Korea and Vietnam were faught by americans and thus arent a proxy war for the USA.

For instance the ukraine and russia war is a proxy war for the USA but is not for russia, as russia is fighting.

Ah yes, the old cato institution nonsense that we spend too much on anti povery programs.

Reason being is because the rich siphon it all off for themselves.

See: https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2003/June/03_civ_386....

Note the CEO of Columbia/HCA who committed the largest medicare fraud in history is now US Senator Rick Scott of Florida who just so happened to have plead the fifth 75 times during his questioning.

Thats clearly what the people want... You get the government you deserve. etc...

Based on last weekend's fun the VCs just want their money insured. The only way to do that is to have the government / FED as the final backstop.

Why are they not allowed to try to improve their "horrible" situation.

Corporations are allowed collective action but workers are not, seems kind of untenable.

Re:Does Google need a new CEO? on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @10:43AM (#34790931)
People keep saying chat gpt is the replacement for search, but chat gpt powered bing search is an obscene joke that barely works.

Google's problem is that i searched for "Cape Code VRBO" this morning and couldn't get my answer without scrolling past a full screen of ads.

I don't think people care if left wing or right wing people are banned. People want consistency, safety and the rules applied equally.

Right wing people seemed to act like shitheads more often so they are banned more often.

I'd continue arguing however, conservative law, jurisprudence and overall culture seems to always boil down to that there are in groups who the law protects BUT does not bind, and out groups who the law binds but does not protect.

You can pretty much view all of twitter's new moderation capability through that lens and then it starts to make perfect sense.

Re:Apple Introduces Oceanic+ on Monday November 28, 2022 @10:52AM (#33775101)
Yet you will still void the warranty if you dive with it:

Apple Watch Ultra has a water resistance rating of 100 meters under ISO standard 22810.

Apple Watch Ultra may be used for recreational scuba diving (with a compatible third-party app from the App Store) to 40 meters, and for high-speed water sports.

Apple Watch Ultra should not be used for diving below 40 meters. Water resistance is not a permanent condition and can diminish over time. For additional information, see support.apple.com/en-us/HT205000.

the correct answer is Vanguard imo.
This is the thing people dont realize, as someone who has owned a luxury car before, the Tesla Model 3 is not what i would call a "luxury car" despite them playing in the same price space as the BMW 3 Series.

It's still one of the best cars i've ever owned but the fit, finish and feel are not luxury. My 2013 Ford Focus felt more solid than the model 3 i own.

Re:iPhone = Privacy? on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @10:37AM (#32995791)
Honestly would an apple employee be able to access my icloud account? I understand that the icloud data is encrypted in the cloud and the decryption key is part of signing onto icloud via 2 factor to authorize the device.

Would an apple employee be able to view icloud without the 2nd factor to pull down the decryption key?

The person you're responding to wasn't making a "free speech argument". And I don't see how this is in way way a free speech issue.

He's saying just because you set up an ATM in the middle of a city and say, and then say feel free to wash your illegal cash here to do some money laundering.

The act of it being on blockchain and "decentralized" wont make a difference, anyone offering said "launder ATM" could be convicted of a crime.

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