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For some people that’s the best they can hope for.

I can’t tell if you’re joking but people do that all the time, every day. It might be alcohol, strippers, or just random stuff they don’t really need.

If this sounds surprising to you then probably you have enough money that you don’t need to give all of it away to be less sad.

But that’s a different bar. “Not intelligent” does not necessarily imply “not useful”.

Depending on the output image and where you are, it definitely can be a crime.

Zohran is not a demagogue. He ran on a platform of fixing real problems that no one else was bothering to fix. And he’s actually doing things.

I don’t think that would fly as a defense in court.

In the thumbnail concept sketch it shows someone sitting in it with their arm hanging over one of the “armrests”. What the sketch doesn’t convey is the blood flow to their arm being cut off.

I think they do it because they know they can get away with it since it would be hard to prove in cases where they are already in an intimate relationship with their victim. For a long time it wasn’t even illegal if they were married to their victim.

Why? Some people like to spend their free time doing things that aren’t what they do all day at work.

I knew one software developer who basically spent all his free time outside hiking and camping and rarely did anything with a computer when not working. He was a good dev and very competent. Just after being cooped up inside on a computer all week he didn’t want to spend more time on one at home.

It’s not much of a stretch beyond that to simply not owning one.

More recent hypotheses that I’ve read is that what we think of language evolved as a tool for internal thought and ordering of ideas and perceptions. Executive function, in a sense.

The externalization of language, whether vocal or gestural, evolved later as a means of serializing the internal language in order to transmit those thoughts to others. Under this hypothesis, the serial nature of language is a limitation of the externalization methods (you can’t produce several words at once, or hear several at once), whereas internal language itself need not be a linear process.

In most work places you are provided a computer to work on. So you could very easily not have a personal computer during your career as you are always provided one to work on.

Probably not common, but certainly plausible. Not everyone wants to bring work home or have hobbies that are the same as their work.

In my intro Industrial Design class long ago we fashioned styrofoam and many other kinds of foam into every shape imaginable with a hot wire, some utility knives, and contact adhesive. A wood rasp worked well for organic and rounded forms (wear a mask), though that’s probably not needed in this application.

> The outer screen is pretty small and very usable with one hand.

Cool. I want one like that, just without the inner screen.

The Inuit probably had a much easier time finding them, as they would stand out quite starkly among snow and ice.

Not exactly the same, but I’ve seen video of meteorite collecting on the Antarctic ice sheet near the South Pole and they just fan out in a big line and walk across the ice picking up meteorites.

> In the absence of a clear referent or definition, who gets to decide what constitutes a "harm"?

The jury.

This seems like exactly the kind of thing that should be decided by a trial. It’s some mix of intent and the actual outcomes, more or less as you stated.

I don’t really see how it’s much different than premeditated murder versus manslaughter.

In this case I wholly believe much of Facebook and Instagram’s addictiveness is the result of intentional choices and decisions made by people at Meta.

The amount of people who would regularly sleep in such a building is a minuscule fraction of the world population.

In much of the US if you continually refuse to comply the authorities it will very likely, at some point eventually, escalate to the point where a loaded gun is aimed at you. For civil issues it might take a long time, but at some point you'll probably be in contempt of court and if you then refuse to be arrested, the guns might come out.

When people say the government has a monopoly on violence, this is what they mean. Eventually, violence will be used to ensure compliance. Most people comply before that happens, under threat of it.

Everyone will die. The question is whether, say, two extra months spent in a miserable state is worth it.

> I'm certainly not pro-surveillance state

Right after expressing complete acceptance of living in a surveillance state.

> I just kept doing multiple passes through it, each time I noticed one of my answers contradicted one of the others, I would make adjustments to harmonize, which indirectly refined my understanding.

This strategy saved my ass on so many tests from high school through college that I did not study properly for.

I think it would certainly be possible to write a test such that this strategy doesn’t work at all, but lucky for me no one did in any meaningful way.

Unique identifiers should be public. There shouldn’t be any leaking.

That also means they should be used simply as an identifier and not as any for of authentication or secret knowledge.

It was still a significantly different era than today. Let’s call it Middle Web. Maybe Late Middle Web.

But how many of those bootcamp people actually went on to get software jobs? One of the big criticisms of that whole phenomenon that I recall is that people were graduating them and then were unable or unprepared to actually get a job in the industry?

So how many people "learned to code" and then ended up back on non-software related careers?

Because the outcome is meaningfully different when every citizen can be passively tracked at all times versus a few cops sitting around writing down license plates.

The former is massively damaging to our rights, the latter is almost useless and thus barely a problem worth talking about.

The difference in scale matters.

They can. That’s fine, let them do that.

The difference in scale is so great that it becomes the meaningful, defining factor.

They are creating an environment where they incentivize it and profit from it. Whether or not that’s meaningfully different from directly commissioning it themselves seems like a minor quibble to me. It’s no different than a mob boss suggesting a rival should take a long walk off a short pier.

Cold calling people at work is different than calling them at home when they’re not working.

If they can use their imaginations to pretend it’s a real grave, they can use their imagination to pretend a different pretend grave in a different location is the real one.

Based on the name I have to imagine the author knew this. A knife is a dangerous tool if used improperly, and invaluably useful when used properly.