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> But also imagine all the wannabe journalists that would just do character assassinations on long-dead people revered as heroes

That's an easy one. Pretty much anyone of notice living today will be labeled a "savage meat eater" and canceled. They will say "many people were already vegan, why was he/she still eating meat? Clearly a monster. Cancel"

> In the private sector, they'd have been fired and probably legal action levelled against them

Tell me again one meaningful action against a data leak in the private sector. I'll wait.

This is a losing game (think halting problem). This exact scenario was played by antivirus software versus malware in the 90s/00s. The antivirus was trying to figure out if the binary did something like modify a file on disk, while the virus was trying to obfuscate that or find innovative ways of doing it.

A isolation/capability solution is the only one that could work, leftpad shouldn't have access to anything but basic CPU compute.

And look at that height... This would never be approved in SF, ruins the local character.

They is overwhelmingly used for plural. See how the wikipedia article starts:

> They is the third-person plural personal pronoun (subjective case) in Modern English.

And only after that:

> Although still controversial,[citation needed] and not officially accepted in formal context,[citation needed] it is also used with singular meaning, sometimes to avoid specifying the gender of the person referred to: see gender neutrality in language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They

SEO is one reason, but the reduced attention span of today's people surely is another. People just won't bother figuring out what a "mystery title" book is about.

This is one thing that worried me during the Fukushima disaster, they were quite concerned about the safety of the responders and many things were delayed until they could figure out a way to do them safely.

If things deteriorated even further, a mega-disaster couldn't have been averted since the Japanese wouldn't have sent people to die to do what had to be done.

Gives a new sense to "fake news"

Now we need a robo-reader who reverses the article back into the source data.

Well, none of his code is public. Furthermore, on his blog he wrote about a lot of topics - economics, history, politics, crypto contracts, but not even once about a programming topic.

The problem with Szabo is that nobody was able to locate any sort of code written by Szabo - ie, he doesn't seem to know how to program and the first version of Bitcoin is way beyond noob-level - crypto, GUI, distributed networking, ...

I worked at a software company where you were not officially allowed to bring your own keyboard/mouse, but the unofficial policy was that they would look the other way. However they would not support you or help you install it - that was much harder than it sounds, it took me 20 minutes to route the cable.

Short reenactment of the final decision to postpone for one day this at today's ceremonies:

https://youtu.be/mSL9NJ8WJMM?t=3808

This is truly one of the best long-cons in the tech industry history. Invest 10 years into creating a browser and get the whole industry and it's developers to love it, push it and develop solely for it, so that you can reap the benefits now. They learned from the best - Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Even as recently as last year, saying that Google would eventually abuse Chrome market dominance would got heavy downvotes here.

With everybody now having an iPhone and Macbook, they don't feel that exclusive anymore. So they need to up the game, to show they are still a luxury product.

A $50k computer is certainly a good start from this point of view, Apple needs to reassert itself as a status symbol. They need to get the word out far and wide that they are selling a computer with the price of a good car.

Does it have RGB? For that price it better have one RGB led in each of those holes.

If it only were that simple. Airbus in particular has a lot of systems which PREVENT the human from doing things.

One plane actually crashed because the prevention system disabled itself and the pilots believed it was still there to protect them from bad actions on their part:

> caused the autopilot to disconnect, after which the crew reacted incorrectly and ultimately caused the aircraft to enter an aerodynamic stall, from which it did not recover

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447

Google is famous for measuring everything. If you think they did this without extensive testing/polling/... you are naive.

> A benchmark for me would be a game that can handle a MMOPG like eve-online

I don't think they managed to connect Excel to their game environments yet.

There are scientists who argue that what the mitochondria does is fundamentally cancerigenic on a long enough timeline, so in a sense, yes, everything we eat is associated with cancer.

https://www.nature.com/articles/cr2017155

I'd be more interested in Google/Amazon/FB paying taxes than in anti-trust actions.

Human brains are the most efficient at some problems. This is trivial to demonstrate: try multiplying two 10 digit numbers in your head. Now pick up a calculator and do the same in a fraction of time, using a fraction of power, and with perfect accuracy.

The brain architecture is not the end-all of computing. For example weather prediction is just about fast math, a brain like architecture is useless here.

A previous version of the same story says:

- one in philosophy

- one in communications and history

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/26/he-moved-to-a-jungle-in-indi...

What you call original style is a "modern" modification from the 1800s :)

I'm, all for bitcoin, but articles like these are bullshit.

How many cryptography and bitcoin experts were consulted/hired to babysit this transaction, knowing that the smallest mistake could lead to total and irreversible loss of funds?

What was their compensation?

I did read. Google will not completely block ad-blockers in a single step, they will do it gradually. Which is why parent suggested complete ad-blocker embargo on Chrome, to force the issue. But Google is too smart to fall into that trap, and even then, GPL saves the day.

People warned for years here that exactly this was going to happen. But the HN tech community was "no, no, you are just a hater, Google IS GOOD, it's a company run by engineers, not by suits, they will NEVER betray us, this is totally different than the IE situation"

uBlock Origin is GPL. Someone will just fork it and keep Chrome support. Welcome to the beauty of open-source.

When you sell such a sensitive product, which could be used for example by swiss account tax evasion whistle blowers, maybe you should disclose on the front page that you can be compelled to log IP addresses and advice users to plan around that.

There is precedent for that, a Swiss crypto company which sold NSA backdoored crypto systems to the Iranians:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG