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- Comment on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel, as Trump expands control over private sector 54 minutes ago:
The loss of intel, its facilities and staff, would be a pretty hard blow.
- Comment on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel, as Trump expands control over private sector 22 hours ago:
While I don’t trust this administration in the slightest this isn’t unprecidented:
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In 2009 he U.S. government took an initial 9.85% ownership stake in Chrysler as part of the company’s bankruptcy restructuring. The government later sold its stake to the Italian automaker Fiat in 2011, exiting its investment completely.
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As part of the auto industry bailout in 2008 and 2009, the government received a 60.8% equity stake in GM. The government sold its final shares in 2013.
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American International Group (AIG): In its bailout, the U.S. government provided roughly $182 billion in aid and at one point held an almost 80% stake in the insurer. The government sold its last shares in 2012, ultimately making a profit.
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- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 3 days ago:
In the 90s everyone was getting “web certified”
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 4 days ago:
I demand total access to UK official’s private life then.
- Comment on My petty gripe: forced software updates just make everything worse 5 days ago:
On the other hand DoS attacks frequently depend on systems that haven’t had security updates to build up their zombie army.
- Comment on MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing 5 days ago:
The dream is to destroy things like entry level professional jobs so they can add to the class divide.
- Comment on MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing 5 days ago:
They are sucking up our power supply at a furious pace though.
- Comment on MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing 5 days ago:
All work with AI has to be double checked. It only works on the first try in the simplest of cases. Even then I need it to run through a few iterations to get the code features I want. You still have to be able to run through the code and understand it regardless of the source.
- Comment on MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing 5 days ago:
I have trouble just connecting to copilot many days.
- Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection 6 days ago:
Maybe Greenland’s size on the projection is what got Trump all worked up. :P
- Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection 6 days ago:
Geometry just isn’t PC
- Comment on We hate AI because it's everything we hate 6 days ago:
It dehumanizes us by devaluing the one thing that was unique to us, our minds and creativity.
- Comment on Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor 1 week ago:
We had to model moving vs static in the rain in a college physics class.
- Comment on Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor 1 week ago:
I’ve run out of upset energy. It is like trying to dodge rain drops now.
- Comment on Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates 1 week ago:
You want them to have a slightly smaller mansion on Nantucket island?
- Comment on Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates 1 week ago:
Should be a nice change from that silicon based butter I usually get.
- Comment on AOL to discontinue dial-up internet service after 34 years 1 week ago:
Incomes are lower in Brazil so they have to have lower prices. Avg income in the US is 4x that of Brazil.
www.nationmaster.com/…/Cost-of-living
I wouldn’t point fingers at the US from Brazil when it comes to corruption.
- Comment on Reddit will block the Internet Archive 1 week ago:
Not to mention all of Asia, South America, Africa…
- Comment on Reddit will block the Internet Archive 1 week ago:
So reddit will become even less valuable
- Comment on Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations 1 week ago:
The world is turning into one giant shitty customer service experience.
- Comment on Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display 2 weeks ago:
I agree that it seems most marketing firms are seemingly scamming businesses at this point. The internet is so saturated with absolute garbage ads that anyone buying ads must be expecting $0.001 return on the ad dollar.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 2 weeks ago:
Not sure what you mean, get rid of districts? If you break up the population into groups then you get a geographic area.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 2 weeks ago:
It was added for the president with Roosevelt. Likely because the president has much more power than a single congressman.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 2 weeks ago:
Anything to undermine democracy
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 2 weeks ago:
The real goal is to eliminate anonymity from the internet.
- Comment on Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg writes a manifesto on bringing "personal superintelligence" to everyone to improve humanity, but doesn't even define what superintelligence means. 3 weeks ago:
Wile E Coyote, super geeeenius.
- Comment on YSK: This recent war on adult content was mostly started by a single law in 2018, pushed by a few evangelical groups pretending to fight sexual exploitation 3 weeks ago:
Always using kids as an excuse to force religious restrictions on adults
- Comment on As governments around the world are set to make the Internet more restrictive and privacy-invading, we need a solution 3 weeks ago:
Back to printing presses
- Comment on Wyoming to host massive AI data center using more electricity than all Wyoming homes combined 3 weeks ago:
Remember how we were told to switch to led lights and efficient appliances to conserve power? Guess it was just to save it for data centers.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 3 weeks ago:
“We will force you to do what we want”, democracy in action