JohnClark1337

So companies go there to die

I can't see them NOT sanitizing the old cartoons

Because some of us need to have the servers that the "serverless" people use.

One of the reasons I used to swap out the OS on my android phone. Back then I used CyanogenMod (now LineageOS) and they weren't able to track when I was using tethering and when I was just using my regular data.

Yeah, the US is big. Movies and TV shows usually only show like 2 or 3 cities which makes everything seem like it's close together. For instance I live on the east coast, and I've never been to LA California, which might seem weird but it's over 2500 miles away. Different regions have basically different sub-cultures that emerge because we're so spread out.

I remember when Second Life was new and touted as "The Future". Gamers jumped into it but many left because there was simply nothing to do unless you were a creative type who had the skill to create and sell items in the 'game'. I'm guessing today it's just creative people hanging out with creative people, which is probably a fun experience for them, but not something that will appeal to a wide audience.

Not to mention if we did pick up an alien signal it would have been sent a very very very long time ago

Surprised the author didn't bring up the corporate mentality of having to justify having (sometimes) large office buildings, cafeterias, etc that make their campuses look impressive but are a massive cost sink if nobody is utilizing them. You can say "just get rid of the buildings" but then (thinking of tech companies) they won't APPEAR to be as big or popular as other tech companies.

Anyone who has looked for a job knows the feeling of going through an interview and then never hearing back from the company. It's fine when the company wastes your time, but never ok when you waste the company's time.

Cable TV didn't have ads when it started, and then started adding advertisements once they realized they could get away with it. That's when you ended up with HBO, which was an additional cost above standard cable TV. Corporations are never "content", but always require more and more income.

"Gentle Parenting" is another instance. It could mean that you set boundaries but are more cautious about how you give punishments, attempting to fit the punishment to the bad deed. Or it could mean that you let the child do whatever they want and give them everything, teaching them that there are no negative consequences to their actions and that others are there to serve them.

As a small cog in a large corporate machine, I get this. You just keep spinning and spinning, seemingly doing the same kinds of projects and the same work over and over again, often with no understanding of where the projects are coming from or whether or not the hard work you're putting in has any real value. And then there's constant changing and revisions and sometimes the project gets dropped, which is a clear indication that your hard work was basically wasted by higher ups who seem to have no understanding of the work that has to go into the projects.

I get paid though, so I'll keep spinning and find my value as a human outside of work.

Can we just remove the "debt ceiling" completely this time instead of pretending to adhere to it?

I'm curious where all the money goes, since student loans are incredibly high but teacher pay is so low. I'm guessing the answer is 'random nonsense that shouldn't matter'.

"in the next 5 years"

This means that when it goes south Biden can let the next president handle the fallout.

This all makes sense if the people are seen as property of the state

Democratic Republic = Dictatorship

I would have thought a big part would be people like me who like a good separation between work and home life. When I'm at work I work, when I'm home I don't want to think about work.

In theory people are the ones with power in a democracy

> It does not help with multiplayer games that include draconian anticheat mechanisms. Nor does it help you with Ubisoft's or EA's stores, but fuck them.

Easy to say when the OS is more important to you than the games. But when games are more important than the OS it's a different matter. Most gamers just want to click on the game and have it run, they don't want to mess with WINE or proton or Lutris or playonlinux

Any way I can buy one of those signs?

The author seems to forget that the internet existed in the 70's and 80's, and smartphones existed before 2009. Back then they were experimental and many people thought they might go away, and they might have gone away if they weren't then refined into technologies that average consumers could more easily use.

I went on a mastodon instance once that was will with people who had been banned from other social media sites for being 'too far to the left'. It was pretty entertaining for a while, watching people who were all like-minded screaming into the void.

I could be wrong but I think a good initial phase would be to have some kind of station at the edge of cities where human drivers can jump in and take over for navigating within cities for pickup and dropoff, and then getting out and letting the AI drive the long-haul.

"Of the remaining [kids], they mostly used it to go on the internet. This was not something that the machine was really designed for."

Even in the western world if you hand someone a computer that doesn't have internet access they'll probably just turn it off and go do something else.

Yes, but the left only brings this up when a republican is president

Have to get them ready for the police state

Good for him. Twitter and Facebook are garbage fires.

News reporting is often similar

I'm going to go out on a limb and bet that this is because too many people use RAID as a backup, instead of something in place to help prevent downtime.