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Alternative take: education makes you a lot more efficient at exploiting people.

It is not education that is at the root of these things, but incentives. If the incentives are all wrong, so will be the outcomes. Take education as an institution. The way it is set up incentivizes cheating, and so nearly everyone tries to cheat.

In many ways, having a king was a lot better than having a bunch of people bickering among themselves without getting stuff done. At least the king was kinda tied to the country and thus the interest of the country was part self-interest.

Remember the story about the South Korean female president or whatever their title is being a brainwashed puppet of a radical feminist cult and thus had to abdicate as this came out? I don't remember how many years ago that was, but it's not like their education prevented the situation.

In a world where people's searches are already mostly answered by AI, is there any point to disallow the training?

I could totally see a future where Google just stops showing you links to actual web pages altogether and just gives you their chatbot.

Here I thought this was about shredding your books and going completely digital to save space.

Saddest part is that all the tech was apparently so utterly useless for anything that NASA lost it.

The decision to not do solar was made last year, so that's how old the numbers are. It was made together with the people selling solar. It's very dependent on the direction your roof is facing and how much roof space you have. Also, installing solar is expensive (20k€ to 30k€) here in Germany, so despite power also being super expensive it still makes no sense. There's one neighbor that did it and kinda regrets it, since it's more expensive all around.

Ah, yes. That's why Germany transformed from abject poverty after losing WWI into a superpower under the left wing management of the National Socialists.

Paywalled article, so who knows what it says.

My main gripe with solar is that it doesn't last long enough. The panels have to be replaced about every two decades, but they take a bit more than two decades to amortize. This is why everyone I know that wanted to get into solar did not get into solar.

I'd rather compare it to Linux. You are in charge of your own destiny.

How about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbYlrSRhsZk

I'm not sure if everyone is aware, but humanity is heading for extinction either way. My guess is that like with death most people just choose to not think about it. We don't even have to wait for the heat death of the universe. Our sun will eventually die and when that happens Earth will be shredded to tiny bits and pieces. That's about five billion years into the future, but humanity will be long extinct before that happens.

The species that is around for the longest that we know of is only about 200 million years old (Triops cancriformis). For mammals it's even less with about 130 million years, but that one is already extinct (Multituberculata).

Everything has a lifespan, including species, this planet, the sun and the universe.

But nevermind these far off events. It's been a while since I checked, but the same way the Earth moves around the sun, the sun and our entire solar system are moving, too. And based on records found if you dig deep into the Earth and analyze the dirt it seems that about every I don't remember how many thousand years we move through a part of the universe with a lot of rocks. It's called an extinction event, but humanity has barely survived it at least once. Imagine not one, but a few thousand asteroids hitting the Earth. Per hour. For a couple of weeks straight. Seems like we came up with a few names for that. Like Ragnarok, Armageddon, Apocalypse, ...

Toy guns back then: https://i.imgur.com/2DQnhNC.jpeg

It does neither, as money is simply a representation of wealth. Increasing the supply of money without increasing the wealth will mean you'll have more money representing the same wealth. This is called inflation.

But the wealth, or value if you will, remains unaffected.

Money isn't wealth. It's just a representation. It used to be wealth back in the days before paper money, when a coin actually had the value it said it had.

Taking them off the wifi and changing your wifi password seems to be all you need to do. While they are technically capable to look for open wifi, this is not something they do out of the box, as far as my understanding goes.

Not possible. They are part of the chaebol [1], meaning they are essentially part of the South Korean government. They can't really fail as long as the country exists. There's an old joke that South Korea isn't really a country, but five families/companies pretending to be one and there's some truth to this.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaebol

Dell sells a monitor the size of a small TV (U5226KW). It's more than two thousand dollars, though.

The Fed is printing them. Just like they print all other money.

From the article:

> I put in one, and a hundred comes back.”

> The figure was rhetorical, not a disclosed 100-times investment return.

There's a lot more words in there, but it doesn't seem to say anything else.

Windows was a mistake I blame Apple for.

What an evil website. Just navigating to it deleted the history, so I couldn't navigate back to hackernews. Ctrl+L wouldn't highlight the navigation bar, either and instead closed the tab.

Large companies move slowly and have lots of red tape. Give it a decade before making this call as far as large companies are concerned. That's how long it takes to change processes.

> temporary state of complete loss of personal purpose and the experience of existential dread from never achieving self-actualization in spite of the tremendous time commitment towards excellence in a now automated intelligence

> this will be a universal feeling for every human for the rest of existence

As someone that has accepted a very long time ago that nihilism is the only self-consistent philosophy, I've made peace with the fact that humanity has no purpose and therefore disagree with your conclusion. I haven't been driven to absurdism, either.

Instead, I derive purpose and self-worth from within.

I recently solved this problem by buying the Dell U5226KW. It has the same height as a 16:9 42" TV, but is 21:9, so a lot wider. It costs about four times as much as a similar sized 16:9 TV and you can't get it any bigger.

You don't need monitoring for that to work. Just something like "Hey, Google". The device knows a bunch of keywords and when it hears them it's bingo. As long as your laptop and phone are logged into the same local network with the same public IP they'll get the same ads.

And your phone most likely already listens all the time to catch an "Hey, Google" (or something similar).

If the checkbox is already ticked it is called opt-out. You have to toggle the checkbox to not be activated. The other way around is opt-in. The checkbox is empty and if you want to enable it you have to take action.

Opt-in: take action to have the feature.

Opt-out: take action to not have the feature.

It sells for as little as five bucks in some markets [1] and has done so since at least 2021 [2]. Even the most expensive version is only about twice of that.

This makes it a bit difficult to estimate earnings from worldwide sales numbers. But yes, the earnings could be higher. The cost could be lower, too. It's all just speculation.

[1]: https://steamdb.info/app/1850570/

[2]: https://old.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/qzj7i7/just_a_rem...

Seems like we are transitioning to the fighting stage of "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

Alternatively we are transitioning to the bullying stage of:

(1) Shaming (you should be embarrassed for thinking this)

(2) Bullying (you should be afraid for thinking this)

(3) Recruitment (contacting authorities to deal with the wrongthinker through misrepresentation)

(4) Pity (I am hurt by your wrongthink, stop hurting me, everyone please help)

I am not sure I believe in this "unified accepted version of the truth". Before the Internet it was a lot easier for the unified media [1] to convince people of whatever it wanted them convinced, but I find it a lot better for people to be exposed to opposing views. Who knows, maybe your country is the bad guy [2].

[1] https://pomf.space/MkiGm3hi.mp4

[2] https://youtu.be/3K1Z-8EvS74

Who was it again that said: "The new fascism won't say 'Hello, I am the new fascism.' it will instead say 'Hello, I am the anti-fascism'."?

First time I heard it was decades ago and it has been proven more and more true since then.

Because it's not mentioned anywhere who posted the images in the first place and which prison he or she is now living in.

The complaint in the article is about not taking down the images faster than within an hour.