dustyData

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[–] dustyData 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

That's an awful take. Most of the whales and people caught in the casinos who suffer the highest financial loses are neurodivergent or people with mental illnesses, kids with their parents credit card, the elderly and overall the most vulnerable to manipulation. Those are the people that the gambling mechanics specifically aim for.

[–] dustyData 4 points 2 months ago

Most likely, as with all AI as a service startups. After a certain mass of users the models can't keep up. So to reduce the response times they pay offshore firms to have real people answer the chat. Unfortunately, doctors willing to answer a chat all day are way less numerous than cheap labor.

[–] dustyData 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

He fought a young competitive boxer once and lost so awfully he never tried again. His career is entirely based on beating up geriatric boxers. He is not out there boxing sub 16 kids because they won't let him. He would definitely punch kids in the face if allowed to.

[–] dustyData 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

Yes, of course. Because oil has never depended on outside countries that are openly hostile. No sire, thank goodness we rely on a power source that no war has ever been fought for, ever in history.

/s

[–] dustyData 2 points 2 months ago

It means nothing, it's just a paycheck you sign and then you get to say "I certify my OS is Unix". The little bit more technical part is POSIX compliance but modern OSs are such massive and complex beasts today that those compliances are tiny parts and very slowly but very surely becoming irrelevant over time.

Apple made OSX Unix certified because it was cheap and it got them off the hook from a lawsuit. That's it.

[–] dustyData 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Digging on Concord was funny for longer than its server were online.

[–] dustyData 32 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

It took Rome anything between one and five centuries to fall. Damn, if you ask some people today it's possible to argue that the Roman empire still technically exists.

[–] dustyData 37 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

We aren't looking at those old galaxies today. Due to the speed of light and the vast distance involved we are looking at the light from those galaxies when they were very young and early in the life of the universe (that's why we are looking there in the first place). That light is just now reaching us. We have theorized about white holes but never seen one. By looking at closer objects we already know what an old galaxy looks like. And nothing can by definition exist before the big bang. Because before the big bang there wasn't any space for things to exist in. Nothing precedes it.

[–] dustyData 9 points 2 months ago

Jedis were so irresponsible. Giving weapons to such little kids.

[–] dustyData 39 points 3 months ago

I mean, sure he was alive. But he wasn't physically there.

[–] dustyData 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Luddites weren't against new technology, they were against the aristocrats using new technology as a tool or excuse to oppress and kill the labor class. The problem is not the new technology, the problem is that people were dying of hunger and being laid off in droves. Destroying the machinery, which almost always they were the operators of when working on said aristocrat's factories, was an act of protest, just like a riot, or a strike. It was a form of collective bargaining.

[–] dustyData 3 points 3 months ago

You assume most stock investors read beyond the headline, you assume wrong.

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