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Comment Re:BOYCOTT art companies that allow AI. AI=COPYPAS (Score 0) 213

Art companies that use AI, which rips of artists

FTFS:

"I was promised tech would make everything easier so I could enjoy life," author Brittany Moone said. "Now it's leaving me all the dishes and the laundry so AI can make the art."

That's funny, I saw that exact same sentence a while ago but not from Brittany Moore. It's almost like she trained on SOMEONE ELSE'S WORK! Now she's passing it off as her own, no attribution at all! That's what artists are so pissed off at AI about, right? Why aren't they all calling for Ms. Moore's head?

Comment Re:Funny yet normal (Score 1) 51

Yet we aren't all dead yet. A lot of people did hide in bunkers, when nukes came out. But, amazingly, despite this _super dangerous technology_, we aren't all dead yet.

Yet. That doesn't mean it's not going to happen. Isn't it a good idea to try to control things that might kill us all, like nukes or bioweapons or ASI? Maybe we can delay or even completely avoid all being killed.

Comment Re:Hey, Sammy! (Score 1) 75

Their vacuum does suck, it's so bad they have to talk about what it does using the name of a competing vacuum company. FTFS: "uses AI to better detect what surface its on to more effectively hoover up dirt and debris." Hoover is a vacuum company, not a verb (unless this is a Samsung-branded Hoover). That's like someone from Bing saying "Our search engine uses AI to Google things faster than ever!"

Comment Re: Oh, well good (Score 1) 348

I don't like Trump and the MAGAts nor what they have done to politics, but the left is hardly immune from committing political violence. How about the Congresional Baseball Shooting?

Wake me up when someone from the "far left", someone who volunteered for Sanders say, even an armchair Twitter Sanders supporter, shoots a Republican or CEO.

From the above page:

Hodgkinson had participated in the Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential campaign

On May 22, 2017, Hodgkinson wrote "Trump is a Traitor. Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy. It's Time to Destroy Trump & Co."

Comment Re: Asbestos is Toxic? (Score 1) 176

Most EVs use Regenerative Braking, which uses the electric motor as a generator to slow down the car and put electricity back into the batteries. Different manufacturers implement it differently, some may have significant regen when you let off the gas pedal where others might actuate it in the top portion of the brake pedal but it works the same either way.

Comment Re:The only surprise ... (Score 2) 29

They didn't buy .bs. Their real site was sometaxbullshit.bs.ch but they accidentally published the flyer with just the sometaxbullshit.bs URL so they bought a registration for that domain from the Bahamas. Their site says $500 per domain, no idea why the Swiss had to pay $1000. You could resell your first domain (if you registered chargers.bs) but the second one would require a second registration.

Comment Re:Can't help but wonder... (Score 1) 77

Companies do not own a number of their shares unless they've created a share pool for things like employee stock purchase plans. And, no, they cannot use shares in their company as loan collateral. Sometimes companies can issue "convertible notes" which are basically loans that convert into shares automatically if the company gets into financial trouble. They are popular with banks that have to maintain certain capital cushions. NVidia didn't lose anything today. The owners of NVidia shares lost phantom wealth today. If, however, there is a genuine now AI model in town that will significantly reduce demand for chips (and electricity, and all of the other related infrastructure), the future cash flows of many companies have just been reduced and hence why the shares are trading for a lower price.

Companies can also acquire and hold their own stock in a number of different ways, the most common is through a share buyback. This is called "Treasury Stock" on the balance sheet and it's fairly common. The linked article goes into greater detail.

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