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What's the different between that and plain old structured programming subroutines?

Although I don't think this is some sort of conspiracy, HN front-page is curated content, ranking is not only based on votes.

> Watson got bored of beating grand masters at chess and started refusing to play

That's when you reboot it, if that doesn't fix it good old persuasive maintenance techniques can also come into play

It is not a given that any AGI would be a treat. There are plenty of Natural General Intelligences, and I don't fear monkeys taking over the world, or creating faster, better, stronger monkeys any day soon

Aí winters happened because of the hype and that people ultimately realize AGI (not even talking about the Singularity) is not as easily achievable as hyped. So interest dies.

Debt possibly. I personally knew a few people that would spend money they don't have just to show off IRL before social media was a thing, and I can see doing it to a larger audience being much more efficient.

And that's how we went back to book burning, again.

If you're referring to the mission of impressing the girlfriend, success doesn't seem likely.

That's like saying having to pay for any product is extortion, just because it's something you want but don't want the consequences of that, in that case paying for it.

Natural monopolies are like that. Artificial ones are either Govenrment enterprises or Government enforced taking what was initially natural one and making it into law, and tend to overstay their welcome because of that.

Monopolies are good as long as they can be gone in the flip of a hat if people decide so.

Exactly and they have the perfect excuse:

"Well when talking about deleting we mean we do the exact same thing the file system does to a file, it flags it, but doesn't actually erase it's content. Acting like a filesystem delete operation is what people expect when using that word"

You accept that when you join.

Exactly. Another example is applications "phoning home" (desltop applications sending information back to the server) that not that much ago was considered a serious abuse. And people on forums would lambast you when you asked how to implement something like that. Now it's called telemetry and is the norm.

It's the problem with that kind of speech, it's impersonal and dehumanizing.

Let's say it like it is: facebook betrays users expectations giving their data to other businesses.

Same for hacking: some people invaded system such and such and took private information.

It doesn't matter if it was a breach, a floodgate, a window, what matters is what happened, and what happened is that player X did Y. Let's just state that first and foremost.

You're still free to open a competing service, and can leverage the fact that you are better than the other guys as free advertisement basically.

Why would you block access from the EU if your site is hosted elsewhere?

If you think complying with foreign regulations is not worth it, or if you're not even aware of it, it's not up to you to block anything. Why would it be? If they care they would make providers block your site.

In a sane world they shouldn't be liable of anything if a person from another country uses their website.

Yes, it's not just because people are at the moment going through a problem that they know how to solve it. It's one thing to be in a bad situation, how it is and so on, another is to know how to get out of it.

That's also why giving money is a lot of time not a solution. Despite being easy, lazy and making people feel good about it.

What matters is that it ressonates with a common oppinion that smart phones are bad, so as long as it supports that somewhat popular position it doesn't need to be checked.

We all have biases, and in fact I don't use a smart phone because of some of the issues I have noticed using one previously, but if truth matters to you, you cannot just accept stuff just because you agree with it.

If less people use it then less people expect others to also use it.

> It seems like that argument easily ends up in the "educations that require significant debt are always useless" position, which is false.

That's not my position.

> "Reasonable" is a weasel word.

You can have a reasonable definition of what is reasonable ;-) It just has to do with the ammount of risk you're willing to take, yes, it involves personal risk.

But you can see, for example, in such and such people that get a degree are >70% unemployed or working in a different area that has nothing to do with it. Then well perhaps it's not a good choice if I don't have the liberty to do it just for the sake of it, without expecting money in return.

Some other career choices probably have better expected outcomes for the average Joe. So maybe if you need the money, chose that.

The bottom line is: it's just silly to live as if you were rich and but then after complain you don't have the money for it.

It did. But didn't have security tied to the fs.

It's a pixel shader. It's widely used for everything involving 3D graphics these days, as most engines require you to implement one, even if it's a trivial one.

The actual problem is people getting into debt without reasonable expectation of paying it, just wishful thinking.

Nah, let's go back to arguing like Facebook owes us some fundamental rights and so on.

The actual problem is not Facebook censoring content. It's actually people trusting them not to, and relying on that. "Oh then it has to be regulated", yeah sure lets trust government to not censor what they don't like, what can go wrong.

You don't have a right to post whatever you want on Facebook. As far as we know they can forbid everyone from posting and call it a day, it's their website after all.

Isn't mass reporting done by people a form of activism. Don't know why you want to diferentiate, activism doesn't have to be "good".

No we all know Facebook and Google are both trustfully truth providers, that actually has been their goal all along. And if they don't know, we can always count on Snopes to tell it like it is.