Okay, so, sources? Anyone? Because I haven’t seen it anywhere ans that’s the kind of thing that you’d think would be news worthy

Dear baby Jesus, dude, go watch some “news” from US sources? Everyone just went with the program and there is very little pushback from the press. Oh yeah, there is pushback but it’s a fraction of what it could be, should be.

You haven’t watched the news lately, have you? Trump simply says you’re a traitor and you’ll be “investigated” as in someone will write a doc saying why you should be deported (you’re a terrorist! Evidence not required) and you’ll be on a flight out.

This current US government really doesn’t give a shit about facts

To me the point is a simple question: why are you at school?

Unless the class is explicitly to teach you how to use your phone responsibly, nobody should have a phone in school. Any arguments I’ve heard against that always boil down to “but I wannah doom scroohooollll” or some variation of that

You don’t hear so much about it because it has faded a bit into the background and crypto bros work hard spreading misinformation about how awesome Bitcoin is.

Technically, blockchain tech is interesting, bit nothing more than that. Blockchain technology is fundamentally flawed. Requiring everyone to confirm the same transactions by having everyone make the same CPU / GPU / memory intensive calculations is just dumb and it won’t scale to anything that could sustain the daily transactions of even a single small country, let alone the world.

At least AI has a whole lot of pieces that are fundamentally “useful”. As it currently stands, AI will need completely new concepts and technologies to be able to grow in capabilities and shrink in power requirements, but at least the prices that are there are reasonably useful.

Blockchain technology is fundamentally flawed for just about any application at all.

Having said all that, fuck AI companies. AI could be a great new tool for humanity but instead we hacet all sorts of shitty assistants being shoved down our throats. Oh, and AI revenge porn, that too

Eh, that enormous energy consumption hasn’t change, y’know. For Bitcoin, for example, the basic concept is still that ALL wallets have to process ALL transactions, which scales as well as studfing a walrus in a mini Cooper. Bitcoin is extremely energy inefficient and is simply not a good replacement for transactions for the entire world.

Same goes for all other block chain technologies, they’re fundamentally flawed and won’t ever be good. If you want a good alternative to visa and MasterCard, you’ll need something fundamentally different from blockchain tech.

who am I to judge?

You’re the teacher?

I know that kids may want / like to do something their way, but how about you learn it the normal way too? You can do your home work at home with music, I did that too, that’s fine, but in class you pay attention

I’m kind of amazed with reading this, really.

No, kids don’t need phones. Do you think that after school activities didn’t exist thirty years ago? They did and omg, nobody had cell phones so yeah, so ma y kids disappeared and died because of that and of course nothing like that happened because you plan that stuff ahead and worst case, a student can ask the teacher or some central ooi t where all cellphones are kept to make a quick important call.

Same thing also goes for head sets. How the heck do you think we did that thirty years ago? Hint: we simply didn’t because it wasn’t a thing, it didn’t exist. Walkmans barely came into existence and you could wear one outside class, all fine, but I side classes you’re there to learn, not to listen to your favorite music or podcast or influencers.

Id I’d have to allow headsets in class I’d refuse to teach. I’m not there to dick around or wsste my time, I’m there to teach and you’re there to learn, not to play or dick around

It could be something that websites could then tell the browser using a header or meta tag

Too easy an ending. Let them rot in jail for decades

Well it’s what you’d want but not what it does, for one, but for another: comparing scalars is very easy, comparing complex structures is not. To compare one array with another you’d need to iterate over each element, recursively.

That JavaScript handles arrays as objects is also not bad, that’s just a language feature that you may like or not, not much can go wrong there. The reassignment of “this” or how JS handlesnumber comparison, yeah, that is infuriatingly bad

That last part…

Buggery

The criminal offense of anal or oral copulation by penetration of the male organ into the anus or mouth of another person of either sex OR copulation between members of either sex with an animal. (Emphasis mine)

For the stealing part we have open source, for the not wrecking stuff you just have to use I instead of AI

Exactly. Train it in factual data only

Of course, they have loads of money, cash even, Trump likey cash

It all depends on how you sell it.

My company, when I arrived, had everything with Rogers. Rogers… Suuuuuucks. Its supposedly for enterprise level customers, the big ones, but you literally pay 3 times more for 5 times less hardware specs, a 4cpu 4gb Linux vps server with slow Io drives will cost you around $300.

SLA? OVH claims 99.5%, iirc. The Rogers SLA I have here is basically"is it down? Go fuck yourself"

Add to that about weekly to Monthly Rogers outages that can last anywhere from 30 minutes to 3 hours.

I got one single $350 server at OVH and it has 80% of memory of all the 30 servers at Rogers. Couple that with (in personal experience) no downtime in 10 years that I’ve had servers there, I’d say OVH is vastly superior to Rogers

Yet half of Canada and their mother still goes with Rogers because enterprise levels! They say so on the page! They even have huge building called Rogers arena, they must be grrrrreat!

That’s a mighty good wish that will never come true because of its internal logic.

With their culture, if left alone, something will fester and they WILL come back.

I’d rather have Russia become an actual, real democracy that controls their police apparatus and army well. It’s the only way forward

Cash? Try gold or something like that. Maybe even just plain water, food and medicine

Yeah, trump actually lied about that, weirdly enough