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Comment Re:another case of unproven "save the children" (Score 1) 13

Brainrot social media probably is bad for kids. Lots of stuff out in the real world is bad for kids, too. That's why parents are supposed to do this thing called "parenting" and not let their spawn have access to things that aren't age appropriate.

It absolutely baffles the fuck out of me that so many parents just said to their kids "here's a smartphone, don't do anything stupid with it" and then went all surprised Pikachu faced when their kids went and did the stupid anyway - exactly as anyone with a half functioning brain could've predicted.

Comment Re:Also known as.. (Score 1) 133

Also, the groundswell of awareness about Israel that has torn institutions of the evangelical right apart (such as TPUSA) largely originated on the left.

Which is wild to me because the right wing used to be jew-hating while the left wing feared being described as antisemitic, and I would have therefore sworn it would go the other way.

I figure the right will remember their roots if they don't get a rapture soon, though.

Comment Re:China is a totalitarian hell (Score 1) 30

So Marx didn't really have a vision. He identified the problem as the ruling class but he couldn't come up with a solution to that. It was basically just fuck it I don't know what to do kill the fuckers was his solution.

But I don't think he ever thought that was a viable solution per se I just don't think he could come up with anything else.

Comment China doesn't even have universal Health Care (Score 1) 30

There's absolutely nothing communist about it. It's a capitalist Nation through and through. They literally have the same healthcare system that America does. You get your health care insurance through your employer and if your employer doesn't offer it you don't have it.

China is what's called anarcho capitalism. Or sometimes what's called a kleptocracy. I wouldn't call them a kekistocracy, that's more like what America is becoming under Donald Trump and his cronies. A kekistocracy is government by the most incompetent and corrupt. China's ruling class is corrupt as fuck but they are at least competent. The same goes for Russia and their dictatorship.

It's important to understand that there's nothing socialist or communist about China because if you don't you're going to think that if you can just keep the scary socialists and or Communists out of power then you will be safe. And absolutely nothing could be further from the truth.

Comment Re:Good work on the easy part! (Score 1) 30

Disagree. Why should people get a pass from accountability so long as they whitelist?

Fair point, perhaps I misstated the case. But if they at least made a reasonable attempt to be secure then I might be inclined to give them some leeway, unlike in all of these situations where there was none.

Comment Re:Yes they do (Score 1) 133

Yes, Grok absolutely operates under "strict neutrality rules" because the owner would NEVER manipulate anything to his own ideology ... ...

Do you actually believe his horseshit? Are you really that daft?

Do you believe this horseshit equally about Meta?

Do you suffer from extreme myopic vision of easily observed reality?

Comment Re:"reached orbit" is a misnomer (Score 1) 44

The two development models are as different as night and day.

SpaceX indexed on rapid iteration and tolerating catastrophic failure to learn from it.

Remember, NASA didn't exactly have a flawless execution record either - they blew up a LOT of early rockets that just didn't have people on them. They also launched Saturn III rockets unmanned to test systems before putting people on the scaled up Saturn V - in fact, the Apollo 7 mission was not launched on a Saturn V because it was only going to orbit. And they still killed a few people on the pad (Apollo 1 incident).

By the way, in case you think I'm some Musk fanboy, I hope he gets antibiotic-resistant chlamydia so he can have burning urination for the rest of his days.

Comment Re: Good! (Score 1) 53

RO wastes water. A really efficient rig only wastes about (side note, why the fuck does Google always think I'm trying to write "Scott" for "about"? Talk about a failure of statistical analysis) 8 gallons for every gallon produced... Not a big deal for most households for drinking water, and it can still go to the garden, but a big problem for a whole house system.

Comment Only makes training them safer and cheaper (Score 2) 4

Training the robots' models in a simulation before training them in the real world won't make them safer. In fact if anything it will make them less safe due to their earliest training being subtly different from reality. What it does is make it cheaper and less dangerous to train them, and faster because you can run the simulation faster than reality.

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