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Kamala Harris’ Donors Privately Urge Firing of FTC’s Khan, SEC’s Gensler
The FTC has been CRUSHING IT under the current leaders by actually enforcing existing rules. I hope Kamala tells those donors to pound sand.
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Kamala Harris’ Donors Privately Urge Firing of FTC’s Khan, SEC’s Gensler
The FTC has been CRUSHING IT under the current leaders by actually enforcing existing rules. I hope Kamala tells those donors to pound sand.
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First Human Patient to Receive a Neuralink Brain Implant Used it to Stay Up All Night Playing Civilization 6
It sounds like things are going well for this guy and that is great and all, but how much would we honestly expect to hear if it wasn't going well?
This story is circulating all the media outlets and feels more like PR than a legit example of how this procedure is actually going to work for most people.
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Hotel Guard Barges Into Women’s Restroom, Accuses Lesbian Guest Of Being A Man
Anybody remember those SNL skits where a character named Pat was not clearly male or female, and the whole joke was how everyone was just confused about how to address them but still ended up being polite and friendly? I don't understand how our culture got from there to people demanding proof of gender from strangers.
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From the wiki article :
Perelman resigned from his research post in Steklov Institute of Mathematics and in 2006 stated that he had quit professional mathematics, owing to feeling disappointed over the ethical standards in the field. >
Anybody have any idea what the ethical standards might be that he's referring to? Not sure if there's a scandal or something or just an overall sense of displeasure with the field.
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If they wanted to make this movie a success they should have had ONE PERSON from the writing, directing and (most importantly) casting team sit down and play the games.
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Fairbuds are Fairphone’s proof that we really could make better tiny gadgets
What I don't get is how no company seems to have worked out a legitimately good service and maintenance model for tech products. Fairphone hasn't invented the wheel here. They're going to make money on maintenance, parts and repair.
I would think there would be lowered costs involved in not having to push out a new product every 6 months and market it to customers who just bought something less than a year ago.
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The Borderlands Movie Is Seemingly Struggling To Sell Tickets
They lost me the second they announced the cast. It's like the people making the movie never once opened up a single one of the games.
Kevin Hart as Roland is just infuriating. It shows they had no intention of treating the IP with any level of respect and they just wanted a campy action comedy with famous actors.
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Palworld's community manager says our 'dead game' fixation is ruining gaming: 'I don't think it really serves anyone to push gamers to play the same game, day in and day out'
"If we expect all games to attract players indefinitely, Buckley says, 'we're just going to get more of these really soulless live service games that come out and get shut down nine months later, 12 months later, because they're not making enough money.'"
We need more developers talking like this.
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Study Finds That 52 Percent of ChatGPT Answers to Programming Questions Are Wrong
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Yeah, but the non-tech savvy business leaders see they can generate code with AI and think 'why do I need a developer if I have this AI?' and have no idea whether the code it produces is right or not. This stat should be shared broadly so leaders don't overestimate the capability and fire people they will desperately need.
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None of these anchors are real: Channel 1 plans for AI to generate news, broadcasters
"they intend to re-create events not captured by camera using generative AI,"
That's going to cause all sorts of problems.
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Inflation screwing you over? Just invest!
What's extra annoying about this is that in his story, his mom gets screwed over by the hospital so rather than thinking to complain or go elsewhere he thinks 'yah im gonna invest in that'. Investing in bad actors like that just reinforces their shitty behavior.
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Trump criminal case: Full 12-person jury seated in Manhattan
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One already has, sort of anyway. Her occupation, city of residence, and employer were shared on TV and she received phone calls right after asking if she was on the jury. Yesterday she asked to be excused out of fear for her safety.
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New Guidelines Call on Doctors to Take IUD Insertion Pain Seriously
Had IUDs inserted twice in two different hospital systems in different states, but it was the same kind of awful both times.
Both times I was told to take ibuprofen beforehand, and that did absolutely nothing. But because it had been so bad the first time, with the second one I thought I'd be smart and took a vicodin I had from a prior procedure.
I still to lay in the room for 15 min after, trying not to vomit, and I nearly passed out. After , I walked to my car where I just sat there for 30 more min to rest. Even with vicodin it is the worst pain I have ever experienced in my life.
Not one ounce of sympathy or concern from anyone on staff.
It's nice there are new guidelines, but I feel like it's going to take more than that to make healthcare workers give a shit about this.
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FDA head calls on Congress to pass mandatory testing for lead in food
How in the name of hell is this not already a thing?
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Apple has kept an illegal monopoly over smartphones in US, Justice Department says in antitrust suit
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- Force them to allow the use of hardware without an account.
This should be a rule for all products.
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The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think (2016)
Wow, this is bleak.
I read somewhere (I think the deloitte tech survey from a few years ago) that many people have replaced their pc with smartphones and use their phone as their primary tech device. Would be interesting to see if any of these low-level skill folks are actually high (or higher) on mobile skills.
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Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites
I still don't understand why they keep going after piracy when it is a symptom of the bigger problem. Movies today are expensive and often made inaccessible through BS digital services that periodically just make films and TV unavailable to save server space or avoid paying for licensing.
I would guess that the vast majority of people are not pirating content. I'd also guess that if digital providers and studios would actually try to change the distribution model that allows customers to buy content that is later turned off on a whim, they would see meaningful change in piracy activity.
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Looks like Valve is introducing a new review system to filter out "unhelpful" reviews
Good. I'm sick of seeing the "pet this cat" reviews at the top of the list. Hopefully this changes some of that stuff.
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The AP establishes style guidance on the Gulf of Mexico and Mount McKinley
This is a seriously stupid issue.
Why can't we deal with this like twitters name change where everyone basically ignores it and just keeps calling it the same name as before?
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Biden pledges to name progressives to the Supreme Court, suggesting he expects vacancies
He should pull an FDR and try to get the court expanded to 12.