The xbone pitch was amazing for gamers who watched tv, it just never worked well out of the box. To actually watch live tv, you had to buy an additional dongle and an antenna, and then after spending all that on setting up your media center, you had to buy the remote separately.
And then the whole experience wasn’t as smooth as it should have been, and cable integration was very buggy in my experience.
Assuming these customers are the reason for the price hikes, their backing out is the demand loss needed to bring prices back down.
Open a corporation and buy your home and turn it into an AI data center.
Only the battery packs… Tesla for example, for what its worth (obligatory fuck Nazi Elon Musk), provides full detailed service manuals for free for ever component on the car.
The fact that Google is behind it is what makes it sketchy. I bet those mosquitoes are carrying 5G.
Truth. Fuck Google, fascist Genocide supporting oligarchs.
Their motives are not pure, for sure. But this program will save many lives, even if its strategic value to Google is long term self benefit.
Also, has anybody thought to ask why Google has 32 million mosquitoes on hand?
This isn’t new, releasing infertile male mosquitoes to reduce the population is a proven technique, and will genuinely reduce disease risk, so the public-health value is real. Why Google has them on hand? Well, they bought the company that started the program (Verily) and took it over, they have a lot of interest in the health and science sectors, not just AI and search/ads.
The real concern is that public health, ecological management, and climate adaptation are collective needs, but they are increasingly being handled through private corporate platforms. Debug can look humanitarian while also expanding Google’s role in governing public infrastructure, deciding how data is collected, how interventions are deployed, who gets served first, and who remains dependent on corporate technology.
Google is using a real public-health problem to develop a scalable bio-automation platform, gain regulatory and municipal trust, strengthen its public image, and position itself inside future public-health and climate-adaptation infrastructure.
They see huge profits and monopoly on technology that will likely become essential to our survival in the future, as they accelerate that likelihood with their reckless environmentally devastating technologies today. They’ll make us pay to use their technology to control pests that threaten our food supply. This isn’t charity, it’s long term strategic planning.
As for the immediate need, we’re gonna need this technology for the devastating future that’s coming, and since our corporate controlled government aren’t doing it themselves, it might be good to let it happen through evil corporations today, and hopefully when shit gets bad enough people will finally revolt and take ownership of it back to society, where it belongs. If not, we’ll continue to be slaves to corporations, but at least half the population won’t starve or die of mosquito spread diseases.
I don’t like that Google is doing it, and you’re absolutely right not to trust their stated motives, and no doubt they’re thinking of all possible evil applications of the technology in the future.
And they removed it for no obvious reason.
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just because the rich are a small percentage of the population obviously doesn’t mean they should be taxed less, that’s a wild statement.
That is a wild statement. That’s not even remotely close to what I said.
Rich people with summer homes in another state are likely not a major percentage of drivers, I’m guessing.
Tolls already handle the mileage part, and they already have different tolls per vehicle class, though the classes are outdated. But that can easily be adjusted.
The only downside of tolls is that they track your vehicle movement, but let’s not kid ourselves, flock cameras already track your movement to your neighborhood, and it’s run by an openly comically evil company.
Then kindly mash the letters on your keyboard randomly, perhaps it’ll form more words to explain what you’re trying to say than your previous attempts, because I’m honestly not clear on what points you’re attempting to make…
There is a difference between the claim that the workers aren’t pro capitalism when they make a good payout, alleging that I’m referring to the workers as capitalists, and me allegedly crediting capitalism itself.
What are you saying?
Workers wouldn’t be grateful for getting a “good” payout if they had the option to control the means of production and had the whole pot. They are grateful to have it within the confines of capitalism, if you’re saying they’re grateful for capitalism then you are crediting capitalism.
Yes, it is obvious that there is a group of people here deeply entrenched in the anglo-centristic world view of a 14 y/o kid who cannot fathom the concept of the average South Koran having a different view of capitalism than them, in light of South Korans having North Korea right across the border.
It is obvious that you think Koreans aren’t capable of thinking past surface level. Me see worst of North Korea, me grateful for capitalism. Good God.
SK Hynix workers are not capitalists either but payouts of $460,000-$477,000 per worker is not working class wage either.
Right, no one is happy to have to fight for a bigger share of the pot and still be shorted. Of course I’ll take $460K, but you’d be very stupid to credit capitalism for it…
You mean like South Korea where their poster child of anti-capitalism is North Korea, right across the border?
I don’t know what point you’re making.
You aren’t a capitalist if you’re paid well under capitalism, your labor is still being taking advantage of so the capitalist can buy a new summer mansion, you could still be fired for no reason, and you’re still one injury or automation or bad economic quarter away from being laid off.
Being pro capitalism when you don’t own capital is a result of a lifelong of propaganda and no understanding what capitalism is.
Proton (and Wine, what it’s based on) are not emulators. They are compatibility layers, it translates Windows system calls to native Linux system calls.
No… It’s a soft metal, but its melting point is 180.50 °C (Mercury’s is −38.8290 °C)
Fun fact, people often use css frameworks as a starting point and override a lot of built in classes to add their own look.
It is. I don’t understand how they thought any of that was sarcasm…
If you’re going to fact check someone in defense of a corporation, at least check the facts your self. https://www.anthropic.com/news/where-stand-department-war
Anthropic absolutely is in bed with fascists, their objection isn’t about the use of Claude to identify targets, it is explicitly about it being able to engage targets. They are totally fine with their AI identifying a school full of children as a terrorist command base as long as a human Nazi pushes the “fire” button. They’re well aware the human Nazis aren’t checking the AI’s work and the purpose of the AI is to identify targets that lead to heavy casualties, so the human Nazis don’t have to manually scan a map and cross reference it with Intel, the point is speed and they get to say AI did it when they blow up a school.
Anthropic is proud to be part of the genocide in Gaza, and wants to be part of future wars and genocides. “Anthropic has supported American warfighters since June 2024 and has every intention of continuing to do so.” https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-comments-secretary-war
And their objection is that their AI isn’t reliable enough not to engage American fighters by accident. They want fully autonomous weapons: “Fully autonomous weapons. Partially autonomous weapons, like those used today in Ukraine, are vital to the defense of democracy. Even fully autonomous weapons (those that take humans out of the loop entirely and automate selecting and engaging targets) may prove critical for our national defense. But today, frontier AI systems are simply not reliable enough to power fully autonomous weapons. We will not knowingly provide a product that puts America’s warfighters and civilians at risk.” https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war
You feel free to believe it’s all about civilians, but they didn’t make a fuss or pull out of using AI for war when it repeatedly identified children as targets, they only object to allowing Claude to also engage.
The fascists aren’t upset anthropic’s ai won’t let them identify children as targets, they’re upset it won’t also execute them.
You’re disingenuously portraying them as refusing to choose targets, which is exactly what they wanted from this whole drama.
They wanted confusion in the air and people to defend them, because they have their manufactured reputation to protect. They’re not a moral AI company, they just want people to think (and repeat) that they are.
Use Ferdium. Works flawlessly.
.net (core) is a mature framework and collection of great languages that work really well, perform really well, and is truly cross platform and open source. It’s the best thing Microsoft offers.