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blitzar··on When oil prices spike, where does the money go?
If everything has an oil component to its price i.e. energy to produce it or transportation to move it, a (large) price increase in one commodity would produce a general price increase.
blitzar··on 500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive
Digging in it cameras were deployed 21 times for about 4 hours each time ... matching against a watchlist of around 400 faces.

Sounds like it was intended to achieve the outcome it achieved - a near zero false positive rate. If I were a betting person, I would wager the threshold for a match was set comically high.

https://www.btp.police.uk/police-forces/british-transport-po...

blitzar··on How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent
> The ones who pay will pay.

Until solar panels came to liberate us from the utility overlords.

blitzar··on 500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive
Its like Shazam for Scrotes
blitzar··on 500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive
16 deployments for 6 months at rail stations - they must have been off 99% of the time to only scan 500k faces.

For scale 500k people is 2 days of Liverpool Street Stations daily average

blitzar··on US Forces Exit Iraq
It would be inappropriate to talk about how many women and children they dismembered in their eulogy
blitzar··on US Forces Exit Iraq
Europeans left in the mid 1900's
blitzar··on Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows AI vision, surging costs
Trust me bro ... enormous ... and we are going to destroy the human race too.
blitzar··on MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta
thats an excellent question
blitzar··on MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta
or "resigned to spend more time with the family" aka was fired
blitzar··on The great crime decline is happening all across the country
Millenials / Gen Z KILLLED CRIME

Headlines often blame Millennials and Gen Z for "killing" traditional industries and social norms so why not this one too.

blitzar··on ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
> lithography giant calls on EU to help create demand

Will lie for billions of taxpayers money.

blitzar··on ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
the nvidia / china ban worked out great for stopping them from developing ai ...
blitzar··on ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
I doubt an order from ASML today would be delivering this side of 2028
blitzar··on Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell
its been down hill ever since they broke the old meta with xlookup - this is yet another move aimed at the casual audience, designed to bring in the party gamers and makes the program a mess competitively
blitzar··on FTC chair suggests AI developers should be liable for conduct of agents
I suggest drivers should be liable for conduct of their cars
blitzar··on How we learned to stop worrying and love campus surveillance
> Security cameras on the inside of a high school strikes me as deeply NOT NORMAL

1999 - https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Columbine_Shooting_Secur...

2022 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uvalde_school_shooting 2023 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Nashville_school_shooting

I could go on ... but most of the school shootings in the us seem pretty well documented on cctv

blitzar··on Too AI; Didn't Read
Normalising complaining about a thing is the first step to normalising that thing.
blitzar··on What happens when you analyze your favorite college football team like the CIA?
He can't hit a curve ball... And an ugly girlfriend.

Ugly girlfriend means no confidence.

blitzar··on U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
Showers of gold
blitzar··on Meta bans another Toronto performer from Instagram and Facebook over Bikini
PSA: remember folks, if you want to get unbanned or customer service of any type from facebook/meta/instagram - offer to have sex with an employee.
blitzar··on Theranos founder reportedly to be transferred to halfway home next year
She went down for ripping off investors (not guilty of defrauding the paying customers of course).

Their net worth beats her net worth.

blitzar··on Goodbye Google
> At which point do we believe the message?

Yet the same 1,000 people are all raising funds to do more on the frontier.

blitzar··on 28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days
HR was much better at "employee retention" historically.
blitzar··on Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school
Not my fault, I was certain that they would move out of the way of the bullet.
blitzar··on Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school
Not to mention the roughly million (civilian) family members that live on US military bases.
blitzar··on 28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days
Historically the ad was in a newspaper and you would sit and circle them with your breakfast while listening to the wireless.

Companies didnt pay to put the ad in the paper every day once the vacancy was filled.

blitzar··on Apple Music to open concert venue in Battersea Power Station
It's from a frightfully poor year as well
blitzar··on Apple Music to open concert venue in Battersea Power Station
as soulless, dead-eyed and wealth-obsessed as the people that work at apple
blitzar··on Elevated errors for multiple models – Resolved
10x dev ... so sick 70 days a year is the target
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