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Everybody forgets about tardigrades, but they will be here when we are long passed from all memory.

The profit motive reliably exposes brokenness. What changed to make loans for useless activity profitable? Normally, a loan for useless activity wouldn’t be issued, because of the expectation that it wouldn’t be repaid.

This is one of those rare times I’ll agree we could use a gulag.

A dream that pays $35k/yr

I mean, if we’re not allowed to know that we’re not allowed to surveil the shit out of you, it seems like something we can’t worry about

I feel the same way about the Barkley Marathons. What was once a soulful, austere and obscure contest against time and nature is now become a Roman orgy of decadence with contestants hauled about on opulent palanquins and all manner of one-wheeled contraption. It used to be special. If drugs were taken, they were not enjoyed. Hacker News became aware of the marathons, and now it’s only a matter of time until old Lazarus Lake is blowing that conch shell on stage with Taylor Swift, I tell you.

Some kind of lotto system

Nuclear power derives its energy from the binding energy of ultra-heavy atomic nuclei, not fossil fuels. This energy can then be used to power electric cars, avoiding fossil fuel consumption. Furthermore, unlike wind and solar energy, nuclear power generation is not tied to the vagaries of weather, meaning that it doesn’t require burning millions of cubic meters of natural gas every overcast, calm day. For this reason, Russia historically was the largest single benefactor of Germany’s green euphoria: it prolongs fossil fuel reliance.

So often, emotional thinking leads to conclusions that are opposed to reality. You really have to watch out for it, if you want good results.

You’re not going to be any happier with the circumstances of people living in enormous urban housing projects.

You should want a society where we are all rewarded for looking after each other, in the ways we are each best at. Nothing else can work.

Yeah, a shelter is only truly a shelter if you don’t pay for it. Paying for a home is the very definition of homelessness, after all.

Oh, it is if you’re on the right side of history.

He’s making the point that poor governance delivering poor outcomes will eventually by replaced by its ideological opposition, no matter how distasteful.

Very clearly, you haven’t been to a NASCAR race or monster truck rally in at least a decade. Not many oligarchs. Lots of kids.

Your implied point that prices will drop with the introduction of interstate competition and access to finance and interest by mega-corps is well taken. You are certainly correct, there.

Notwithstanding grey-market limitations, people have their motives for accepting the inefficiency of starting or staying small. Potential, for example.

What SMB has the luxury of being notoriously unproductive? Economies of scale are very real and tend to make larger businesses more efficient, it's true, but you'll find that causes SMBs to be lean and mean to remain competitive.

The old twitter had a vigorous compliance team that slavishly obeyed government requests, particularly the ones that involved secret court orders. Most of those people were wiped out in the first round of layoffs. The new Twitter has no such team nor impulse and ignores censorship requests, fighting them only when the courts get involved.

All that matters is purchasing committees are ok

Large enterprise purchasing committees are foremost concerned with risk, you absolute dolt.

The risk that price will jump 12x, requiring all kinds of scrambling, is fucking awful.

I don’t know what planet you’re from, but you gotta stop acting like it’s this one.

Because monoculture is unhealthy.

For my part, certainly. It's an important part of how I keep emotional liabilities out of the company.

“ That raises the question of how the company would deal with competitors that are armed with its very own technology - and perhaps beating Intel's own internal product teams with better processor designs. While Gelsinger didn't answer my entire question, he certainly gave us plenty to ponder.”

Oh, I can tell you: by slow-walking the production of superior competition and demanding ever more money for the privilege, until the competition gets the message and gets lost. Then, Intel sues to stop 3rd party production, because it’s using Intel’s IP.

If you expect anything else, I have a bridge to sell you.

F1’s reasoning is “Andretti won’t be competitive and Andretti’s reputation will benefit more than ours if he has an F1 team”

Yeah, just like being a perennial loser did so much good for the Williams legend, right?

Or similar to how winning nothing in F1 for years really buoyed Ferrari’s brand, I suppose?

I would like to know the actual reason for the rejection, given that the stated reasons are transparently false.

Because building planes is an engineering task.

Let’s use your argument: Would you hire a lawyer to captain a ship? Why not? It’s not like the captain actually steers the ship or oils the engine.

You see? It’s not that hard to think a tiny tiny little bit.

78% of our atmosphere is nitrogen, a known narcotic that has cost thousands of lives by inducing mental impairment in situations already fraught with hazard.

Yes, of course, sending your grandmother a text message is basically identical to you pirating Netflix content.

Right-o.

unless said robot is specifically designed to be almost completely incapable of applying any force to any parts of a human body

Be careful, but don’t beat yourself up over it. Many CNC milling shops regularly run jobs that cannot succeed without a human gripping the workpiece to control vibration.

The folks I really worry about are the waterjet cowboys. The garnet particles that lend a waterjet the power to cut titanium get embedded inches from the site of the wound, if that stream touches skin. Amputation one or two joints up from the wound is standard treatment.

I hereby demand that Apple stop supporting email interoperability with non iCloud users. The current situation, where the iCloud email users enjoy first class communication with gmail users, is tantamount to theft.

That’s reasonable, of course.

Criticism of the ADL’s politics is no holocaust.

“Can be bypassed” does not necessarily mean ineffective, when the goal is to change behavior.

Do people typically respond to the YouTube anti-blocking threat prompt by disabling their ad blocker entirely, or by enhancing their ad blocking?

There is a melancholy, defeated aspect to saying someone with such notable imagination and success as Elon is motivated only by insecurity.

There is no shortage of small towns in cold places that have been devastated by meth and fentanyl where crime is hopelessly rampant.

In review, your two glib panaceas of moving somewhere cold or moving somewhere less dense are hopelessly inadequate.