cityofghosts

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by cityofghosts 9y ago
this comment section should be read in front of congress the next time regulating the tech industry is in the table. these people literally think its ok to perform experiments that kill people.
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by cityofghosts 9y ago
you arent an engineer. engineers have to be licensed and are liable if their work fails.
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by cityofghosts 9y ago
i dont understand why people who write code consider themselves engineers. they arent liable if their code breaks. they have no professional licensing system. they dont even need an education.
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by cityofghosts 9y ago
and mr palantir got up from his desk, steaming envelopes, and walked down the street, into the future. "ill be a postman" he thought. "wont have to spy on anybody".
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by cityofghosts 9y ago
Only if it emits radiation.
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by cityofghosts 9y ago
We are all Jimmy now.
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by cityofghosts 9y ago
It worked for the UK and the British East India company , it should work fine for America. Tesla can set up mining camps on Mars and eliminate ten percent of it's "underperforming" population every year, just like it does at
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by cityofghosts 9y ago
World War 1 ended. The entire premise of free society is that war comes to an end, there is a such a thing as peacetime. Somehow that idea has died, and with it morality and social conscience. Comparing our spat with a few mountain dwelling
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by cityofghosts 9y ago
The Hacker Crackdown of 1990 by Bruce sterling was the first long form e book I read. It foretold the future in many ways. 1st, it was a bright shining line between the old world of govt doing this stuff in shadows, buried in a blurb on of
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by cityofghosts 9y ago
China already does this, and it works to a large extent. If you want to do it in a free society it's not too hard... 1. Enforce OSHA workplace safety law on all u.s. porn sets. 2. Enforce international trade rules against labor safety