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Yes, and buying McDonald's to influence anything would be a joke too. In fact EA is the McD of gaming, thats a perfect metaphor. If you want influence, there are waaay better value…

>They're buying influence. Buying EA for influence? With the reputation EA has in gaming? They're a joke - they're not influencing anything. Its like buying a violin to fix a flat …

I'm really surprised at the hurry. The EU, and many EU governments, have been ramming through deeply unpopular legislation at a breakneck pace for no apparent reason, lately. It fe…

> Where have the hardcore nerds gone? Chased away by activists. I know of a couple guys who used to be active and eventually just gave up. There's only so much passive aggressive i…

Even if the money had been available. you can't just spawn millions of teachers out of nothing. there aren't that many people who can and want to do the job.

for me, some ads also utterly ruin the brand of the ad host. For example: here in France we have this one company whose business model is "get a 18.xx€ refund on your order (20€/mo…

I guess thats one important upside of age verification systems I didn't think of. They encourage creativity and a healthy disregard for stupid rules.

what would be the point of the government fining itself though? Now that I'm thinking of it, it would create the need for an extra gaggle of bureaucrats to oversee the process,so I…

Nah, sorry, enshittification is not "just an excuse". My current 2020 phone(xperia 5-ii - I wanted that sd slot&jack) is noticeably slower than when I got it, even though the batte…

good. now do the software enshittification part, which is the real driver of device obsolescence. being able to replace the battery is nice, but if the new battery lasts half as lo…

You don't have to replace the phone. You can go to some repair shop and get the battery replaced. It will be several times cheaper than a new phone. Very few people do that. I don'…

its a question of degree. going to the barracks when you get called up by mail vs getting grabbed off the street, punched in the face and shoved into a bus headed for the training …

>Human responsibility is not the same as human decision making. this is going to end up being interpreted as "well, the president signed off on the operation. see - there's a human…

I think its also important that while people may callously say "just nuke'em", if you were to hand them a red button and tell them to go ahead and do it - most wouldn't. But that l…

>China...where you cannot criticize the CCP? I'd be more worried about the data being stolen and resold even faster than elsewhere tbh. staying out of the way of the ccp as a rando…

assuming the hegemon is benevolent. if the hegemon isnt, you have nowhere to run. welcome to the labor camp, please leave your belongings here, the showers are to the right. saying…

Fair enough, but so is 800cal/h exercise. And I'd rather overestimate the intake.

I think it sort of depends on how you look at it. If 800 is an hour of running - that's probably "a lot" for quite a few people. But 800 is also just a sandwich. Which isn't all th…

this will arguably be worse. you'll just get replication rings in addition to citation rings. People who cheat in their papers will have no issues cheating in their replication stu…

the alternative - not buying ads - is worse though. No one knows about you, and you sell nothing. so it ends up being seen as a cost of doing business. that is passed on to paying …

>you would still be bottlenecked on human's ability to actually evaluate and verify what it is doing and reconciling that with what you wanted it to do. this sort of assumes that m…

people use aws despite it being 2x-10x the cost of self hosting. cost isnt everything.

questioning someone's moral authority isnt equivalent to supporting his opponent.

when evil dies, the need to pretend to be good in the face of it, dies as well.

Its always been foggy. Even without AI, you were always at risk of having your field disrupted by some tech you didn't see coming. AI will probably replace the bottom ~30-70%(depen…