Out of country DNS servers would probably completely circumvent this.

I just want to say I appreciate your informed opinions in contrast to the doom and gloomerism combined with class warfare that is so pervasive here.

Managers are easier to replace than workers

Freeing humans from toil is a good idea, just like the industrial revolution was. We just need our system to adapt and change with this new reality, AGI and universal basic income means we could live in something like the society in star trek.

The one that passed: Lexus Teammate with Advanced Drive (2022-24 Lexus LS)

Saved you a click.

What on earth does this have to do with the patriot act?

It seems like the US government is predicting that the rise of AI will become a national security issue. They’re right.

It’s great for homemade pizza dough, you should try it sometime

He blew up a starship test because he overrode engineers, thought he knew better than them, and didn’t install a blast deflector under the rocket. It made a giant hole in the launch pad and the concrete debris damaged the rocket.

Infinitely reproducible digital media has little inherent value. As the article acknowledges, the value proposition Netflix offered was convenience. If pirate sites offer more convenience than Netflix offers legitimate users, Netflix will lose. I find it baffling they are fucking around with ads and locking down access, making their experience worse. Same with Amazon Prime. It’s like they forgot their own business model.

This is further proof of that.

Article says SSD manufacturers currently sell at a loss & intend to raise prices because they want to be profitable, 40% is break even, 50% is profitable

Step one: invent replicators

I really hate this usage of the term, Boomer. Words mean things!

Your perspective is distorted, things are incredible and getting better by most metrics.

• The average person today lives better than kings of old.
• We have abundant water, food, and sanitation. In America, food is so subsidized that it is ridiculously cheap by historical standards.
• Your odds of dying to violence or disease have never been lower in all of human history.
• You have all human knowledge at your fingertips.
• You can visit any place on Earth in a matter of hours.
• Civil rights are protected a lot more today than they were in many/most civilizations of the past.
• Entertainment is abundant and cheap, and takes forms that people of the past could only dream about.

While we certainly have our challenges to overcome, like climate change, wealth inequality, and social problems, let’s not forget how good we have it.

It feels like the tragedy of the commons all over again, a public space becomes dominated by private interests and eventually destroyed.

Several stops have been created for ca high speed rail in the valley

It’s happening.

Yeah, I’m not sure what this idiot thought would happen…

I think the whole Twitter debacle has disproven that he’s a good businessman. Rather, it highlights how far one can get by having heritable wealth and being in the right place at the right time.