StockHuman

You are not everyone in the country; indeed, you are a minority in that respect. Refuting a general argument through anecdote is not fair to what you’re discussing.

A far greater (and less needlessly entrapping) commitment to that would be to drop all traffic from AWS. Watch the Internet break, and never contribute to Amazon’s bottom line.

This person had no idea about your beliefs and you pick the receipt of a gift as the moment to inform them through rejection? That seems rather mean for something where Bezos has already been paid.

“Stroad” is the urbanism aficionado portmanteau of street and road; a common feature in North American urban and suburban design where the speeds, (lack of) curves and lane-count of roads are combined with the traffic lights and access to businesses and homes of streets (and all their attendant car infrastructure).

Thankfully minivans and station wagons do not suffer the same enormous blind spot problem the modern American truck is presently facing. That, and the standard five-seat arrangement can accommodate both parents and three kids, which is already a rare degree of occupancy.

If you’re committed to 7+ seater vehicles after birthing a platoon I think the financial penalties of that decision were already understood at child number 4.

Well sharts, most people don’t take dying too lightly either. Free care for the gravely infirm would be, to a point, the only perk that mattered at the exclusion of all others. Likewise with the possibility of total bankruptcy.

The displeasure is the the same as that from “not returning the shopping cart;” it isn’t illegal to do so and no one will punish you, but the community as a whole is collectively taken advantage of when you do so.

Sibling comment went for some twitter rebuttal, which isn’t appropriate here (or anywhere, really); a better reply is challenging the goodness, utility, or execution of those schemes themselves.

His cars are expensive but poorly built for a luxury vehicle and are, at a macro level, greenwashing to perpetuate car culture.

His rockets are a folly for the super-wealthy. If that is you, congratulations! But I’d be wary of the fate of the most recent experimental sarcophagus for the elite.

Starlink is neat and has a noble aim, though as currently (and foreseeably) implemented it won’t be serving that goal at all; it is an expensive service with high upfront costs and no availability in regions most in need of either coverage in general (the majority of the African continent) or rural areas (for which SpaceX receives considerable funding for). It’s also raised concerns about a crowded sky, but that’s for someone more informed to chime in on.

And as per the brain chips, the rate of dead research monkeys should tell you that they won’t be going anywhere with that. If you know anyone in biomedical research, you should talk to them about that: you’ll be amused.

Physical changes to building codes and infrastructure have benefited not just those on wheelchairs, but just about everyone else with a wheeled thing for any other purpose. Parents pushing prams and strollers, people moving bikes into parking spots, carrying groceries with wheeled carriers, using mobility scooters, etc.

As others have mentioned: no, it’s the right tack; permanent changes to the built world benefit many and survive whatever byzantine rules might come in place to receiving high-tech wheelchairs from insurance or otherwise.

I’ve very much enjoyed their libraries (though not their monorepo changelogs) in building our RN app. Seems like from the comments the situation we found ourselves in where “bare” react-native was the only option is the best way to interact with the ecosystem from the outset.

I’ll second that; the beta introduced massive keyboard issues related to stare reporting, dismissal and height.

This is featured the first time you ever bring up the software keyboard and then never again. You can see the behaviour by booting up a simulator. They do have an explainer, but it’s very easy to dismiss if you expected to just start typing.

My second result: http://www.driveintheater.com/

Phenomenal, exactly as expected.

Perhaps, though the rate advance, as mentioned, seems headed in a direction entirely orthogonal to actual creative output that might threaten art-making. I’m in awe at the grammatical or visual fidelity of LLMs/GANs, but have yet to hear a funny joke or see an original image.

My impression of the appetite for derivativeness is that it’s waning, no? The authority on the craft of content milling seems to think so. [0]

0. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bob-iger-says-disney-cut-1157...

If your timeline for “not-too-distant” is measured in decades at the earliest and centuries otherwise, maybe. It doesn’t look like authentically enjoyable creative output is making nearly as many strides as summarization and code completion. GPT-MidJourney autopoiesis similarly degenerates into novel-but-unremarkable prompts & images.

Maybe a limit of training these systems on internet text and images, but it seems to me that we’d need something trained on the human experience itself to get expression that doesn’t read hopelessly derivative. Now and likely for a long time, all these tools need a puppet master.

And, of course, celebrity culture requires a celebrity in the flesh. At which point an AI analogue would be so sufficiently similar to us that they might be afforded a SAG membership themselves.

That only mentions that it "would've made things worse," which doesn't actually answer the question.

Organize society into smaller morsels; this tendency of the centralized state will not be eradicated - states can be modelled as creatures seeking self-preservation, and knowledge into their citizens’ lives reads as something that will further that (even if it doesn’t).

Realistically that won’t happen save for some terrible calamity. The voting public will certainly play no part in this going away.

Both this and secure DNS are born of the same ideological commitment against censorship. It is not their “fault,” governments aren’t entitled to this and guarding against pushes of this kind is not a blame game.

No, a human being comparing your face to a picture is entirely unlike facial recognition. The cop matching your face will not remember you for an arbitrarily long time (or indefinitely), cannot transmit the memory of your face to other cops across space and time, does not catalogue what you are wearing, the delta between your actual face and the image, and all other manner of minutiae.

Cameras and automated systems are likewise fallible in entirely separate dimensions (personal bias, circumstantial factors): the camera does not get tired, but we place a certain unwarranted trust in black-box systems that fail in unexpected ways.

They are absolutely governance issues, but _augmented_ in scale by technological reach.

As an aside, I recently made Orion my default across my devices, and I wonder of paid browser is more viable than paid search.

Some of them certainly are, though I got the impression that the author might not understand Curtis or his work to any real degree. Characterizing him as a potential conservative (for effect)? whilst also noting his Graeber quote struck me as odd – identifying 1960s counterculture as a source of ideas with lasting damage is rather popular with leftist discourse in his particular generation/ stripe of leftism.

That, and as you write: they’re art films; being frustrated as the author was for their lack of clarity or specificity as if they should’ve been straight documentaries is silly. If anything, many documentaries engage in a false determinism where their chosen subject matter is 100% consequential in the slice of history they’re exploring – something Curtis’ work doesn’t do by instead leaving the totality of recent history as a paradoxically more accurate haze of loosely connected events with unknowable detail.

Huh, how odd; I had the opposite impression, as I came to write praise for how fun the writer was with this little story. Different strokes.

They want that particular kind of safety that comes from being under one’s boot: the incredibly reassuring, simple worldview that one can pour all their misgivings and praise for their lot in life into a singular place.

“Bless the king, for I can do X,” “The leader knows how to stop Y from harming us, and knows what we need,” “Damn the council, I get that I must go through them to do toys safely, but it’s so tedious,” etc. You may have never heard any of this, but it’s rather common all the same.

Vacant homes held as investment/ properties built for the wrong market (for example: high-end, luxury, when demand warrants multi-family, middle income) can unfortunately keep general availability low and prices high.

The bill’s purpose, like other past attempts at erecting moats around Canadian media in an (always ill-fated) attempt to shield it from foreign competition, folds internet search and social media into “broadcasting,” where a portion of ad impression revenue (etc) generated from that content gets funnelled back to Canadian media corporations.

With a conventional definition of broadcasting, a radio show (that broadly transmits on the scarce, finite, government-allocated spectrum) would be beholden to include some Canadian culture in programming, and pay Canadian creators through licensing deals.

Where we are now, Canadian media has been granted another moat as their competitiveness continues to wane (so far, only video game production remains healthy and competitive with the world without this style of protectionism). CBC, The Toronto Star, etc cannot hope to compete with the global appeal of The New York Times, BBC, Al Jazeera, etc, so they’re demanding they be made artificially competitive online through boosted presence in online spaces, and paid royalties from that arrangement.

Botswana National Front to The Cheesecake factory was truly a wild ride, meandering between military hardware, old airplane designs, African social movements, some random celebrities, municipalities in Europe and more. Fun stuff.

If I built a platform that leveraged the name brand of another with a similar purpose, but charged for it when the original was a well-respected community tool, it would not be seen as good form.

SoundCloud.help, say, a platform that leverages SC’s reputation in the DJ mixes community to advertise a platform for algorithmic audio compilations would be received rather poorly. If grep.help was some newbie-friendly url shortener for grep documentation or examples, I think we’d be more enthusiastic.

For what it’s worth, any sailing vessel beats any diesel container ship in ocean pollution. That, and ballast tank contamination, though that is not unique to any propulsion type, but instead to ship design.

The author is a woman, unusually for this sort of subject matter and terminology employed (alpha / beta males, etc).

Cowardice can be a factor, but even when it is, it stems from the fear of losing control over others’ behaviour. That control is in this case veiled with religion.

Curiously, their flaws balance out to neither being all that better. GPT-4 gets some words right, but changes the formal tone to something more casual, which doesn’t happen with Google’s translation. If it didn’t, it would probably be the better translation.