Comment Re:humanity (Score 1) 70
they are testing them so that we don't have to.
Unfortunately, we do have to. I have to this morning.
they are testing them so that we don't have to.
Unfortunately, we do have to. I have to this morning.
I am curious what replaces top notch journalism these days.
This is a story about AP. They haven't been top notch in years, if ever. Their stories are purely surface-level. They're an important part of the picture, but certainly not top notch.
Why glass? Plastic would work just as well.
No, it wouldn't, and that's why. We started using glass on phones for a reason, and that reason is that it works better.
Surely she's overjoyed by a line of nonfunctional pixels and your objection is logical.
No, wait, scratch that. That's all 100% wrong, and you're going nutso.
Send in the Marines or shut the fuck up.
Are you sure that's what you want? It's become clear that they will in fact send the Marines.
Thanks for your insightful posts. I expanded on that idea in 2010: https://pdfernhout.net/beyond-...
"This article explores the issue of a "Jobless Recovery" mainly from a heterodox economic perspective. It emphasizes the implications of ideas by Marshall Brain and others that improvements in robotics, automation, design, and voluntary social networks are fundamentally changing the structure of the economic landscape. It outlines towards the end four major alternatives to mainstream economic practice (a basic income, a gift economy, stronger local subsistence economies, and resource-based planning). These alternatives could be used in combination to address what, even as far back as 1964, has been described as a breaking "income-through-jobs link". This link between jobs and income is breaking because of the declining value of most paid human labor relative to capital investments in automation and better design. Or, as is now the case, the value of paid human labor like at some newspapers or universities is also declining relative to the output of voluntary social networks such as for digital content production (like represented by this document). It is suggested that we will need to fundamentally reevaluate our economic theories and practices to adjust to these new realities emerging from exponential trends in technology and society."
That said, indigenous ways were "the original affluent society" (even if such ways might have been harder to practice on a restricted reservation after extensive conflicts with Europeans wielding "Guns, Germs, and Steel"):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"The basis of Sahlins' argument is that hunter-gatherer societies are able to achieve affluence by desiring little and meeting those needs/desires with what is available to them. This he calls the "Zen road to affluence, which states that human material wants are finite and few, and technical means unchanging but on the whole adequate"."
It runs MacOS and it's pretty fast, unlike any netbook ever.
Yeah it's got gimped specs but they will be fine for most users, unlike netbooks.
[learn to internet]
Everyone who cares about this already knows this
You don't actually care
So fuck off
Right, that's why my karma is maxed and you have to post anonymously because it actually makes your posts more visible.
Bison don't produce as much methane as cows
and if it was coming from you I'd still ask the worst possible AI to verify your claims
OK bot. There isn't even a "you".
Due to this news, I suggest we refer to it from here on out as "fauxpilot".
Uranium is not a nuclear weapon. HTH, though I know it won't.
well they're not a threat if you keep stopping them from making nukes.
Netanyahu, is that you? Was this lie about nukes they never had promised to you 3,000 years ago?
I see you've run out of intelligent things to say.
I admit that it's not intelligent to continue to waste time talking to someone like you, who thinks you can't do things I've done because you have no practical experience.
Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. -- Bertrand Russell