Now we have governments telling us we can't burn all the oil we still have because of the dreaded CO2

Ignore governments. Ignore Al Gore. Ignore the theatrics.

Scientists have been warning us for 150 years that carbon will do stupid things to the climate, and so far climate predictions have been pretty much spot on.

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Once upon a time I'd suspect it had been "slashdotted" , but I doubt Slashdot generates the sort of firehose of traffic it once did. Which means this things just fallen on its arse in normal traffic. Not a good way to launch a ..... startup... or whatever this is supposed to be?

The vine people must be pretty bitter they gave up the ghost and then a year or three later tiktok did more or less the exact same thing and turned into one of the biggest gen z sites on the planet.

I think its important to think about the context of a decade ago. At that point language models where pure research. Things that generated absolute gibberish outputs and maybe might one day be useful in spam detectors, search engines, grammar checkers and translation apps, and the "Attention is all you need" paper that basically changed everything was 3 years in the future. You could be forgiven if one of your investors said "Hey, mind if I scrape your site? We're doing some research on language processing" thinking it was pretty harmless.

Mainly because I started doing this in 1997 and managing /etc/aliases myself works just fine.

Because what use do you have for cash at home?

Drug delivery is the most obvious. I remember a couple of times I was preparing to head to the airport, needed cash, and might well have used something like this.

And even if you are going out, how often do you actually need cash?

I regularly use cash. "Need" doesn't have anything to do with it, I just prefer the simplicity.

I self-host email, and after spending weeks dealing with a very persistent asshole trying to break in to my systems, was looking at options a while back. (I still self host email.)

Proton was the first one I looked at, but they charge per-email address, including aliases, which is a blocker for me. (I use unique email addresses for each service I use, and more for other things.)

But this is even worse. I would never use a service that would start sending my email to someone else if I stop paying, that's insane.

There is no way Proton is anywhere close to namespace saturation. The big mail hosters have orders of magnitude more addresses behind single domains.

How is it different than other convenience-for-money transactions?

Paying people to bring you toilet paper or soft drinks is pretty uncontroversial. What makes money different?

I'd also note that $2.99 is less than the ATM fee at the closest ATM to my house. I don't use Robinhood, but it would be $.51cheaper for me to have them bring me money than to go to the nearest ATM.

Sounds to me like he is trying to get ahead of some news with a compliant journalist.

"I like things simple. I really don't deal with milage, or all the other things I consider minutiae. I deal with simple numbers. What this means is not filling out milage reports and the other stuff that clutters up to work. Perhaps I'm eccentric. But I like simple because my actual work is quite complex."

As is my work -- however, my mileage report isn't "minutiae". It' averages $300-$500 every two weeks (I do a lot of driving --- particularly for projects). And the process isn't complicated. Basically a date, destination and total miles per line. In a text file. No clutter -- just a review of my travel calendar for 5 mins every two weeks and another 2-5 mins to transfer that to my expense report. Automagically appears in my pay check 8 days later.

Suck/not-suck aside, would you at least agree that it's as good as The Mandalorian?

Eyeball monster == Baby Yoda. So. Fucking. Cute.

The second movie, Aliens, also didn't have the mood of the first movie, yet was still one of the best movies ever made (IMHO! of course). I don't think the feel of the original is necessary in sequels, and might even be so hard to recreate that it's borderline hubris to try.

I'll probably watch it .. when I feel like doing nothing and thinking the presence of the xenomorph is a coincidence.

I think that is the best attitude one can take. The "domestication" of the xeno is the weakest part of this TV series, but OTOH, the inclusion of all the new monsters is part of what makes A:E so fun. The classic xeno is just one monster among many, now.

There are so many horrible ways to die. Show us more of them, Noah! ;-)

Yeah we do the same in australia. Its fine. It was the 1980s when we did it, and I remember being a bit bummed out the 2c lollies wouldnt be a thing no more, but I figured I'm a teenager now and probably should be eating something more substantial than 2c lollies from the delicatesan. (although Im sure my mother was relieved, sweet things where banned in the house except for special occasions, but she couldnt control what me and my brother did outside the house)

Hedge funds and private equity firms demurred on investing in NTP, reportedly claiming that the foundation didn't have a credible plan for improving engagement.

I simply refuse to use an OS that leans so hard on trying to modify my behavior. It would be like living in a house that constantly tried to control what toilet paper I used or if my fridge started "awarding" me "points" based on what I eat.

Fuck every last bit of that.