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I consider kickstarter an entertainment product. You pay to watch and participate a bit. The physical product/non-product at the end is part of the "story".

As always, watch your units or your result is meaningless:

  Power = Work / Time
  Knowledge is Power

The first power is in Watts. I'm pretty sure the second is some sort of political unit of influence.

Doesn't that just factor down to "the more you have, the less you need?" Which makes perfect sense.

You can't slander a person who isn't famous, for example...

That was kind of the point. Thanks the the internet, we're all famous now. Just ask "star wars kid".

There are an unlimited number of things that risk dead children. Chewing gum, shoelaces, bicycles, model rocketry, shop class, video game marathons, crosswalks...

How sure do we have to be to ban them all?

There is in my opinion a very clear danger associated with setting up draconian surveillance states borne out by history. How sure do we have to be before we ban those?

No. But clear backpacks do nothing at all to make them safer. And everyone with half a brain knows this. It conditions the entire population to accept security theater and government surveillance as part of everyday life.

This sets the entire society up to be unable to resist government overreach in the future.

Clear backpacks increase the risk of death from tyranny.

You can find crummy little 100mb switches on Aliexpress that actually power from micro USB. They're almost but not quite as bad as you think they'll be but for only $8...

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33047436686.html

I had it too on my Amiga. Same time about. My father also had one of the first color inkjets from work that mostly stayed at our house.

I'd include color photos in my school reports. Teachers stared open-mouthed at them. It was like having a superpower.

Carl Sagan put it best:

"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."

Stop thinking ourselves? No, but just humbly consider that that flash of insight you may have just had might have been considered, named, and much more eloquently stated hundreds of years ago.

"Order Now" ->

Too Many Requests

Guru Meditation:

XID: 2262329

Props for an error page that tickled my nostalgia in a most geeky way.

I was kind of hoping the Tesla pickup was going to be a reality. I was thinking of a cross between A model 3 and an F150 and was legitimately excited.

If this is the "Tesla Pickup" count me as bitterly disappointed.

If I'm not mistaken, buying one of a device and tearing it down like this would yield keys that would let you create "official" firmwares for all of the other ones of their kind and set up a fake update site allowing you to remote exploit all of the others, yes?

If so this is a fairly serious hack especially for devices that auto-update OTA.

Wait. You got a glass? Lucky.

After the barb-wire, armed guards, and metal detectors, you almost expect "the hole" as part of the deal, no?

Some people say that they can hear this(1) as a distinct sound.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_reflex

I always leave a review. I always name the product I bought in the text of the review. Now I'm thinking I should take a picture as well.

Seeing as how its aimed squarely at developers, this seem at least as correct (and maybe more-so) than the way a native speaker might expect this idiom to read.

I'm already thinking of all of the things I can adapt this platform to do for me.

100s of world-class researchers are trying desperately to get papers into journals fast enough to keep their labs funded.

Carmack may have other priorities. This can only be good.

>Transistors don't misfire, CPUs don't miss an operation, firmware invisibly and reliably handle all the internal packets of the motherboard

Copy and manipulate any large data set on standard desktop and then on a server with ECC ram and compare the results. All that stuff happens and we go through a lot on the high end to mitigate it.

They invented, built and sold aircraft. They're not trolls. Perhaps they pursued patent enforcement to the point of abuse, but that's a different animal than sitting in a lawyer shop doing nothing but rent-seeking human progress.

Unfortunately, while technically true we usually just call behavior like this "collections".

I'm actually not sure its enough. It looks like the only play this service has is the "country club" model. You're not paying $5/week to get in, you're paying it to keep the people who can't/won't pay that much out.

The question I'd really like to find out the answer to is will average net trolls pay real money to troll?

A funny thing happened on the way to the worker's paradise. It turns out that technology allows for capital to be substituted directly for labor. Its starting to look like so much so that labor may become altogether unnecessary (and so without any value at all). That leaves us in a pretty tight spot under the current orthodoxy.

>If people are allowed to compete for property then those that are better at competing will have more property.

We do have to keep in mind that right now nothing enhances one's ability to compete for property more than already having property.

By "taken" do they maybe mean "validated"?

Ideas are executed not "owned". The proof is in the doing.

The amount society is losing by making this guy wake up at 2am to deliver papers on a friggin' bicycle just boggles the mind.

I think its more like suggesting you can't jump half-way across a muddy ditch. You either go for it with everything or you stay put. Anything in the middle is going to be a bad time.

As someone who's launched a few apps myself, that wasn't the strangest part. People will throw down a fiver without hesitation or thought for mediocre coffee but spend hours agonizing over a $1.99 app. And still be angry about it a month later if it didn't perfectly meet their expectations.

Humans are just odd.

>The planet and its resources has a finite carrying capacity.

It's a hard jump, but there's not just the one.