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  1. Re:People are getting smarter, the phone's aren't on Worldwide Smartphone Shipments Down For First Time Ever (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It likely also has a slower hard drive. Do laptops still come with 5400 rpm drives?

  2. Still not even 4G on Qualcomm's Simulated 5G Tests Shows How Fast Real-world Speeds Could Actually Be (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Browsing jumped from 56 Mbps for the median 4G user to more than 490 Mbps for the median 5G user

    So, we'll still be waiting for actual 4G speeds. Maybe "6G" or "7G" will finally meet the standards for 4G.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  3. That is a very bad translation indeed, but hey it's always fun on the internet to pretend you know more about someone's life than they know themselves, so have at it.

    You seem to have two different narratives about patents going on. One is that they're completely worthless, and the other is that only stupid or venal companies don't use them. Seems like a contradiction.

    On the whole I'd say your comment is overrated even at -1.

  4. I never said we were the first to ever come up with anything. No idea where you got that from my comment actually.

  5. Re:Except for the unpublished studies on Major New Study Confirms Antidepressants Really Do Work (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It wasn't funded by the pharmaceutical industry.

  6. Re:a distinction needs to be made - on Major New Study Confirms Antidepressants Really Do Work (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Tom Cruise knows! There is no such thing as chemical imbalance, right?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  7. Re:a distinction needs to be made - on Major New Study Confirms Antidepressants Really Do Work (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm glad I stopped taking them; my life sucks, but I can acknowledge that, and I'd rather deal with that knowledge than be a po-faced zombie again.

    It's possible there's another antidepressant that won't have those effects on you. I'm not saying you need pills, but just because the one you were on had side effects you didn't like doesn't mean they all do (or maybe you tried several, I don't know).

  8. Re:And this is news why? on 'Tech Companies Should Stop Pretending AI Won't Destroy Jobs' (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Makes perfect sense. I have a hard time believing our society is functional enough to handle this transition without massive suffering.

  9. Hey if you want to rail against uninsured drivers, go right ahead. It's totally unfair to others to drive a car around without the means to make someone else whole if you cause an accident. However, I would argue that is a very different complaint than "those poors sure have it easy because they have no money for the rest of us to take away from them with lawsuits".

  10. Re: bloody revolution on 'Automating Jobs Is How Society Makes Progress' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Is inequalty by itself a problem?

    If you really want to know, you can do some reading on the subject.

    https://www.google.com/search?...

  11. Re:Finally, some sanity on 'Automating Jobs Is How Society Makes Progress' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    It is NOT going to take everyone's job away.

    Why, because it didn't last time? Do you think this time is going to be just like last time? If so, why?

    There is NOT going to be a singularity.

    You seem very sure. How do you know this?

  12. Re:And this is news why? on 'Tech Companies Should Stop Pretending AI Won't Destroy Jobs' (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    civil unrest, wars and starvation until the populations stabilize at a supportable levels.

    And that's the part you're OK with? Or you're saying we should bring the population down before it gets to that point?

  13. Finally someone willing to take a bold stance against the free ride that the poor have enjoyed for far too long.

  14. My company doesn't bother with patents. We have competitors, and many of the apps have many of the same features. We compete on quality and service (and maybe price but I don't know about that). Somehow it's still worth improving our app even though our competitors are free to take our ideas and implement them independently.

  15. If this hasn't been happening up until now, there is no reason to think it will start happening once it becomes more difficult to pull off.

  16. If shooting for fun, I would find working a bolt more satisfying than just firing semi-auto. But maybe that's just me.

  17. If I understand correctly he bought the weapon recently; the idea is to keep people like him from buying them to begin with, not so much to confiscate them after the fact.

  18. Re:Repeal the 2nd amendment on President Trump: 'We Have To Do Something' About Violent Video Games, Movies (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Not to mention there was a (trained, professional) "good guy" with a gun at the Florida high school during the shooting, and he did nothing. The good guy with a gun theory is not looking so good.

  19. Re:And this is news why? on 'Tech Companies Should Stop Pretending AI Won't Destroy Jobs' (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    By that other guy's math, you're talking about the world population dropping to about a billion. Or the US to about 45 million. How would you envision that happening? Just curious.

  20. Re:basic income and higher taxes to pay for it on 'Tech Companies Should Stop Pretending AI Won't Destroy Jobs' (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    He means actually revolt, not have an election. When you vote a party out, that's not "reaching for the guns and torches".

  21. Re:Framing is important on 'Tech Companies Should Stop Pretending AI Won't Destroy Jobs' (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    I have to give it to you, I don't think I've ever seen anyone compare Obama to the Roman empire and Trump to the republic before. Also I'm curious if Obama's executive orders are "waving his pen" and Trump's are exercising appropriate executive power, or if you feel the same way about both of them.

  22. Socialist states don't redistribute wealth, but income.

    Property tax is a tax on wealth, is it not?

  23. Re:the jobs are already vanishing. on 'Tech Companies Should Stop Pretending AI Won't Destroy Jobs' (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    From TFS:

    Others remind us that every technology revolution has created new jobs as it displaced old ones. But it's dangerous to assume this will be the case again.

  24. Re:Teaching to fight back? on Boston Dynamics Is Teaching Its Robot Dog To Fight Back Against Humans (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, possibly the worst /. headline I've seen.

  25. Re:Well.. on Marvel Cinematic Universe Has a CGI Problem (screenrant.com) · · Score: 1

    Studios don't use CGI because it's cheap. The actors are getting paid anyway, it's not as though they're hourly and you can save money by sending them home. That's a sunk cost. CGI adds to the cost of a movie, it doesn't save money.

    https://misix.com/movie-qualit...