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Friend of mines uncle was pretty high up at Exxon.I heard many times that the companies "unofficial" policy literally is 'The solution to pollution is dilution' IE lol we don't care.

Surely wealth is a better indicator since the ultra rich make much less of their money through traditional income than everyone else?

*Sorts by Controversial* I have a comment. Theres a lot of rhetoric from US citizens going around about Europe, sniding comments about how dare we luxuriously have health care and reasonably priced education. The US can absolutely afford health care and non-ridiculous university fees, and Americans deserve these social services. The cost is to pay more taxes, just like Europeans do, and not ge…

Wow, I feel like no one actually knows what's going on here. There are a bunch of live rhino in a reserve that have their horn legally trimmed on a regular basis to dissuade poachers from killing them. This has created a huge surplus of horn from living rhinos that they could sell to further increase conservation efforts. Not to mention that flooding the market with legal horn will lower the d…

I'm not morally arguing about whether AI should police behaviour. I'm just saying they currently are a long way from even taking the first step in being able to.

The funny thing is, it's not even limited to the hysterical "skynet will arise" model of an AI that decides we're a problem. It's weaponized AI. Anything that can be used as a weapon, will at some point be used as a weapon. So, we'll have Russia with their "security" AI, China with their "security" AI, and the US with their "security" AI. That kids, is also the plot to "I Have No Mouth, and I M…

The only people who take Trump seriously anymore are his base. World leaders see no reason to assume he knows what he is doing or to take him at his word. Anything he signs with much hoopla is also subject to change at a whim. He's turned us into a laughingstock and he is clown in chief.

Oh man, I'm from Melbourne, didn't even know this was a thing until right now otherwise I would've gone today.

There's no reason why any government would support toppling another government without installing a puppet one after to reap the benefits. The last country that made that mistake was probably France, and the leaders literally lost their heads.

I believe this would allow McGahn to flip the burden to the other side to stop him from testifying. If I were him: "I have a court order and must comply. If anyone wants to stop me from complying, you may do so with a preliminary injunction or stay of the court order." An appeal doesn't automatically stop compliance/execution of an order. You usually need to appeal and secure a separate order s…

That being said, mad props for their sustainable agriculture and industries. One of the few places in the world where bee populations haven't seen any colony collapse issues. Might have something to do with the lack of modern pesticides such as neonicotinoids.

I'm not sure that's a bad thing considering the quality of the average driver. That said I think we could do driver assist and caravans that would have the biggest impact with the least amount of cost and effort. Vehicle to vehicle communications for merging for one and the ability to self caravan would increase capacity, decrease gridlock and give many of the benefits of public transit where th…

This is not an achievement, it's a fairly simple application of machine learning. If you think about it, guessing Democrat or Republican should be 50% accuracy if you have a dumb AI that's blindly guessing, so 76% is nothing to write home about.

Though I would bet the people seeking jobs abroad are not the ones who voted for Brexit...

One day humans will all be dead and there will still be ai making fake reviews and making phone calls to nobody who will ever see or hear their work

Well if the robot costs millions of dollars, you'd better believe they'll want to protect it.

Man it's almost like the lower class needs support -especially- during a crisis. It's almost like progressive taxes + universal financial aid/ basic income would be a pretty simple tool.

Seems you are mostly correct >Washington — Scientists have backed the Brazilian drug regulator's decision to stop the import of Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, on the basis that batches they tested carried a live version of a common cold-causing virus. Top virologist Angela Rasmussen told AFP the finding "raises questions about the integrity of the manufacturing processes" and could …

> Months have gone by and no one has been hired. Just looking for that perfect unicorn rockstar candidate who's willing to work for $8.25 per hour... Don't worry, they'll find him any day now... Oh, and don't ask about that huge stack of applications. They're all unqualified. Our automatic sorting software says so.

Not sensationalist, its the most concerning since delta. WHO has classified it as a varient of concern. It has been labelled 'omicron'.