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The scale of deep body trauma that has been done to the US will not seem clear today, but it will have dire consequences for the future trajectory of US. I am sad for this, for the current status quo I was born under, but I suppose History must happen.
That is a great and underused method of evaluating moral judgments and I believe that it’s very suitable in this particular case.
It also dilutes the current and very real responsibilities of the 'effectors'. In saying 'they would have done the same' it becomes very easy to justify the unjustifiable.
It would be different materially. The rallying cry would be different for one.
No matter who did it, it would still be 'evil'. There would be 'good guys' and 'bad guys'. Specially when the labels would be applied to dead children and innocents under rubble. Everyone keeps forgetting them.
Just because you think they would do the same to you, does not justify your actions.
I wonder what would have happened if the Americans had taken the same approach with the Iraqis and the Afganis. As someone said, if your enemy is carrying a baby, you don't punch him through the baby, you punch around it.
The staggering number of civilian casualties, deaths and literal executions that have been inflicted in the name of peace must give the acting populace a pause. In the name of humanity. The place is just rubble now. How much more security could one country want? No one else has done something like this since the first world war.
Fundamentally, China and Vietnam were able to succeed at pushing people into factory work because these kinds of subsidies didn't exist, forcing people to choose between working at a factory or starve. Also, factories in China and Vietnam would build dormitories, but in India that falls foul of labor laws.
That's dubious thinking. The hurdles to establishment of a manufacturing base are not labor shortages. The biggest issue in India is the ease of doing business[0] and the bureaucratic red tape. India ranks 136 in 190 countries in starting new businesses, among many other accolades.
[0] https://archive.doingbusiness.org/en/rankings [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24106545
I wonder if the Regulatory bodies and the NGOs can sufficiently express the necessity and severity of these new regulations to the high levels of radioactivity in the metal nodules. There is also the concern that mining companies may not be able to relay their concerns about the proper handling of such metals to the Governmental and Regulatory bodies in a timely and above the board manner. Over dinner at the local Social Club. This might create some consternation.
This and other recent similar articles honestly sounds like someone paid a big bag of money to a very high profile PR agency, the one used by the Middle east dictators and BP, to rehabilitate ocean mining's image and lobby the public zeitgeist.
I wonder what else comes with the Platinum knife through our morality's heart package other than nudging multiple article mills and ai wranglers to massage out their press kits.
Their archive.org link (https://archive.org/details/@noclipvideo) and a link to the 2009 Microsoft E3 demo in 1080i (https://archive.org/details/microsoftE32009PressConference).
Meaning.. people prefer bluesky to mastodon?
From the above article.
Hergé met Chang Chong-Ren for the first time in Brussels in 1934 at the urging of one Abbé Gosset. Gosset, the chaplain to a group of Chinese Catholic students at Louvain University, had been concerned about the racist stereotypes in Hergé’s first two hugely popular Tintin books, Tintin in the Land of the Soviets and Tintin in the Congo, and urged him to ‘do a little research’ before embarking on his next book, The Blue Lotus, set in China.
Development costs of what? The trashcan? What could possibly have cost them 50,000xplane frames to develop it in the first place?
The reading of the article implies the contract set prices for commercial items and Boeing simply started charging the army whatever as soon as it technically wasn't 'commercial'.
Can someone tell me the answer to the problem in plain english? I have no idea what a beta is.
The emulator and code is available here - https://touchhle.org/
Thank you for sharing this. It was a wonderful read. I truly hope one day LLMs (or something else) can write something with this much heart. That would be a day I'd like to see.
Part 2 of the above story by Suzanne Palmer - https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/palmer_06_21/
I present to you Tu-128, the USSR's dedicated NATO balloon buster [0]. US found it quite funny to send in hundreds of balloons to reconnoitre and send a message[1][2].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-28#Operational_hist...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Genetrix
[2] https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/the-soviets-built-besp...
Basically, space will be inherited by our successors. Artificial intelligences.
Ha ha, I love this. The sentiment has been there for a while now in the zeitgeist but had been overshadowed and outperformed by the lesser idea of 'Robots, and then AI, are coming and they are going to get us!' Finally, I don't know what section of human psychology is permitting it now, we are slowly and slowly coming to the understanding that AI will be humanity's child and will inherit the stars.
I wonder if we'll, as in individual us humans, come along for the ride or if we'll be laid to rest. Peter F. Hamilton and his contemporaries like Neal Asher sure have interesting thoughts on it.
So, people are suggesting UTC and such. Someone on masto suggested using Pulsars.
https://mastodon.social/@CosmicRami@aus.social/1097534349342...
Why build a timescale that ONLY works for the Moon? Then, we need atomic clocks on all spacecraft ... or a Martian timescale. Scalability is key here, and we are lucky as we can build a GALACTIC timescale through ... you guessed it .... pulsars! A pulsar-based-timescale using the timing of pulsars around the galaxy, so all locations and receivers can tap into it universally. This also has the benefit of not having to build GNSS on the far side of the Moon, protecting its pristine radio heritage for #astronomy. Here's some further reading: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/427/4/2780/971096?log... https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/491/4/5951/5612203 https://www.esa.int/kids/en/news/ESA_test_a_new_pulsar_clock
So, India inherited the British civil services system wholesale. The formal pseudo legal language used in the system, instituted by the British, continued. It was different enough from the language taught in schools that when someone was exposed to it or had to use it tried to conform to it's idiosyncrasies.
Over time, isolated from the cultural changes happening to the English world, it developed in it's own way. Like the albino and blind animals evolved in the seclusion of an isolated cave system.
Today, the best way to observe this secluded language branch is to read official Indian government announcements.
It has started to meld back into the main branch [0][1] as younger and younger, more exposed to the global English culture, take over responsibilities.
[0] https://pib.gov.in/PressReleseDetailm.aspx?PRID=1888208
[1] https://indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directora...
since Google's rise to mapping dominance, it has put the screws to developers with anti-competitive terms and rising prices. In 2018, Google Maps hiked the price by more than 1,400 percent, and many developers were forced to stop using Google Maps or go bankrupt. The US Justice Department began an investigation of Google Maps earlier in the year over concerns about car app bundling and anti-competitive terms of service. When Uber held its IPO in 2019, the company reportedly paid $58 million for Google Maps API access over the previous three years, and that was mostly before the Google Maps price hike.
I think things have changed since that suit. Let's see if the gov can do something.
(if people from outside the UK can believe it, some local councils are introducing rules which mean you will be fined if you exit your neighbourhood in a car to go to another part of the same city).
Can you give an article or city name for this?
His intent was not to suggest that the USSR was always backwards, but rather that due to it's history the development was not undertaken until the war. The Tsars didn't do it because they were busy being feudal masters and the communists because they were nation building and hadn't faced the german onslaught yet. Atleast, that is how I understand it. His comment is not an underhanded insult.
What you suggest shows that individuals within the Google organisation do not have blatant open access to personal information. What do you think about the access of personal information to the organisation Google itself? Today the data is safe from menial concerns such as a google employee looking over private information, but what about tomorrow when whole troughs of such private information are made available to other organisations, a la Cambridge Analytica and Facebook, for commercial or other nefarious purposes?
The article here talks about how google executives deliberately made privacy settings harder to find because the people were actually using them. The article also suggests, through court documents, that google coerced other manufacturers to do the same.
There is a thriving art community that shills their NSFW art and services on twitter through fan engagement and community building. Through this clout they shill their Patreons and only-fans.
I don't think their behavior will change. This image and text only non-realtime format is not conducive unlike twitch and only-fans.
There is a huge community of artists, podcasters, video content creators who can now use this to ear an income from the public.
I don't think this feature is only for conversations, though it will effect them. How? I can only speculate.
Inertial reference
Can we really do inertial reference with current phone hardware? I would imagine our usecases don't really even give inertial reference a nice playing field.
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* Change in opinion on a given topic by the intruder group paid off by some government/megacorp/group. i.e., voter/social mindspace on demand.
- Change of opinion of critical lynch-pin individuals.
* Personality graft
* Surveillance
- Thought Policing
- (Corporate) Espionage
etc...
[0] Science Fiction
[1] Ghost in the Shell
I've got another one. Our smartphones now have sensor-cluster nodes; they used have singular cameras but now there are multiple sensors facing the same direction. Like some spaceship or drone out of sci-fi.
There was this 1977 science fiction book called 'Inherit the Stars' by James Hogan [0] about finding the corpse of 50,000 year old astronaut on the moon. He carried a 'book' that was too fragile to read and to explore with any kind of electromagnetic radiation. They used neutron tomography, like they do here, to 'read' the book.
The author predicted something like to emerge by 2027. Neutron tomography has been around for a while [1].
[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/776489.Inherit_the_Stars
I believe the 'AnySoftKeyboard' is a good opensource alternative for Android, no?
I think using the incognito method works? I wont bother with that though, i'd just pick up my phone. I suppose it depends on what you're here for. I just come for the links and discussions.