ZeroPipeline
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ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
When I saw this NY case hit the headlines I immediately wondered what year elections would next be held for the NY AG. Imagine my surprise when I learned they were in fact this year.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
when did "life isn't fair" stop being a cliche truism?
Around the same time that they started handing out participation trophies, if I had to guess.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
Part of the ugliness comes from the fact that none of the people depicted are what would be considered conventionally attractive in the western world.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
I'm too late to contribute anything on this, but I would just like to request that you post a follow up to this in the new Culture War thread for this week and let us know what choice you made and how it went.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
It seems like modern history has been something of an anomaly where we have had back to back revolutionary gains in productivity. Prior to the industrial revolution, there were long periods of marginal gains punctuated by smaller revolutions such as the printing press. Unless AI or some new energy source can come along and make us more productive I fully expect us to slide back into tribalism.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
That is good. This means that people can't hack election infrastructure without detection and we have nothing to worry about. Hopefully no one will make any claims to the contrary.
Unless the machines are connected to any sort of network, in which case all bets are off.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
I agree with you that the line is about in the right place. The pearl clutching about North Korea in that twitter thread is pretty unconvincing, unless they have been using crypto to keep their country afloat since 1948.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
All we need is an AI that can create convincing org charts.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
Probably because it is back in the news now that we are getting results from it that are likely to push forward our understanding of cosmology.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
For anyone that abhors the future you describe, this is a bit like asking "If your house was burning down, would you still have issues with my dog shitting on your lawn?"
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
Furthermore, the targets of potential abuse are very different. The majority of people police officers deal with (especially in a physical confrontation) are criminals and not innocent bystanders. Teachers are dealing with children, which society places a large value on protecting.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
then fucks it's it up by spraying foam all over the cake.
Well, it could always be worse.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
In kubernetes, the cluster nodes that run everything are already called the control plane, and have been for some time.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
Having worked with kubernetes for years now, I have never found the term unclear or misleading. To each their own I suppose.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
There was the San Bernadino attack in 2015 that involved a husband and wife pair.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
My understanding is that Christians at the time weren't allowed to charge any interest, as that was considered usury.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
Moreover, consider for a moment that societies collapse.
You were already reminding me of this sketch, and then this sentence made it perfect.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
You use it like a rechargeable battery. The power grid is constantly having to deal with balancing the electricity produced vs the demand for electricity and this could provide a solution to that.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
That wouldn't be the FED as in the Federal Reserve, that would be the federal government.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
When woke ideology starts informing your hiring decisions for actors, directors, and writers as well as leading you to ignore the preferences of your core market demographic you could perhaps lay the blame tangentially at the feet of wokeness.
ZeroPipeline
7mo ago
Perhaps someone more versed in the subject can chime in, but my understanding is the U.S. Constitution dictates that senators must be a resident of the state they represent. In California that means being present in the state for 366 days before filing for residency. Is there any likelihood of this being challenged? Has something like this happened before?
ZeroPipeline
6mo ago
I did the math before out of curiosity to see how many 155mm shells it would take to cover all of the Gaza strip with the lethal radius of at least one shell's explosion. It came out to around 52 million shells. If all 250 of Israel's m109 howitzers fired at their sustained rate of fire of one round per minute (and assuming no need for maintenance etc) it would take them around 144 days. I was looking at this just to get some idea of the scales involved in all this.
ZeroPipeline
6mo ago
Yeah they launched some initial raids after their evacuation notice last week and I thought a full assault wouldn't be too far behind. I know there were reports that they were delaying it due to the weather. Perhaps it is taking longer than they anticipated to reactivate their reservists and get them into position? Speed isn't as essential in this case from a tactical standpoint, but I do think the window is closing on the time when the world will turn more of a blind eye to any collateral damage they might inflict.
ZeroPipeline
6mo ago
You can take any twitter url and replace twitter.com with twitter.com and get more or less the old experience without having to sign in. There are some companies that use twitter to post status message when there is an outage etc. and this has been helpful for me.
One notable (and relevant) exception to this being Euromaidan, which took place between November and February.
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