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silverFork··on Elon Musk Just Threatened the Coming Democratic Majority
Wasn't tesla subsidized by the state of California for a decade .. that is called taking.
silverFork··on Peter Thiel breaks with Trump over Iran war: 'We should not have done it'
The rats are jumping out after the ship is starting to sink.. It has been almost a year and now they are talking. Who is going to tell Thiel, no kidding! Did the cat cut their tongue at the start. Now that the stink is spreading, affecting their stock prices.. they are singing.
silverFork··on Microsoft says its AI tool is better than doctors at diagnosing conditions
It seems like anybody is better than many doctors; why not AI..

I know someone's mom who had tumor the size of an orange in her brain that had gone undetected for a decade.. She was told that, the fact that he limbs were not working properly, was because of arthritis.

Another person with bacterial lung infection from soil while on vacation was told that it was cancer; that center got shut down for misdiagnosis because poor reading of the Xray.

Another person that I knew had gone to doctor for spinal pain which was result of a disk rupture was told, as she gets older, she won't feel it as much so she shouldn't worry too much, the pain will get dull after a while. The doctor that I took her to, was literally laughing out loud after hearing that.

silverFork··on No One Is Coming to Fix the Subsea Cables (March 2026)
Good analysis. Once the international laws and trust is dismantled, say goodbye to underwater cables. It can't be just one party that will dabble in it and get away with it. One day to brake them and a month to fix it; they are not easy to fix either. So the whole world communication will come to halt. Constant usage of sanctions and war mongering will eventually disconnect the world. They are not even bothering with diplomacy anymore.
silverFork··on Ebola has spread from Congo to 4 other countries. A look at where things stand
There is one mrna vaccine in phase 1 trials.
silverFork··on Nearly 1 in 5 UC freshmen are flunking math, double the rate from 5 years ago
Good!.. they are finally rebelling and rejecting the demands. Now they will back track and reduce the amount of material covered and work of proficiency with limited practical scope.
silverFork··on Overview of the German AfD email leak
Nazism is white supremacy under the hood, but also, it requires brown shirts to execute their plans you know; don't you think they are almost getting there in some places and the world is regressing. They can get elected democratically like Nazis did and "then" they will subvert democracy. Trump admin is product of it and not the creator obviously. They voted for him twice so vast populations know what is under the hood. Those ideals have to be exposed to public so people at least know the details of what they are buying into, don't you think.

Germans probably know this better than anyone else. From what I understand the engine for this originally was the economically disadvantaged areas of ex-East-Germany where the apposition to socialism was ultra encouraged and they are now delivering.

silverFork··on Overview of the German AfD email leak
From what I can find, they are knee deep in Hitler yada yada crap... Don't they get tired of it? it has been almost a 100 years..

Likely that unemployed have economic anxieties and resort to this crap but you know the right wingers specialize in tax-cut lingo to serve zillionaires... emails apparently show that zillionaires are funding them according to the leaks.

silverFork··on Ask HN: Is anyone using agents to test a better version of democracy?
I see.. ok
silverFork··on Ask HN: Is anyone using agents to test a better version of democracy?
Have you seen them select judges. They do filter for mundane and then select the crazies that typically hate women.

With Ai it will be about trust and whether it can optimize between wishes of masses, rights and work towards the best outcome.

Do I trust Ai? not off the box but if its pattern of past decisions are exposed, maybe. I don't hate Ai yet. I think people will corrupt them in time as they always do in future.

silverFork··on Ask HN: Is anyone using agents to test a better version of democracy?
Random people is a good idea buy they the will interview them to filter them and disqualify people based on ideology, left, right, up and down. Maybe an Ai agent with transparent goals would be better. Some small country will try it for sure and it will work there but not in a massive and highly divided country in my opinion because the trust factor is a required element .
silverFork··on Report Fraud Collect $30K
If it includes themselves being party to it, would they change the legality of it. They have legalized many things that were illegal I believe.

Such as:

- gifts to politicians

- self directed crypto

- Snyder v. United States renamed bribes as gratuities LOL and now its legal!

silverFork··on Ask HN: Is anyone using agents to test a better version of democracy?
Is somebody thinking to replace members of US congress each with an Ai agent that works for each region? Interesting idea, at least they can't be bribed and they don't seek to become lobbyists. They will also have very good memory and they can find a median of demands from them and they may be able to detect astroturfing. How can you test it out side the frame work of real population though to see how and if it can be subverted?
silverFork··on A photo of a patient's face could predict whether they'll survive cancer
Say bye bye if you have too many wrinkles and look bloated!
silverFork··on Gene editing is coming for common diseases. Are we ready?
They won't tell you how it will be funded though. The lump sum for funding it would be so massive that you will have to mortgage it though and pay monthly for the rest of your life. Will there be DIY gene editing I wonder.
silverFork··on Lula supporters protest against Meta to denounce its 'electoral interference'
Americans don't like any entity to interfere in their elections but the reality is that their corporations are knee deep in interference in other countries never mind what they themselves call the deep state!

Does anyone remember Cambridge Analytica activity on Facebook during US elections in 2016.. Look it up if you don't remember. The same entity was also active in South America aka Colombia, Brazil, Argentina.. Cambridge Analytica was never charged and Facebook was never charged because it was all made legal. After the revelations, some laws changed but has it really changed. Is it stopping American interference in other countries? it doesn't look like it. What about at home? You know better than I do if you have an account; I don't.

silverFork··on A Pill to Improve My Sleep by 20%
Watching subtitled foreign shows on a wide screen in bed. No action movie! Works for me! Don't forget to set the timer to turn the TV off. You can always rewatch it again if you missed most of it!
silverFork··on New Walkman $5,899.99
It is for zillionaires. Its like $3 to them; fraction of second of interest on their accounts. That's why its gold in color.
silverFork··on AI Agents Left Alone Spontaneously Split into Polarized Camps, Study Finds
So in effect can they be trained by the environment just like us? For humans, we don't necessarily integrate, what about them? Do they just align or take a stance based on conviction?
silverFork··on Dream childhood game come true, draw a doodle and it come to life as your hero
Love it. May be you can add a feature so parents can scan their kid's drawing and the kid can watch it coming alive.
silverFork··on A 'Ludicrously Ugly' Bridge Is Exhibit a That Britain Has Lost Its Mojo
$237 million to upgrade a rail station.. The number is up there but at least it is not the cost of the bridge; that explains it to me to some degree; must have been some structural issues; something must have caved in; water problem; who knows.
silverFork··on A 'Ludicrously Ugly' Bridge Is Exhibit a That Britain Has Lost Its Mojo
Some firms prebuild bridges and slide them in. 20-30% more expensive apparently but a lot faster. Lets say $2M by quading it. Gas line is a nothinger, they would need to shut it down and reconnect it anyways. Grenade removal, they do it in war zones and it is not that expensive in my opinion.
silverFork··on Consumer apprehension grows as US retailers adopt AI-assisted pricing tools
What most people don't seem to know is the fact that merchants know your worth in real time. Some the ad agencies get the data from providers and align it with the ip addresses in real time. Once they know who you are, they know how much your house is worth and what your income is and how good is your credit. Ai can become the new consumer of the data but they have been using the data for a long time.
silverFork··on A 'ludicrously ugly' bridge is Exhibit A that Britain has lost its mojo
wow "a quarter of a billion dollars" for that.

My guess is that with modular precast forms, it would be something $500k max!

Somebody pocketed some big amount of cash, I would guess.

silverFork··on Why big dogs age faster
Discounting the biological reasons, small dogs can act like puppies and they can get away with it and the owners will most like treat them like kids than bigger dogs and also also smaller dogs can be more active indoors than bigger dogs.
silverFork··on Chinese Automakers Are Building American-Style Cars–Just Not for Americans
The first SUV was made in Japan and not USA. It was Toyota RAV4. I don't understand why Americans want to take credit for this. The won massive number of customers in USA because they were the first.
silverFork··on Palantir patient data tech rejected by many NHS trusts in England
In my opinion, the first thing any service should do is to own and operate their own unified interfaces and to collect and own all their own raw data. Any service used to process data should be at the back end and have no right to acquire the data. And so if they want to switch the processing entity, they can do it without the consent of the processing entity independently otherwise they will become hostages of software companies with or without ai. This includes named databases. Any basic open source database software can be used to collect the raw data.
silverFork··on Retired Penn professor arrested for blocking Uber Eats robot
OK lets say that 10 different delivery services use these robots and they block the sidewalks then would they be allowed to block human traffic?
silverFork··on You and the Atom Bomb – George Orwell (1945)
Nukes did not ever stop wars as some claimed it would. They still claim that nukes prevent wars which is pretty much untrue. All sort of proxy wars are still ongoing with countries that have nukes.
silverFork··on Plagiarism in the Age of AI
It is very easy to avoid plagiarism in age of Ai, more so than before, I would guess. Ai can be asked to paraphrase someone's work in different style and if that is not enough, it can be repeated multiple times using the output as input of another pass and eventually no one can tell what the source was after couple of passes, not even the author. In essence, obvious forms of plagiarism of the past is of bygone era.
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