DeusExMachina

A routing table being a list pairing an address to a location. Same with addresses. You need to know where London is or the next post hub where to send the letter.

> now most people think he is a jerk

Do they? I don’t. I also know many people with many differing views and they don’t either. This looks again like you are projecting you opinion on the majority of people with no data to support it.

I have been using Twitter for 12 years and this has not been "obvious" to me at all. You shouldn't assume that your opinions are obvious or even shared by the majority of people you mention.

I honestly don’t understand what this “crypto thing” you mention is or has any relevance with the discussion.

I use Signal every day to communicate with my friends. None of them is a software developer or a technical person. If you are not the target audience of Signal, it does not mean that nobody else is.

> There is just more left-leaning material online than other

Maybe, but the leftward lurk of ChatGPT refusing to answer certain question it had no problem answering before has been documented by many.

> Lesson #4: Don't make everything reliant on code if you can't code.

I beg to differ.

I worked for a client a few years ago. The company was started by two non-technical guys. They outsourced their product to a freelance web developer.

They told me tales of how that guy was slow to fix problems and how the website went down for extended period of times when he made changes.

And yet, they grew the company because their customers wanted their product.

They first were able to hire their own web developer. From there, they added more employees. Now they have dozens of them and multimillion yearly revenue. They run ads on TV and are recognized nationally as the leader in their field. They are now expanding to other countries.

The problems of this guy were business related, not code related. It's evident from his lesson #1.

I tried it on a section of an article I wrote with the help of ChatGPT. It marked some of my sentences as generated by AI while it didn't mark the ones coming from ChatGPT.

Anecdote is not data, but I have a fiber connection and I pretty much never use the upload bandwidth I have.

Isn't this what the parent comment is saying?

> We could argue over the implementation of it, and worry about the downstream consequences, but then shouldn't the argument be: how to accomplish this without those effects?

> Musk has a disproportionate amount of nuts in his corner.

Can you prove this statement or is it just how you feel about it?

It states that they cannot provide a definitive proof or a causal link, not that there isn't one.

Isn't Musk, or any other individual, allowed to change his mind? Many comments here seem to imply that a tweet sets your behavior in stone and any subsequent deviation is hypocrisy.

He even changed Twitter's policy and specified that it's ok to share the information of where a person was, just not track their movements live. You can argue in favor or against the policy, but we expect people to change opinion because of experience.

Not that I am interested in defending Amazon's series, which I think will be a disaster, but I don't think the comparison with the Hobbit movies holds.

True, the material they have rights to is from the appendixes of The Lord of the Rings. The difference, though, is that in this case they are going to create a completely new story. So, they can fill as many episodes they want.

With the Hobbit, instead, they had the story already and they had to stretch it to create a trilogy.

His point though was that they don't like the same things. And this book is pure Tolkien, so it's for the first group.

As a Tolkien fan I have absolutely zero interest in any of these, no matter how well they could be written (and given what is happening with Amazon's The Rings of Power, that's not a given).

A fan of Tolkien's original stories is exactly that, not a fan of any story written by a random author with the same characters in it. There are plenty of fantasy novels that don't enjoy the same level of success for that reason.

There is no lack of elfves, dwarves, wizards, and dragons. What is lacking is Tolkien's talent.

If you want to make it an "old vs. young" argument, then the old have collectively contributed to their country far more than the young. So they definitely have a say in their country's policies.

The young from the UK can still apply for a visa, like the young from many other countries not in the EU. They also have a higher chance of getting one, probably.

Unfortunately, bureaucracy usually does not act as fast and as well as your comment assumes.

I am "European", whatever that word means, and I definitely don't trust the government to do something well. It happens sometimes that some governments in some countries do some specific thing well. That's definitely not a general rule.

I live in Amsterdam and I think he has a point. Many major Dutch cities are old, so they don't really work as a counterexample. Looking at new developments, like Almere or even the outskirts of Amsterdam, it's clear that they don't have the same structure.

Tibet provides a lot of water to China and India

In the past, I tried many time to start businesses and many times I failed (although I always had a job and tried only in my free time).

Now, I have been running a business for the past 7 years, and it keeps growing.

Is it because I just kept trying? No. I might still be trying if I followed that approach. Instead, I took many courses on starting and growing businesses. That's what made the difference.

My problem, which is your problem, was that I just kept writing code for ideas I had. That's a recipe for failure.

You admit that you don't know if anybody would pay for the thing you are building. Stop. That's going to end in the same way as before.

You have to start from finding customers even before you decide what product you will build. You need to know who they are, how to reach them, what they need. You have to learn their pains and dreams. Only then you create a product that solves their real problems.

I recommend studying the stuff of:

- Jay Abraham: https://www.abraham.com - Ramit Sethi: https://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com

But there are also many others. The important thing is that you learn how to start a business and stop throwing spaghetti at the wall.

If I were you, I would get a well-paying job to support your family. Then you can try something new with the safety of a salary. That's what I did in the past. Your time will decrease with a family, but I am helping friends with two small children to start a business, so it's possible.

Given the current replication crisis, I would say, not much.

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

That is a false equivalence.

The idea of orcs that you find in the Silmarillion, which is that orcs are elves corrupted by Melkor, is perfectly reconcilable with Catholicism. In Christianity it's well defined what happens to any creature corrupted by evil in the final judgement.

That explanation does not work in Tolkien's universe though. Can orcs be redeemed? Do they still have a soul? What happens to it when they die? Do they go to the halls of Mandos? Can they be reincarnated like elves?

Tolkien was never satisfied with any explanation because he could not fit them inside his world's theology, which is inspired by Christianity but does not match it one to one.

> preventing a celebrity from using their platform [insert your reason here] is not equivalent to censorship

It definitely sounds equivalent to me, no matter the rationale for doing so.

Even Tolkien was not able to satisfactorily answer fundamental questions like the origin of orcs.

Your comparison does not work. You can be taken away from a supermarket in that instance. You can legally come back to the same supermarket in the future. And even if the owner decides you are not welcome in his store, you can go to any other store.

Banning a person from ever flying again is not the same thing at all.

What I don't get, instead, are the people who, like you, find a no fly-list acceptable.

If you punch a person on the street, you get charged. Same if you punch a flight attendant on a plane.

You might even go to jail in both cases. But what you don't get in the first case is to be put on a blacklist that prevents you from using some services. If you punch a person in a supermarket, you are not banned from supermarkets.

What you advocate for reminds of proscription lists in ancient Rome or the social credit system of the CCP.

Gab is not allowed on the App Store.

You might think you are helping people, but you are not.

You can't argue against solitude. If people feel alone, it's because they would like to be around others, but can't.

Telling them not to feel that way "just because" is useless, and telling them they should feel like you do because you decided it's better is just condescending.