Telling me I can’t add sugar to my own water is bad.

I’m not sure what real world thing you made this analogy for? But this is a straw man, because nowhere are you told you can’t add sugar to your food.
You may be told you shouldn’t, because it’s unhealthy. But you can still add sugar even to commercially sold food in amounts that by European standards make it actually illegal to call it food. Making it either cake or candy.
American Fruity loops is an example that is illegal to call food in EU because of too much sugar. Apart from a number of additives that are illegal too in EU. You could still sell it in EU, but not as a breakfast cereal.

You should not be unhappy if sugar is regulated in food you purchase. And you definitely can put more on it at home if you really want candy instead of food. Sweetener is a cheap way for the industry to make something taste batter, despite having extremely low quality.

Yes regulation help protect people from getting ill having accidents and even dying due to lots of stupid preventable shit too.
And of course that also help the economy despite it’s only a secondary effect.
Things like fire regulation, car safety and of course health regulation in food.
These are all things that protect us every day, but most people are completely oblivious about all the ways regulation help. And only focus on the potential bit of extra paperwork, and a bit of extra cost, that they are ignorant about is recouped in benefits to all that outweigh the cost multiple times.

What we need is not less regulation, but better regulation!

Amen.

And it’s not like regulation is even bad for economy overall

Exactly, regulation is actually beneficial for the economy, because it stimulates fair competition.

USA is such a shit country, I was absolutely disgusted seeing the eggs are packaged in styrofoam instead of cardboard!
Americans are ruining their country failing to regulate even the most obvious things, because Americans believe regulation is bad, when most of the time, even bad regulation is better than no regulation.

Firefox isn’t looking much better, either.

False equivalence.
Firefox is CLEARLY without a doubt the better choice in every aspect that has to do with abuse of privacy and power.

A lot of that makes sense, and the issue of just pretending to be nice is absolutely also an American thing. That’s being superficial, and that’s just about stereotypical American.
And absolutely for many countries culture and politics are intertwined. IDK so much about China, but for USA the culture of violence is absolutely both in politics and in the population. USA is a very atypically violent country for a democracy.

That’s horrible, I don’t really know what to say, except best wishes to you.
I always thought Chinese were a more pragmatic people than most, but this is not pragmatic of your parents, this is cynical and evil.

Seems to me that Islam is discriminating strongly against women, and that could absolutely be a factor to prevent this sick culture from being abandoned.
I know there are Muslims who are good people, but I don’t think the religion is helping.
I knew many Muslims when I lived in Copenhagen, from many different countries, and common for the men were that they were way more discriminating against women than is normally acceptable among cultural Danes. They also commonly claimed that the women preferred it that way! For instance regarding very stereotypical strong gender roles.
I also don’t believe the honor thing is without heavy influence from religion, and religion is helping preserve these medieval standards in modern times.

I know there are Muslims that are more modern and more moral, and just like most Christians have abandoned ancient doctrines that are clearly bad.
It just seems to me that Islam has not progressed away from such practices as much as Christianity generally has.
For instance by far the most Muslims still believe apostasy is a sin that should be punished. In a modern society that is unacceptable.

Funny then that when they move to another culture, and take it with them, it is always muslims.

What do you mean what was the plan?

I mean what the hell were they thinking back from around 2014-2020?

This is the new CEO, spinning into “stripping Intel off for parts” mode.

Exactly, they seemingly still don’t have anything close to a plan on anything that used to be their main strength. They’ve only doubled down at first, and now they are pulling back. Making a “better” CPU is not a plan or a strategy.

The cards are good value, but I don’t think so, the die is to big, so they are expensive to make, and despite the good value, they are not very successful in the market.
It may be something that could succeed if they continue, but they are not there yet.

The cards are good from a consumer perspective, but not from a business perspective.

So if she had been average it would be OK?

It’s insane how twisted in the head you have to be to think that killing your daughter is the honorable thing to do!
Religion is harmful to both individuals and society. Extreme religion is extremely harmful to both individuals and society.

Bot is just doing what it was told to do. 😋

If the AI learns from copies previous CEO’s, they will continue to state idiotic things publicly, because they “think” it’s a strategy for the company to stay relevant.

This is insanely embarrassing for Intel:
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/01/the-7-trillion-promise-of-self-driving-vehicles.html

AI was why Intel bought Mobileye in 2017 for $15 billion!
But instead of leveraging it to catch up, they’ve fallen further behind, not even able to keep up with AMD?!
AMD even when they ran at deficits and near bankruptcy for years around that time, continued to work on compute, and although they couldn’t quite keep up with Nvidia when almost all AMD R&D was focused on Ryzen, they managed to stay in 2nd place, even allowing them to capitalize on the blockchain hype, and remain a runner up for AI.
While Intel kept churning out 5-10% faster cheap 4 core CPU’s at ever higher prices each year, even when smartphones got 8 cores as standard!
And when Ryzen came out with 8 cores as standard, Intel was caught completely off guard, despite it had been public knowledge for a while! And Intel staying on 4 cores was obviously ridiculous.
Ryzen came out in 2017, same year Intel Bought Mobileye, and since then Intel seems to have gone from one disaster to the next in everything they touch!

Intel used to be leading in laptop-, desktop-, server-CPU, SSD and process technology, all those leads are lost, and they failed to catch up on AI?

WTF was the plan? Is there ANYTHING that’s going well for Intel?

As well as a human, and without fucking up because of stress.
Also my guess is these would be monitored by trained professionals.

The AI will (probably) be familiar with every possible issue that no human will be able to match.
I’m not sure what kind of “completely unexpected” situation is possible can happen, that a normal surgeon would handle better?
But I agree it would have to be a lot smarter than current LLM and self driving for instance. Like a whole other level of smarter. But I think that is where we are heading.

At some point in a not very distant future, you will probably be better off with the robot/AI. As it will have wider knowledge of how to handle fringe cases than a human surgeon.
We are not there yet, but maybe in 10 years or maybe 20?

Tesla failure rate is more than 2,5 times the average of other electric cars.
Despite being dumped in security check, Tesla workshop claimed the cars were fine, so owners complained about the decision to flunk them. But the decision was upheld as being absolutely correct!
In short Tesla doesn’t recognize security problems, even when they are clearly pointed out to them!

Tesla cars are shit from a safety perspective, and other elements are coming under scrutiny, like lack of buttons and the console screen being distracting while driving. That’s apart from the well known hidden handles, that prevent quick exit in case of emergency, and the stupid blinker buttons on the wheel.

Tesla is simply not designed for safe driving in any meaningful way. And even the assistance features create hazards instead of helping safety. Like the infamous phantom breaking.

Maybe Tesla is an exciting car to drive, but not in a good way!