If the power went off tomorrow -- and stayed off for a year -- is there still credibility in what you do?

Yes. I'm a data scientist, so I would have to get out the pencil and paper and calculate by hand. Although at my rank, I would be managing human calculators to do it for me

Stress calculations for the Vickers R101 airship took 3 months, by hand.

You'd be handing out hand-printed flyers saying pencils are the instruments of the big govt. sent to chain us all to our desks.

Even software engineers by hand have no produced any thing relevant in years

You clearly know absolutely nothing. Relevant to what?

You have no idea what I do, although I have told you before, yet you assert it is of no value.

I get paid very handsomely by my employer for the results.

My problem solving pipeline goes quicker every day.

I have an idea while walking the dog, write up the spec, and a couple of hours later it's running code - all while making dinner and spending time with the family.

I'm using it but I'm not staring at it. It is both personally liberating and a force multiplier.

I use AI tools for 10-12 hours a day, 5 days a week

Forbes report does not conclude it is pointless, it concludes the project leaders did not understand their tools.

Yeah, he hsn't got a clue.

Maybe, happily lives in a rural town.

Have you even read the 95% report instead of reading the headline ?

YouTube used to deliast your videos if she was in them

"happiness and pleasure are your goals"

nope, not me

but being prresent is something to aspire to

1. video your child's first steps
   or
2. share the moment with your child

my dad spent hours with his video camera on our holidays. no-one has ever watched the tapes

"We told you so" came round real quick

the amount deaths and damage is a spurious metric too

population is bigger and has encroached on more fire prone brushland and coasts where the damage happens

I think you're probably right. Sentiment analysis will classify negativity. I'd even go so far as "Not posting any positive stoires at all" would do so.

Discord requests govt. ID if it thinks you are under 18.

Everyone who complied just photos of their ID leaked.

A thing everyone predicted would happen.

Oracle currently needs to find $100bn of additional revenue over the next 4 years to finance their contract terms with OpenAI.

It's fairly obvious but I'm not forced to use my Tesco Clubcard to log into Twitter.

And my Digital ID won't give me cheaper food or let me scan my own trolley, swipe my card and walk out.

what does Tow to Tow mean?

I'm from the time before computers and, obviously, before the internet.

I was part of the BBS world, phone a guy's phone number and browse his site - the true wild west.

Probably The Dark Web is the equivalent now. Eventually freedom always squeezes our between the fingers of the tyrant.

lol, who do you think you are to make demands

He explains how they try to control prices. Do you trust a rabbi's word now?

Anyway, Maximizing Revenue is not orthogonal to buyers controlling prices.

They claim inflation but that is only part of the story.

The Rate of Inflation is a measure of the rate of change, not a cause. It is not a force. So already you seem to have misunderstood the topic.

Prices of goods are set by the buyer. People either buy them if they consider them sufficient value or not. Even for goods forced on them such as vehicle insurance, some people opt to take the risk. If it is utilities they work out straegies to reduce consumption.

you have to make it you dolt

and then make things out of it, which involves fumes, chips and dust

are you really that dumb?

or make cobalt non-toxic

bUt It's FoR hEaLth LiGHt

bUt TheY hAvE beeN aLterEd

You wouldn't dare say "you have poor impulsive control and rush to violence as your only solution" to his face.

He's been saying it since 2023

Don't shoot!! I meant legal crime, not moral, in the context of OP's question.

Yes, if you're trying to prove what you also need to prove "where".

It's one of the US Virgin Islands, there is no jurisdictional doubt.

AlthoughI think the US and UK have sepcific laws about sex tourism with children to prosecute people going to Thailand etc. in their home country.

But she was 16, so legally consenting without coercion in many US states and the UK.

I imagine no actual cash changed hands for the actual sex like a regualr prostitute. Epstein turns up with what seem to be willing girls, you don't force anyone or pay directly. And if they are of legal age, where's the crime?