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11911.
by api 10y ago
... Unless this was designed to be leaked via known compromised individuals, etc.
11912.
by api 10y ago
Didn't Nixon attempt to portray himself as crazy and willing to hit the button as part of a "mad man strategy?"
11913.
by api 10y ago
Problem is there is autism like (maybe) Einstein or Tesla and then there is autism where the child can't communicate or adapt to any form of human social interaction or contact. The former is neurodiversity, the latter a debilitating d
11914.
by api 10y ago
An adult can also go to a casino or buy lotto tickets, activities not only statistically guaranteed to be losers on average but designed intentionally to be so. At least startup crowdfunding might fund some cool stuff. BTW why can't VC
11915.
by api 10y ago
Flying cars won't be used in the same role as land cars. Unless you live some kind of extreme rural life in Montana or something and have money, it's not something an individual would own. I've always imagined micro airports.
11916.
by api 10y ago
It's basically a Sybil attack on public discourse. Sybil attacks, when conducted for any reason, do in fact almost always lead to the destruction of the network being attacked.
11917.
by api 10y ago
Surveillance could indeed have many beneficial uses in a benevolent, voluntarist sort of society. Unfortunately we don't live there. The world is still largely run by warlords, narcissists, and sociopaths.
11918.
by api 10y ago
The best description of what's happening that I've heard is "in-deflation." That's inflation in everything you need (housing, health care, education, etc.) and deflation in everything else including wages. It's
11919.
by api 10y ago
Forget flying cars. If you ignore gadgets, things have gotten worse for the working and middle classes of most developed nations in the past 30 years. Wages are stagnant yet housing and other essential costs have exploded... largely due to
11920.
by api 10y ago
"Never really delete" is actually standard advice. There are loads of reasons, mostly non-nefarious, why you may want or need that data. Sometimes deleted stuff is archived offline or in slow warehouse databases that are not live,
11921.
by api 10y ago
How many other words and sounds sound a bit like Alexa?
11922.
by api 10y ago
Are construction workers paid 50X? I doubt it.
11923.
by api 10y ago
What is this actually being spent on? Studies to study the feasibility of a feasibility study to begin a study?
11924.
by api 10y ago
They also launched their reputation by picking on low hanging fruit. Debunking the idea that the towers were taken down on 9/11 with lasers or that Michael Jackson is still alive is not hard. Now they are into very fuzzy realms where t
11925.
by api 10y ago
Over a decade of crawling on its belly at the bottom end of the market has really taken a toll on PC hardware and the whole PC ecosystem. The bundling of actual malware with PCs marks what I think is the low point. Dell's XPS machines
11926.
by api 10y ago
I'm calling it the MacBook Vista. Ouch. After seeing the touch bar, I think it's really not all that useful. I would much rather have seen more battery, RAM, faster CPU options, traditional USB and HDMI, magsafe, and more SSD. B
11927.
by api 10y ago
They could become profitable if they exited unprofitable markets and stopped most R&D, focusing on only the profitable parts of their business. They're buying growth and investing heavily in R&D because they want to take over a
11928.
by api 10y ago
No issue there. The problem is that this completely breaks all modern finance, which is built on the assumption of permanent macroeconomic growth to deliver returns and permanent inflation to continuously re-price debt.
11929.
by api 10y ago
... and economic stagnation. It's basically a permanent liquidity trap.
11930.
by api 10y ago
This is the real problem. While it may be good ecologically for population growth to slow and then reverse, it will lead to what I've long called "planet Japan."
11931.
by api 10y ago
Exciting but some caveats. AFIAK the live mice were GMOs with a progeria-like disease, which made them age rapidly. That obviously makes it easier to do anti-aging experiments but also adds a big footnote to the results. We don't know
11932.
by api 10y ago
Most really huge, old, bureaucratic organizations resemble the Microsoft org chart from here: http://www.globalnerdy.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011...
11933.
by api 10y ago
Reminds me of my favorite clickhole post: "Top 10 Reasons You Clicked on This."
11934.
by api 10y ago
I think it's partly talent availability. There are lots of android devs, but very few who can write microcontroller code in ASM or super minimal C. If you can run android on it, you can increase the size of your hiring pool a hundred f
11935.
by api 10y ago
Rich people would get this first, but there'd be so much demand that unless there was something intrinsically expensive about a life extension tech (e.g. it required surgical intervention) you'd see geometric decreases in price.
11936.
by api 10y ago
... until import tariffs with China end the solar revolution here.
11937.
by api 10y ago
Microservices always struck me as a reinvention of service oriented architecture from the 90s and early 2000s. This was done using RPC protocols like Java RMI or CORBA, while microservices are normally done with http(s) or event/pubsub
11938.
by api 10y ago
Is there even any evidence that he attended this dinner? ... that and having a taste for pretentious shock-art is not a crime last I checked. I've had a little bit of contact with East Coast elite circles before and that kind of vapid
11939.
by api 10y ago
There seems to be more evidence for the former than the latter.
11940.
by api 10y ago
Now consider "pizzagate," a claim that John Podesta and possibly Hillary Clinton were somehow involved in some kind of child trafficking ring based on a few cryptic out of context sentences in their e-mails. Clinton was known for

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