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They are very closely related and share a number of fungal pathogens. In addition as grown they are almost a small set of monocultures.

People are not growing their own anything at all scale necessary to be responsible for the decline.

About ten years ago I was at a party and an Australian coworker and I were talking. I casually mentioned the HPV vaccine since his daughter was entering her teens. He declared, “I’m not going to turn my daughter into a whore.”

You may be right that the demographics are shifting but not necessarily in a good way.

You don’t need to attack humans directly. Simply making and distributing a virus or fungus that successfully damages the grasses that we use for the bulk of our calories would do the job.

PHEV are more convenient and generally better. A Toyota Rav4 PHEV, Prius or may others, are shockingly fuel efficient relagtive to older car stock. I had not replaced a car for 16 years and found getting actual 52-54mpg out of a much larger and heavier vehicle genuinely shocking.

Most people have a relatively short commute where the modest range of PHEV still allows them to mostly be on electric.

It will take _many_ years for alternatives to come online in the US and most other places. So much of the west is unable to execute on any kind of large project. In addition, in the US, the current administration has an irrational opposition to the main cost-effective alternatives.

There is literally nothing about enterprise inspecting proxies that requires the client operate without default and always on crypto. That makes no sense at all.

The way businesses handle this is by installing a certificate they manage and deploy to their proxies.

Most of the critique in the post is about the low quality of Signal's app, which has zero to do with the protocol. And frankly almost every XMPP client was vastly worse in quality terms than Signal is and OTR regularly just produced garbage. It had a chance. Signal is not widespread because the only reason to use it is high privacy consciousness or being in the government and wanting secure chat with automatic deletion for conversations you're not supposed to be having.

It's a little like asking "Carburetors: How do we gain traction?"

XMPP is not a well designed protocol in many ways. There's no particular reason for anyone to care.

Blind culture is really just asian cultural values in aggregate form.

Why? There's no benefit to the first person view part of it at all.

Malarone gave me insane almost-kindof-sortof waking dreams of concerning character. I have never had anything like that before or since.

In universe the society of earth and the federation only happened because there was a devestating global thermonuclear war that left the survivors being highly selected for collectivist impulses and then on top of that the eugenics wars where there was another filter (even the common people).

You’re thinking the servants exist primarily to execute tasks. Servants exist primarily to abuse.

For this system. Their fantasy is effectively automated luxury palaces and the poor exist primarily for exploitation (mostly sexual and gladiatorial).

It’s because they are training them as much for engagement as actual problem solving at this point.

These have been made on and off since 1995 at the latest. They never work out even though you'd think they'd be super popular for 3d modelers at least. I first encountered one for SGI workstations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceOrb_360 as one example.

I wish this was true in the Bay Area. 5-MeO-DMT does not seem to be available and it’s supposedly a unique experience.

ECC is _not_ too expensive to use in hardware data paths. The existence proof of this is almost every medium to high end NPU has end to end ECC.

I think you've not experienced one of the real downturns. There isn't always a golden parachute for most of the people involved.

Othr than bubble $, not really. The true "golden time" was the 1980s. Creation of Cisco, Sun and SGI, and so many other things (like the personal computer), all new, incredible energy, mostly positive.

There isn’t unlimited funding. That’s temporary and it’s going to be great when it runs out.

No. You are thinking of the ibm Mach-kernel “workplace OS” which descended from the os/2 interaction once IBM and Microsoft broke up.

NT was entirely a Microsoft project. They hired the prism team from DEC and started completely from scratch.

Mach and microkernels were hot at one point despite having many issues with performance.

Repeat or not this is wonderful.

Wow that rings a bell.

The lack of end to end ECC protection in some packet paths on very high end ASICs is something I just can’t get over.

He has engaged in a ton of bullshit marketing for years.

The Russians signed it and then completely ignored the agreement.

That is an objective fact and has nothing to do with the rest of the cultural relativism you're engaging in.

Whataboutism about the US _not signing_ things is also irrelevant.

The whole AI treaty discussion is about a treaty countries will _actually sign_ and the relevance of Russia cheating on the BWC is that the signatures of some countries are absolutely worthless, which _is_ relevant.

Google would have to start selling them (the real ones, complete with interconnect) to third parties. If google does that, though, Nvidia is done.

Unlike AMD, Google can actually ship software. AMD has never shipped good software other than drivers (maybe) in the entire history of the company, including both ATi's history and true AMD. They have always relied on Intel to provide the software.

Nvidia's moat is the IBM, Microsoft moat:

I am about to spend $20M, if I buy anything other than Nvidia, and things go wrong, I am going to get blamed, and if things go right I will get no credit. This is why AMD is making no progress outside of very narrow cases and supercomputing.

Their "own" as in built by Marvell and Broadcom. Especially Trainium but also TPU4.

I doubt we can even track all of the chip production capacity.