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Your disillusion really resonates with my experience, and likely many others. The thing is, if you had succeeded in all you wanted, you would still be asking the same questions by …

If it’s sunglasses with a strong filter, or possibly unfortunate polarization, it may cause some issues I believe.

Definitely Keynes. Much of the fundamentals hasn’t made much sense earlier, but it does now. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes

The world would have looked differently if the Mirasol technology ever took of. It was a large e-ink that could do color and had a refresh rate good enough for video. Most impressi…

Well, what to expect? An uptick in pleasure and joy. No. This is serious measures for serious times.

Updated: Boeing 777X’s first flight postponed as weather fails to cooperate

Yes. Seasons greetings all! This community brightens every day. Wind down, spin up, and roll with next year. It’s going to be fun.

AGI is not a research problem but an imagination problem. I can’t vouch for how good John Carmack is in imagination, but striving to put things together with a goal seems like a go…

Agree. Limiting access to G+ was lethally counterproductive. And why? Afraid of the traffic?

In this case, when there is absolutely no intellectual property to talk about, everyone huddles down and hopes that no one notices their investment. In other cases, the proprietary…

What was the con exactly? Selling dollars for cents is not a con, it is stupid. Different thing.

I’m most amazed that they started at all. The whole idea is just bonkers. Why would cinemas give away free tickets to a third party so that they can make recurring revenues that wo…

Yah. People will just die. Refugee sort of implies a refuge. There’s not going to be such thing’s around if things go south as we fear they are likely to. It’s gonna play out far m…

I have had the opportunity to visit China multiple times during the last few years. Have met many wonderful people there. However, what makes me uncomfortable is the society. I hav…

That’s how it is. When there is a fire however and people get suffocated because of those modifications you did or just because it was a fire. Then you are in for some serious trou…

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Yes, I have visited China on multiple occasions during the last few years. It has been an utterly chilling experience. I know xenophobia when I experience it, and South Africa duri…

No. Simply no. There is no anti-China agenda. There is however an anti-medieval agenda, it has less to do with China as such and more to do with the mindset of the society and the …

Not quite. In the USA the corporations own the people. In China the state owns the people (there is not much government to speak of).