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Comment Re: Three choices, and still only three choices. (Score 1) 68

I know you only know the SUN from hearsay, down in your basement...

...but this nuclearism is getting Fox-News-levels of ridiculois.

Nuclear literally isn't even competitive on price anymore. And I say that as somebody who knows enough about the technology and physics, that I could build a safe and reliable reactor myself! And who thinks they are great if there is no star nearby.

What part of having a giant, free fusion reactor on the sky do your religious leaders not get? The independence-from-fatcats one? Or just the superior price one?
Also, I thought batteries were the greatest thing since the wheel, and totally up to the task. Is that suddenly not the case anymore here, so you can make your "argument" without a brain-splitting aneurism?

Comment Hey, at.least we *did* get rain! (Score 1) 68

Still better than 2018, when the trees and grass were dying and one.of the biggest rovers.of the continent had so. little water, a child could wade through it. It felt literally like the apocalypse. If that had happened the following year, we would have had failed harvests, extreme price hikes, and then violent riots. One year was all it would have taken People got actually scared. I take torrential rains over that any day. At least there is nothing left to destroy the next year, and people without a Darwin award (and with a choice) rebuilt somewhere safer. BTW: The next years are said to be hot and dry like 2018 again. Maybe Britain will even become a livable place!

Comment Re: Which is precisely the problem (Score 1) 65

Question: If you openly published it on the Internet, for everyone to HTTP GET it to their computer via dozens of copies (cache, RAM, etc)... And you are not only unable to ever tell where it went to... but in some cases, it literally got passed on to third parties outside of your light cone, making it physically impossibe for you to catch... Then how do you define "ownership" in that case?... That does it actually mean ... in physical reality? People who claim "ownership" over openly published information, are like people who scream their secret in the city center among everyone, and then cry that somebody "leaked" their secred to somebody else. Maybe not tell anyone your secret, before you got the money for your work? ... Just an idea... (Hint: Value is inversely proportional to abundance. You made it infinitely abundant. Before* getting your money.)

Comment I'm tired of blaming only the dictators (Score 1) 29

Google is definitely evil and should be stopped. But like with the 1%, or any other dictators⦠If there is a large room. where there is one dick, and there are 99 people doing nothing but bitch and keep going, then clearly, the dick is not the only problem in the room. That kind of thing only works if roughly 90 of them are shruggers and 9 are Uncle Toms. (Research says it takes 10% to change something or.keep a status quo.) It's nice that they at least sued. And I certainly get the appeal of short-term convenience (if I drink enough). But, they would not be in this situation, if they had a spine. Yes, freedom sucks at first. You might not be able to go back to the plantation, and go cold and hungry without the windy hut and pig gruel you got. But the rewards are always worth it on the long run. And while no FAANG is, sadly, absolutely a disadvantage nowadays... if only due to higher prices.for more free hardware/software... it is not exactly torture. And no, it does not and should not end like any storming of any dictator buildings. (Why does it always take the violent nutters to change anything revolutionary?) Then again, research also suggests "human self-domestication" is a real thing. (Although I contest the "self". Our ancestors didn't have children with those types for centuries, let's be real.) So maybe, are really aren't people anymore, but well-bred... swarm lifeform bodies? Thank you for coming to ma TED talk.

Comment Re: 5 terabytes / s (Score 1) 18

You can always go faster, just by putting more stuff in parallel. The problem is that the number of interconnects between the parallel bits grows exponentially, if you want them to be causally connected (Aka what a neural net does.) If this thing has to push data back out to memory before it can go to another processorlet or whatever, that's still the bottleneck. All this is peanuts, compared to a chip that has all the memory in *registers*, in-between logic units, though. (Aka hardware neural nets. Not just accelerators.) Which we were promised.for.decades, btw.

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