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"Genuine diamonds" sold fake diamonds after trademarking the name, I thibk. However a decade later I read about them losibg a lawsuit. This tricks don't work any more.

I still remember it decades ago, sitting at home, staring at graphics on my screen, staring at graphs of it processing data. I felt like I was contributing to something. And for th…

It's a bizarre take, too. I'll state it plainly, your hands are clean before you start to wipe yourself. As long as you put your phone aside, on the counter for example, it's as cl…

There's North and then there's North. Canada already uses all the sensible land to use.

This is a classic example of book knowledge, and reality. The type of light is important. Days of sunlight mean little, if the sun barely gets more than a few degrees above the hor…

Canada expand agriculture. Where? Certainly not to land up north. Growing seasons are bracketed by more than just land and temperature. It's also bracketed by sunlight. Very little…

There are entirely different reasons. War. Make a people's land unliveable, and make it so they cannot grow crops any more, and those people will come for your land. Imagine if 1B …

This whole thread is a bad analogy. Take all potatoes out of the market, and: 1) Some people won't be able to afford alternatives. They will starve to death 2) There may not be eno…

Except, lots of devs use github, and see what using Azure means. Management is seeing that downtime too. So what insane person will ever touch Azure willingly? Hotmail used to run …

Unfortunately, Kagi relies heavily on Google for search data. All do. Alternatives such as Kagi seem less cpgent too. At least no capchas though.

We all know how horrible Google search has become. Yet beyond the issues with results, the need for quoting every search to find relevance, the nonsense shown without 'web' being u…

Some hate mailing lists, not understanding how valuable the format and medium is. So they deride out of reflex, I suppose. Mailing lists are a lot like democracy. Imperfect, but no…

Time to get a Personalized Pico Pal(tm), your own Power Pal in orbit, solar power microwaved to your mower, from now on it's batteries included, thanks to Blazbro!

There are whois servers, and the whois command, so no, it has not. I agree that this is the goal.

And look correct is accurate. Not only does it look correct, it looks correct with an extremely Subject Matter Expert degree of authority. Often I'll work with an LLM, and it simpl…

shaping the rainforest for centuries without destroying it. That's the myth. A lot of native populations farmed. Where do you think that farmland came from? It came from tearing do…

But the report is! Simply because some people don't value them, doesn't mean all institutions don't. And being able to convey information by text, is as important as the verbal par…

One thing I mentioned in my prior post, is the difference between internal discord, and externally amplified disinformation. As democracies, we've always had healthy debate, but wh…

None of that is relevant without you, the person architecting the questions or the idea, being able to cogently convey this to others. If you cannot understand it enough to transfe…

I agree with much of what you say, except the timing is a bit off. It's really only been 20 to 15 years since the "average person" even knew what that "Internet thing" was. It was …

An interesting point to bring up. Why? Well, because the issue with vaccine doubt, is misinformation. It's disinformation, spread for either profit (followers on youtube), or forei…

The only way to have age verification on an international level, is to have treaties allowing for the sharing of information about citizens, digitally, in that context. And this is…

Ilium by Dan Simmons was an exceptionally good read, if you're looking for another review. Often people just haven't heard of him, even well and widely read people, though he has s…

Yes, I've read the book, the two movies (one modern one from the 60s?), and the sequel, very well done!, by Stephen Baxter. It's a good concept, but for some reason I thought of a …

Yes, I agree on modern trends for that. There are some modern authors not too bad in that respect, but it may be why I find older sci-fi books more appealing.