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The pharaoh's tombs had a lot of warnings and curses against opening them up. Didn't help much not long after and even millennia after that.

Not necessarily. You might end up just building things on top of things spiral which reduces the ability to think clearly.

Electric vehicles are currently on a good path to become gentrification of mobility.

> how the states and countries (I live in EU, which passed the same kind of laws) intend to support the massive electrical demands that will put on the grid.

I think this question is easily explained away by politicians that this new demand would reinvigoriate innovation and the Western economies.

> Wikipedia has nationalism modern root in the French Revolution but as a non European I find that unconvincing.

This is just an armchair theory of mine: the seeds were planted by Luther who insisted that every nation should have a Bible in their native language. This naturally forms a strong identity. Those sprouts were then nurtured by westphalian nation-state system. Which then got infused by ideas of French revolution via a short period of Napoleonic empire throughout Europe. And in Balkans too. Any references to older events of identity in history should be regarded upon as suspect of revisionism for current political purpose.

But of course, that's the undercurrent worldview you can sense from Tanakh. Losing (a temporary) home once more and wandering about, having nowhere to return to.

Yes, they are human indeed, but those humans cannot agree on whether the plug should or shouldn't be pulled.

The true anarchism to the enshittification of the music services would be to just sing or whistle the songs.

Nowadays I mostly piggy-back on someone else more enthusiastic than me who would take the picture. And sometimes I'm the enthusiastic one.

There are better memories to be had if you have someone to share with.

Imagine the shock for those poor bastards then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte_Morandi#Collapse

51 years.

> The North's eventual win came at very high cost. In my opinion, we should memorialize Union soldiers more than we do. There was so much discussion of Confederate monuments the other year, but no one ever mentions the many Union monuments across the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Union_Civil_War_monume... A lot of people paid the ultimate price, fighting for the promise that "history will remember you for helping to end slavery!", and yet we don't remember them that much. It actually makes me rather upset to be honest.

I'm not from the US but I find it really ironic that even from the outside it appears the US culture views this phenomenon as normal: the losers (Confederates) highly priced the traditional values (just take a look at the personal position of general Lee), thus those values got denigrated because they got associated with racism, taking along the ability of the winners (Union) keep the memory and gratitude to those who gave their lives for. I actually live in a country torn by a civil war (disputed to this day!) and man, it is tragic. The wounds seem to never really heal, they just reopen along line where the scars used to be at the next big dilemma in society.

So... Having no COBOL devs left is a better one? What's the alternative then?

It makes more sense to invest 100m $ in AI assistant for a year and then pay the CEO 120m/year the next one after firing the rest of the COBOL devs.

Time (I watch the ad) is money.

> The topic of how he got or paid for the land actually doesn't come up in the video.

It does get mentioned. He loaned the money from his father and he's repaying it back slowly.

I just saw an interesting model on Substack: pay to comment. That might weed out the spammers and trolls quite effectively and build up a community of truly interested parties that have something to contribute.

There's still too much of friction in current payment systems to be dealt with (along with subscription models) vs. ad model. And I guess it's also telling of the actual worth of the news and opinions. We just consume too much inactionable information, mostly to entertain or distract ourselves.

Yeah, he does, that gets mentioned in the video.

Here's a guy living quite close to 0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir3eJ1t13fk

Still, he'll have to pay off the land he bought.

What did you expect them to work on you?

Sometimes just a simple 403.

I think it would be also worthy of note they were also both Christians, albeit quite unorthodox in their thinking.

> I have seen this becoming more and more common on open source projects and totally free services, where people act as if they are entitled to something as if it is their god given right. The people doing public services like uBlock origin can only take so much from the mob.

Only donators should be allowed to review the service and complain then.

> We need something like Let's Encrypt for signatures.

It's not the technical infrastructure, it's about trust. LE only solved the problem of safe transport, but not verification of authenticity of the endpoints. That's what incurs such cost.

> However, maybe it is a town square but a bad one. Bad town squares are places where everyone tries to sell you something or make you do something and there are plenty of crazy people trying to grab attention and do things you would rather not see.

This reminds me of La Rambla in Barcelona, basically a tourist trap.

But this one isn't! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-EBCDIC

So I guess the bank was just too lazy to provide the character conversion before storing to EBCDIC, made cheap excuses and is now forced by GDPR? Good!

As the old saying goes, security is process, not a product. But since it's very hard, there is always temptation to lean on the latter, not the former.

> My main point is moving from the cloud to on-prem may or may not improve security. It really depends on the capability of individual IT groups and many IT groups are not capable of running an identity service like Okta.

Whether it might improve security is definitely questionable. But it does limit the impact to only one org. Even if multiple orgs use the same product, the local implementations might differ and increase friction to scale the exploit over large swaths of companies.

The problem is the perverse incentive of the market currents. It doesn't matter how you do it, just make the product work before the competition does (an cheaper). If anything crops up, you'll fix it later. AI promises just that and will act as a negative feedback loop for our understanding of the code. The result is Idiocracy scenario where people are just too dumb to realize that the AI organizing the society is not that intelligent.