RickHull

I don't even understand the premise. On what basis would someone be convinced to part with billions of dollars just to have them given to fraud victims? Like, what's the pitch?

> It also removed any desire in them to go fast on the street and do stupid things with cars.

This is one of the most important principles, akin to running away from a fight given martial arts training.

I hoped to preclude this type of response with this:

> There is nothing an abacus does better than a calculator, but I don't begrudge abacus aficionados, and abacus mastery is quite impressive.

Cheers!

Clutch engagement via pedal is nowhere near instant, and the dual clutch gearboxes (computer controlled) are faster.

Feathering the clutch is mostly useless in everyday driving and performance driving. Likewise, dropping from 6th to 1st. Above 20mph, it's nearly always a mistake to downshift to 1st, and who is going 20mph in 6th?

The only legitimate reason I can see to prefer a 3 pedal gearbox over a DCT is the ability to clutch kick to initiate oversteer, which is purely for drifting.

Mostly 3 pedal cars are useful for a display of mastery, but 99% of drivers fall way short, and don't even realize it, leaving gobs of performance on the table or mismatching revs and introducing undesirable weight transfer.

There is nothing an abacus does better than a calculator, but I don't begrudge abacus aficionados, and abacus mastery is quite impressive.

Source: Porsche Driving Instructor for 5 years with thousands of hours in the passenger seat.

Sweet fact check!

> The whole "advertisers don't want their ads appearing next to xyz" has always felt contrived to me, like, I can use Gmail to receive all sorts of wrongthink and I'll still see ads on it

Good point, but...

The advertiser mostly cares when "everyone" knows they advertise for Nazis. If it's just you who knows, no biggie. They don't want it to be common knowledge.

This reads to me as a power user (and thus influencer) totally disenchanted with the product, yet the product manager is most assuredly hitting his KPIs. Net result for Apple in 1-3-5-10 years: ?

You're not gonna need it

I'm not gonna need it

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I amn't gonna need it

You ain't gonna need it

I ain't gonna need it

What is the value in buying a lottery ticket? The expected value of the ticket itself is negative, relative to its purchase price. So the buyer gets additional value from the "little thrill" of the purchase and observing the results.

With extra dip sauce, you clearly value the sauce more than the money in your pocket. The dip tastes good, has calories, and maybe some bad health side effects.

Lotteries lack fundamental value, and the "little thrill" often turns into a bad health side effect.

That said, adults should be free to spend their money how they like. Those giving advice are worried that vulnerable people will get sucked into a "trap", like a gambling addiction.

My million dollar idea is that I take my keyboard with me. My preferred layout, keycaps, switches, etc. Inside is something like a Ryzen APU, upgradeable / swappable, with an internal battery. It has display outputs and can easily be paired to a tablet or phone for display, perhaps wirelessly, possibly harnessing the display device's processing power as well.

I'm guessing "egregious"

Check out https://github.com/rickhull/conway_deathmatch for a simple ruby implementation. Also there is an elixir branch...

Very tangentially related, though with AI and aliens, if you haven't read Blindsight by Peter Watts, you owe it to yourself to check it out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel)

Wow, how many criminal crooks have you personally dealt with? How much anecdata are we talking?

They should call it The Hider

Yes, Coinbase has a fiduciary duty to their shareholders that does not exist for customers.

Your hosts love that

Oh yeah, I remember this guy! We need more people like this writing critically about technology and hardware.

Capitalism's inherent human alignment:

Every final (non-waste) output of a capitalist system is intended for human consumption. Compost, pet food, sheet metal, etc are all intended to satisfy human preferences. Price signals ensure that only things which humans value are economic to produce.

Who exactly do you have in mind, that is a big proponent of capitalism yet is unaware of its nature? Most X-risk theorists I'm familiar with are relatively unconcerned with capitalism, as its notions of profit and wealth are inherently human-aligned.

Maybe something from the parent corp? https://neutralcorporation.com/

> A lot of it is just straight-up fraud. Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz has documented this in some detail.

Alexandros Marinos provides a counterpoint [1]

> Reading the article, I was surprised (but not really) by the central role Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz (henceforth GidMK as is his much shorter Twitter handle) had played in the analysis. The man has a way to apparate wherever a person of influence takes a position on ivermectin. This is at least the third time I’ve observed the same sequence of events.

> ...

> I wanted to avoid focusing on GidMK himself, but the way the analysis comes out, this won’t be possible. I’ll try to keep things as dispassionate as possible without being fake, but I beseech the reader to understand that this isn’t your standard “Ad Hominem” argument. If Scott’s analysis depends on his trust on GidMK, it is paramount that I demonstrate that GidMK’s track record is not one deserving of that trust.

> ...

> I have to also note that GidMK is highly conscious of his feed, and is probably applying some automated means of blocking anyone supporting opposing views to his. Not only has he blocked me on Twitter, he seems to have blocked a double-digit percentage of my followers, many of which were not aware of the block until I asked them to check. My best hypothesis is that anyone “liking” anything I posted opposing his positions would automatically get blocked.

There is more I could excerpt, but probably better to read the whole thing.

1. https://doyourownresearch.substack.com/p/a-conflict-of-blurr...

I think what people mean by corporate media is media which serves corporate interests. As in, fluffing up Big Tech or Big Oil or Big Pharma. Any media organization with employees is necessarily a corporation, right? So by your definition, all media is corporate media, tautologically.

> The City of London is a byword for the businesses that operate there.

Great example of synecdoche (rhymes with Schenectady)

The resignation letter says there was a hostile takeover and bad faith actions by the new owner. Most of the staff has resigned in protest. Thus, the reputation that freenode built is likely not any indication for how it will perform and behave going forward.

For those interested, I wrote a similar library for Ruby: https://github.com/rickhull/device_input

The VR6 from VW was introduced in 1991. I'm sure you can point to lineage with earlier designs, but it's a unique design. The Freevalve design from Koenigsegg also comes to mind.

If it's a DC-8 then we're really in trouble.

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