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811.
by narrator 4y ago
Another great novel about emergent intelligence was Blood Music by Greg Bear. A microorganism develops swarm intelligence.
812.
by narrator 4y ago
Yeah, it seems like everything these days is about figuring out how to get everyone motivated to have a revolution. We probably already hit peak civilization at some point over the last 20 years and this revolution stuff is just speeding up
813.
by narrator 4y ago
Suicides have been rising since 2000. I think we should go back to tricyclics antidepressants. They worked better than SSRIs.
814.
by narrator 4y ago
In this thread, everything except the actual cause of the burnout. I'm feeling great, btw. I'd tell you my secret, but I'd get flagged.
815.
by narrator 4y ago
Airspeed is a blistering 92 mph[1]. I'd also like to see how this bad boy operates in high winds. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_Air_Vehicles_Airlande...
816.
by narrator 4y ago
If you want to pick stocks, and not just use a roboadvisor like betterment or wealthfront you have to understand that the market does not always go up. This means you have to have a bear market strategy and know when to switch modes from b
817.
by narrator 4y ago
Much like cnn.com, the domain name is not a seal of quality. In this case, every source that has told you there was no fraud in the 2020 election appears to be a mash of conspiracy Twitter accounts, fringe blogs, or links to itself. Ho hum
818.
by narrator 4y ago
Since you asked: http://www.hereistheevidence.com Yup, this exact talking point has been made so many times in so many ways on so many forums that somebody made a site just to rebut it.
819.
by narrator 4y ago
A lot of u.s manufacturing capability for electronics is paid for by military contracts. The U.S manufacturers don't even try to compete with China because military contractors are not allowed to make stuff there.
820.
by narrator 4y ago
Everyone loves "The Road", but more than half the book is the kid saying he's scared, hungry, or cold and dad saying it's going to be ok. The repetition gets ridiculous.
821.
by narrator 4y ago
Sure, hydrogen is not good compared to batteries as an energy storage medium, but making synthetic fuels from solar power is also massively inefficient. Biofuels is a huge waste of farmland, fertilizer, etc. This downside compared to batt
822.
by narrator 4y ago
The hydrogen conversion of the Cessna Caravan seems a little more practical. Hydrogen is bulky, but light. Fuel cells aren't cheap though. However, hydrogen is quick to refuel unlike battery charging. I think the weight to power is
823.
by narrator 4y ago
This code of conduct is there to prime the foundation for the takeover of by outsiders. With for profit companies, they can just buy the company. For non-profits, outsiders takeover by instituting DEI and then find something that they ca
824.
by narrator 4y ago
What's the official threshold for how many people have to die per year from something that is not related to tech to get a news story about it to the top of hacker news feed ? Dividing the number in the study by 3 and rounding up, and
825.
by narrator 4y ago
Along the same lines: Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics http://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm
826.
by narrator 4y ago
Probably contradicting the narrative with regards to "The Current Thing."
827.
by narrator 4y ago
The point of all this is to have people who are unqualified as individuals embedded deep in every organization who are loyal to and owe their jobs and livelihood not to their own merit, but to external political movements. Unlike unions, th
828.
by narrator 4y ago
Larry and Sergei decided they are not interested in the business anymore. That's probably why Google has failed to innovate much lately. How great would Tesla or SpaceX be without Elon? Companies without the founders become too caut
829.
by narrator 4y ago
One thing that's weird about Dostoevsky is that there are so many characters and their relationships with each other are very complex. "The Idiot" , ironically, was one of the more complicated books, IMHO. It made me wonder
830.
by narrator 4y ago
The FBI will have this power in spades though. They also have a 98% conviction rate. I think the federal government might be worried that local police could get too good at their jobs thanks to technology and that would create a state&#x2F
831.
by narrator 4y ago
How about using this to find bot accounts?
832.
by narrator 4y ago
This is really cool. The next awesome breakthrough would be for the computer to describe the contents of a video. That would be a big step toward AGI, IMHO.
833.
by narrator 4y ago
There are other issues such as criticism of lockdowns, vaccine safety, anthropogenic global warming, central bank digital currencies, investigation of certain incidents like the Las Vegas mass shooting, supporting the Russian side of the Uk
834.
by narrator 4y ago
There were bigger disruptions in the past. The telegraph, railroads, explosives. "The Devils" by Dostoevsky is a great fictional account of what all these technological disruptions do to the fragile social order in the late 19th
835.
by narrator 4y ago
It's also doesn't fit well with modern narratives when they encounter and kill Humbaba. It would confuse the heck out of the audience that they negotiate and offer gifts to Humbaba. Then Humbaba tries to run away and they chase
836.
by narrator 4y ago
China and Russia are ahead of the U.S as far as hypersonic missile tech goes. https://www.ft.com/content/c7139a23-1271-43ae-975b-9b6323301...
837.
by narrator 4y ago
Back in 2012 Russia bragged they had a program to develop microwave based "psychotronic" weapons. Maybe they got somewhere with it. https://www.guns.com/news/2012/04/06/putin-russia-develop-ps.
838.
by narrator 4y ago
Anyone remember that Larry Page guy who used to run Google and created the brilliant culture that's now starting to fade away? He's now currently in a remote island in Fiji and has been since the start of the pandemic. What the
839.
by narrator 4y ago
+1 for Roadside Picnic. I love how unbelievably melancholy that book is. The amount of smoking and drinking in every scene is kind of amusing too. It definitely hits that noir sci-fi vibe. Like what if the future goes kind of wrong, but
840.
by narrator 4y ago
Look at how Larry Page disappeared off to Fiji and just dropped out of the tech and business world. That to me says a lot about what's become of Google.

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