Man, has HN grown up? A bunch of thoughtful, critical comments about something written by Freeman Dyson and not even a single example of cow-eyed worship. Never thought I'd see the day. I'm proud of you guys.
I mean, yes and no. In principle I agree with you but Musk very much does also spend his time reading stuff like this and getting into internet slap fights. Last time I checked he was tweeting 29.2 times a day, or roughly once every thirty minutes of wake time.
It's very much a "religion of society". There is dogma, sins, shunning, confession, penance, blasphemy, heretics, etc. Just because it doesn't have a creation myth doesn't make it not religious.
It felt endless, especially compared to my 100MB yahoo account. I remember sitting there watching the storage counter going up and up and just grinning.
I'm pretty glad that didn't make it into the official canon. The evolution of the world is one of the most fascinating things about the legendarium. Imagine living during the age of the lamps.
Didn't the world start as flat and then Eru made it round to keep Aman away from mortal eyes, being reachable only by those who could see the "straight path" like the elves?
I hate when elitist jerks decide my greater than 1080p phone display is somehow inadequate for showing their grand artistic vision and I'm not allowed to look at their photos of an old Mac unless I do so exactly the way they want me to.
Why shouldn't it be mainland-centric? Mainland China is 99.5 percent of the population of China. That's like refuting a claim about Americans by calling it "a very non-Pennsylvanian view".
The objects ranged in size from about half the mass of Jupiter – the largest planet in our Solar System – to 13 times the mass of Jupiter, suggesting they were likely all to be gas giant planets. Jupiter, which is about 11 times the size of the Earth
Comparing two objects by their mass and then immediately switching to using "size" to refer to diameter is such awful science writing. You would never refer to an SUV as being "eleven times the size of a basketball".
For clarity's sake, Jupiter has 1300 times the volume of earth and 318 times the mass.
Interesting data but technically an orphan statistic. Who is it that's spreading the real news? The same group of people could be responsible for 80% of all news spreading and we wouldn't know from this study.
Similar here. I was a huge Dropbox evangelist to almost everyone I knew. Then Dropbox limited free accounts to three devices. Then I started getting the emails, texts, and phone calls asking me why the thing I made them sign up wasn't working the way it always had from people who have no experience in the software industry and couldn't understand a company just taking features away from them.
They don't need to show me prices. Just show me the food. Imagine if Toyota.com refused to show you what a Corolla looks like until you located the nearest dealership and scheduled a test drive.
Can we fix restaurant websites next? It's so infuriating when you're trying to figure out where you want to eat and you go to a restaurant's website to see if they have anything that looks good, except they won't show you the menu at all unless you go through their process for locating the nearest restaurant and starting an online order. If the home page of a damn restaurant doesn't a big button that says "menu" and when I click it it shows me the menu, they deserve to go out of business.
Playing along by pretending there's nothing to mention is a step further than feeling you're not allowed to say exactly what you mean. That's the why.
Why aside, if you care about the subject either way you already know what he's talking about, and if you don't know then you likely wouldn't care.
He may be quite incorrect in his judgment of the subject, but, as demonstrated by the flagging, he's correct that he's not allowed to talk about it in many settings, including this one. There's a fair chance I'm not allowed to talk about him not being allowed to talk about it, either.
How about making it so all those stupid purple pop-up messages on mobile that tell me what I already damn know can be swiped away instead of sitting on my screen blocking the UI for an eternity every time I dismiss a tab or full-screen a video?
That's exactly the issue I'm talking about: the practice of equating criminal behavior such as death threats or persistent targeted harassment with protected speech such as questioning, dissent, and heckling. When you put forth that someone's employer is responsible for stopping randos from calling them an asshole, a liar, a tool of the Illuminati, etc and say it's the same problem as someone having a threatening stalker or having someone camping at their front door, you make people think you might be lying or exaggerating about the latter.
What a lovely vision that was. Back when we imagined the potential of the internet would make people more like us, instead of peoples' checkbooks making the internet more like them. Rest in peace, digital frontier. You were too beautiful to last.
For some reason, when you take a process that has traditionally been done with a baseball bat and start doing it with a knife, suddenly everyone comes out of the woodwork to talk about how your knife is too dull and it should either be done with a scalpel or not at all.