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They aren’t poisoning the data with disinformation.

They’re poisoning it with accurate, but irrelevant information.

For example, if a bot is crawling sites relating to computer programming, or weather, this tool might lure the crawler into pages related to animal facts, or human biology.

I’m confused. Are you saying YOU can’t tell the difference, or that their is no technical difference?

Because, anecdotally, I’ve owned a variety of these devices, and I can absolutely tell the difference. Which sucks, because I bought cheaper devices hoping for reasonable parity of experience. I’m not saying my cheaper devices are bad, just that clearly the Shield TV performs better.

As to the actual specs, there is also clearly a real world difference between the bog standard Amlogic SoC (1/8, 2/8, 2/16), and the Tegra SoC.

It’s entirely reasonable to argue that the difference isn’t worth the extra cost, fine. But it’s dishonest to say there is no appreciable difference.

TBF I haven’t used the newer “low cost” Shield with the 2/16 Tegra SoC, so I can’t really speak to how it performs relative to something like Chromecast with Google TV.

Fuck me. You might be right, as I haven’t actually used the stock launcher since the big ad update years back.

I just remembered my original launcher having a lot of a Nvidia specific integrations, but I guess those could have just been bolted on at the system level.

I said Playstore Certified, and yes, they are mostly the same when you look under the hood, at least for those classes of devices, per generation.

Same, or similar SoC, with 2/8 (sometimes 2/16) specs.

Once you get up to the 4/32 range, you’re already looking around the same price (+/-) of a Shield TV.

Also, lol @ citing LTT, for anything. Just because a broken clock is right twice a day, doesn’t change the fact that it’s broken.

And for the sake of being fair, I didn’t even mention the 1/8 boards.

Yes, Google is an inextricably linked to all Google TV issues, but they didn’t force Nvidia to ruin the Shield TV’S launcher with ads, and other bloat.

At least, not as far as I know. If you have sources saying otherwise, I’d be happy to take a look.

As someone who owns both Nvidia Shield TV and standard cheap (Google certified) devices, all running Projectivy, it’s not really comparable.

The Shield runs smoother, has significantly less minor/annoying issues, and actually receives fairly regular updates.

Now, the new Chromecast with Google TV does get updates, but it doesn’t resolve the first two differences.

If you can’t afford, or justify the extra expense, for an Nvidia Shield TV, completely understandable. But don’t pretend that the user experience is the same, because it’s not.

I’d prefer AI cores, just like I prefer HW based AES instructions: present and up to my discretion as to how I choose to use them, or not.

Nvidia has destroyed the stock Shield TV experience with ads, but it’s easy to install custom launchers like Projectivy. The underlying system is still a privacy nightmare, but I don’t care that Nvidia knows what TV shows I watch.

I mean, I do care, just not enough to use something like Kodi as my primary TV interface. Maybe if I used any ad supported services I’d feel differently, but I don’t, so meh.

…and how will that be disseminated? That’s what organizations like VOA and USAID were for.

Trump has the capacity to destroy organizations, but I find it doubtful he could recreate them out of whole cloth.

That’s my point.

America cannot dominate the world militarily, nor could that even serve the goals of its contemporary brand of neoimperialism.

Soft power i.e. culture, propaganda, and diplomatic/idealogical relationships, are the foundation upon which it’s built.

Yes, military hard power plays a critical role, but it cannot replace soft power.

This isn’t empire for the sake of raw nationalism, and nothing would accelerate the American collapse faster than dismantling the state’s soft power tools. The end result will be attempts to maintain power by spending its military resources on peer, or near peer conflicts.

That’s an incredibly myopic take that confuses correlation with causation.

These moves may benefit Putin, but Russia isn’t the only county to benefit. Infact, Russia is in a historically weak position to fill gaps left by a receding American empire.

I’d wager that China is likely to see much more geopolitical gains because they have the resources and capacity to take advantage of the situation.

I’m not saying Putin won’t benefit, just pointing out how limiting it is to view Trump through a singular lens.

I don’t understand the naysayers here.

This is hilarious. Trump wants to simultaneously expand the American empire, while he dismantles the tools of it that he’s too stupid to understand the importance of.

No matter their mission statement, or any tangible benefits they might have provided, both USAID and VOA, were tools of empire. These aren’t mutually exclusive concepts.

I didn’t say there was no cocaine use. There’s always some level of drug use, what I call bullshit on is the idea that cocaine replaced Adderall en masse.

Workers who need stimulants already have much better, and exponentially cheaper, drugs to use for that purpose.

Like I said, if the article was talking about work-life balance driving more recreational drug use as a coping mechanism, I would believe that.

I don’t believe that shift workers are replacing cheap and long lasting stimulants with the most expensive stimulant available.

I can understand executives, or people in finance, being able to not just justify their use of cocaine on the job, but more importantly, be able to afford it.

Unless cocaine prices have come down exponentially in the last decade, I can’t imagine being a shift worker and relying on cocaine to get through the day.

I’m going to call bullshit on this reporting. I would have believed that if they just said cocaine use has gone up, or that recreational use outside of work has risen.

If cocaine was dirt cheap, meth wasn’t cheap, or if it was hard to get an amphetamine prescription, I would be more willing to accept this reporting.

But as it stands, cocaine isn’t cheap, meth is, and prescription amphetamines are more common then ever.

Trump is not a regulator, or even a bureaucrat.

Russia does not have hegemony over Europe.

That’s not hegemony.

I’m blown away that three people read that and thought it deserved an up vote:

Russian regulatory capture in the US

Russian hegemony over Europe

Seriously?

South Korea has had military dictatorships off and on it’s entire history

Declaring martial law under those conditions, is significantly different than January 6th.

If alcohol consumption fixed declining birth rates, Japan wouldn’t have an aging population and Russia wouldn’t have been facing a demographic collapse even before the Ukraine invasion.

This isn’t about boosting sex, it’s about being a conservative policy counterweight to opening the door to legalizing medicines derived from cannabis.

My guess is that it’s a result of an internal NJP compromise between center right and hard right factions: only agreeing to allow liberalized medical cannabis policy, if the law also increased the scope of, and penalties for, recreational uses.

But that’s just my assumption based on my limited understanding of Japan’s post-war uniparty government.

There’s way more history and nuance with the current migration crisis facing Europe than I feel like delving into with this comment, so I’m just going to leave you with a quick note about why you’re being downvoted:

Intentionally trying to capsizing migrants so they drown isn’t the same as “being called racist”. Forget whatever opinions or beliefs motivated these actions, this is attempted murder, at best.

So whether or not your commentary would be reasonable on an article discussing immigration policy, it’s irrelevant to this article. Which again, is about Spanish police trying to drown migrants by intentionally driving their police boat at, and then over, their small dinghy.