Next we'll need common sense nail gun control. How many nails does an American need anyway.

I don't know if it's true, but if it were, they're not saying it replenishes locally as fast as you pump it up right there, but that the global rate of oil generation is larger than the global rate of consumption.

The first rule of the new world order is that you don't talk about the new world order.

At this level of tech, passing the Turing test is mostly about the gullibility of the human.

If people included image links in their posts, it wouldn't be too difficult to add a Greasemonkey/tampermonkey script that converted it to an image. But yeah, ideally the board itself would support it, probably with it being opt-in so people had to click some icon next to the link to expand it into an inline image.

They keep raising the stakes, assuming their own real roles will never become mainstream knowledge.

I'm going to lose several hours to this now. Thanks, man :-)

Mature AI would be able to produce a post-scarcity world for everyone, not just the currently rich. Anyone claiming it'll only be for the rich is either naive, i.e. not knowing better, or cynical, thinking the rich want to kill everyone, or evil, thinking this is their own chance to screw everyone over.

Edit: This guy seems to fall into the third category...

Exactly, and if you turn of the tv,. the smallhatted people are still coming out of the newspapers, magazines, radio and internet.

Neither side has it right, in my opinion.

For weeks after conception, the fetus really is just a clump of cells, not much different from an unfertilized egg or a sperm cell. A woman should absolutely be free to abort it, with the only concern being the medical and emotional toll it takes on her. Sure, it's a sign of being irresponsible if she does it for most other reasons than for example if she was raped - but as an adult that is her problem.

At some point neurons begin to form and link up, when that's gone on for long enough, the fetus becomes able to feel pain and must be said to have some level of consciousness. I don't know exactly when this is, and believe nobody really does. It could be 7 weeks, or it could be 15, but it's a question that ultimately has an answer. After that the fetus should have human rights, and it's no longer an abortion but a killing. Sometimes it might not be unethical to kill it, for example to save the life of the mother, but it would then be the same kind of decision as being in a falling plane with two people and one parachute.

We can all relate to missed deadlines.

(((Nina Jankowicz))) Every. single. time.

It sounds odd that a bank would be legally allowed to remove that recent a history.

Talking about the corrupt government and the trends that are playing out is in no way "shitting on its generous people".

He was on a youtube livestream only a few weeks back, where someone was spamming the comments offering cryptocurrency to anyone who would give up his location.

Stealing server resources isn't the way to go if it is to become anything more than a shortlived gimmick. If you need servers, someone will need to provide them legally.

I don't see an obvious way for a regular searchengine to be distributed/p2p; both the indexing and search execution aspects would have to be extremely redundant (i.e. inefficient) if the were to withstand the inevitable attempts at sabotage.

We need some kind of opensource community searchengine. It won't be cheap to run though, and I wonder if people would actually pay to support it.

Using documents issued essentially from the government, to confirm the story from the government. It's not a very strong proof.

Underwater archaeology is incredibly interesting! It's high on my list of "things to do if I suddenly had a lot of money" :-) There's almost certainly something to be done by advancing the state of underwater drones a bit, and then automating the bulk of the survey work.

They also leave out the pyramid in Bosnia, which is supposedly also 20.000+ years old.

One thing strikes me here. He offers $10.000 as reward for the information and "all" people have to do is bring him $100.000 that'll he'll hold for however long it takes to investigate the info, and then they'll get it back along with the reward. I'd be suspicious of this, even if I had any information.

This was so crazy I didn't believe it, but there we go. "perinatal death related to a failure to act" - so it'll be legal to let the child die from neglect for a period after birth.

https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/fnotes/bil_0009/sb0669.pdf

Does this cross anyone's line in the sand?

Having to install nodejs to run a browser extension sounds extremely dodgy! Normally extensions run exclusively within the browser, subject to its sandbox security model which is pretty good, but I'm guessing you had to run a nodejs process at the same time, which probably started a server the extension could then connect to in the background? May I ask which one it was?

Leave it to hipster soyboy Javascript deveopers to destroy the package ecosystem. Probably the real issue is that unless something is done to stop this now, there'll be a precedent, and the bar will then continue to be lowered a to what "cause" will trigger people into committing this kind of sabotage, until we essentially can't trust open source.

Lets go over the list. When accessing the menu inside the restaurant, they'll know that

• The phone is inside the restaurant
• The phone was inside the restaurant at the time you were sitting there
• The phone was connected to the nearest cell tower to the restaurant (they can't actually know this, only the carrier can, but they can guess.)
• Metadata your browser sends to every single page you request, which you can configure to be anything.

This does not seem nefarious.

They'll also know which IP your phone happened to be assigned at the moment you requested the page. With a warrant, the police will be able to go to your carrier and get their customer records for you. I suppose that's vaguely annoying, but you can use a cheap VPN service to foil this. Unless you use a VPN they might also be able to run a traceroute back to your IP, which probably reveals which carrier you are using.

I don't think they'll be able to get the phone IMEI or any other hardware identifiers, since that's simply not accessible to JavaScript in the browser, and it's not being sent as headers when requesting any page. I could be wrong about that. Same with wifi or signal strength, and network status - the best they could do would be to try to load a massive resource to do a speed test and find out how much bandwidth your phone happened to have while inside that restaurant.

The real annoyance about tracking on the web, is cross site tracking, such as when one site embeds a tracking-script from Facebook or Google which lets them correlate your pageview across all sites using those trackers. If you know what you're doing you can block that, but it's hassle.

It gets worse though :-)

When you sit down at the restaurant, they'll know that you are there, and what time it is. They'll know what your face looks like, what you're wearing, approximate height and body mass, and when the waitress comes by to take your order, she'll know if you have dubious personal hygiene. Unless you pay cash, or with an exotic anonymous card, they'll know who you are as well.