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per the article, Thread.yield is a noop to Loom, which the author argues should be fixed.

Currently you have to Thread.sleep(1) to force Loom to unmount the OS thread in a CPU-bound green thread.

Funnily enough there is another, much older book also called Soul of Japan, that may actually capture its essence.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12096 https://librivox.org/bushido-the-soul-of-japan-by-inazo-nito...

You will be persuaded otherwise and you will not mind. Because the AI is that good.

“Until the day a machine spontaneously becomes self aware and decides to draw something, this policy is a non-issue.”

To further agree with you —

The day the AI files its own legal appeal to its own rejected copyright application — that is when this policy might start to change

“..because they take resources and knowledge to manufacture, and are physical objects that can be tracked. Taking these away by law works.”

Sorry but it doesn’t even work for physical objects. Guns are completely illegal in some cities (NYC, SF and Chicago, unless you have connections), so I suppose there’s no gun crime there, right? Or, research compliance rates when states have retroactively made certain firearms illegal and asked for citizens to turn them in or face the risk of criminal charges.

The War on Drugs has also been highly ineffective at preventing motivated individuals from obtaining certain physical objects.

Bases are getting much smaller; there are fewer registered D/R vs independents.

This makes the “swingable middle” rather large, and they’re not all rubes.

Campaigns seem to be iterating on scalable/personalizable social strategy. Obama figured it out better than Romney, Trump (maybe disturbingly) better than anyone before.

Prediction: some future candidate will go “next level” and piss everyone off even more, but it’ll work and they’ll be elected.

I agree with your sentiment and it’s a great video, but your 2A estimate is way off. Over 30% of all Americans personally own a firearm [1], so the overall level of 2A support is at least that.

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/264932/percentage-americans-own...

“The biggest indicator of a monopoly is when they can treat customers like garbage and keep doing business anyway.”

Sure, but that’s not what’s happening here. You don’t pay your customers, you pay your vendors.

Treating your vendors like crap is a widely accepted corporate practice.

“Compared with other entities, the average corporation is considered about as similar to a person as an ant.”

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00100...

The American Civil War was in some ways the prelude to WWI in terms of introducing the kind of mass-slaughter battles enabled by increasingly industrialized firepower. There were some very brutal engagements, Gettysburg being the most famous.

All three Baltic nations are NATO members. An attack on any NATO member requires a response by NATO.

So, not likely that Latvia is next.

Can uBlock do payload inspection? It would be easy to block an upstream json POST that matches a certain structure.

A more charitable way to say “focused on colonizers” is that no tribe is “primordial” to its region; everyplace, everywhere has predecessor tribes.

Or more simply: We are all colonizers. No matter who you are or where you live, a different culture existed there before you. What can you learn about them?

Wired had an unsuccessful IPO attempt in 1996. Condé Nast bought the print magazine in 1998. Lycos owned the digital properties until 2006 when they were sold back to CN.

The two are interrelated — regulatory capture doesn’t make sense if there’s no power to capture. So one must first grow the size and power of government through other means, then capture/influence that power. This cycle has been going on for a long time.

> It’s 190 proof

Everclear is 151 in states where it’s not legal to sell spirits of higher proof than that (for example, California).

I discovered this little disappointment while attempting a limoncello recipe that called for real Everclear and all I could legally buy was the 151 proof version.

It’s so much fun to read this, author has described it well. I think it’s related to the part of the brain responsible for tool mastery.

When you start using a new tool, there is a separation: it’s you and the tool; you use it, learn how it responds to various stimuli.

Over time, your brain has FPGA-like abilities and wires up some specialized circuitry. To you, it feels like you and the tool are now one thing. Your brain controls the tool like it’s an extension of your body.

Riding a bike, playing chess, even reading and writing can be viewed through this lens.

Your brain is amazing! Use it!

A thousand times no. A true democracy earns trust through the integrity of its institutions: executive, legislative and judicial, and the respectfully balanced and constitutionally limited powers they share.

Never in a sovereign.

You’re right. Both about the problem still being present and NFT being not strictly necessary anyway.

I can’t help but think there must be a way to make it work.

This would be verification that any branding on the HTTP Basic Auth popup represents the company it claims to. This would be optional — any site that didn’t use this would still have the default (generic/unbranded) browser behavior.

The stated (and valid) concern is that malicious actors would use fraudulent branding on those browser auth popups — let’s tell the user we are MSFT or AAPL and steal their password.

One solution is for the branding to consist entirely of NFT assets that can all be tracked to a definitive owner, and use some DNS-based glue (ala DKIM/SPIF for email) to link the NFT to the TLD.

Then your browser can refuse to show the MSFT logo (and show a big red fraud alert page) if the owner of the branding can’t be reliably traced back to Microsoft (owner of the site).

What if the icons are NFTs with automated browser verification? I’m only half joking— could this actually be doable?

It might be a horrible idea to attempt to extinguish a lithium fire with water. [1]

[1] http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/290443/ddg#29...

This article is a really fun trip down memory lane:

“Some of you may remember installing an IDE CD drive and having to connect the three-wire analogue audio output from the CD drive to the sound card.”

And until today, I never knew the real “why”. Fascinating

Is this any different than Popper’s paradox of tolerance?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance#Discussio...

Pedantic note: there also exist developers with a negative multiplier.

Sorry for some reason Apple’s market cap number popped into my head.

$9B is still small against Apple’s $200B, but fairly large against Intel’s $34B. So yeah I’d be scared.

How big is their war chest? $9B would literally be pennies on the dollar to a company like Apple (>$1T reserves?). I doubt Intel’s is that big, but it might be big enough not to worry investors too much.

Wouldn’t using dead flesh increase the risk of infection?

In the article, it’s also mentioned that Hippocrates recommended using gold, and many of his teachings were still followed in Byzantine times.

So what’s your next theory? Gold sounds fairly plausible to me.

I’m confused, are you saying that the minimum amount of energy in an infrared pulse sufficient to melt a fly’s wings (< 1mm) would necessarily also damage a human eye?

I have to believe there is a threshold value of safety, particularly with IR. You can tell me I’m wrong, but please provide a bit of physics to justify it.

What about an infrared laser? Something where a microburst would melt delicate insect wings, but a direct hit on a human eye would just warm it up a tiny bit. Possible?