Those who used to be ideologically motivated (for freedom) lost their first love (programming for fun) and have grown resentful of the tech billionaire sociopaths who have benefited from their work. And instead of fighting the emerging techno-feudalism (like they would have done when they were younger), they want to be cut in.

Stand down soldier. It's not an attack on your precious Lord Musk, but simply a rhetorical technique to convey the cost in relatable terms, e.g. to emphasize that these missiles are within the means of affluent consumers. Reporters do this all the time, and yes, many such measurement analogies are arbitrary and silly.

Home appliances are dropping dead because of bullshit internet dependencies going dead. Do you really want your movie ticket logic applying to all of your personal possessions?

The consumer's personal responsibilities do not absolve the seller of their social responsibilities, and I'm tied of greedy actors (marketers, politicians, etc) telling us otherwise.

Political remedies aren't just for the rich. We the people can organize and demand political solutions for online privacy, algorithmic pricing, right to repair, Tivoization, DRM, right to root, pervasive surveillance, and all the other anti-user/anti-freedom ills born from modern technology.

The difference is people are willing to pay for one and not the other.

Now try looking at the rest of history. Genocide, slavery, war, corruption, oppression, and misogyny are the norm.

You ask for just one day where things were perfect. How tragic, I think, that you see no triumph in the day of July 4th, 1776, when the colonial elite declared that all men were equal and had rights government could not legitimately violate. And you see no triumph in the day that slavery was banished. And you see no triumph in the many separate days that American men elected to give their wives and sisters and daughters the right to vote. And you see no triumph in the day fascism was defeated in WW2. And you see no triumph in the day we passed the civil rights act. And I could go on...

But none of those days were perfect. And none of those movements won by screening their supporters for strict ideological purity. They struggled and fought and made their case for common humanity and after great sacrificed prevailed.

America is not perfect and never will be, just like you and I aren't perfect. But America is a place where the fight can be had and the good guys might, just might, prevail.

The car doesn't know that I just finished a workout and need it on the chill side. It doesn't know that I underdressed and need it a little warmer. It doesn't know that I need a blast of cold air to heighten my awareness when entering a hairy freeway interchange after a long monotonous drive.

There is no single right temperature, so while harping on the importance of HMI you might pause to remember its chief lesson: you are not the user.

Years ago I founded a company and was raising capital. The bus scenario would always come up and we would describe our well thought out plan for replacing me. The response was unenthusiastic.

One day I flippantly replied "I won't care about your money, because I'll be dead." Then would go on to describe the plan. That bit of frank honesty combined with a thoughtful plan made raising money much easier.

You want meaningful human connection. To this,
AI is cheap, uncanny sugar. You may argue that it has its useless (and it does) or that it can be used cleverly to unlock new play experience (and it can), but overall AI will simply poison everything from your video games to your customer support experiences to your medical diagnoses.

What's they're saying is that they're generating more and more code with less and less human eyes to look at it... recipe for success!

All well and good, but I was thinking about field trips from schools outside NYC. But as other posts note, it's possible to buy an Oyster card in London. I assume NYC will have a similar scheme.

I took my son to London and had a great time using the Underground and the bus system. Paying with contactless credit card was very convenient. And the payment cap per day was nice. But I was left wondering about one potential issue.

What do you do if one of you doesn't have a credit card or smart device/phone with payment system? Fortunately, I had two credit cards (we didn't have a data plan in London). So no real problem for us. It still left me wondering what would people do if they a payment method for each person? i.e what if you are riding more than a few times and hit the payment cap due to swiping multiple times per ride. Seems like either a chance to be accused of fraud. Or actual fraud.

What would happen to, say, a class field trip visiting NYC? I'm genuinely curious what people do in those edge cases.

Or like this situation, where the cops killed the kidnapped girl they were trying to rescue. Great job guys!
https://www.bbc.com/news/world...

Sure, let's totally dispense justice based on mainstream media reporting of the alleged crime. No way that could go wrong!

Trump has long disdained wind farms for "sullying" the views from his golf course near Aberdeenshire. It's completely a personal vendetta.

Rust grew out of a Mozilla side project in 2006 and hit stable in 2015. Several years later, the White House and NSA promoted it because the huge number of memory CVE's are a problem for individuals, businesses, and national security alike. And they didn't promote just Rust, they promoted memory-safe languages in general.

If you're seeing shadowy evil agendas where there exist clear, objective, straightforward explanations then take a break and go touch grass.