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Comment AI Integration is not a benefit (Score 5, Insightful) 56

If anything AI integration is a net negative from the way Windows has implemented Copilot. The same way you don't want Google integrated into your system search (like Microsoft also implemented), you want your chats to be segregated from your system features. The only people I've talked to that actually desire an "AI PC" can't explain why they want it, they just want to be future proofed.

Comment Re:How did they lose a slam dunk? (Score 1) 19

I think people have memory loss when they say they desire microtransactions. Every time in history its only resulting in higher costs to consumers. Remember when people were saying cable was a rip off at like $40/month for their package of 150 channels plus $20/month for a couple premium channels. Well now if you want those same channels/movies you've got to combine Netflix, Youtube Premium, Hulu, Disney Plus, Paramount, HBO etc. and you'd easily need to be paying double or triple, and still somehow there are countless shows that you don't have access to because hit shows just randomly pop up on random services. Pay per view is already a thing, it's ads typically earn networks more for now. If we aren't careful, the super bowl and every other sports game is going to run you $99.95 per screen and you won't have a monthly subscription option at all, while wanting to watch maybe 1 show per month that costs the same as a monthly subscription. Meanwhile new content is recycled into massive amounts of sequels, like movies are now, because there is no profit potential for new shows.

Comment Grade Inflation Or Something else? (Score 1) 125

Grade Inflation sounds like a way to say one of two things, students are getting smarter and working harder (or using ChatGPT) or they are dumbing down the education standards to make sure students get an A. From my own college experience, not at Harvard, undergraduate classes are turning into high school courses in their grading system - meaning - some classes would count things like participation in the grade and if the average on any test was below a B average, bring everyone's score up so the average was at least a B. In reality, they should only look at tests and say "did the course actually cover the material people are getting wrong?" and "what percentage of students missed that question?" If 75% of people got a multiple choice question wrong, odds are it was a bad question. Instead they simply ensure Grade Inflation occurs no matter what so they can get a good grade on rate my professor.

Comment Ditch Wordpress (Score 2) 9

Only two things have made me want to delete word press are the idiot who runs the thing and breaks websites so he can blackmail people who use his open source software, and Wordpress addons. If I knew that anything other than basic functionality requires buying an additional addon then I would have just used Shopify, Squarespace, or Wix for any website and paid the $10/month.

Comment Energy is an eco-system (Score 0) 66

For those now claiming electric vehicles no longer help the environment because they have Tesla derangement syndrome, just remember that electricity needs an entire ecosystem built around it to succeed. You need both the power and the use of it to be environmentally friendly. Just installing solar doesn't do anything if you still have internal combustion engine cars burning fuel. Electric cars are a huge necessity to reducing reliance on fossil fuels.

Comment Re:Also Trump is about to put his youngest son (Score 0, Troll) 40

This is not true, but are you seriously considering Trump's highly successful business person to Hunter Biden who is a self described addict who is on video smoking crack and partying with girls who look about 10 years old and also who got caught literally saying he is giving 10% of the money from a deal to 'the big guy' aka Joe Biden??? Big difference.

Comment Re:Space junk (Score 1) 42

The amount of things in space are extremely small. You could have 100 million satellites and still not fill a 0.000001% of the sky. Think about how large the surface of the Earth is, now expand that further into space and multiple it by millions because you can have practically infinite parallel layers of satellites. Think about running into another boat out in the middle of the ocean but also being able to dive like a submarine or fly like a bird to avoid it. Starlink satellites are the exact opposite of space junk, they are active and useful.

Comment Re:Lets be Clear (Score 0) 70

This would mean a landlord wouldn't be allowed to own multiple buildings either because they would be setting the same price in the same method in multiple buildings. The only problem is when the are colluding to fix the price with a MAJORITY of the market, essentially holding a monopoly. Price fixing doesn't work without a majority.

Comment Re:Lets be Clear (Score 1) 70

The AI or algorithm software would have no knowledge of the other landlords prices, so it can't fix to any specific price. Also every building is completely unique and literally in a different location, even 1 block makes a huge difference in rents. By that logic using any information at all in the same manner that your competitor does would be price fixing, which of course it isn't. Both landlords can look at the public rents of their neighbors like an algorithm would. But for some reason because if it's an AI doing it that's now illegal?

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