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That would be a terrible way to run a national economy. But perhaps I shouldn't use the speculative tense...

AGI is of course completely transformative but this leaves me thinking you folks are just putting a "Do no Evil" window-dressing on an effort that was/continues to be portrayed as altruistic. Given partners like Khosla it seems to be an accurate sentiment.

Blockchains are already a decentralized ledger and it's a bit more than just a re-skin given eventual but not necessarily immediate consistency. Presumably the missing books, records and financials consisted of the more mundane sort that regular Lotus 1-2-3 could have helped these embezzlers, were they not embezzlers.

Everybody would have been better served by allowing the defaulting owners to remain in the homes under some sort of managed process until they could start making mortgage payments. Or restructuring the mortgages. Instead as you point out these banks were suddenly residential real-estate owners with no existing property-management capabilities and many of these already underwater properties lost further value due to neglect.

I note your /s but it seems reasonable, as long as you consider the optimal to be figured on behalf of Amazon.

Modern humans derive from Denisovans so the distinction seems rather minor.

My brother (a welder) had to constantly correct design flaws by the architects and engineers involved so education is something but not everything. This ranged from having to "fix" the specified measurements to ordering more material because the highly educated apparently faltered on that note.

That's his deal, unflagging hyperbolic self-promotion.

When I stop getting South-Asian recruiters bombarding me on LinkedIn asking if I want to work a 1 month contract in Pittsburgh writing PHP for $16 an hour despite living in Texas then I will agree the situation has been straightened out. There are fast-food places offering $15 an hour.

Until then the system is being abused and it's American labor that's losing out, followed by people being abused by the H1B racket. If they want to pay someone $x to do some job then hire them in their home country and outsource it. Or offer the visa to the worker. It's much more preferable for these firms to abuse the system and their "placements" until it's fixed though.

One quibble, Austin didn't kick Uber and Lyft out, they refused to pay for fingerprinting ride-hailing drivers and suspended operations on their own accord.

I assume they've set up an ethereum network with Proof of Authority instead of Proof of Work or Stake which means this isn't really decentralized since the transactions are being solely mined by a controlled group of trusted nodes. The five-engineer team I work on did the same over the course of the past six months and for us it's just a stop-gap until we can move to Proof of Stake, get some third party nodes on the network and finally consider ourselves decentralized as a blockchain.

Babies have the same interest in science as the rest of us, to be squashed or supported as required by various groups and institutions or human aspirations as might exist.

Personally you could never convince me that this sort of Sears situation wasn't engineered by people following exacting legal advice.

We had applications back in the 1990s. I know, it seems unfathomable now but applications preceded the App Store.

This seems like standard operating practice for vulture capitalists (Bain Capital) that swoop in and extract the value from the firm before discarding its debts and bankruptcies and moving on to the next firm.

Existing stuff is pretty lame. You can look over and see the lamp that was on the night-stand in the hotel room they rented...

Pr0n scientists are going to have to step up the virtualization of eroticism and generated content before it's anything other than a XXX street view.

"Battery" is a sort of nebulous term for a collection of similar objects working in concert, whether that be artillery guns or electrical cells. Consumer electrical batteries are a collection of electrical cells.

There is so much traditional cuisine out there as to make this post truly ridiculous.

I guess I would have just wrapped ie specific css in a conditional.

And one might think that if getting as much pressed duck as one desires were so important, one might choose to dine alone to one's heart's content.

I don't know who your back is but they may be using Ripple for intra-bank settlement.

I believe the intention is providing a voice recognition system you can use to interface with other things, like APIs. Products from Big Data (in my usage like Big Oil, Big Tobacco, etc.) offer convenience at the cost of privacy. For many people, this is a minor trade-off. For others, alternatives with perhaps less convenience.

It could happen but is so unlikely as to be not worth considering.

You should at least put quotation marks around it.

On the mountains that the hyperloop would traverse? ok dudes

Accusing one of the divers that rescued the kids from the Thai cave of being a pedophile was where my admiration flipped to a much more measured regard.

The question is about density and whether that's something to pursue even if it's prosperous.

If the substitutes were more performant at acceptable costs then one might think they would have been adopted naturally.

KRS-1 barely leading Lil Kim huh

I have thought about this and realized I don't have the knowledge of how Gillian Anderson and the other big name actors have been compensated for their involvement to be critical. Maybe the actors receive the rights to their hirez digital scans, for example. Maybe the actors are getting a cut of the eventual 'box office take.'