China: where everything is made, with a big-ass army and 1 billion people
Russia: where all the oil is, with a big-ass army and a stubbornness that seems like 1 billion people
Good luck with those "sanctions" USA!
...with deep learning algorithms. Now when they breathe the same shitty air, it will have been predicted with some degree of accuracy by a complex computer model! If you can't do anything to help, do what you know how to do, I guess.
...but a day might come when people who want to make money will have to focus on creating something of tangible value to other human beings. Horrors!!!
Theory: Ashley Madison (Avid Life) "hacked" i.e. leaked, their own data as a publicity stunt (since their site was pathetic).
Occam's Razor - it explains a few things quite simply.
It explains how they managed to hack in. (No hacking involved.)
It explains why they're so confident as to offer a huge bounty for the hackers when it seems clear they're about to go broke. (No hackers will be found.)
It explains their strange silence to their customers. (You know like the guy who kills his wife, but claims she's missing, but then the cops get phone records and find out he's the ONLY one amongst all her friends & relatives, who ISN'T blowing up her phone with "Where are you?" messages.)
Drones are like cars: Great for those who operate them, sucky for everybody else nearby. At the dawn of the era, a powerful lobby that stands to make a bunch of money from them, is trying to popularize them. This group promotes (drones/cars) as 100% awesome, while legitimate and fairly obvious objections are brushed aside as being Ass-Backward Technophobia that is Anti-Commerce, Anti-(our)Prosperity and Anti-Progress. (Never mind that EVERY technology has unintended side-effects, from the wheel right on up. I said never mind that! DO IT, DO IT! DO IT NOW! WE CAN DO IT, SO LET'S DO IT!!!!!!)
Fast forward a few decades, and EVERYBODY has one. They're considered essential for one reason or another. The few who stood to make money have made their money, the available space for them (highways / skies) is all full-up and the whole place is a fucking dystopia. Everybody says "How did this happen?" and "Nobody anticipated this."
"Imagine how nerve-racking [sic] – terrifying, even – tweeting would be if it was immutable and irrevocable?"
Don't have to imagine -- Say the wrong thing today or make a joke nobody gets, and you've got a self-righteous, over-caffeinated lynch mob of simplistic-thinking morons doxxing you, getting you fired or forcing your business to close etc.
Thanks a lot, I've started thinking this shit in the halls of my workplace. "Time for lunch, cows. Cows say moo. Moo cows MOOOOO! Moo say the cows. Lunchtime cows!"
Therefore do not involve computers in tasks that don't require computerization. Let that be your guiding principle, and follow the logic to its conclusion.
Assuming their industry (like every other) is made up of people who think the world owes them a living, you won't see them crawl off to die without a fight. Before it's through, you'll hear them claim the inalienable right to force ads on people. You'll hear them demand the government step in to force ads on people. They might even succeed with that... government is very "available" right now for the right price.
It could be that Amazon is making a very small margin or even taking a loss on hardware shipped overnight. If they can do it long enough to drive everybody else out of the market, they'll have a monopoly and can make all that money back. Hardware is probably a sector they're keen to compete in too. Other sectors where they're already pretty established, that's where they make their money and how they can afford this kind of "marketing" if you will.
...where one submits to one's captors and even begins to sympathize with them. This guy has it.
Mind you, surrender and submission is one of several strategies for dealing with threats. In "Socrates'" case the threat began with the polygraph test and his chosen strategy was complete submission to an adversary he probably perceives as superior.
Snowden adopted a different strategy, though he may have made the same assessment of the adversary.
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I'm starting to think they "hacked" their own server for the publicity.
Only Imperial stormtroopers are so precise.
China: where everything is made, with a big-ass army and 1 billion people
Russia: where all the oil is, with a big-ass army and a stubbornness that seems like 1 billion people
Good luck with those "sanctions" USA!
...with deep learning algorithms. Now when they breathe the same shitty air, it will have been predicted with some degree of accuracy by a complex computer model! If you can't do anything to help, do what you know how to do, I guess.
heh heh heh
Score:1,000,000, Insightful
...but a day might come when people who want to make money will have to focus on creating something of tangible value to other human beings. Horrors!!!
Well, I chortled a bit, but yeah I've been making this same joke for 15 years... "My computer's infected with Windows" and so forth.
Theory: Ashley Madison (Avid Life) "hacked" i.e. leaked, their own data as a publicity stunt (since their site was pathetic). Occam's Razor - it explains a few things quite simply. It explains how they managed to hack in. (No hacking involved.) It explains why they're so confident as to offer a huge bounty for the hackers when it seems clear they're about to go broke. (No hackers will be found.) It explains their strange silence to their customers. (You know like the guy who kills his wife, but claims she's missing, but then the cops get phone records and find out he's the ONLY one amongst all her friends & relatives, who ISN'T blowing up her phone with "Where are you?" messages.)
So essentially what you're saying is that there are no solo programmers anymore. Everybody's work depends on everybody else's work.
No wait.... forgot Idiotic, appropriately enough
Symbolically Capturing the Inanity of Making Trite Acronyms to Rememberstuff
Drones are like cars: Great for those who operate them, sucky for everybody else nearby. At the dawn of the era, a powerful lobby that stands to make a bunch of money from them, is trying to popularize them. This group promotes (drones/cars) as 100% awesome, while legitimate and fairly obvious objections are brushed aside as being Ass-Backward Technophobia that is Anti-Commerce, Anti-(our)Prosperity and Anti-Progress. (Never mind that EVERY technology has unintended side-effects, from the wheel right on up. I said never mind that! DO IT, DO IT! DO IT NOW! WE CAN DO IT, SO LET'S DO IT!!!!!!)
Fast forward a few decades, and EVERYBODY has one. They're considered essential for one reason or another. The few who stood to make money have made their money, the available space for them (highways / skies) is all full-up and the whole place is a fucking dystopia. Everybody says "How did this happen?" and "Nobody anticipated this."
...oh wait...
"Imagine how nerve-racking [sic] – terrifying, even – tweeting would be if it was immutable and irrevocable?" Don't have to imagine -- Say the wrong thing today or make a joke nobody gets, and you've got a self-righteous, over-caffeinated lynch mob of simplistic-thinking morons doxxing you, getting you fired or forcing your business to close etc.
Google, Microsoft, Apple et al... We get it: you don't have enough (cheap) workers and it's ESSENTIAL that everyone on earth knows about it!
Thanks a lot, I've started thinking this shit in the halls of my workplace. "Time for lunch, cows. Cows say moo. Moo cows MOOOOO! Moo say the cows. Lunchtime cows!"
Smart City not so smart. And proving once again that acting like a dick is not a best practice.
So when he throws a tantrum you don't actually have to run and do what he wants anymore.
Prediction: Everyone currently working there will be too scared to give feedback, and Bezos will conclude or at least claim, there's no problem.
Therefore do not involve computers in tasks that don't require computerization. Let that be your guiding principle, and follow the logic to its conclusion.
Assuming their industry (like every other) is made up of people who think the world owes them a living, you won't see them crawl off to die without a fight. Before it's through, you'll hear them claim the inalienable right to force ads on people. You'll hear them demand the government step in to force ads on people. They might even succeed with that... government is very "available" right now for the right price.
It could be that Amazon is making a very small margin or even taking a loss on hardware shipped overnight. If they can do it long enough to drive everybody else out of the market, they'll have a monopoly and can make all that money back. Hardware is probably a sector they're keen to compete in too. Other sectors where they're already pretty established, that's where they make their money and how they can afford this kind of "marketing" if you will.
...where one submits to one's captors and even begins to sympathize with them. This guy has it. Mind you, surrender and submission is one of several strategies for dealing with threats. In "Socrates'" case the threat began with the polygraph test and his chosen strategy was complete submission to an adversary he probably perceives as superior. Snowden adopted a different strategy, though he may have made the same assessment of the adversary.
Ya betta give us what we want or we might not be able ta guarantee da safety of ya daughters, if yiz catch my drift.