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9631.
by api 8y ago
He is the most likely candidate.
9632.
by api 8y ago
I view the dark ages as just a big recession following the collapse of Rome. It's not that nothing happened. Often very important things happen during recessions. It's just that there was little macroeconomic growth.
9633.
by api 8y ago
So far emitting fossil CO2 has never cost me more than the utility... I agree. These mass surveillance dragnets are a society-wide risk even more than they're a risk to the individual. The socialized risk is that malicious actors (whet
9634.
by api 8y ago
Prion disease is terrifying and probably under-studied and under-prepared-for...
9635.
by api 8y ago
A science fiction story set in this time would be truly epic and beautiful.
9636.
by api 8y ago
I was thinking more of Alexa type devices.
9637.
by api 8y ago
It would take a law since as it stands it would defeat the purpose of these devices: to spy.
9638.
by api 8y ago
Most of the world is defecting at the moment. Few are truly serious about cutting emissions dramatically. The US is relatively high (but by no means the highest) in per capita CO2 while China is the #1 emitter in total and also per dollar G
9639.
by api 8y ago
I don't disagree that there are huge risks. I just don't think anyone is taking those potential massive risks seriously, and that includes a substantial number of environmentalists and the leaders of most of the world. Another thi
9640.
by api 8y ago
I've come to terms with the fact that nothing is going to stop anthropogenic climate change and we'll just have to adapt to it. It's not a technical problem but a political game-theoretic problem. Major CO2 cuts would require
9641.
by api 8y ago
I think history has proven that the microkernel people were right from a conceptual point of view, but maybe had some wrong ideas about how to implement one and what level to put abstractions. The whole mess of VM hosts, hypervisors, contai
9642.
by api 8y ago
There's a big legal difference between the government working to unmask anonymous users and making it illegal to try to be anonymous in the first place. The latter is probably brazenly unconstitutional while the former is at least a co
9643.
by api 8y ago
Somewhat more knowledgeable comments than many other places and interesting articles. I do feel the place is less "hot" than it was say five or six years ago though. Not sure why.
9644.
by api 8y ago
Anything that became popular would be targeted just the same. The solution is more secure OSes, not distribution filtering. I should be able to put a gelatinous abomination from hell on my phone and be okay. Mobile OS sandboxing is better t
9645.
by api 8y ago
They're cheaper, faster to set up, and pack more people into less space?
9646.
by api 8y ago
I think everyone sees clearly that AMP is a power grab but fishes for proximate reasons to reject it instead of just sticking to that. I don't care how AMP works. It's a power grab. Done.
9647.
by api 8y ago
They are building a super heavy lift rocket that makes the most sense for sending humans to the Moon and Mars. Other roles can be served reasonably well by Falcon and FH. Outside manned tourism, exploration, and settlement there is little n
9648.
by api 8y ago
Nah... if anything trauma can make some people better oppressors and killers. It induces dissociation. It's part of why you see generational cycles of violence. Each traumatized generation traumatizes the next.
9649.
by api 8y ago
This needed a domain.
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by api 8y ago
It makes me wonder how "real" our GDP and other paper money measures are. If the money can't be spent on actual stuff, does it actually exist?
9651.
by api 8y ago
No. I think he or possibly his underlings were more than willing to accept Russian help with little regard for legality, and Russia had their own reasons (personal hatred for Hillary Clinton by Putin, sanctions, etc.) for preferring Trump.
9652.
by api 8y ago
I was using it as a technical term more than a political one. Capital is a rough synonym for assets, but "surveillance asset accumulation" is clunky. The capital being amassed here is information about people. That capital can be
9653.
by api 8y ago
What's happening now is totally different from the lack of privacy experienced in a tribe or a close knit village. This is top down panopticon surveillance where an opaque eye spies on everyone on behalf of a complex of corporations, a
9654.
by api 8y ago
I was reading a while ago about how many nukes we set off in the 50s and 60s and thought: what are we doing today that future generations will think "what were they thinking?" Surveillance capitalism was the first thing to come to
9655.
by api 8y ago
They both look kind of bad from this TBH...
9656.
by api 8y ago
> Consider that they just spent $2 billion on a train station This can't be anything other than corruption or incompetence. There is absolutely no way it can possibly cost that much. The new One World Trade Center (Freedom Tower) co
9657.
by api 8y ago
Way to introduce invasive species to parallel universes...
9658.
by api 8y ago
The mistake here is assuming that if SF grows it must become NYC. What if it could be better? There are many other even higher density cities than NYC in the world with much better policies and quality of life. Look to those.
9659.
by api 8y ago
Sorry I ninja edited with a better thesis. :P Yes I used to live there. The subway system in Boston and NYC is very badly run, but the city as a whole at least for Boston isn't bad. They do a better job with urban planning at least.
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by api 8y ago
San Francisco is a bonsai kitten. It wants to grow into a major world city like NYC, LA, or Tokyo, but its older residents are steadfastly opposed and want to keep it in a jar so it stays cute. The result is a painful deformed mess. I don&#

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