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Comment Re:Bond Villan Manifesto? (Score 2) 141

by KILNA (#66104262) Attached to: Palantir Posts Bond Villain Manifesto On X

"Done more for": No
Done more to? Maybe

His entire empire is based of of exploitation of inequality of economic power in the most extreme ways.

U.S. median household income is about $84k. Typical personal savings rate is 4% of income. Modern capitalism regularly wipes out gains entirely every decade or two, so we'll ignore interest for the sake of simplicity. So, the typical American household would save about $3.3k a year. It would take roughly 66 million years to reach Jeff Bezos’s net worth.

So yeah, some people will use billionaire as a "snarl word".

Why are you out here trying to do Bezos' PR for free? He's not going to pick you.

Submission + - Tracy Kidder, Author of "The Soul of a New Machine", has died.

Submitted by wiredog
wiredog writes: Tracy Kidder, author of "The Soul of a New Machine" has died at the age of 80.

"The Soul of a New Machine" is about the people who designed and built the Data General Nova, one of the 32 bit superminis that were released in the 1980's, just before the PC destroyed that industry. It was excerpted in The Atlantic.

"I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season."

Submission + - AI found 12 New OpenSSL zero-days (lesswrong.com)

Submitted by wiredog
wiredog writes: "Our goal was to turn what used to be an elite, artisanal hacker craft into a repeatable industrial process. We do this to secure the software infrastructure of human civilization before strong AI systems become ubiquitous. Prosaically, we want to make sure we don't get hacked into oblivion the moment they come online."

Comment Markdown and YAML (Score 2) 60

by KILNA (#65919172) Attached to: How Markdown Took Over the World

Markdown and YAML are definitely spiritual cousins.

* Simple
* Human-first editing
* Whitespace-significant / Diff-friendly
* Low-ceremony / Huffman-coded

Markdown of course is for freeform idea and narrative capture, whereas YAML is data.

But, they both share the opinion that XML/HTML are cursed for the most common use cases, and they're both mostly right on that account.

Comment Easy... (Score 1) 270

by KILNA (#65699342) Attached to: Britain is Slowly Going Bust

...tax the fuck out of the rich. Given the massive wealth transfer from the lower and middle classes upward in the last 2 decades, the rich were the primary beneficiaries of the debt. They won't of course because British pols are comparably as feckless and owned as American ones.

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