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Comment It's hogwash -- they survived comets and worse (Score 0) 15

Corals have been around for several hundred million years. They survived the comet which killed off the dinosaurs. They survived ice ages and glaciations, the most recent being a 400-500 foot sea level rise just 10-15,000 years ago. They routinely bleach themselves while shifting populations of the critters which give them color.

We puny humans are no threat to corals.

Comment Re:Won't be possible. (Score 1) 50

Yeah, the game servers are the problem with that proposal But I'd support the requirement (suggested above) that I they want to stop selling access they be required to open source the code...well, not just open-source, but also allow copying and modification...though they shouldn't be required to allow reselling of the server code or of access to a server running the code. If you want to set one up for your friends, you should be able to. Selling access, however, is a different category.

Comment Re:Letters of Support (Score 1) 42

They're reasonable targets of investigation. It takes a lot more than that to be reasonable grounds for arrest. (Actually, the investigation should probably be pretty superficial unless it turns up something more actionable.)
P.S.: Most folks investigated should never even know that it happened. Exceptions are things like people who get security clearances...who should ALL be/have been investigated.

Comment Re:No. (Score 1) 42

I award you full points for managing to accurately diagnose something as "fascism" in this instance.

I honestly appreciate that.

what's the preferred alternative?

I say the alternative is to move the work in-house.

Jobs fundamental to national security should be government jobs.

I say they don't want them to be because you have to treat government employees like people, by and large, unless they're getting Doge'd or what have you. Most don't get paid very well, which is unfortunate on multiple levels, but they do generally get pretty good benefits. And, you could address the pay gap between private and public sector jobs. You'd have to, since people can move to other countries.

Anyway back on topic, I think we should reduce the waste of our contracted systems horseshit and treat national security like it's a matter of national security. I don't know about nationalizing OpenAI or not, although I'm open to them being paid a fair market rate if it's the solution the USG decided to bring in house instead of starting development of a new system, or backing expansion of a lesser system, but it would have to be honestly valued in light of doing that as a comparison. And in the bargain, you have to take into account the value and relevance of the copyrighted material they absorbed, and the state's role in its creation.

Comment Re:Failure (Score 1) 29

I don't know what you mean. Look at the improvement in hiring when you can advertise an open position on LinkedIn and get maybe 100x as many applicants as before! OK, probably 99% of them will be completely unqualified for the role and barely capable of pushing the instant application button, but how is that a problem, really? Surely hiring managers can easily filter them out and no qualified applicant will ever get lost in the noise?

Comment Re:Precedent (Score 1) 135

The practical problem is that communist economies rely much more on wishes and oppression than capitalist economies.

I don't think that's true at all. I think the capitalist economies are simply much better at exporting the oppression, because they can take part in globalism. Meanwhile there's still plenty of domestic oppression to go with it. We still have literal slave labor in this country; the 13th amendment permits slavery as punishment for commission of a crime, so laws which coerce prisoners into laboring for little to no money (and certainly less than minimum wage) are fully legal.

Average worker productivity has multiplied manifold and the cost of food production has sunk since we developed automation, but somehow we're supposed to believe that it's become onerous for our society to feed people when we work more hours than medieval serfs? The math doesn't math there.

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