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Comment Re:Wolves annoyed by farmer's fences (Score 4, Informative) 128

Not really. They all demand certain hooks that will give up your identity. For if they allowed truly anonymous behaviour I could visit twitter without an account. Try visiting and seeing content on Facebook or Twitter without an account. Reddit will allow it for the most part, but Instagram nags you. The others just say log in to see this content.

Comment Re:Wolves annoyed by farmer's fences (Score 4, Interesting) 128

DUDE you nailed it! If social media really cared they would have done this already. But they realize it will lead to less clicks, less addictions.

How less addictions? Because kids will have to find other means to amuse themselves. You know like maybe going outside? Doing sports? Having a hobby? There have been quite a few studies that have indicated social media at such a young age is not good for the development of the mind. Once you are older it is less problematic.

Comment Re: Australia (Score 5, Insightful) 128

No this is not a government issued license to allow you to speak. Children can continue to speak. They can continue to interact on the Internet. However... people drive at either 16 or 18. People are considered adults at 18. People can legally drink from 16 to 21 depending on the country. The list goes on there are plenty of restrictions and they make sense. Free speech is not absolute. Otherwise if you really believe it you would not be a paranoid anonymous coward. You would put your money where your mouth is.

Comment Re: I don't understand (Score 1) 1605

Oh go to hell, stupid son of a bitch. People like you are disgusting. You sit there on your high horse behind a keyboard where its safe to say bullshit like this. Comparing Trump to Hitler? You really are fucking disgusting. You there and make casual comments like this with having a god damn clue what Hitler and his regime was really like. You have not the slightest idea what living under a real dictator is like.

Go find someone that survived the camps of WWII. Let them show you the tattoos, listen to their stories on what Hitler was really like. Go find some Cubans that drifted to freedom on a raft of milk jugs. Talk to them what a real dictator is.

Till then, when you have a real idea about what a real dictatorship is like. Shut the fuck up.

Comment Re: I don't understand (Score 1) 1605

Thing is, we should only report Trump supporters and their families. I know some already and this is very tempting.

Go ahead, do it. I dare you too. This is not the same Trump administration as the first one. Filing a false clam like that is a crime, and opens you for civil liability.

You idiots need to back off and read the god damn room. Trump didn't just eek by like in 2016. He was carried in golden surf board riding a red wave. He won the popular vote and the electoral college by margins not seen since Reagan. An not in just one demographic; in almost all demographics he was up by double digits. This includes Latins who he is threatening to deport. They don't want the illegals here ether.

An it just doesn't stop there. Democrats lost the House and the Senate, as well. You almost lost California. Take a look at the district maps on election returns for California. They tossed out that horrible DA and replace him with a Republican. Next round of elections, California might turn red.

What happened Thursday was a sound rejection of the Democratic party's agenda. Might be time for you step back and examine your own policies. An if you are here illegally, might be time for you get legal or hit that road back to where you came from.

Comment Re:Need scientific source for margin of error (Score 3, Interesting) 200

Why are you classified as a troll? You asked the right question. When I read the headline;

"Adjusting for this bias revealed that the summer of 2023 was about 2.3 C above pre-industrial temperatures from this period. "

I read BS. Let me explain it this way. Imagine you do statistical sampling. It relies on the fact that data follows a Gaussian curve. The problem is that if your data is incomplete, LIKE SAID IN THE ARTICLE, then you can't do statistical adjustment. Of course it has not stopped the statisticians making things up, but it still does not make it right.

What makes this bias adjustment worse is that we are considered to have a completely out of whack value. Since we are not following the gaussian curve since we are out of whack it means the data is useless.

UNLESS and here is where it bugs me to no end, we want to make the assertion that climate change is out of control and a statistical outlier. Guess which one folks are following. Yeah... This is why I am skeptical, and why it surprises me that you are marked as a troll.

Comment Re:Lol. (Score 1) 102

But here is the problem even as a first pass it is bad as a first pass. Let's do a first pass and I get somebody who has rigged the paper to pass through the system. If we see a B or even an A and assume the system assignment is correct then we have a false negative. Thus if this happens often enough what then? How can you trust a system that has that? You have to read each and every one of the papers, which puts us right back in square one.

Submission + - A Framework for AI Legislation (mindmatters.ai)

johnnyb writes: There has been a lot of ink spilled about the "need" for AI Legislation, but few details about what that would look like. Here are proposals for a framework for what AI legislation should cover, what policy goals it should aim to achieve, and what we should be wary of along the way.
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America's Most Exciting High Speed Rail Project Gets $3 Billion Grant From Feds (vice.com) 99

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: A high-speed train from the greater Los Angeles area to Las Vegas took a big step closer to reality thanks to a $3 billion federal grant from the Department of Transportation and Joe Biden's signature infrastructure law. The proposed line will be built by Brightline West, a private company owned by Fortress Investment Group. It promises to use all-electric high-speed trains that can travel up to 180 mph, which will half the travel time from Los Angeles to Las Vegas without even taking into account the terrible traffic during peak travel times. The one catch is the LA station will be in Rancho Cucamonga, about 45 miles from Union Station (it is, however, connected via Metrolink trains). The Las Vegas station is more centrally located close to the airport. [...]

Brightline West may be the flashiest rail project in the U.S. at the moment, but it's hardly alone. The U.S. is experiencing a modest but real resurgence in rail expansion thanks to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. In addition to Brightline West, a Raleigh-to-Richmond rail corridor received a $1 billion grant to be fit for reliable passenger service, a major boon to a region with good bones for passenger service and high demand that has become neglected and dominated by freight rail. North Carolina is experiencing record passenger rail ridership thanks to more service between Raleigh and Charlotte, two metro areas that have experienced massive population booms in recent decades and desperately need better rail service. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Act is also providing tens of billions of dollars in funding to upgrade Northeast Corridor infrastructure between Washington D.C. and Boston, the nation's busiest rail route. The other California High Speed rail route, the one that a state authority has been trying to build for decades that will only go from Bakersfield to Merced, also received $3 billion in federal funding.

Comment Re:Tax dollars at work (Score 1, Interesting) 98

It is very much a monopoly issue. Think of it as follows. You have a company that controls the platform. Then they create a media platform where Apple is a preferred media player. After all trying to get Apple TV working well on non Apple devices is a non-starter. It is kinda there, but it is really is just there for show. Now with one of these shows they create is something that could be considered as comedy journalism.

Thus comes the question are they allowed to use their platform which dominates as a censor? The natural answer seems to be yes they can do what they want. HOWEVER they have a monopoly and thus the rules change. Thus the question from the government is, what were the conditions of this cancellation? Maybe it is abusive power, maybe not, but you don't know until you ask questions.

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