I guess it depends how you evaluate “holding up”. There are inconsistencies and holes in the way their system works if you look at everyone as omniscient, but it’s pretty clear they aren’t, so most of the stuff you can point to could just as easily be explained as not understanding the system fully. I’d say Janet is the hardest to reconcile in terms of continuity, though.

There are a lot of real examples of real philosophical dilemmas, and the show does a good job of showing the cruelties of some of those systems in a visible way. I think Chidi is absolutely believable as at the level of knowledge of a philosophy professor. It’s worth noting that a core trait of the field is questioning the actually unknowable, so there isn’t a “real” answer to compare to.

You were fine. There’s definitely enough with influence to push that agenda, and it warrants bitterness.

I’m only correcting it in the hopes that people recognize the groups pushing for that are full of shit and just trying to extract value and leave normal shareholders holding the bag.

They didn’t “boot” news sites. News sites got a law passed that completely broke the internet by requiring sites to pay for the privilege of doing them the service of linking to their news content. You can’t pretend they’re stealing from you by displaying the content you explicitly ask them to display, then also say they’re fucking you over by not displaying your content in response to you claiming that linking to it is stealing from you.

The only issue with this (outside of the fact that it’s still on a Facebook service, which means it’s impossible for it to be justifiable to use) is that the setting isn’t “zero” instead of “limited”.

Yes, if you install malware it can be malware.

This specifically was in response to a claim about the police taking your laptop despite the fact that it doesn’t appear to enhance their ability to do anything with possession of your laptop until they are able to bypass a password.

Fiduciary duty as a search term should get you a lot more information.

The “short term profit” argument is one certain types of investors like to push, but it’s not really supported by anything and it’s very often not actually in the interest of the majority of shareholders.

Fiduciary duty does not require you do what they want. If the majority of stock holders don’t like your management, they can replace you. Fiduciary duty basically just means that you have to act in good faith.

But your assertion also isn’t true. Most shareholders are long term shareholders who want stable growth, not the short term spikes followed by hard crashes that are the result of forcibly extracting profit without paying appropriate attention to long term sustainability.

There’s a fiduciary duty to the shareholders, but a fiduciary duty doesn’t mean that you’re obligated to maximize profit at all costs. It just means that you’re obligated to act in the interest of your shareholders.

If the board or officers use their position to push for a contract that benefits some other interest they hold at the expense of the company, that’s a breach of fiduciary duty. Simply preserving the value of the company over short term gains, having a different approach to risk, or other good faith behavior don’t violate fiduciary duty.

I don’t care what “quality of life” improvements they bring,

None.

That’s not true.

It’s definitely funny how they identify as Christian while ignoring everything Christ taught.

Stretch, yoga, meditate.

Naproxen is what works for me.

My headaches are mostly tension from hamstrings on up the back.

A sinus rinse and Sudafed helps when it’s sinus congestion.

Their entire governance is the US legal system. They do not exist outside of it.

Actually happening worldwide isn’t likely. But Google and Apple would not be able to comply with China in that case. They’d be obligated to leave the market. They’re US companies. US Law supersedes any other obligations. And it wouldn’t be the first time the US government has forbidden any business with a foreign company.

“If the government felt it was a sufficiently critical tool” is exactly why banning it is a genuine possibility, though. Because the Chinese government does exercise far more direct control of how their companies operate, and that control does make TikTok a very real threat to national security.

If Apple and Google were French companies, for example, though, banning it from the US app stores would still be completely within the government’s authority and would be unlikely to create any real tension between the US and France. Telling them they had to ban it globally or be banned from the US probably would, but sovereignty means being able to put some limitations on interactions between foreign companies within your market.

I decided to finally get an action camera a couple weeks ago. I watched however many hours of video between the GoPro and DJI Action, finally decide on the Action 4, Best Buy says they have it so I go to the store.

There’s fucking no one there. The entire camera area has basically bare shelves, they don’t even have the action 4 displayed or any indication that they sell it despite being one of basically two options, and there’s no one to get to go get me one. I ended up putting in an order on the app and wandering the mall for 20 minutes.

Fucking stupid.

It’s under US jurisdiction if it’s on the app stores.

The US government could require Apple and Google to block it from going through their stores anywhere on the planet as US companies.

Specific programs can. You can probably train specific models and alter datasets to include them as well.

But we’re past the point where photo and video is sufficient on its own. Especially when there’s a possibility of state level actors benefiting.

It still requires user level access, which means they have to bypass my login password first, which would give them most of that anyways.

Am I missing something?

Nvidia knows exactly what current AI can and can’t do. They built a lot of the underlying technology to bring it within the realm of possibility.

That doesn’t mean there isn’t a path to actual AI or that nvidia can’t play a big role in getting there. If you want to do a lot of highly parallel math, Nvidia has the expertise for that.

I really liked their spiked lemonade and whatever the berry one was.