A 300 million dollar 387-foot professionally crewed yacht NOT maintaining an effective emergency channel watch, and not responding to the US Coast Guard when called upon, is definitely suspect even in the most complimentary light.
This is a story about humans in distress reaching out to a billionaire's boat. If your response is buh-buh-buh-insurance or buh-buh-buh-maritime-law, you're pretty firmly missing the point. This is ultimately Zuck's PR crisis regardless of how many levels of indirection he can employ to cover his ass liability-wise. He owns the boat. He hired the people. His monkeys. His circus.
His monkeys. His circus.
Even Batman's job is threatened by AI.
It's just ET trying to phone home. Probably dialed the wrong number.
Ideology vetos reality, news at 11.
A lot of people behave pretty ghastly when it comes to money.
If this is accurate, this suggests that abiogenesis is easy once one has a stable, watery environment, since it happened twice on Earth.
That was my first thought too. (Assuming the article is correct - all kinds of stuff gets published that doesn't hold up in the longer run.)
One potential conclusion about the Fermi paradox [...]
Remember that time is also big. Suppose that there have been 1000 interstellar civilizations in our galaxy during the past 5 billion years, and that each one lasted a million years before collapsing. How many would be active right now?
Frankly, I don't consider it a paradox at all. We've explored approximately 0% of our galaxy and found nothing. That doesn't tell us much.
Doesn't he know he's supposed to play the fiddle while he destroys his country?
This has to be a troll. Nobody on Slashdot is actually this stupid.
I'm skeptical about that second part.
As for trolls, I wonder if some anti-vax propaganda is being pushed by hostile foreign powers as a way of hurting us.
It's just a story about Meta and AI.
Oh, nevermind.
I've been on google fi for... I dunno, probably at least a decade now? Maybe more. They just mail me a phone, I turn it on, and it figures everything out. I get a new phone ever 2 years or so. I couldn't tell you what the inside of a phone store looks like because I've never needed to go into one.
For extremists of all flavors, violence is always preferable to the voting booth.
Surely they're not going to cut off the data centers just so ordinary people can have electricity?
Nothing says “innovation” like buying a useful, growing product at a distressed valuation, firing the people who built it, hiking subscription prices, crippling the free tier, and calling the resulting rent-extraction machine now “sustainable.”
Bending Spoons claims they're rescuing businesses, but what they really do is fuck anyone who bought into a platform they've purchased.
It’s applying the private-equity model to existing infrastructure: user lock-in, cut labor, reduce service, and monetize the inconvenience of leaving... but they cut out all of the innovation aspect by not even providing the value associated with the initial lock-in. They just skip the first step and buy companies to screw.
Save gas, don't use the shell.
