"heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible" -- Lord Kelvin, 1895
Unfortunately, when you try to starve the beast, it's the essential functions that get slashed instead of the leadership and adminstrative apparatus. The animal is harmed further while the parasite intercepts the…
If he's a clown what part of his theory is the circus? Are you saying that superintelligence is impossible? Are you saying that the alignment problem will certainty be solved before superintelligence emerges? Are you…
I'd say repeatedly forecasting "full self driving next year" every year for a decade qualifies Tesla for #2.
I think a lot of the objections to your post could be answered by reminding folks of how Microsoft Access databases tend to pop up in small businesses as well as corporate environments outside of IT departments. Yes,…
A military coup in the U.S. is imaginable, which probably explains some of the top brass purges (until recently, where it's probably an attempt to deflect blame for the massive Iran fuck up). Putin did it better; he…
It's not for me, but I can see the appeal - minimalism, distraction elimination, geek cred, and the sort of flow state one gets from working in a low latency, high muscle memory environment.
Okay, I'll say it: is it really worth encumbering the movements of millions of people for decades in order to make a few boring history exhibits? If you want to see some the bone comb that belonged to somebody's…
That's the kind of corporate baby-talk I use when I'm trying to resist doing something.
Amazon extracts a lot of the value of a purchase from the seller's take. Sellers risk sanctions if they sell a product cheaper thru their brand website.
Note that populist demagogue started a trade war and threatened allies with invasion. That tends to put a damper on friendship. And that's before the idiotic blunder with Hormuz.
What a coincidence. I also read the book and can't recall what it was about. Umm, what were we talking about again?
While true, that doesn't make it acceptable. In a functioning society, companies would be punished harshly for this behaviour.
They should have gone all in and published the travel history of elite politicians, CEOs, and celebrities. That'd get a lot more media attention and potential for consequential legislation.
It's an unstable equilibrium: companies can always make more by adding ads, therefore they do so. This isn't the consumer's fault.
For me, it's an especially bad argument because the sloppy nature of HTML parsing is NOT a virtue... it's a source of bugs, vulnerabilities, and incompatibilities that provides (yet another) technical moat for existing…
In addition, hackers should know government is inevitable. Even in anarchy, governments spontaneously begin to form.
Agreed. We need legally enforceable standards granting owners full control of their devices. But also: TPMs could be used to prevent evil maid attacks and to make it uneconomical for thieves who stole your device to…
What happens to these people if, hypothetically, a malicious U.S. president subverts the Federal Reserve and wildly inflates the dollar?
Ugh, capitalism monifies yet another problem it created.
What's your method for eliminating underground nests?
Capitalism and socialism are both pretty effective at killing competition and rewiring the government & economy to seek extractive rents. Granted, it takes longer with capitalism.
Au contraire... FreeCAD has a confounding UI, except for the sketcher.
Spiritually, Blender is to FreeCAD what Gimp is to Inkscape or what BMP is to SVG. With Blender you're massaging piles of anonymous polygons so they look right aestheticallY, while with CAD you're composing geometric…
Energy corporations and wealthy individuals funded the Heartland Institute who then ran public influence campaigns to discredit climate change. Conspiracy theorists and talk radio hosts predictably made a buck…
"heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible" -- Lord Kelvin, 1895
Unfortunately, when you try to starve the beast, it's the essential functions that get slashed instead of the leadership and adminstrative apparatus. The animal is harmed further while the parasite intercepts the…
If he's a clown what part of his theory is the circus? Are you saying that superintelligence is impossible? Are you saying that the alignment problem will certainty be solved before superintelligence emerges? Are you…
I'd say repeatedly forecasting "full self driving next year" every year for a decade qualifies Tesla for #2.
I think a lot of the objections to your post could be answered by reminding folks of how Microsoft Access databases tend to pop up in small businesses as well as corporate environments outside of IT departments. Yes,…
A military coup in the U.S. is imaginable, which probably explains some of the top brass purges (until recently, where it's probably an attempt to deflect blame for the massive Iran fuck up). Putin did it better; he…
It's not for me, but I can see the appeal - minimalism, distraction elimination, geek cred, and the sort of flow state one gets from working in a low latency, high muscle memory environment.
Okay, I'll say it: is it really worth encumbering the movements of millions of people for decades in order to make a few boring history exhibits? If you want to see some the bone comb that belonged to somebody's…
That's the kind of corporate baby-talk I use when I'm trying to resist doing something.
Amazon extracts a lot of the value of a purchase from the seller's take. Sellers risk sanctions if they sell a product cheaper thru their brand website.
Note that populist demagogue started a trade war and threatened allies with invasion. That tends to put a damper on friendship. And that's before the idiotic blunder with Hormuz.
What a coincidence. I also read the book and can't recall what it was about. Umm, what were we talking about again?
While true, that doesn't make it acceptable. In a functioning society, companies would be punished harshly for this behaviour.
They should have gone all in and published the travel history of elite politicians, CEOs, and celebrities. That'd get a lot more media attention and potential for consequential legislation.
It's an unstable equilibrium: companies can always make more by adding ads, therefore they do so. This isn't the consumer's fault.
For me, it's an especially bad argument because the sloppy nature of HTML parsing is NOT a virtue... it's a source of bugs, vulnerabilities, and incompatibilities that provides (yet another) technical moat for existing…
In addition, hackers should know government is inevitable. Even in anarchy, governments spontaneously begin to form.
Agreed. We need legally enforceable standards granting owners full control of their devices. But also: TPMs could be used to prevent evil maid attacks and to make it uneconomical for thieves who stole your device to…
What happens to these people if, hypothetically, a malicious U.S. president subverts the Federal Reserve and wildly inflates the dollar?
Ugh, capitalism monifies yet another problem it created.
What's your method for eliminating underground nests?
Capitalism and socialism are both pretty effective at killing competition and rewiring the government & economy to seek extractive rents. Granted, it takes longer with capitalism.
Au contraire... FreeCAD has a confounding UI, except for the sketcher.
Spiritually, Blender is to FreeCAD what Gimp is to Inkscape or what BMP is to SVG. With Blender you're massaging piles of anonymous polygons so they look right aestheticallY, while with CAD you're composing geometric…
Energy corporations and wealthy individuals funded the Heartland Institute who then ran public influence campaigns to discredit climate change. Conspiracy theorists and talk radio hosts predictably made a buck…