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by nvm0n2 3y ago
> Are we just going to distribute access the same way we distribute wealth today - i.e. the more wealth and/or power you have, the more access [to cool bio implants] you get? Wealth is (to an economist) all the goods and services
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Excellent comment, thanks. You nailed who these guys are perfectly.
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Aren't you assuming a zero sum economy without growth? The four men in the article all created their own wealth, they didn't steal it, so this seems like a pretty poor situation to try and make the argument that wealth inequality
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Thanks! That sounds like it must be it.
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
> Four very powerful billionaires—Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Marc Andreessen—are creating a world where “nothing is true and all is spectacle.” Where is this from? The quote marks make it sound like something one of t
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Does the UN matter at all? Their track record is quite poor, especially recently. They seem to have branches and offshoots that have opinions on absolutely everything, these opinions are invariably so predictable an AI could have written th
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
How the internet works is decided by their voters already, by the act of deciding what products to use.
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Browsers can look words up for you by right clicking so a dictionary bot would be annoying and not that useful.
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Sad thing is it's not pointless. It's very much got a point like all the other apparently pointless word fights these people engage in. It's a way to separate and identify ideological fellow travelers (one might say followers
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
What does exposed in a meaningful fashion mean here? Their drivers all seem to be open source, so the hardware is exposed directly.
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Yes OK, I don't have direct experience with QAT and wasn't really counting getting the right hardware in the software experience. Their product matrix is very confusing.
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Other way around. AMD's early efforts were hard broken and needed a new CPU, SGX has never been as far as I know. Even when not technically "broken" AMD SEV was broken by design because it didn't protect all the necessar
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Intel's software has always been pretty good for me. You're complaining about the need for a driver, right? That seems reasonable, more like a weakness of cloud computing that it takes so long for clouds to expose the real capabil
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
How is compression not a real workload? Zstd is an excellent codec that's rapidly proliferating - for example Chrome is integrating it at the moment. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
That's right. The decoder doesn't know.
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Of course "we" can, there is simply no desire to do so in some countries. The UK uses a nationalized essentially communist form of healthcare provisioning and then gives it away for free to anyone who turns up, legally or otherwis
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Purist libertarians believe in having enough state-enforced rules to prevent people using violence against each other. The gap here is only between deliberate acts of violence and irresponsibility large enough to yield the same effect. Like
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
https://www.quora.com/In-Tesla-and-SpaceX-how-much-of-the-te... A number of years back I had an email from a bloke called Elon Musk. I was vaguely aware of who he was but not very. At the time I was the global expert in a
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
I'm as libertarian as they come but honestly I can't get worked up about traffic cameras. We are tracked everywhere we go with our phones anyway, that battle is lost (and of course wearing a cap or mask in your car isn't ille
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
I mean sure but they give us rigid enforcement because there's no universal and fair way to define what the "real" limit should be. Limits do get changed dynamically on motorways. You can argue that with the ever greater digi
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Healthcare systems can scale up to meet the extra demand, and obese people can be asked to pay more for their healthcare. That doesn't apply for phone driving/drunk driving/etc because you can't charge people more based
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
I can't find it again but I read a few days ago a slightly different variant of this story, maybe before the layoffs, in which Zuck/Chan were reported to be summoning CZI executives and asking them what they are actually doing all
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
It's not hard to use exactly but it's low level. My point was that you can't just say "give me an async HTTPS server" or "give me an async JDBC connection", whereas because node started from scratch with t
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
OK, thanks for the corrections!
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Fair points! I did say Axis powers (to include Japan). I think though, that the average Brit did not care so much about Poland. It was clear by that point that Hitler intended to take all of Europe and the exact event that triggered it was
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Hm was that the primary goal? I thought the primary goal (of the Allies) was to defeat the Axis powers because they were directly attacking the UK and USA. Liberating France and other parts of western Europe was just a requirement of gettin
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Translate did not suck in 2006, it was a big leap over the competitors at the time. It was really the first time a company had launched productized statistical machine translation at all. Before that there was the Altavista Babelfish whic
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
No there were lots of just outright breaks. JavaEE being removed, along with a package frequently used for Base64 encoding (with no replacement until several later versions). JavaFX being separated out so it's not bundled anymore, alon
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
If he is comparing things to 1990 then that means he's using "frontend" to included non-web UI tech as well, in which case flex vs tables isn't really the main point of comparison.
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
I think we're in agreement :-) I'm talking about how those languages/platforms pitched themselves to get users. In the early days, Node pushed itself as about performance. Write in a high level scripting language like Python

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