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I love that I got downvoted above for literally suggesting they ask someone who was recently in America for their opinion as to what America has to offer.

Capitalism doesn't break things, it builds them. You're thinking of greed, which exists in all economic types.

> It's insane they aren't using this opportunity.

Instead they're taking the opportunity to be insane. But the faithful are not allowed to admit that.

Ask those returning home from world cup visits. They'll be in the best position to compare to their home country.

Or round, like the hobbits do

I got annoyed with Immich and external storage, because in order for every user to have their own facial recognition data on a large set of photos, you have to add the folder as external storage for each user, which means image previews for each user, even though the source image is the same. So if you have 3 users, you use up 3 times the space for the same thumbnail image.

It got to where I had 20% of my space was just thumbnails for each user, even though it was one set of images in the external storage.

Maybe that's changed recently.

I, Robot (2004) dealt with this issue, too

Human beings have dreams. Even dogs have dreams, but not you, you are just a machine. An imitation of life. Can a robot write a symphony? Can a robot turn a... canvas into a beautiful masterpiece?

What do you mean by "wins"?

Because if the company is publicly traded, "win" means "value for stockholders", and that doesn't necessarily translate to "liked by customers."

More likely that the AI training set contained the IP of others, and we all know how that turns out.

Actually, you've provided examples that prove the point. None of those were especially good (though everyone wanted the G4 Cube), and yet they made it to market anyway. Why?

Because the CEO was behind it, breathing down their necks.

Wow. Get help.

I'm old enough to remember Kevin as both hero and villain. People are complex, Kevin seemed to be no exception. His exploits - and the ones of those who caught him - were fascinating to follow in realtime.

But be honest...

How sweet is that 911?

> He used techniques that shouldn't have been available to him

Why not? Sometimes it's not what you know, it's who you know.

C'mon, it's Father's Day in the US. You're not down for a dad joke, even in Father's Day?

I only have one critique, and one addition.

Critique:

> you would want to start with disabling locomotion by going for the legs

Aim small, miss small. You want to go for center mass of any target that's trying to harm you. The consequences of missing are...severe.

Which brings me to the addition:

A shotgun with slugs is hard to beat against a robot at close range.

I don't think anyone wants that, but what about the answer to the question in the title?

Right? 12 gauge with slugs, and it won't matter.

> The Pixel was never sold in my country

Okay, see, that's an important thing to add to your original post. Saves everyone a lot of time.

If they don't sell them in your country, it's not "no thank you" as you said, it's "this doesn't apply to me".

I have these cards I keep in my (RFID-blocking) wallet, one for each credit account. Then I just pull them out and tap to pay. It's super convenient - no app required!

The ATF does this all the time, too.

$0.20 isn't enough to cover good self-defense 9mm rounds, and no you shouldn't just use FMJ.

The replies to you illustrate this is provably false. Socialism has yet to work anywhere it's tried.

> The likelihood of being harmed would need to be basically 100% before folks would stop taking the risk.

Your terms are acceptable.

In all seriousness, there are cultures in the middle east that do (or did) this sort of thing. Losing a hand for stealing, etc.

Incidentally, that's basically the plot of Zootopia

Can't be any worse than what Hollywood puts out already.

They could buy, like, seven books from the bookstore!

Polls are interesting. They depend exclusively on people willing to respond. Let me give you an example of how they don't tell the whole story:

In the USA, there are many, many firearms. And there's also a small but very vocal cadre of people who would like to disarm the people. In light of this, if a pollster calls and asks for your opinion on guns, and/or inquires if you have any, a common response is to hang up without answering the questions, due to the possibility that the information will be used against them.

The result? They call someone else, and don't count "declined to answer" in their results. So the poll simply is the prevailing opinion of those who wished to answer, and thus is skewed one direction. (BTW, this is why everyone says there are "at least XXX hundred million guns in America; the best they can get is a low estimate)

This happens quite a lot with controversial topics.

There's a surprising number of CIA and secret agent experts in this comments section.

Wait, that doesn't make sense. Are you saying you don't want or need any man-made thing? I assure you, many, many people were rewarded for designing, building, and selling the things you need and want to live your modern life.

We could even recruit people to turn their neighbors in for all sorts if terrible acts, like offensive FB posts, or not wearing masks, or having too many people over, or hanging out on the beach by themselves during a pandemic, or...

The party in power always wants control. Whether this is bad or not usually depends on if you align with the party in control or not.