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Star Trek was a sci-fi product of the 60s just like The Twilight Zone (give or take a few years). What made them great was 1) episodes were independent and 2) the writers were actual experienced sci-fi short story writers.

When you mess with 1) and 2) you lose the magic.Screen writers are not good at original storylines and series arcs are effectively putting all eggs in a single storyline basket. Either the audience likes it or they don't and the show dies.

Whereas when you have 1) you can afford to experiment with independent ideas, and there's more chance that everyone likes at least one episode. Also 2) raises the bar of quality.

1) it's the weekend

2) if unions still have to fight in this day and age for something basic like "just cause" terminations, then wtf have they been doing all this time? Maybe they need to step up the cadence rather than AI,AI,AI.

Well, the last time he was fired it turns out that Satya Nadella intervened.

(Now you know who to blame.)

So does carrying a shotgun...

You might lose money because you overestimate the value of that thing but the amount of money you can lose is limited somewhat because there is still a tangible asset backing your purchase.

Nope. That's not true for several types of futures strategies, and it is not a good way to classify gambling vs investment.

It's important to distinguish desirability from path depency. Yes the Internet bubble burst and the AI bubble will burst, but often the technologies that remain can be attributed to the damage that the bubble did to the economy while it was happening, as opposed to being intrinsically desirable or efficient.

For example, internet technologies and the way we architect stateful applications on Javascript and web browsers today may be viewed as highly suboptimal client/server computing, but the bubble distorted the ecosystem so much that this is what remained viable in the industry.

This is an important point because a suboptimal industry foundation is ripe to be replaced by the next shiny thing when it comes.

One way out is to forgive them with empathy

That's...stupid. It's exactly what got you guys in opposition America the political paralysis you've had for the last 10 years. There's regularly people saying:

• 1) let the system deal with it (fat chance when the system is actively being changed),
• 2) don't upset the baddies because they'll be less cooperative (no, they just take it as a sign of weakness and double down),
• 3) two wrongs don't make a right (sure... enjoy receiving your one wrong forever),
• 4) if you act like them you've already lost (hint: you've lost right now and there's no upside for you),
• 5) wait until the next elections (it's too late to start fighting back by then),
• 6) Find a champion to fight for you (because you're too lazy to do anything yourself),
• 7) Unite behind one candidate/movement (high risk, what if it fails),
• 8) Ignore it, someone will step up (that's correct, the people who HAVE stepped up.... are controlling the government) ,
• 9) dammit, I have a family to protect! (very reasonable, your children will thank you when they are drafted, and your wife will be happy as long as nothing happens to them).

You want more empathy with MAGA? Sure thing, buddy, it's failed for 10 years but your luck is about to change. Any minute now.

It's the companies' responsibility to block their inappropriate services to children in the relevant jurisdictions. Letting the children in instead, waiting until the pedos latch onto a victim, and *then* reporting the crime while the companies wash their hands of it is not a reasonable way to allow businesses to exist and operate inside the EU.

There are several ways companies can deal with these problems. 1) prevent pedos from signing up. 2) prevent children from signing up. 3) stop doing business in the EU. Nobody really cares how they do it, but they should do it or suffer the consequences.

The thing to watch out for is when the next spacesuit design has flare bottoms, that's when the lunatics (*) smuggle the facile (**) material through the airwaves (***)

(*) etymologically speaking

(**) onomato-typo

(***) at escape velocity

I think he's maybe saying a futile search for "society" is not worth pursuing anymore? Just interpreting. I don't care either way what happens to Altman. It's China's century going forward, the world moves on.

(and the odd Trumpboy looking to make a cool million or two...)

yeah, 20,000 publishers here want to know!

Depends. If Meta has a defacto monopoly on ads in its social media ecosystem, then it's not reasonable for it to censor ads directly attacking it.

The ThinkPad line started life as business grade notebooks. They were never consumer laptops, and company IT centres were expected to service them. Even ex corporate second hand ThinkPads were both desirable and very usable. To Lenovo's credit, although they messed around with the designs, sometimes badly, they have generally preserved the quality until now. It's their school and gaming laptop offerings that are pretty shaite.