To me it's a cool new robot.

It's interesting that they would start with intentionally inhuman motion for a humanoid robot, but it's a robot, not a nightmare.

Also please nobody bring up the 'uncanny valley.' As an insight it's played out, especially since this isn't a robot that is ever supposed to appear human.

I don't think the next 25 years will bring 120% real increase. The main story of the last 25 years is the world's largest nations played catch-up with what the rich were already doing, but that is petering out. And the global population pyramid is inverting, which while necessary, will start to kick in and cause a serious strain on economies everywhere. And this is before we even get to climate change.

Then again, maybe AI will discover cold fusion and cheap carbon sequestration.

PR. Hamas deliberately organizes things so that children die when Israel attacks. Since the world learned, from Judaism via Christianity, that children shouldn't be killed, it takes issue with those who're actively killing the children. The aspect of those children being put in place to be killed by Hamas has no bearing in this, because Israel is in the unenviable position of being able to opt not to shoot / explode / starve the children Judaism taught the world it's wrong to shoot / bomb / starve.

Yes, this is a Catch-22. Either Israel fully avoids shooting, bombing, and starving those children, giving Hamas a strong strategic advantage it'd need to overcome in some other way (that doesn't involve shooting, bombing and starving children), or Israel embraces the shooting, bombing and starvation of children to uproot Hamas, thus becoming monsters before the very world their great-great-great-...-great-grand-forefathers taught "do NOT kill children".

There are echoes of that. Until the 1930s Christian antisemites regularly accused Jewish people, falsely, of murdering children, which all by itself had led to several Pogroms. Hamas is obviously taping on that. The problem is, nowadays there are photos of the murdered children, whereas back then there were, quite literally, no murdered children at all.

Hence, while the analogy is there, and parallels can be traced, the core difference is that in the 1930s the accusations were false, while in 2020s they aren't. Yes, again, this is deliberately being engineered by Hamas. But there's no sidestepping the fact the world is intensely horrified by the photos of dead children. And the longer this continues, the worse Israel's international image will become.

So, PR-wise, the best approach would be to, you know, stop killing the children. Not reducing the rate of children killed per month of whatever, that doesn't work in a world where the video of one children who dies will be repeatedly shown all around over and over and over. A total, full stop. That's what it'd take, at the bare minimum.

That's basically it. Not a sudden global pandemic of antisemitism, which isn't really happening, no. Dead children. No more, no less.

Don't you just love those meetings that could have been resolved by email?

"Could have" if only human nature were different than it actually is?

Everything in my experience tells me that the vast majority of people will never mentally process a complex email message. They don't even pretend to. "I told you (in an email)" carries zero weight.

So, whatever else you may intend with this move, all you're really doing is ensuring that all questionable communications are relocated to another device. This will prevent exactly no malfeasance. It won't stop insider training. In fact, you're closing off the only real possible enforcement available to you - catching people misusing the devices in front of them.

What is the end game?

Right but taking out a "loan" is not income (which is handy if you never repay it); and "business expenses" are not income (which is handy is a business ends up paying for your food, your travel, your residence, and even your recreation); and capital gains are paid at less than the rate of regular earnings, which is handy if you take all your compensation as shares instead of a paycheck.

And it was around several thousand years before that. Religion might want to claim it, but marriage for political reasons like maintaining power and alliances is older than Christianity, and well described before its precursors.

You might be using the word "construct" incorrectly. Better to say that religion is a proponent of marriage, or that it incorporates it.

Why is Google's monopoly a thing we should use to judge Apple? What's important is whether or not Apple has a monopoly. And not only is iOS not the world's largest platform, Samsung recently passed Apple as the world's largest provider of devices.

We should not be mandating equivalence. That's not necessary for things to compete. As a matter of fact, market differentiators are where competition should happen.

Here's the lyrics to a fairly typical, average kinda tune:

We used to swim the same moonlight waters
Oceans away from the wakeful day

My fall will be for you - My fall will be for you My love will be in you If you be the one to cut me I will bleed forever
Scent of the sea before the waking of the world
Brings me to thee
Into the blue memory

My fall will be for you - My fall will be for you My love will be in you If you be the one to cut me I will bleed forever
Into the blue memory

A siren from the deep came to me
Sang my name my longing
Still I write my songs about that dream of mine
Worth everything I may ever be

The Child will be born again
That siren carried him to me
First of them true loves
Singing on the shoulders of an angel
Without care for love ‘n loss

Bring me home or leave me be
My love in the dark heart of the night
I have lost the path before me
The one behind will lead me

Take me
Cure me
Kill me
Bring me home
Every way
Every day
Just another loop in the hangman’s noose

Take me, cure me, kill me, bring me home
Every way, every day
I keep on watching us sleep

Relive the old sin of Adam and Eve
Of you and me
Forgive the adoring beast

Redeem me into childhood
Show me myself without the shell
Like the advent of May
I’ll be there when you say
Time to never hold our love
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But there's next to no repetition in it.

It's covered a lot above, I'm sure. But sometimes people take the demand for originality a little far. If something is going to resonate with people, it has to have some portion of the human experience in it. That makes a screenplay an easy target for being called derivative. I once heard somebody describe the Lord of the Rings as a really complicated Fed-Ex quest. They weren't wrong.

Some people want the wider ecosystem, and for their phones to be treated essentially like desktop computers - the wild west, with endless possibilities. And that's fine. That's not what Apple is selling. Apple is selling a controlled environment - a massively capable device that is decidedly NOT a desktop wanna-be. The fact that the hardware could do it isn't actually relevant. Ferrari isn't selling dump trucks, even if their cars have four wheels and a trunk.

For the vast - VAST - majority of users, this means sweet bugger all. No impact. No benefit. Some minor contingent of nerds will care... but they mostly went android anyway. But this isn't about the users. Not really. There's no new capability being introduced here.

Now, for developers... that's more complicated. Will anybody experience the intended benefits? Maybe? I'm skeptical. I'll bet some that try will discover that the costs to implement this side-loading from their own infrastructure outweigh the sales. But that's just a swag.

But the second somebody comes calling for warranty support because a third-party app is misbehaving, I would expect the default to be for Apple to say "no", and to either start the per-hour charging meter running, or to insist on a factory reset before servicing it.

But what's the use if the returned Mars samples just re-enter over Moscow and explode?

The risk of reputational harm is very real. Whenever a big company or government releases a model, you can bet a lot of 'journalists' will be trying to prod it into saying something offensive so they can print the headline "Microsoft AI is racist" etc.

Is there on vs off-peak pricing? For example if you don't have an EV and got one thus quadrupling your electricity, would your bill quadruple or not so much if you charged it at night?

And Dark City came out the year before. And the 13th floor came out the same year but earlier. Both were 'fake worlds' movies, both were also more intelligent movies, imho. Both were box office failures.

But I'd say all 3 are pretty original movies. (Although 13th floor was loosely based on a book (Simulacrum-3; and had previously been made for TV in the 70s in Germany) -- but even so I'd say its an original movie.

Your argument that nothing is original because you can identify tropes is too dismissive. If you couldn't identify any tropes the movie would be just be random images and noise... and that's probably a trope too.