kd3

No dang, I love myself too much for self censorship. Until we meet again

I don't think people realize what kind of serious damage is done to all of humanity by censorship and destroying knowledge of history in this way. It's an enormous tragedy.

Yeah was wondering what people here think. The videos are cool

I enjoyed the humor on the website. Good luck with the business.

In the long term "laws" won't work. What we see throughout history is that they never work and those who are elected to see to it that it works themselves are corrupt.

The best option is to code it in the technology. For example, we can make laws and regulation to see to it that governments don't take more debt or print more money than they should in order not to cause inflation and economic crisis, but what we've seen throughout history is that this never works in the long term.

The better solution was the one Satoshi came up with: program the fixed amount of currency into the Bitcoin technology with computational and mathematical checks. Now it's extremely difficult to do anything else unless you can somehow control or convince the majority of the nodes to accept it.

The same kind of solutions should be developed for the web.

All these products are great but I still can't get a Ryzen 9 3950x anywhere for fucks sake. I'm tired of waiting. Amd should work on their supplies.

Principles on paper won't work. We need to build these principles into the technology at a fundamental level so that anyone using it can't do anything else but use it based on those principles. The technology should require it and not be able to work otherwise unless you break it.

Yes indeed, practically worldwide. As Larken Rose writes in "The most dangerous superstition":

"The purported purpose of schools is to teach reading, writing, mathematics, and other academic fields of thought. But the message that institutions of “education” actually teach, far more effectively than any useful knowledge or skills, is the idea that subservience and blind obedience to “authority” are virtues. The “grades” the student receives, the way he is treated, the signals he is sent — written, verbal, and otherwise — all depend upon one factor: his ability and willingness to unquestioningly subvert his own desires, judgment and decisions to those of “authority.” If he does that, he is deemed “good.” If he does not, he is deemed “bad.” This method of indoctrination was not accidental. Schooling in the United States, and in fact in much of the world, was deliberately modeled after the Prussian system of “education,” which was designed with the express purpose of training people to be obedient tools of the ruling class, easy to manage and quick to unthinkingly obey, especially for military purposes. As it was explained by Johann Fichte, one of the designers of the Prussian system, the goal of this method was to “fashion” the student in such a way that he “simply cannot will otherwise” than what those in “authority” want him to will. At the time, the system was openly admitted to be a means of psychologically enslaving the general populace to the will of the ruling class. And it continues to accomplish exactly that, all over the world, including in the United States."

I guess it's a matter of personal taste but I actually love the new Windows 10 UI/UX. It's very simple and clean. I love the new line icons style as well.

They are however miles ahead of Android and IOS. It's too bad that they are now preloading the garbage that is Android on their own Surface mobile devices now. Stopping with Windows Mobile is one of the biggest mistakes Nadella made. It sure helped to make it seem like Microsoft earned more (by cutting costs) but now they're forced to load garbage onto their devices and this will haunt them in the future.

Some mentally challenged people actually downvoted you it seems. I have thought about alternatives for a few months now actually. And I admit it's not easy.

I'm a simple man. I see an algorithm backed by djb, I use it.

Absolutely horrifying read. I couldn't help but think about Julian Assange going through similar treatment in the UK. Just goes to show: All governments are criminal and terrorist organizations, oppressing and enslaving the people.

Edit: sources for perennate

> Two medical experts accompanied Melzer when he visited Assange at Belmarsh prison in the UK, he said on Tuesday. "We came to the conclusion that he had been exposed to psychological torture for a prolonged period of time. That's a medical assessment." Melzer’s message fell largely on deaf ears, as only a handful of reporters attended Tuesday’s press conference at the UN headquarters in New York.

https://www.rt.com/news/471016-assange-torture-violations-un...

Physically and mentally his condition has gotten pretty bad. He could barely speak in front of the judge recently. Listen to John Pilger who met him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLXzudMCyM4

I think the whole voting thing is stupid. It obviously leads to censorship. Someone else's opinion should not count less than others even if you don't agree with them. Assuming we're not talking about plain spam (bots, ads, etc). Graham did not think this through properly. Everyday I come across comments that are downvoted or flagged and can see no reason why that was done apart from subjective ones.

I'm well aware of the fact that the author lives in the US which has been and is still involved in numerous cases of human rights violations and oppression of entire countries worldwide. But the article is excellent. While China's foreign policy hasn't been as oppressive as the US so far, locally they are implementing Orwell's 1984 with precision. It is fucking disgusting.

The fundamental mistake this guy made was trusting Apple and developing for their platforms. Let us all take note and learn from his mistake.

That is not what I am suggesting either. Smaller telescopes and cameras but on every satellite which can then be combined computationally as well. Tons of possibilities. Of course, like I said, they could also equip some of them with more powerful and larger hardware. But the smaller ones would already provide lots of capabilities for very little extra cost relatively.

With all the news of vulnerabilities in Android recently, as well as the fact that most Android phones come with spyware from the manufacturer preinstalled, it is clear that Android is pure garbage. I hope Microsoft takes note and decides to get back in the game with Windows mobile very soon.

What SpaceX should do is equip every satellite with a camera and lens specialized for astrophotography pointed away from Earth to the sky. Then give every one of them a unique ip address and interface that astronomers and anyone else can connect to and take pictures and videos. Some of them could even get equipped with bigger telescopes.

YouTube is in dire need of competition.

It depends on the specific situation whether or not I write tests before, during or after feature development. But having experienced the benefits of having a reliable test suite, I can now never go back to not having one. Gives so much more confidence of things working and especially not breaking.

good evening dang. we meet again.

Elon Musk recently said it well. He said something along the lines of always assuming you are wrong. The goal is to try to be less wrong all the time. Which is basically what good science is. And that guarantees long term improvement and success. So you need to fail a little to learn and get better. If you always succeeded, I think you'd never really know why you succeeded which is important knowledge and guarantees to a certain degree not making those mistakes again in the future.

What percentage of functionality has Intel already disabled on their CPUs? 25%? Soon they'll have to disable the entire CPU. It's fucking hilarious.

Another great example of the government mafia stifling innovation and trying to extort and rob everyone at every opportunity. Government is the big iron ball attached to our foot holding us all back.

This is cool. Hopefully soon I'll be able to use this to do automatic voice overs from written texts using my voice for podcasts and videos. Read pages of text without getting tired.

Full RMS. Always go full RMS

Yeah, I'm never going to own any Apple crap with these kinds of policies. Pay a crapload of money for a locked down product that you don't really seem to own. No thanks.

It is painful to admit, but you learn best from mistakes and failure.

Persuasion is mind manipulation. Facts and truth should be stated as plainly and objectively as possible. It is up to each person how they decide to handle it. Being kind is highly subjective and a slippery slope.