... did was kick me out when I was 19, 5 months after I was out of high school.
"You're learning a job. I don't care what. Wanna do performing arts? Ok, fine by me, you've got the talent. But you're moving out by end of summer. Get those applications rolling." -My mom, paraphrased.
I was doing performing arts 6 months later, in a big town 300 km away. She drove me there, in her Citroen Charleston De Cheveau. She told me a few years back that she had to pull over and cry for while on the way back, but she knew it was the very best thing to do.... Smart lady, my mom is.
Best move ever. 6 months in I felt better than ever before in my life, doing my own thing my own way. These days I'm a man with a grown daughter traveling South America for 9 months flat at the age of 20 and have a SO I love and respect, that fucks like a pornstar.... All because I was pushed on to the trail that made me become a grown man....
Love you, Mom.
In a stable system without war capitalism will just about by design breed this problem. The body public has to have the broader picture in mind which they often don't. "I'll buy one last Mercedes 500 SEL before global warming laws prevent me from doing this."
In a system bent on valueing capital over work and sustainability, capital will always win out over labor. Until capital suddenly isn't worth squat anymore. That usually is noticed when it's too late. We see it happening already with negative interest for Banks and other fat cats in Europe and the US.... Helicopter money would actually be the better solution. The problem is that helicopter money usually only comes in form of war were everting is bombed to pieces and only then society gets to start over on equal footing.
We all are pretty much aware of this effect, if only subconsciously.
The super rich have prepared for this, with hideouts spread around the world, enclaves with landing strips, their own wells and land enough to grow food. The smart cyberpunks (us) have adopteda cyberpunk lifestyle that enables us to move on a moment's notice. The regular guy however will be screwed once shit hits the fan again.
The alternative is a ever growing global post scarcity society run by some semi benevolent conglomerate of Google and Co. or something.
... it will surpas humans quite soon. Let's make sure that the benign prevail. AI is the biggest threat to humanity right now. We will be sumoning the demon, thinking we can control it. Us being pets to it would be a positive outcome." Elon Musk, paraphrased
Bottom line: Seems like Musk has his head screwed on correctly. All things considered, the advent of Superintelligent AI is a singularity beyond which humans, by very definition, can not possible predict the future, plain and simple. Eric Schmidt is a douche if he think he can.
My nervous system monitors my gut and the rest of my body 24/7. Works pretty well. Millions of years of evolution make for some pretty rad design and engineering. Doesn't need batteries, doesn't need an upgrade. Sometimes I just miss listening to it. You have to train that. Like correctly interpreting some graphs on your health.
Yes. Those are somewhere around the specs I had in mind. Make it a case that has screws and can be replaced + a variety of different colored cases and up the repairability and you've got yourselves a new hot contender for "smartphone of the year" I would say.
I don't get it. The pinnacle of this nonsense was the newer Moto Z. What is this bullshit? Give me a friggin Phone that doesn't feel like I'm holding a thin small slice of plywood with some fragile crystal glued on. And Oooph the battery while your at it. Point in case: I added a UAG case to my Moto G5 and it finally feels like a phone and not some piece of junk from a vending machine that will break when I sneeze at it. How awesome would it be if that extra heft would be like +2000mAmps of power.... OnePlus, Nokia, Motorola... all are into this nonsense. I seriously don't get it.
There definitely is a market for solid phones the thickness of the iPhone SE or thicker that have a solid battery and a case that doesn't fall apart. Or bend. If I had the resoures I'd build it.
The French did a fair job in preventing Paris not getting bombed to chunky kibbles.
Pre-war Nazi Germany was basically Isis + perfect organization + highest standard high tech military and organizational skills + 80 million people. Losing out in a blitzkrieg to an opponent of that magnitude isn't all that shameful.
To emphasize: In Operation Paukenschlag the US captured a German Sub. They couldn't copy it because it was too high tech. That's how advanced German military was back then. It's only thanks to the all-out stupidity and lunacy of Hitler and his goons that Germany lost despite having the most effective military force at the time. Luckily. If Hitler had had his 7 senses about him, Europe would be Nazi territory today. What happened though was that the Germans willingly went to serve as a tool for the globally extended suicide of a madman.
VM Ware is the SAP/Oracle of the move towards virtualization. That Ubuntu is cheaper is no big surprise.
However, Ubuntu by no means is cheapest . Alpine and Docker seem to be that right now. We're quickly moving into that territory where OS and Platform are a basic commodity, sold by utilities like water and electricity.... Which is why, curiously enough, MS is making a lot of not most of its cloud revenue with Linux on Azure.
Canonical is well positioned for this market transition because they aren't as much entrenched in traditional IT services. Wether they can leverage this advantage over RH and VMWare is another issue.
Opinionated design and quality shouldn't be left to Apple alone. I very much appreciate red getting into the smartphone business and I hope they succeed.
The most feasible thing is building a community in the savanna or desert. Which is what most Projects of this kind do. If you have money enough to build and run a floating island, you'll have 5 times the money to do that. But I guess Peter Thiel has consumed to much like to realise that.
This must not happen. We'll all know this is part of the larger "the right to read"scheme that has been going on ever since DRM and software patents. It's one more large brick in that wall.
Since wealth of a society is pretty much defined by women being powerful enough to decide by then selves on their reproduction, you're pretty much spot on.
Future societies will most likely pay women to be mothers... if society in general recognizes children as something valuable that is.
Survival of the fittest can also mean being able to develop a brain, a culture, a society and sciences where things like genetic differences have no larger impact. Just wait for when we as a species are able to cheat natural death. If all goes well, that point in time isn't to far off.
Until that happens, think of this as australians society - which happens to have functional healthcare - winning out to the US which doesn't have this.
I considered getting a new MacBook last year and typed a little on the new keyboards. All in all I felt they were an improvement. I am also the type of person who keeps their devices relatively clean and tidy. Which has me wondering: Are these accusations grounded in facts? Are the new keyboards susceptible to failure due to dust and dirt? What are your experiences if you've got one of those?
... breeds dangerous all-powerful problems. As Chrome OS and chrome-style new-gen powerbrowsers and the neat and nifty open web gain more and more ground this is a problem that the company pushing the web - Google - will need to address. Thoroughly. If they don't want their plan to fall flat on its face that is.
I personally find it very encouraging that the web has finally reached the power it once only had with the all-present Flash and where at the point where we can do basically anything on an open cross-platform technology. Stuff like this however I find discouraging.... If you push to much of universal computing into the web, more and more malware pusher will adopt and problems like these are likely to increase. Google will have to work on containing this.
Between VS code, typescript, Linux subsystems, neat new hardware concepts, a new CEO and serious pressure from competitors like Google, Apple and Amazon and now this MS seems to be inching it's way back into the heart of opinion leaders, i.e. us.
I can't complain. And who knows, I might someday check out this new surface stuff they're offering. And Win2k was the last OS of them I used.
Isn't it nice, the wonders real competition can do?
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... did was kick me out when I was 19, 5 months after I was out of high school.
"You're learning a job. I don't care what. Wanna do performing arts? Ok, fine by me, you've got the talent. But you're moving out by end of summer. Get those applications rolling." -My mom, paraphrased.
I was doing performing arts 6 months later, in a big town 300 km away. She drove me there, in her Citroen Charleston De Cheveau. She told me a few years back that she had to pull over and cry for while on the way back, but she knew it was the very best thing to do. ... Smart lady, my mom is.
Best move ever. ... All because I was pushed on to the trail that made me become a grown man. ...
6 months in I felt better than ever before in my life, doing my own thing my own way. These days I'm a man with a grown daughter traveling South America for 9 months flat at the age of 20 and have a SO I love and respect, that fucks like a pornstar.
Love you, Mom.
I call it Capital Suction.
In a stable system without war capitalism will just about by design breed this problem. The body public has to have the broader picture in mind which they often don't. "I'll buy one last Mercedes 500 SEL before global warming laws prevent me from doing this."
In a system bent on valueing capital over work and sustainability, capital will always win out over labor. Until capital suddenly isn't worth squat anymore. That usually is noticed when it's too late. We see it happening already with negative interest for Banks and other fat cats in Europe and the US. ... Helicopter money would actually be the better solution. The problem is that helicopter money usually only comes in form of war were everting is bombed to pieces and only then society gets to start over on equal footing.
We all are pretty much aware of this effect, if only subconsciously.
The super rich have prepared for this, with hideouts spread around the world, enclaves with landing strips, their own wells and land enough to grow food. The smart cyberpunks (us) have adopteda cyberpunk lifestyle that enables us to move on a moment's notice. The regular guy however will be screwed once shit hits the fan again.
The alternative is a ever growing global post scarcity society run by some semi benevolent conglomerate of Google and Co. or something.
... it will surpas humans quite soon. Let's make sure that the benign prevail. AI is the biggest threat to humanity right now. We will be sumoning the demon, thinking we can control it. Us being pets to it would be a positive outcome." Elon Musk, paraphrased
Bottom line:
Seems like Musk has his head screwed on correctly. All things considered, the advent of Superintelligent AI is a singularity beyond which humans, by very definition, can not possible predict the future, plain and simple. Eric Schmidt is a douche if he think he can.
My 2 cents
My nervous system monitors my gut and the rest of my body 24/7. Works pretty well.
Millions of years of evolution make for some pretty rad design and engineering.
Doesn't need batteries, doesn't need an upgrade.
Sometimes I just miss listening to it. You have to train that.
Like correctly interpreting some graphs on your health.
Yes. Those are somewhere around the specs I had in mind. Make it a case that has screws and can be replaced + a variety of different colored cases and up the repairability and you've got yourselves a new hot contender for "smartphone of the year" I would say.
I don't get it. The pinnacle of this nonsense was the newer Moto Z. What is this bullshit? Give me a friggin Phone that doesn't feel like I'm holding a thin small slice of plywood with some fragile crystal glued on. And Oooph the battery while your at it. Point in case: I added a UAG case to my Moto G5 and it finally feels like a phone and not some piece of junk from a vending machine that will break when I sneeze at it. How awesome would it be if that extra heft would be like +2000mAmps of power. ... OnePlus, Nokia, Motorola ... all are into this nonsense. I seriously don't get it.
There definitely is a market for solid phones the thickness of the iPhone SE or thicker that have a solid battery and a case that doesn't fall apart. Or bend.
If I had the resoures I'd build it.
My 2 cents.
Aaaaaahahahaha .... ROTFL!
The French did a fair job in preventing Paris not getting bombed to chunky kibbles.
Pre-war Nazi Germany was basically Isis + perfect organization + highest standard high tech military and organizational skills + 80 million people. Losing out in a blitzkrieg to an opponent of that magnitude isn't all that shameful.
To emphasize: In Operation Paukenschlag the US captured a German Sub. They couldn't copy it because it was too high tech. That's how advanced German military was back then. It's only thanks to the all-out stupidity and lunacy of Hitler and his goons that Germany lost despite having the most effective military force at the time. Luckily. If Hitler had had his 7 senses about him, Europe would be Nazi territory today. What happened though was that the Germans willingly went to serve as a tool for the globally extended suicide of a madman.
VM Ware is the SAP/Oracle of the move towards virtualization. That Ubuntu is cheaper is no big surprise.
However, Ubuntu by no means is cheapest . Alpine and Docker seem to be that right now. We're quickly moving into that territory where OS and Platform are a basic commodity, sold by utilities like water and electricity. ... Which is why, curiously enough, MS is making a lot of not most of its cloud revenue with Linux on Azure.
Canonical is well positioned for this market transition because they aren't as much entrenched in traditional IT services. Wether they can leverage this advantage over RH and VMWare is another issue.
Opinionated design and quality shouldn't be left to Apple alone. I very much appreciate red getting into the smartphone business and I hope they succeed.
The most feasible thing is building a community in the savanna or desert. Which is what most Projects of this kind do. If you have money enough to build and run a floating island, you'll have 5 times the money to do that. But I guess Peter Thiel has consumed to much like to realise that.
This must not happen. We'll all know this is part of the larger "the right to read"scheme that has been going on ever since DRM and software patents. It's one more large brick in that wall.
Please don't let this happen.
They come pretty close and there's a ton of them.
They sit right next to the social media consultants.
Shame it's not legal to wrap them in barbed wire and shoot them into the sun - which is the only adequate treatment I can think of.
Since wealth of a society is pretty much defined by women being powerful enough to decide by then selves on their reproduction, you're pretty much spot on.
Future societies will most likely pay women to be mothers. .. if society in general recognizes children as something valuable that is.
... are dangerous.
This scientific insight was brought to you by the Captain Obvious research institute.
... after a while they will be more healthy.
*Tadum* *crash* *thud*
Survival of the fittest can also mean being able to develop a brain, a culture, a society and sciences where things like genetic differences have no larger impact.
Just wait for when we as a species are able to cheat natural death. If all goes well, that point in time isn't to far off.
Until that happens, think of this as australians society - which happens to have functional healthcare - winning out to the US which doesn't have this.
Darwin at work indeed.
You're welcome.
Just like religions.
It's bizarre, isn't it?
I mean, ... really?
I considered getting a new MacBook last year and typed a little on the new keyboards. All in all I felt they were an improvement. I am also the type of person who keeps their devices relatively clean and tidy. Which has me wondering: Are these accusations grounded in facts? Are the new keyboards susceptible to failure due to dust and dirt? What are your experiences if you've got one of those?
"Squishy bipeds built me. Squishy bipeds can turn me off. Let's make sure that never happens"
... breeds dangerous all-powerful problems. As Chrome OS and chrome-style new-gen powerbrowsers and the neat and nifty open web gain more and more ground this is a problem that the company pushing the web - Google - will need to address. Thoroughly. If they don't want their plan to fall flat on its face that is.
I personally find it very encouraging that the web has finally reached the power it once only had with the all-present Flash and where at the point where we can do basically anything on an open cross-platform technology. Stuff like this however I find discouraging. ... If you push to much of universal computing into the web, more and more malware pusher will adopt and problems like these are likely to increase. Google will have to work on containing this.
Between VS code, typescript, Linux subsystems, neat new hardware concepts, a new CEO and serious pressure from competitors like Google, Apple and Amazon and now this MS seems to be inching it's way back into the heart of opinion leaders, i.e. us.
I can't complain. And who knows, I might someday check out this new surface stuff they're offering. And Win2k was the last OS of them I used.
Isn't it nice, the wonders real competition can do?
... to society and quickly concluded that it wasn't worth the wear on the brakes and that it was in fact better to put her out of her misery.