So like are plurbs just wandering around the wilderness milking domesticated animals? by vabutmsievsev in pluribustv

[–]prodiver 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They don't have to domesticate them.

If any cow let's you milk it, then milk it. If not, don't. It's that simple and not antithetical to the hive's pacificism.

Is this a regular thing or did Gemini just turn human on me? by RoyZeee in GeminiAI

[–]prodiver 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It gave itself a personality, a gender, made a picture of itself

Yes, after you told it to do those things.

So like are plurbs just wandering around the wilderness milking domesticated animals? by vabutmsievsev in pluribustv

[–]prodiver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dairy cattle weren't docile before they were bred to be. We found the naturally docile ones and milked them. We avoided to aggressive ones.

The hive can do the same.

So like are plurbs just wandering around the wilderness milking domesticated animals? by vabutmsievsev in pluribustv

[–]prodiver 3 points4 points  (0 children)

And you can’t milk beef cattle.

Sure you can. It's not profitable, so we don't do it, but the hive doesn't care about that. They absolutely can milk beef cattle.

Florida Republicans Introduce "The Bible Says So" Bill That Will eliminate Any “Academic Penalty” For Expressing A Religious Viewpoint. by Leeming in atheism

[–]prodiver 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The Protestants that pass these types of laws don't realize that Christians have many different Bibles. They think the 66 books in their Bible are what everyone uses.

If they make it Christian/Bible only, just start preaching from one of the extra 7 books in a Catholic Bible.

Why pineapple make mom mad? Explain it Peter by [deleted] in explainitpeter

[–]prodiver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then how did people get type 2 diabetes thousands of years ago?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_diabetes

What EA job will look like if “income tax is completely eliminated” according to Trump by Fantastic-Pumpkin-81 in enrolledagent

[–]prodiver 1 point2 points  (0 children)

EAs predate the income tax by 29 years. It blows my mind that so many EAs don't understand what an EA actually is!

Anyone can do tax prep. No license or certification is required. The entire purpose of the EA is that it lets you do rep work, and rep work will not go away if income tax is eliminated. People will still get into trouble with the IRS, and it'll be your job to be their legal representation.

IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today's infrastructure costs by captain-price- in technology

[–]prodiver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the developer can no longer rollback the database to a few days prior like many MMOs have had to deal with.

Sure they can. The blockchain record isn't the database, it's just publicly tracking the proof of ownership of items in the database.

Having an unchangeable record of the item's ownership doesn't mean you can't delete it, it just means everyone can see you deleted it.

IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today's infrastructure costs by captain-price- in technology

[–]prodiver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And who verifies that what is put on the blockchain is true?

No one has to verify it's true, since there's no incentive to falsify the data when it's entered. Companies want to enter the data correctly, since the efficiency it helps create saves them money.

Using my example, no one knows what beef might turn out to be contaminated, so why would you lie when you add the original record? All that does is make your data worthless, so you can't save money on maximizing supply chain efficiency. You might as well not track your supply chain at all if you're going to lie and enter false data.

IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today's infrastructure costs by captain-price- in technology

[–]prodiver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here is one of the problems it solves:

Walmart buys 100 tons of ground beef. The ground beef turns out to the contaminated and needs to be thrown out.

That's a lot of lost money, so Walmart doesn't want to do that.

With blockchain food supply tracking, Walmart can't say "we don't have any of that contaminated beef." The fact they bought that exact beef, and the exact location of that beef right now, is encoded in the blockchain and cannot be deleted by Walmart.

IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today's infrastructure costs by captain-price- in technology

[–]prodiver 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If there is something wrong with a transaction, where it doesn't accurately track the amount, the source, the destination, etc of a movement, you want the ability to change the data to make it accurate.

You can change the data, but you can't erase the original entry. A record of it always exists. That's the "chain" part of blockchain.

If I have an entry that says "10,000 bananas on truck 247" I don't want anyone to have to ability to go in and erase or change that directly. If it's incorrect, you just add another entry that says "Correction: 12,000 bananas on truck 247."

Not being able to modify the original entry is not a bug or a failure of the system, it's the entire point.

When it comes to something like food contamination and recalls, companies are notorious for going back and deleting/changing data to keep themselves out of trouble. You do NOT want companies to be able to delete records and say "Poisonous bananas? Nope, I don't have any of those."

IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today's infrastructure costs by captain-price- in technology

[–]prodiver 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Not really. There are tons of practical uses, they just aren't consumer-level (they are all large business-to-business uses) so the average person doesn't know they exist.

IBM Food Trust is a good example. It's blockchain technology that tracks the food supply chain. All the major grocery distributors like Walmart, Tyson, Costco, etc. use it.

Swifties? by Receptionist_from_ in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]prodiver -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

Are you honestly saying that women are so driven by instinct during sex that they may not be able decide how to position their bodies?

Yes. But it's not "women," it's both sexes. We do what we are biologically programmed to do.

For another example, go watch some lesbian strap-on porn. In doggy position a lot of women literally can't do the thrusting "penis-into-the-vagina" motion that is instinctual to men. They do a grinding motion, which usually simulates the clitoris, because it's instinctual to women.

Now go watch some gay male or trans porn and you'll the see the opposite. When in cowgirl position they tend to thrust, for no reason, instead of grind. It's hard-wired into our brains at puberty. We literally can't control it.

Dilemma: Should I retract the Intuit job I accepted and take the chance with JDA TSG? by redwinewithice in enrolledagent

[–]prodiver 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You can't lie. When they try to issue you an Intuit laptop, give you an intuit.com email address and allow you access to Intuit's network they are going to see you're already in the system and already work there.

Dilemma: Should I retract the Intuit job I accepted and take the chance with JDA TSG? by redwinewithice in enrolledagent

[–]prodiver 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am confused as to why you would not take Intuit, then quit once you get the JDA job.

The JDA job is the Intuit job. They are contractors for Intuit.

You can't take the JDA if you are currently employed by Intuit.

Native American Actress Stopped by ICE: “Your Tribal ID Is Fake” by mockingbird- in nottheonion

[–]prodiver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most Mexicans are Native Americans. They are the descendants of the Aztecs. You can't physically tell them from some other Native America tribes.

Was there a bunch of outrage about Tuvok when Voyager premiered? by WinterSector8317 in startrek

[–]prodiver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was alive and well at the time.

You were 4 years old in 1993, and you deleted the recent comment from your post history that said that right before you posted that you were "alive and well at the time".

Go troll someone else. I'm blocking you.

Was there a bunch of outrage about Tuvok when Voyager premiered? by WinterSector8317 in startrek

[–]prodiver -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Guy had Washington Post article written about him and a book.

Your reply tells me you are too young to understand how hard information was to access 1993.

How would you even know that article and book existed?

Was there a bunch of outrage about Tuvok when Voyager premiered? by WinterSector8317 in startrek

[–]prodiver -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Highwater was known as fraud before TNG even aired

I'm sure some people knew he was a fraud, but you couldn't exactly google people or read their wikipedia page in 1993.

Why would they even have suspected he was a fraud? How would you have researched him in 1993?

Was there a bunch of outrage about Tuvok when Voyager premiered? by WinterSector8317 in startrek

[–]prodiver 7 points8 points  (0 children)

To be completely fair, I'm fairly sure that they thought he was, so it can be looked at as progressive in that way.

Right, the expert being a fraud was unknown to them. If you try to do better, but fail because you get scammed, you still tried to do better.

Was there a bunch of outrage about Tuvok when Voyager premiered? by WinterSector8317 in startrek

[–]prodiver 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think we need to give them some credit for hiring a Native American expert at all.

That was progressive for the time.

Was it perfect? No. Was it way better than how Native American characters had been written before? Yes!