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Comment Re:Bad things are bad even when Musk is involved (Score 1) 161

by Parallelo (#64750422) Attached to: Brazil Blocks X

Wow... and yup. Well said.

"False information" seems to be at the heart of Brazil's move, and it sounds to me to be well intentioned.

Society had to figure its way through free speech vs shouting "fire" in a crowded theatre. I hope that we find our way through this labyrinth too before the default becomes: no free speech. Things are moving fast.

Such a hugely important issue. Interesting times.

Comment Re:The grand master plan of crypto (Score 1) 9

by Parallelo (#64426080) Attached to: Stripe To Start Taking Crypto Payments, Starting With USDC Stablecoin
Where have I heard that before?

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fcomme...
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fit.slashdot.org%2Fcommen...
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fcomme...
https://f6ffb3fa-34ce-43c1-939d-77e64deb3c0c.atarimworker.io/comments....


... ad nauseum.

Comment Hive Blockchain: a masterclass in mismanagement (Score 1) 48

by Parallelo (#64192768) Attached to: Companies Once Focused On Mining Cryptocurrency Pivot To Generative AI

The only thing Hive Blockain (or whatever) consistently delivers is late financials:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fsearch%3F...

This company is EverFail. Any "strategic shift" is "pivoting" to a new grift, and has nothing at all to do with AI.

Comment Re:Isn't it great (Score 1) 105

The real solution is to increase supply by eliminating tariffs, establish price controls on commodities to cap profits, streamlining distribution, adding production capacity, or subsidizing increased production of goods.

You're talking policy over politics. I think that died sometime around 1972.

The root cause of this is our broken campaign finance laws. Our politicians are paid through campaign donations by the people who like the existing system. They have so much money, they don't need to borrow and are happy that would be competitors cannot get financing.

... that and insider trading. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Fintera...

Comment Re:Wildly popular for what exactly? (Score 2) 49

by Parallelo (#63831172) Attached to: ChatGPT Traffic Slips Again for Third Month in a Row

It's useful when used appropriately.

Agree completely.

It’s super-useful to me, like being able to interview the google or maybe an [somewhat leaky] expert in the field.

Examples?

  • https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fengineers_feed%2Fstatus%2F1697242502821220690
  • * Please explain this tweet quoting Neil Armstrong (I am not an engineer and it helped unravel the inner poetry.. breaking out and explaining each phrase for me. Who tf knew about steam tables? Then it summarized “ So, in essence, Armstrong is sharing his passion for engineering in a poetic and nerdy way. It's a celebration of intellectual curiosity and a lifetime dedicated to scientific exploration ”)
  • * Please explain about the Feynman point.
  • * more pi: tell me about Akira Haraguchi

Throw in “additional context” that it wouldn’t otherwise know (war in Ukraine, et al) and ask for a bull/bear case for oil prices. Or factors to determine if a stock price is bottoming. Or an executive summary of [y].

  • Or even a list of unique ideas to think about that might be entirely new.

I get those answers in minutes. Minutes. Fuck googling.

  • Writing? Have it edit your shit for clarity and brevity.

So many people hear/try this new tool (eg hammer) and decide that it’s not for them because it can’t polish their glassware.

Submission + - 8bit computer culture behind the Iron Curtain (crowdfundr.com)

Submitted by lameron
lameron writes: New documentary, Stamps Back. From Commodore 64s smuggled across the Iron Curtain to cracked games on cassette tapes sold at flea markets, floppy disk swapping via postal mail, hacked phone booths connected to US BBSes, and copy parties packed to capacity, Stamps Back tells the story of how teenagers in Hungary ignited a computing revolution in the 1980s with illegally copied video games from the West, and began the Hungarian demoscene. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcrowdfundr.com%2Fstampsb...

Submission + - Equifax Stock Sales Are the Focus of US Criminal Probe (bloomberg.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The U.S. Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into whether top officials at Equifax Inc. violated insider trading laws when they sold stock before the company disclosed that it had been hacked, according to people familiar with the investigation. U.S. prosecutors in Atlanta, who the people said are looking into the share sales, said in a statement they are examining the breach and theft of people’s personal information in conjunction with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Securities and Exchange Commission is working with prosecutors on the investigation into stock sales, according to another person familiar with the matter. Investigators are looking at the stock sales by Equifax’s chief financial officer, John Gamble; its president of U.S. information solutions, Joseph Loughran; and its president of workforce solutions, Rodolfo Ploder, said two of the people, who asked not to be named because the probe is confidential. Equifax disclosed earlier this month that it discovered a security breach on July 29. The three executives sold shares worth almost $1.8 million in early August. The company has said the managers didn’t know of the breach at the time they sold the shares. Regulatory filings don’t show that the transactions were part of pre-scheduled trading plans.

Submission + - 8 IT Hiring Trends — And 8 Going Cold

Submitted by snydeq
snydeq writes: Recruiting and retaining tech talent remains IT’s biggest challenge today, writes Paul Heltzel, in an article on what trends are heating up and what’s cooling off when it comes to IT staffing. 'One thing hasn’t changed this year: Recruiting top talent is still difficult for most firms, and demand greatly outstrips supply. That’s influencing many of the areas we looked at, including compensation and retention. Whether you’re looking to expand your team or job searching yourself, read on to see which IT hiring practices are trending and which ones are falling out of favor.' What are you seeing companies favoring in the hiring market these days?

Submission + - Clean-Burning 'Blue Whirl' Could Help Clean Oil Spills (sciencenews.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: An unfortunate mix of electricity and bourbon has led to a new discovery. After lightning hit a Jim Beam warehouse in 2003, a nearby lake was set ablaze when the distilled spirit spilled into the water and ignited. Spiraling tornadoes of fire leapt from the surface. In a laboratory experiment inspired by the conflagration, a team of researchers produced a new, efficiently burning fire tornado, which they named a blue whirl. To re-create the bourbon-fire conditions, the researchers, led by Elaine Oran of the University of Maryland in College Park, ignited liquid fuel floating on a bath of water. They surrounded the blaze with a cylindrical structure that funneled air into the flame to create a vortex with a height of about 60 centimeters. Eventually, the chaotic fire whirl calmed into a blue, cone-shaped flame just a few centimeters tall, the scientists report online August 4 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The soot-free blur whirls could be a way of burning off oil spills on water without adding much pollution to the air, the researchers say, if they can find a way to control them in the wild.

Submission + - Every Month This Year Has Been the Hottest in Recorded History (vice.com)

Submitted by iONiUM
iONiUM writes: From the article:

On Wednesday, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that July was the hottest month ever recorded on our planet, since modern record-keeping began in 1880. NASA has reached the same conclusion. July smashed all previous records.

“We should be absolutely concerned,” Sanchez-Lugo said. “We need to look at ways to adapt and mitigate. If we don’t, temperatures will continue to increase.”

Next year is expected to be slightly less intense, with the fierce El Niño we’ve been experiencing now abating. But the truth is that record-breaking temperatures, month after month, year after year, are starting to look less like an exception, more like the norm.

Comment Re:FFS - how much more 'climate change' bullshit h (Score 2) 130

by Parallelo (#50462915) Attached to: The Paris Climate Talks: Negotiating With the Atmosphere

Why not rename it 'Climatedot' and have done with it?

There is no such thing as 'catastrophic man-made global warming', .... There has been no warming for 18 years!

I keep seeing that same response posted as AC to climate stories - here on "stuff that matters". Complete with a link for further info:

http://www.climatedepot.com...

Which is partially funded by the ExxonMobil foundation http://www.sourcewatch.org/ind...

Maybe this would be a lot easier if we went back to a dialogue on "pollution", which more folks could easily see value in limiting.

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