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Even at this tariff rate, it's unlikely US manufacturing will compete on price with china, etc. So likely won't help US business, and will crush lower/middle class people. This is true, imo, even after whatever long ramp up period companies need to start manufacturing here.

i thought i remembered studies where people who know they are being prayed for have worse outcomes than those that don't. The guess being some kind of performance anxiety. Couldn't track down the details, so perhaps just my own misrememberance.

i think you'd be surprised what supporters could tolerate. "It's not happening to me...."

i thought the famous puzzle was 4, 4s

I wonder how much TikTok will have to personally pay Trump to get reinstated. What would that be worth? Is it a one time fee, or could it repeat over time. Bad situation to be in for TikTok.

I have never had a computer that was ever even close to being fast enough, and i doubt i ever will. I guess it depends on what you use them for.

I still deal with 20 minute compile times. Let me know when that drops to 10 seconds.

The crazy part of the babel myth is that it tells a store of what seems like the first time in human history where people of all backgrounds came together, lived in peace, made technological progress, and god couldn't stand that, as it wanted the people dumb, scared and fractured.

It seems the pattern keeps repeating to today.

at least not until we can scrub our about us executive web pages.

Isn't this true of basically any country?

Except that no one trusts Barney down the hall that has stack overflow open 24/7. People naturally trust AI implicitly.

Most of this tho, really, is what we do all the time with other types of animals (minus the hitech cloning aspect). We import genetic material to breed horses for instance, all the time. The article didn't say they killed the animal. If they had, then sure that would break endangered species laws.

So the invasiveness of the species and it's likelyhood to cause harm to the population seems like the key points.

Seems like the obvious response is to create a deepfake of the judge giving a monstorous offensive answer as to why he overruled the law.

To me the real infraction was the potential for causing disease in the native population. The rest, while morally dubious, doesn't feel like it's illegal.

What is the first?

these car owners just didn't opt into the closed hood premium package.

I've got to believe x86 is in the running. We don't think of it because it is the dominate architecture, but it's kind of crazy.

Certainly they won't keep up with inflation. So it's possible they won't exactly regress, but they will fall back as things get more expensive, and salaries don't go up.

>> I'd describe it as a stream of thought, not bound to any language.

as it's your head i accept that at face value. However i couldn't possibly understand how that could possibly work. How do you think not in a language not in words? What are the "atoms" of stream of thought for you, is it picture based, or???

My head talks to me all day long, unprovoked, uncontrolled by myself and in english. i can certainly interrupt and quiet it if i like, but i just am doing something ordinary and notice that i'm mentally talking to myself.

As a corrolary... when you read a book, what is that experience like? do you have a reader reading the book to you? Do you 'hear' words as they are read. I don't mean audibly, but is a story told to you as you read? To me this journaller is very similar to what i sense when i read a book, altho obviously it's not surprising in the book reading sense.

I can't say this is backed by anything, i don't know, but my gut feel is humans are somewhat different in that they have developed language both spoken and written to such an extent, that now there is a constant journaller as part of most people's minds documented everything we do, feel, think. This journaller basically happens autonomously, without direction. This journalling mechanism, i think, is what most people consider consciousness.

I suspect we fool ourselves into thinking this journaller has any control over our situation and so we give it more value than it has. I don't see how it would give us free will, for instance. But it is a powerful illusion, none the less.

I've had lots of dogs, horses, cats, and think they all are on the consciousness spectrum, but i'm guessing (couldn't possibly know) that they lack this constant overarching journaller in their brains. For species that have a richer communication, i still don't think they would have this... I think the need to write down language, and make it available to others asynchronously plays a part in it.

Interestingly, some people report that they have no such journaller, or sometimes called inner voice that talks to them. I have no way to know what it's like to be them, or if my understanding of what they are saying is indeed what they are saying, but if true, i wonder if these folks are more like what other animals feel in their heads. I have no clue. Frankly, i can't imagine that someone wouldn't have a journaller in their heads, and so it's even hard for me to imagine. I assume i just don't understand.

I imagine these things will break all the time, and have restrictive contracts on who can repair them at high dollar figures, see Mcdonalds ice cream machines X 100.

I'd say this might be the best evidence so far that google's AI has passed the Turing test, and is indistinguishable from humans.

Didn't we have just that?, i'm sure there are tons of history that can fill in any gaps you may have in what it was like.

No doubt AI will be a force multiplier. But that in no way says it will help the masses. It will help the owners of the tech. You might be able to find some tangential ways where it may help the bottom somewhat, but in the end the disparity between rich and poor will just be larger.

features that make strings easier to use are bad in my opinion. the number one problem in java is people circumventing the type system with strings.

switch on strings is there, as are switch expressions.

records now removes the need for getters in immutable contexts.

My understanding of

[[The “Pick 2 out of 3” interpretation implies that network partitions are optional, something you can opt-in or opt-out of.]]

is you can choose to not have a distributed system.

don't like ev? ok. even cheaper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O5Wr2qTLLw&pp=ygUVdG95b3RhI...

who cares. you can buy 3 of them

it the war moves to poland, it's likely nuclear.

If only the russians planned some mission to mimas, we'd have a budget in days.

ok, so whatever happens, happens. Let's imagine in 100 years, the country is 90% black. Who cares. It is whatever it turns out to be.