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The shareholders would have to vote in an AI board, so we might have to replace the shareholders first.

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Re:Killing Windows 10 in 2025 could turn PCs into eWaste on Saturday October 28, 2023 @01:02PM (#38051454)
That headline wasn't sensational enough
Two and a half words: post-purchase monetization
Re:Are self-driving cars already safer than human drivers? on Friday September 01, 2023 @08:24AM (#37349877)
Depends on the conditions. Freshly paved interstate with clear lane markers, light traffic, daytime overcast skies with no rain? Maybe. Driving through a construction zones with painted-over lane markers at night, traffic cones knocked into the road, power out, and a police officer directing traffic at an intersection? No.
Re:Ask HN: Anyone Building a Competitor to Reddit? on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @08:28AM (#36225939)
'AI' seems to be approaching a point where automated moderation (or at least AI assisted moderation with a human in the loop) is feasible.
If democratic society writ large can be considered a singular entity, then yes, it is victim blaming. Democratic society is the victim of and cause of all of its own problems.
How is this different from the stupid collective scenario?
My partner participates in an online RPG writing community. A lot of people there sell character artwork. They have been getting mad that people are using AI generated artwork, and are considering banning it.

I'm not really saying this time will be different, but I don't think self driving cars caused even this much disruption.

We have (for the most part) democracy. At this point, either feudalism is a collective choice, or the collective wants to make self-interested decisions but isn't smart enough to know how.
In other news, the printing press set to put thousands of scribes out of work.
Re:Does Google need a new CEO? on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @02:29PM (#34794656)
>can’t write bubble sort on their first try

lol how do you expect to program if you don't know how every common subroutine works in exhaustive detail?

Re:Does Google need a new CEO? on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @11:25AM (#34791685)
I'm looking forward to Pixel Purse and its successor G-Billfold.
Re:Does Google need a new CEO? on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @11:03AM (#34791305)
When I (the consumer) think of successful Google products, I think of search, email, maps, productivity (docs, sheets, drive), Android, and Chromecast. Which of those launched under the current CEO?

I'm sure I'm missing another success story, but really, when was the last time Google hit a home run?

>there's no benefit to the user to have an old account with lots of karma

Some subs have a minimum amount age or karma requirement to post. This is ostensibly to combat bots.

Re:What three new USGS maps reveal about Mars on Saturday January 14, 2023 @08:21AM (#34380131)
Is geography on another celestial body still called geography?
Re:Folk wisdom on visual programming on Thursday July 01, 2021 @07:47PM (#27706310)
I've been using LabVIEW for 15 years, first in an academic and scientific setting, then for machine vision in surveillance, then as the HMI for industrial robots. It is, for all intents and purposes, a general purpose programming language, and I think it would be more popular if it wasn't so stupid expensive.

I was never interested in or good at coding, but LabVIEW made sense to me. Now I'm using programming principles I learned in LabVIEW and re-implementing them in C++ and C#. It's been a journey.

Just a heads up, this site is impossible to read on mobile.
Re:Smart TVs like Samsung, LG and Roku are tracking everything on Thursday November 28, 2019 @05:25PM (#21660570)
The commercial monitors cost more because the price isn't subsidized by user data collection.
Re:Cryptoqueen: A woman scammed the world, then vanished on Sunday November 24, 2019 @11:48AM (#21621548)
Not really though because they would have a lot of trouble converting all those coins to another currency at that exchange rate. Once they started selling, demand at that price would be met and the bidding price would fall.