False (obviously by 1994 the vast majority favored web over gopher .. but there were a few people who preferred gopher's simplicity). In fact there are still people today who still say Gopher is better: https://qr.ae/pC2X31 AND https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...

I had no idea "Slashdot Reader" was a bona-fide pundit credential up there with Nobel laureate. I should definitely put it in my resume.

He's waiting to decide after the Soviets prove that it's even possible.

"I don't support people getting unemployed because their work is stolen, mashed up and resold."

How can someone get unemployed because I look up something in AI? That's just dumb. Let's say I ask AI "how does an airfoil work?" I am getting to skip aerodynamics 101 and now some professor (not even the inventor of airfoils) is out of work? Maybe we shouldn't have people collecting a tax for sitting between knowledge?

Back in 1994, I knew old people that refused to use a fad known as "World Wide Web" .. Gopher was much better. There was also FTP, Usenet, and IRC. Who needs the web? These same people used Word Perfect 5.1 and would never switch to "WYSIWYG" word processors.

Then they complained that they got replaced by "inexperienced" young workers.

Ok, can you name a mechanism or structural feature ..aside from the rocket engine and turbopumps.. that you need proprietary knowledge to duplicate? For example, you could try to claim it's not possible for the Chinese to design a propellant tanks .. but we know they can, because they've had more complex tanks and plumbing required for liquid hydrogen in their Long March 5 and 7A series of rockets. Sure, there may be a one or two thousand kilograms of weight savings with some clever strut design, thinner walls, or superalloys some places in the tanks but basically there isn't much unknown there. And by the way their rocket diameter is wider than the Falcon 9 so it's clearly not a duplication of blueprints. The main (basically only) secret sauce of any rocket is the engine. If we look at what's limiting the Zhuque's performance, it's the performance of their engine.

The only thing they would really need to hack is the rocket engine design .. and theirs quite different than what SpaceX is using (gas generator vs full flow staged combustion). As for the structure .. everyone knows it's a big stainless steel cylinder, and the alloy isn't exotic.

There are two queues when you get off the plane before you can exit the airport. If you get in the citizens line and lack a US passport I am sure they will point you to the sign and send you to stand in the other line.

I'm still waiting to fall victim to this: https://www.firstpost.com/expl...

I was gonna say we need better vetting at kindergartens.

People like Dinesh will hand power over to people who see no value in people like himself. It's about, as Elon says shifting the "Overton window". Slowly shift everything over to the right. A key step is to first cherry-pick and amplify legit instances of wrong. For example, historically there are 4000 large truck fatal collisions in the US. Yet when an Indian Sikh truck driver causes a death they immediately broadcast that. 20% of truck drivers are Indian, so we can surmise that all things equal, (4000 * .2 ), 800 truck collisions involve an Indian .. that is about 2 a day. So all they have to do is pick the most heinous one of the month and broadcast that everywhere. Since it will occupy your X feed every month, you keep thinking that the problem is Indian specific and soon you'll be calling for deportation of all Indians. Another example, is black on white violence. 85% of white homicide victims in the US are killed by a fellow white. Yet you are supposed to fear black people only. It is true that inter-racial incidents do happen disproportionately black on white: there was a white girl who was horrifically murdered by a black man on a train about a month ago. Of course that is terrifying, but the problem of random stabbing isn't something only black people do. When was the last cross-racial random subway stabbing murder? Back in 2019 .. and it was a white person stabbing a black woman. The facts left out are that millions of subway rides take place without anyone being stabbed. Yet when you get on the subway you will irrationally fear any black men on it because the of that one incident. The probability of being killed on the subway is far lower than say being a victim of a road accident due to deliberate or negligent action (what does it matter when you're dead how deliberate it was?). When comparing per-mile fatalities, riding the subway is significantly safer than taking a road trip. Statistics show that public transit has a far lower death and injury rate per passenger mile compared to traveling in a car or light truck.

No it's not a fact. The founders of this country felt that all persons have equal rights. If, as you believe, one person is inherently more valuable than another, how can they have the same rights?

Let's go with your assertion that some people are valuable than others. Is there even a way to determine it? What metric do we use? I mean, your own mother probably values you more than a random stranger. That's even though you're a retard and the random stranger may be a scientist whose discoveries saved a bunch of lives. Ah, so "objectively" you might claim the scientist is more important than you. But then maybe that scientist will have a great grandson who became a serial killer or made some humanity destroying virus. You can only make a probabilistic or point-in-time evaluation of someone's value. Therefore, it's more correct to treat all humans with the same rights and even offer everyone a BASIC safety net at the expense of those with large resources. It's also bananas to do the "let go" thing you propose. How do you know what genes or gene combinations will be required by humans in the future? For example, in your proposed eugenics scheme, the genes of people with empathy may get wiped out. Good luck maintaining civilization without them especially if there's a crisis.

The core tenet of conservative philosophy is that some people are innately better and more valuable than others. That thinking thrives on the constant identification and blaming of pariah groups. Even if it achieves the goal of destroying the currently identified pariah groups, they will quickly divide within themselves and destroy each other. Conservatism and tribalism are parasitic mind virus.

India is notorious for lack of basic sanitation infrastructure. Open/clogged drains .. lack of sewage systems. This rain will only increase their already hire morbidity levels. Morbidity is measure of how many people have illnesses such as diarrhea. A significant percentage of Indians don't fear germs and aren't even grossed out by food handlers touching their food. And no, they aren't immune to disease: https://www.financialexpress.c...

They really need intensive training that emphasize always using utensils to handle food (btw gloves dont work if they wear it all the time and touch all kinds of literal crap with it before handling food).

And btw, the issue is definitely not due to poverty .. it doesn't cost much money to be clean and if they dont wanna spend that small amount it's because they prioritized other things.

This is straight up socialism.