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Comment Too late for that (Score 5, Insightful) 59

Monitoring Analytics is floating the idea that data centers should be required to procure their own power. In a filing last month, it said that would avoid a "massive wealth transfer" from average people to tech companies.

Remind me how much Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerburg are worth again? And what was the subject of that little tax bill the Republicans pushed through Congress recently?

Comment Re:windows key (Score 1) 32

Launching an application via quick search can be much faster than selecting it from a menu or an oft-crowded desktop (even assuming you can *see* the icons on your desktop). I've been doing this on a Mac for a couple decades now (first with Quicksilver, then later with Spotlight), and I've used it on my Mint machine for some time as well.

Comment The real lesson (Score 4, Insightful) 71

Social media outrage just doesn't have any staying power. So, all a company has to do is grin and bear it for a few weeks until the next outrage-du-jour comes around... or, at worst, until people simply get tired of hearing about whatever it is that sparked the outrage in the first place.

Comment Re:Hello AI skeptics (Score 1) 92

How tough are those questions? You could literally spend the rest of your life trying to answer a single question from that exam

It would take you the rest of your life to answer the example question from that page you linked?

"Hummingbirds within Apodiformes uniquely have a bilaterally paired oval bone, a sesamoid embedded in the caudolateral portion of the expanded, cruciate aponeurosis of insertion of m. depressor caudae. How many paired tendons are supported by this sesamoid bone? Answer with a number."

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