I think part of the problem is that external search engines would simply put worse interactions to the top based on some metric known only to them, so there was a desire to eliminate things that were superfluous, to channel searchers into the places that have their answers.

But of course it ran into the exact problem you described- generally a class of moderators wants that position for some reason. You're looking for the moderators who share a vision of a really useful place where everything works great, but many moderators will just be there to enforce some value (sometimes political) or because they have a keyboard sadism streak and that's that. Basically when you take volunteers for "who wants to have power", only some of the people coming forward want to use that power for thing you want, the others will do that to fulfill the job role but they'll REALLY use it for $LAME_THING.

Pretty shitty world, sometimes you need to communicate that graphically.

This one's main purpose was to race-swap the characters (with the exception of the protagonist, who is adopted, many of the major characters are from the same small town of what amounts to white people, and they all became a weird racial mix you wouldn't find many places historically except for the biggest cities) and do extra-turbo-pseudofeminism in a series that had tons of amazing female characters. This was all very deliberate and probably part of why the thing got funded to begin with.

This made it poisoned from the start, and of course they immediately began making changes to the source material, because the visual media looms so large in everyone's brain, they figured that would then become the in-fact version of Wheel of Time in the minds of anyone who cared going forward.

I'm glad they failed, and I'm glad it is over. Cultural destruction averted through what amounts to good luck, but I'll take it.

Yea we know you will stop at nothing to destroy America, and as first order of business the few good things Trump manages to do will be axed along with all the bad ones.

The world is gonna have to use nuclear power eventually.

>Is it a contest?

Yes of fucking course it is.

All humans are still subject to natural selection. Natural selection works better the fewer things it has to select for, right? Like if all a population cared about was having six fingers, then that trait would become pretty common after enough generations, even though it's a very rare trait.
When you eliminate something like "heavily resistant to malaria" from the selection criteria (or just reduce the pressure in favor of it), you get to select for other things. You also get to experience less of any side effects that resulted from that (in my example, sickle cell anemia may be as represented as it is because of the benefits of a gene that causes it as regards malaria).

So generally, removing the selection pressure caused by diseases like the one in OP makes the human race more fit.

Some McDonalds are so bad at orders it isn't worth going to them.
This doesn't need AI to solve it, it needs some level of effort on the part of the McDonalds. I doubt AI will be a magic ticket here, but hey, maybe I'll be impressed.

Because I don't like pickles, the two most common issues I run into are "Pickles are present or are even extra-pickled" and "someone picked a pickle off instead of not putting it on in the first place". The first is much more common than the second, and both spoil the meal. I doubt AI is going to help that, even if their magical vision perception thing works perfectly, I doubt it's gonna pick up that the middle of my no-pickles order is in fact, a writhing mass of undead cucumbers.

>Ever wondered why the mosques had so much trouble with rare pokemon turning up in mosques leading to kids running around with phones pointing them everywhere. Yeah.

Did you make this up entirely, or are you recalling some random crap you read on raddle years ago? Because I'm pretty fucking sure this never happened.

First, when you play pokemon go, it isn't using your camera to record things, but it is definitely storing your location. Usually to get visual data, they rely on certain features, such as a sign outside of a church or a small free library or whatever, that someone takes a picture of and submits to their big database of places (this database was mostly built by Ingress players long before they had a Pokemon Go to play, and is used in literally all of their games, of which they have many, only Pokemon Go of which matters). Pokemon Go rewards you for scanning these areas at random (it will give you one scan quest a day normally, if you like), so if your "spy on mosques" bullshit was true, I'd:
(a) Expect to see every mosque with one or two pokestops or gyms
(b) Expect to get scan tasks for them more often
Instead, mosques hardly ever have any objectives near them (compared to churches, which almost always have one), and I've never seen rare pokemon near any of the three mosques (or any of the zillion churches) that I play pokemon go near. For the most part, rare world spawns aren't restricted to any specific spawnpoint or location, and usually don't matter too much if you've been playing awhile (all the serious pokemon come from events or raids, not just scattered through the city, and the very few exceptions just show up anywhere).

I think your statement is entirely bullshit, but I'm curious if it's based on claims from several years ago that went viral in some weird part of the internet, or if it's based on some "CIA is hunting brown people" narrative entirely by itself.

...or will it be a list of people whose politics the list-maker agrees on?
Over the last decade or so, people who are responsible for "certifying" that something falls into a category (for instance, twitter's blue check mark) are tempted to instead only issue the certification should they approve of the person politically, financially, or both.

Will this be that sort of list? Because that is of limited value.

>You could drive an EV most of the time and rent a ICE truck when you need one.

What if everyone needs one at the same time, like trying to evacuate from a hurricane? Basically the entirety of south florida can never own an EV as an only car for this reason. Oh and also, winter is way shittier on an EV than on an ICEV so there's a lot of places in the north where you can never own an EV as an only car. In both of these cases, the times you would need an ICEV are the exact times when everyone else does, so renting isn't going to help.

Cool, if I ever have less complex document needs, or become you, maybe that will be helpful. But all of my complaints are 100% accurate. I never said that they would bother you personally, merely that they are real actual problems that make it way less powerful than it should be.

I'm gonna just complain about libre office writer now.
It's "template based", which means that you have to adjust your thinking somewhat radically. There's not many ways to import or copy in templates (and if you go and ask on reddit, you'll get some ESL-ish weirdo who will softly accuse you of plagiarization instead of answering the question), and you will often find yourself wanting to edit the awful XML directly if you have anything even reasonably complex. Page numbers are a hot fucking mess, with a huge process to convince it to accept that some pages shouldn't be numbered at all. It will flat crash if the file in question is even moderately complex, and it will bitch mightily when it comes to columns, images, or any combination thereof.

Is it very good for free, and very solid at a lot of things? Absolutely. I use it a lot. But it has shortcomings and it's been many years and there's no real progress being made on a lot of those things. I can definitely see why someone would pay to access, even temporarily, something without these issues.

Specifically when you buy a CD you own the CD. You can sell it, and you can copy it. You have these rights because the CD is your property; you own it.
There is a copyright clause though; this prevents you from selling copies legally. That's because ownership of the CD isn't meant to imply that you can legally go into business selling copies of what's on the CD.

But the distinction between owning a CD and being allowed to make as many copies for personal use, versus "owning your own music" is pretty narrow. In any event, you have way more rights (not a license, but actual rights) than with streaming, where you often have done some click through that prevents copying for personal use (which may or may not stand up in court, they never fight it), and definitely prevents you from selling anything, and often even prevents you from logging in correctly over VPN. There's no comparison when it comes to ownership; a CD I definitely physically own, with property law as a defense, is way more than just "whoopsie we had to remove that album because we don't like that artist anymore".

While I generally don't hold out any hope that the performance will be as good as claimed (or that games will optimize for it), will Intel have great Linux driver support for it? Historically that has been something Intel is pretty good at.

There's nothing immoral about buying low and selling high.
Good cope though- "everyone who did this better than me even slightly is evil"