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Comment Re: Real life different than ivory tower (Score 1) 115

The USSR was just another oligarchy. They had privileged people at the top and everyone else was below them. That's not communism. You might argue that communism is impossible, but the obvious retort is that capitalism is unsustainable and leads to plutocracy, which is just a specific kind of oligarchy.

Therefore what we can really conclude is not that communism or even capitalism is itself the problem, it's tolerating inequality.

Comment Re: Sleezy stuff, but not price fixing (Score 1) 115

People don't go to Wendy's though. I mean I do, and some people do, but it's consistently not busy. Which is weird because IMO it is better than Mickey Deez, and it's certainly cheaper, or at least has cheaper options. People want what they are used to, and they are less used to Wendy's.

Comment Re: Nobody understands how AIs work :o (Score 1) 52

I agree on it being hard to understand the inner workings of LLMs but I'm not speaking to that part here, only about improving their function in some way which might be as consequential as transformers, which did not require that level of understanding. OTOH any such development will probably require more training and more processing time to run the result, so there are multiple constraints.

Comment Longevity and specificity? (Score 2) 20

The fact that this approach is catalytic rather than requiring a binding agent seems positive in terms of longevity and not being directly depleted by repeat exposure; but I'd be curious how durable the material is under real-world conditions(clothing that gets hard wear tends to get hard washes) and also how specific it is. 'Organophosphate' means something moderately specific in the context of chemical warfare; but a lot of fairly prosaic compounds are, technically, 'organophosphates'(like DNA and RNA when held together by phosphodiester bonds); and this would be considerably less helpful in practice if it is busy chewing up the genomes of random soil bacteria; and markedly less helpful in practice if there's a "do not perturb the nanites in your clothing if you want them to not migrate into your cells and start mitigating the harmful effects of your DNA" user notice on the treated article.

Comment Re:Reinstate Brendan Eich NOW!!! (Score 1) 107

He had a right to donate money anywhere he wanted and people had a right to feel any way they wanted about it and act accordingly. No one interfered with his rights. They come with responsibilities. One of those is responsibility for your actions.

Mozilla and Firefox were a joke long before he left so that's clearly not the reason.

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