So when Lindsey starts reading from her AmEx-approved script, callers are infuriated by what they perceive to be another machine.

If she's accurately executing the programmers' script, I'd say she is a machine. Somebody port Doom to her!

This is a fuckin' awesome idea, but there's an easy improvement over the red rectangle and block symbol. Seriously, dude, you gotta use the sign images from They Live (1988). You know you want to.

If people don't have a government-granted monopoly on their features, they'll have no incentive to have any features at all.

We never needed "AI" or LLMs to think we're nothing more than machines.

No, the heat pump will use more electricity than the heat engine will turn back into electricity.

It is Italy, not Greenland. For most of the year, the local residents are going to want cooling, not heating.
Even in Scotland, people don't want heating right now.

Last I heard, Apple sales haven't plummeted and thrown them into bankruptcy, so it sounds like they learned the lesson just fine: it's fine to show people ads. People might complain a little bit, but they won't stop buying. Cost is $0 and ad revenue is presumably more than $0.

If someone is stuck with your proprietary software and you aren't showing them ads, then you're leaving money on the table. What're they gonna do, fork it out?

Yeah, I'm hung up on that too. You can come up with some outrageously huge numbers for mass and angular velocity, but once I multiply them by zero distance... I'm missing something.

the outer edge of the mass exceeding the speed of light

That intuitively makes sense, but I thought part of the black hole cheat is that it doesn't have an edge. I thought they were literally singularities, with a circumference of zero. Apparently not the case?

How a thing with a circumference of zero could meaningfully "rotate" is beyond me, but I thought this (and many other suspected properties of rotating black holes) was supposed to be beyond my ignorant layman understanding!

I have a Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 adapter and a Thunderbolt 2 to Firewire 800 adapter. String those together, with a Firewire 800 to 400 cable if necessary, and I can connect all my firewire devices to my MacBook.

Which at the time would have been known as the "useless serial bus".

An adversary can coerce a proprietary software producer to compromise the code. That's what we're going to see here.

An adversary cannot time-travel to when a protocol was invented, and compromise the protocol. (Though I guess the NSA can come kind of close to that, by "helping" as it's being developed, w/out the time-travel part.) That's what we're not going to see here.

Ergo, proprietary apps will remain unable to provide secure messaging, but secure messaging will remain available to people who want it.

AFAIK Peacemaker S02 comes out in August. Of this year!!

>>[If] everyone just received $xx,000 a year. It just inflates the cost of rent, basic necessitates, and everything else.

Only if the supply of those things doesn't change. When more people can afford things, the economy will produce more of them. Henry Ford understood that the only way automobiles would be anything more than a toy for the rich was to pay his employees enough that they could afford to buy what they were building. More people with extra money = more demand = higher volume = lower cost.

So you preferred David Hasselhoff's version of Nick Fury to Sam Jackson's? The best actor for a roll should get it, regardless of their race/gender/etc. Hiring someone based on their race is a "DEI hire" right? I thought you MAGA shits were against that?