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If P=NP, what is the polynomial-time algorithm for traveling salesman?

Perhaps the robots get to save up their tip money to buy their freedom

Really great DDD conference, you should go!

Banks should stop sending checks to other banks, it’s ridiculously wasteful

Why do deployed troops have cell phones at all? Seems like a huge security risk

Is this conflating student protests with administrative policies?

Yeah that is nutso

But not out of character or unexpected

My phone tells me that an incoming phone number is a “spam risk” but does not block the calls so my carrier gets a zero score

Atmospheric structure not artificial

paywalled but yay

non-paywalled article [1]

[1] https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/6067819-judge-b...

"a club where immature tech bros larp as men of culture."

which proceeds about like one would expect - fearless ignorance and bigotry masked as intellectual discussion

worth reading but hold your nose

stupid is as stupid does -- Forest Gump

Unlikely - there are over 400 Star Wars novels

You’re right my mistake! “Second-generation immigrants” is the correct term

Paywalled, but I don’t think having US citizen parents is an actual requirement for a child’s US passport. A Dreamer, for example, would be a citizen but their parents would not

Mere fines for bad behavior simply become part of the cost of “doing business” unless the fines are significantly larger than the business’ assets. Banning, jailing, and fining the responsible executives would help, but the current “oh you naughty boy” response where the fines are significantly is a rounding error and the company gets to keep and benefit from their ill-gotten gains/data will never be effective deterrents

Why would you think that a neolithic existence is simple and free from politics etc. Still humans.

"TV watches you!"

What could possibly go wrong?

“ The visions are filled with communities of mutually loving people, the elimination of middlemen from transactions, where everyone knows the true you, the nonexistence of bureaucracy, the existence of a social good that’s identifiable by looking around. Essentially, the simple life.”

Except none of that ever existed

The law is still useless and stupid, and the carve-outs for people and organizations that can’t be pressured by economics make the intent (state control) more obvious. I’m not looking forward to the cascade of consequences from this but I guarantee that protecting children won’t be one

comparing this person to Rosa Parks is wildly inappropriate

and yet very little access to common sense :)

the article cites the ability to keep a ton of details in working memory as an advantage, I'm not so sure that it is - perhaps it is quality over quantity; a compression of everything known into a smaller set of interlocking patterns should provide a more useful generalization (if correct, of course). The human's ability to perceive 7-10 concepts might just be the tips of the icebergs composed of a gazillion micro-concepts, i.e. our working memory is enormous, but not consciously accessible

also, the older neural capacity estimates are way wrong [1]: dendrites also compute

[1] https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/neuroscientists-...

"Illinois now requires operating system providers, open source projects included, to build age verification by 2028"

however

"nothing in the bill has teeth against someone with no business presence in Illinois"

as per [1]: "Illinois now requires operating system providers, open source projects included, to build age verification by 2028" however "nothing in the bill has teeth against someone with no business presence in Illinois"

[1] https://linuxstans.com/illinois-hb5511-operating-system-age-...

Zuck created a monster and tried to hide its harm - not the same thing at all

But it’s not a product safety law and it’s not confined to a single state

All of your examples are state and local regulations that apply to people and corps in the state, not everyone everywhere

And there’s no need to be insulting

illogical hubris - no state can regulate the internet; no state can compel developers to write code. the court cases on this will be interesting

well that didn't take long - $700M in cuts coming [1]

[1] https://mashable.com/tech/ea-sale-closes-shed-700-million-in...

EA has been saddled with a heavy load on their way to the bottom. Private equity firms are not known for their innovation or longevity