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You’ve forgotten the scenario in which senility remixes all of the above daily.

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Unlikely. Adaptability of the language to new concepts as well as ease of adoption for second language learners matters. English - indeed every other candidate global language (Spanish, French, Portuguese, Arabic) - excel Chinese in these respects. I’d wager that even we’re American hegemony to go the way of the UK, English will persist. It may become more Indian or Singlish, but this demonstrates its strength.

And I suppose this world-historically rich Afrikaner is prepared to pay the high personal taxes required for such a scheme, no? Words speak loud than actions, no? He will not be troubled by the skin color of recipients (“universal”), yes?

Also superior.

Genuinely regrettable. The appointed life peers system is worse than the traditional ‘hereditary sortition’ (if you will).

The former creates a class of semi-sinecures of equally questionable quality yet beholden to the political system of the moment. Life peerages become awards for donors and loyalists, a legitimized corruption. The house’s composition becomes an ever-growing competition based on unlimited partisan appointment. The house becomes less thoughtful, more unwieldy, more pointless, more expensive. It will inevitably be abolished on this path.

In contrast aristocrats are at least less likely to owe anything to a special interest, and more likely to hold firm to unpopular but perhaps higher ideals: they owe their position to no other power center, neither voters nor parties. They are also inherently invested in the nation’s long term success. It’s hardly democratic but at least it’s not a wasteful partisan circus.

My pitch would be to keep a small number of intra-peerage elected hereditary peers, keep the bishops, add various ex officio academics - but fill the majority of seats by true sortition. Every British subject is liable to be drafted, and paid, into a year or two of part-time lordship. (Though I’d grant the whole house a right to easily expel such members, should they fail to meet basic expectations.)

And they’d be right to, fella. It is unjust to need to pay more to achieve similar safety.

Sounds like you should take away a necessity to learn more about Zoroastrianism! Not all writing must be generally accessible.

The blog is not a safe place for the overly literal mind. You must accept the glib overstatement and the poetic lie. There’s a reason he caused a paroxysm among the rationalists.

Perhaps wise, when reading these comments, to

  's/{people,others,friends,those that}/I/g'

Interestingly

  's/they/AI/g'

almost works.

> Not a Hater

Nor am I, but…

> Earlier today I was asking Gemini to find me a nearby bar that would optimize for price, tastiness of drinks, and “not making me feel lonely as a solo traveler on Valentine’s day.”

…this sort of behavior I don’t believe I understand. It seems a silly abdication of living one’s own life. Here’s a poem from just me.

—

Choose a bar, ye human.

Confront your loneliness

if you must. Or flee.

Wander a bit.

Do a bar crawl.

Take up smoking.

Get wasted; be buzzed;

abstain; wander, do a bit;

fail to optimize - for at

least one opalescent moment -

if not, goddamn, why be?

It's one balloon, Michael. What could it cost, 10 dollars?

Nothing unusual - DOUGHCON 4: https://www.pizzint.watch/

This approach seems much more likely to induce an incident. It’s an adversarial approach; it’s how you end up shooting people for filming. Constant vigilance! Shoot the nurse on his knees, to be safe!

Can you imagine was a useless mishmash of lies Wikipedia would be if it did not have a bias for mainstream academia!? Wither epistemology?

Your list is correct in favoring intangibles. Ideas underpin all technology and are immune to entropy. Not so MS Excel, which is just a rock tricked into doing particularly structured mathematics. Spreadsheets, the concept, are significant; their implementation is incidental.

Depends on the OS and the “MDM rules.” For instance, it resides in a separate preference domain identifier on macOS. Your sysadmin must deploy “MDM rules” - a profile - which applies to Canary specifically.

They often don’t. Moreover some of the most common implementations of Apple’s MDM protocol also don’t do so automatically.

If they have remembered Canary, just compile your own Chromium with an amusing identifier.

Good question. It’s a human who posts tech opinions on the internet. Recently I met one named bigyabai - ironically a rather small tech personality, but one nonetheless.

Also if you can’t figure out how to get around the Chrome extension restriction, you either have remarkably competent CPEs (not me, so unlikely), or you’re not trying hard enough. Go download Canary to start.

Chrome extensions shouldn’t be in the hands of users, no matter their title. CEO included. As a device sysadmin I feel this strongly. None of you can be trusted to vet extensions. Honestly anyone who uses vanilla Chrome has a suspect threat model.

On the rest I rather agree with you. General-purpose computers are key tools over which users should be admin. Sysadmins provide a security backstop. Full lock down is the sign of an unhealthy understanding of how the org’s value is actually created.

Ah, so you admit that ICE’s public work of late has nothing to do with tech worker’s visas? They can just slide by while the more vulnerable are harassed?

How can this entire thing be written - including the observation that most entrances are “in or near” Christian churches - without even mentioning the extraordinarily obvious conclusion of forced or voluntary anchorites?

There is a deep tradition of chthonic ascetic monasticism in Christianity. Many, many Churches from this same period have attached anchorite cells.

It is easy to imagine similar cells/tunnels being used, unremarked, by choice or coercion.

At what level of abstraction does programming become a process of selection and integration?

If say China failed to “Gaza” Taiwan - because, well, China has never successfully launched a maritime invasion in its long history - would your world-view change? Or are you a ride-or-die Central Committee man, every other thought is impossible, the province of us “liberal retards”?

Lucky, too. It’s hardly decency if it pertains only to the righteous.

I don’t understand how this is not a clear violation of his Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial.

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives one.”

Knowledge is prerequisite for all else. Do pity the millions who will grow old before reading Ishiguro’s ‘The Remains of the Day’ - you too? Could you see its point?

Society is too large to see itself; someone must observe on our behalf. In this pursuit poesy may tell truth where ten thousand theses have honestly lied.

Upton Sinclair was not a meat processor.

I’d disagree. As domesticated, bred familiars, the natural state of cats, as with dogs, is symbiosis with humans. They’re not wild animals in a zoo. As the common jokes go, they own us as much as we them.

Fascinating. I’ve viewed imprisoning a cat within a single set of rooms for the entirety of its life as cruelty.

They wish so clearly to roam, to hunt, to mark territory and to meet other cats. A full life excels a maximally long one, no?

Too true. Then we elected a reality TV star president. Just ‘cause humanity survived doesn’t mean it thrived.