Comment Time to create an inland sea in Australia (Score 1) 146
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It can be done.
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It can be done.
I'll go a step further. It's not safe to write C code without robust automated vulnerability scanning/fuzzing before you release it. And even then it's a risk.
As long as we have memory-unsafe languages like C we will have an endless stream of vulnerabilities, because humans aren't perfect.
Every forum needs moderation.
Lies are not speech. Lies, especially Big Lies, dissolve the shared belief in a common set of facts that a democracy needs to function.
There is objective truth in the world - things fall towards the Earth, not away from it. The daytime sky is blue, not polkadotted. We cannot allow bad actors to create alternative realities with conspiracy theories and bullshit.
Even small electric cars can be 1 ton thanks to battery weight.
Plenty fewer.
You couldn't end up with a worse health care system if you set out to try. Every single market force is working against the average joe.
How much in subsidies does the road system receive? It doesn't make a profit either.
Indeed, the current focus on reinforcement and data-led ML is a bit like climbing a tree and claiming you've made progress in getting to the moon.
Throw a plastic sheet over the evaporation pool and collect the condensate.
F and N are next to each other on the Typewise keyboard, fwiw.
And loans are still possible. Just not via money creation.
Banks would return to their old business model: paying interest on deposits and lending out those deposits to make money. Instead of just printing it.
Right now, most money in the economy is created by private banks when they make loans.
UBI could replace this bank-led money creation by creating it at the point of use - right in people's pockets, and not tied to private debt.
This also solves the funding problem.
You can easily construct a list of crazy things that could wipe us out, but it only sounds scary until you put probability numbers next to each of those lines.
The astronomical threats are astronomically unlikely to occur within the next thousand years, let alone the next hundred.
Global warming and pandemics are the only real threats to mankind, but keep in mind 50% of people still survived the black plague. A pandemic won't be rosy but it won't wipe us out either.
Things like "Too much First/Second/Fifth/... Amendment" is nonsensical. It's possible to have too much of *anything*.
Moreover, do you guys remember that these are *amendments*? You know, changes to the constitution, because they didn't get it right the first time? It's not a holy book. It's a work in progress.
Free speech isn't an absolute good (the fire in a theater example is the trivial proof of this). Limits on it, and on all freedoms, are sensible in a free society.
Seems like if you could 'spend' the coins on the network itself to run compute operations, and miners could perform compute operations for other people to earn coins instead of mindlessly computing hashes, you would really be onto something. Then the coins would have intrinsic value.
It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
