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That's a bit like saying it's regrettable that not enough people were able to take out subprime mortgages. Neo clouds and crypto pivots are the difference between a correction and a crash.

It seems a little peevish to suggest that Democrats didn't have a daring enough approach to assigning campaign resources. It could've been the political equivalent of early optimization.

Where do you live that a center-right party winning over a highly corrupt Putin aligned extreme right wing party is choosing between two extremes?

Thou shall not speak ill of the techno fascists, accelerationists, EAs, spac scammers, etc. No matter how much they have curdled the image of the tech industry in the eyes of normies.

It was worse than doing nothing, not that worse is bad in this case. Once the intended effect of gerrymandering was overwhelmed, it created more Democratic districts than it destroyed.

Elsewhere on this thread someone mentioned a Microsoft patent that appears to be related to this topic. I think you've found the thread that needs to be pulled here. With their background in the game industry I wouldn't be surprised if Nvidia is comfortable with this kind of fuckery.

While it's hard to point to a fully top bottom initiative to create new platforms from the ground up, the Chinese appeared to be making an effort to reduce their non-native surfaces with things like Harmony OS.

A complete plan to reduce vulnerability from untoward influences is more feasible now with agent assisted engineering. You have to be carefully selective about what matters and what doesn't, or the cost and time balloon out of control.

I would point you to Bill Atkinson's Quickdraw: https://github.com/computerhistory/Historical-Source-Code-Qu...

The first Lisp machines at MIT were mid 1970s, and by that time Evans & Sutherland had been founded and were on their second or third generation CAD products.

I'm less sure about this chronology but I think the Evans & Sutherland CAD systems were some of the first examples of multiple graphics coordinate systems that were the progenitor of overlapping windows and the desktop metaphor.

The reason we have judges is that a thing that's 80% sports betting and 20% prediction market is still an online casino.

Mainstream news is pitched at an audience that hasn't got a clue what is a joule or a kilogram. You must've seen Sam Altman make the efficiency argument for data centers. But it deliberately bypasses the point, which is that data centers and frontier AI companies are systemically important and must be supported for the good of the nation.

It's the money factor where I draw the line. It's a kind of perverse selection that the best of these athletes in extreme sports are the ones who get paid to do it, though probably just enough to scrape out a living until they age out, or die.

I'm sure there's some obscure spelunker who died in a cave, unknown to anyone but their friends. It's the commercialization of risk for entertainment that makes it icky. At some point along that curve it's OK for a civilized society to just say no, to boxing, for example.

I haven't watched an NFL game in years. I can no longer enjoy seeing people trade their brain function and lifespan for money that way. For that matter I recently revisited an extreme skiing video I bought long ago. Several of the people in the credits are dead now.

All sports carry some risk. I ride a road bike. I wouldn't tell others how to weigh the risks of their sports of choice. I just wouldn't pay to watch someone fly a wing suit, knowing how some of those people have died.

You're smart and well read and these are the counter examples you come up with? I've got another one with similar real world applicability: ask the pastry chef who wants to hang with the gluten intolerant.

There's a long list. The one that comes to mind chronologically early is securities fraud in accumulating shares of Twitter. Though it's probably past being prosecutable, visa fraud in immigration status. There are dozens of crimes in DOGE.

Ask Vivek Ramaswami how well it works for Asians to aspire to be kindred spirits of white supremacists.

This whole argument rests on per capita GDP being the right measure of success. The US isn't in the top five of any quality of life index, pick your methodology. It ranks at the bottom of the top 10 of the OECD quality of life index, and that's it's only appearance in the top 10.

Have you been to Appalachia? Any part of the rural south? Qualitatively poverty in the US is shameful even compared to rural China. You are living in a spreadsheet world, not the real world. Is there any value to that GDP number without raising the standards of living of Americans?

It is exceedingly generous to suggest there are lessons to be learned from Grokpedia, and they're all pretty superficial.

One of the last things Wikipedia needs is kibitzing on how to improve Wikipedia. There's no shortage of ideas, mostly naïve ideas in light of how difficult it is to shift Wikipedia's culture without breaking it.

How about a positive review of the slopodyssey?

AGI is supposedly the literal be all and end all. It's a bit embarrassing for the singularity to have an S curve.

But they do have S curves. If you're on the shoulder of the S curve while your spending commitments are accelerating, that won't end well.

Space data centers is an idea that originated at Google, and you'll find some back of the envelope math that says it's possible. Which is fine if you're speculating about wild ideas at Google. They even built those Internet balloons before figuring out that wasn't going to work.

The difference is Elon actually sells these ideas to investors. There's a difference between being Edward Teller and being Elizabeth Holmes which he may not be seeing.

Latgalian (<- correct spelling) is a dialect spoken by maybe tens of thousands of people in the province of Latgale. I assumed that since this was a distro from Latvia, that I was looking at Latvian when I booted it up. I did not take the hint that "Austrumi" was referring to the east of Latvia, which is the province of Latgale.

I might have had a better chance understanding spoken Latgalian. Written Latvian is all phonetic, having been designed by 15th c. German clergy to teach us barbarians a proper religion without burdening us with difficult spelling rules. Written Latgalian is a retrofit.

It sure seems that it doesn't take much. Kevin O'Leary gets people to lend him money to build data centers from being on a TV show. A disturbingly large number of people think Trump is a business genius because of his TV show. Elon Musk looks very legit by comparison.

I readily admit to being literal minded more than I should be, but some people here...

Icing was mentioned early in the ATC audio, then a request to increase altitude, then a comment that they encountered precipitation, implying the icing could get worse.

IANAP but the mention of precipitation points to conditions that could overwhelm anti-icing systems, which the Learjet was equipped with.

I once ran an inadvertent experiment by installing Austrumi Linux, but not realizing that the default language is Latgallian. I'm fluent in Latvian, but I wondered if something had gone wrong with my brain. I could understand most of the words I was looking at, but more than half of the sentences I read were baffling.

You really are a time traveler from the 1990s. In your comment below you say "Batteries are far too expensive, we're still a couple of decades out for that." Even excluding battery chemistry that are designed for bulk use like sodium ion, solar plus batteries is far cheaper than nuclear power. Today.

You think it's axiomatic that the insurability of nuclear power has to be socialized. Insurability is a strong and reliable financial signal. We're seeing this every day in the tech industry now with data center build out that needs credit default swaps. If you can't buy insurance at any price, it's probably not going to end well.

The 1990s called. They want their energy economics back.

Even back then, those economic comparisons were idealized for nuclear. Build it run it count up to the dollars and there you go. Except you need to secure it, you need to handle waste, and roughly the same cost over runs are bedeviling decommissioning as they were construction.

On top of all that, why is nuclear still uninsurable in the private market?

By the time they build one the kids will be asking what's a hyperscaler?

People are giving Trump too little credit for the one thing he's good at, and the one thing he's outsmarted the tech smarties at: he made them bend the knee, and once they did that with the ballroom donations, a proper bully will make them lick his shoes.