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Comment This is Texas (Score 4, Insightful) 70

Texas: The fundamental right to privacy will be protected in Texas because owning a television does not mean surrendering your personal information to Big Tech or foreign adversaries.

Also Texas: You can't own more than 6 dildos and if you aid someone in getting an abortion we want your neighbors to snitch on you.

You know, because of the fundamental right to privacy.

Comment Re: feedstock (Score 4, Informative) 94

Interesting use of the word 'deserved' - and the answer is he probably 'earned' his spot at Wharton, yes, he probably did earn it.

He didn't. His older brother got him in:

In 1966, Fred Trump Jr. called his close friend James Nolan, then working in Penn's admission office, the Post reports:

"He called me and said, 'You remember my brother Donald?' Which I didn't," Nolan, 81, said in an interview with The Washington Post. "He said: 'He's at Fordham and he would like to transfer to Wharton. Will you interview him?' I was happy to do that." Soon, Donald Trump arrived at Penn for the interview, accompanied by his father, Fred Trump Sr., who sought to "ingratiate" himself, Nolan said. [The Washington Post]

Nolan said he was the only admissions official to talk to Trump and he gave him a rating, but the final decision rested with his boss, and "it was not very difficult" to get into Wharton in 1966, easily higher than 50 percent if you were transferring from another school. "I certainly was not struck by any sense that I'm sitting before a genius," he told the Post. "Certainly not a super genius." Former Wharton classmates say Trump was a middling student.

This is on top of lying about graduating first in his class (he didn't), never being on the Dean's list (the school provided a list of everyone on the list in 1968), or his SAT stats (someone took it for him according to Trump's niece).

So no, he didn't earn anything.

Comment And yet, still no way to turn off notifications (Score 1) 92

There was a time when a single checkbox would get rid of any notification of updates in Firefox. Not any longer. For years we are plagued with harassment if we don't update two seconds after the newest release is out.

For all the time, effort, and money Mozilla keeps wasting, it would be such a simple task to put back what was in the software from its beginning days.

Comment Re:Can someone explain please? (Score 1) 86

You answered your own question. These are not investors, they are traders. Their sole job is trade on the discrepancies inherit in the system. The faster they can buy low/sell high, the more trades they can do which in turn leads to more profits.

They may not make much on each trade, but do this multiple times each day and the numbers add up over a year.

Comment The 2008 crisis was precisely because of this (Score 1) 26

The 2008 crisis was created by financial institutions selling complex securities that were incapable of performing due diligence on to verify their solvency.

These were called "securitized mortages and default credit swaps."

The new version of this is called "tokenized assets."

Same difference.

Prepare to be screwed if you play in that market.

Submission + - Companies getting a productivity boost from AI aren't turning around and firing (yahoo.com)

ZipNada writes: The explosion in AI models, software, and agents has raised questions about the impact of the technology on the broader job market as companies find new efficiencies from this new technology.

But according to EY's latest US AI Pulse Survey, just 17% of 500 business executives at US companies that saw productivity gains via AI turned around and cut jobs.

"There's a narrative that we hear quite frequently about companies looking to take that benefit that they're seeing and put it into the financial statements reducing costs, or cutting heads," EY global consulting AI leader Dan Diasio told Yahoo Finance.

"But the data that we asked those 500 executives does not bear that out. That is happening less than one out of five times, and more often they are reinvesting that," he added.

Comment Re:Repealing Section 230 ... (Score 1) 164

TL/DR: I can understand social-media companies wanting the protection of 230, but they already have the right to remove content that could get them sued, so maybe we don't need 230.

That they can now take down content is irrelevant to being sued for it. It can't be taken down prior to it being posted, unless you're reviewing everything before it goes public. So the suits happen - that's expressly why a law like 230 is needed.

A mom n pop store that allows reviews of purchases could be bankrupted over a single user review that contains copyrighted text.

230 has flaws that should be fixed, but the concept it represents is absolutely vital to the current internet. The *only* companies that could deal with it being repealed are the big social companies.

If the only people who can deal with the penalty are the ones you're trying to penalize....you might not have a grasp of the problem.

Comment Re: Wind turbines are bad... (Score 1) 161

Entirely reasonable question...but it also invalidates the question you asked.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Feepower.com%2Ftech-insig...

Capitalism isn't a system - it's half a balance sheet. It looks great until you uncover the debits it's been glossing over.

Submission + - Tech Giant-Supported Study Chastises K-12 Schools for Lack of AI + CS Education

theodp writes: Coinciding with Computer Science Education Week and its flagship event the Hour of AI, tech-backed nonprofit Code.org this week released the 2025 State of AI & Computer Science Education report, chastising K-12 schools for the lack of access to AI and CS education and thanking its funders Microsoft, Amazon, and Google for supporting the report's creation.

"For the first time ever," Code.org explains, "the State of AI + CS Education features a state-by-state analysis of AI education policies, including whether standards and graduation requirements emphasize AI. The report continues to track the CS access, participation, and fundamental policies that have made it a trusted benchmark for policymakers, educators, and advocates."

The report laments that "0 out of 50 states require AI+CS for graduation," adding that "access to CS has plateaued" at 60% nationwide, with Minnesota and Alaska bringing up the rear with a woeful 34%. However, flaws with the statistic on which the K-12 CS education crisis movement was built — the "Percentage of Public High Schools Offering Foundational Computer Science" — become apparent with just a casual glance at the data underlying Minnesota's failing 34% grade. Because that metric neglects to take into account school sizes — which of course vary widely — the percentage of schools offering access to CS can be vastly different than the percentage of students attending schools offering access to CS. So, when Code.org reports that only 33% of the three Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools offer access to CS, keep in mind that left unreported is that more than 95% of students in the district attend the one Prior Lake-Savage Area School that does offer access to CS, which is a far less alarming metric. Code.org reports that Prior Lake High School (2,854 students, per NCES records) offers access to CS, while Prior Lake-Savage Area ALC (93 students) and Laker Online (45 students) do not. And that, kids, is today's lesson in K-12 CS education access crisis math, where 95% (2,854 students/2,992 students) can equal 33% (1 school/3 schools)!

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