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Destroying art generates income for the workers paid to destroy it.

How about Titanic II?

The government has appropriated Banksy's artworks (e.g. the police sentry box), and could sell them. If the sale of those artworks exceeds the cost of cleaning others, then the gov…

> Remove it when the domain is no longer for sale. The convention has no “not for sale” value; absence is the only way to say no. Since most domains that are for sale don't current…

The author exhibits the same starry-eyed ideals that people tend to get when trying to explain away the simplicity of designing an "intelligent" agent (for any definition of "intel…

> 1970s personal computers were "controlled" by the likes of Richard Stallman. Who are you talking about? Richard Stallman is all about allowing anybody to freely run their own sof…

Today's state-of-the-art AI systems are the equivalent of late 1970s personal computers: bulky and expensive, but wildly more powerful than what came before. And look what happened…

> When the article says "he was found guilty" what does that even mean? "found" implies there was evidence. IANAL but to be "found guilty" means you are determined to be, in the ey…

The prosecution certainly could have done a comparison, but it seems they just went with the matching username and figured it was a slam-dunk (which it turned out to be). It's very…

Some people enjoy reading flowery words and intricately nuanced language; those who enjoy writing in that style should continue to do so, and reap the rewards of a similarly inclin…

I wonder what opportunities exist for a malicious actor to intercept the data flow and substitute it with their own, either for the purposes of devaluing someone else's cow or to i…

This is a variation of Parkinson's Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_Law : "Data expands to fill the space available for storage."

To be technical, what he read wasn't prompt, it's part of the AI's response to the prompt. But yes, it's a giant tell that politician used AI to write his speech, and he didn't tho…

A happy middle ground might be a designated billboard zone (e.g. Times Square), with billboards outside a certain area being outlawed, or restricted by size. But the Devil is alway…

It's too bad GrapheneOS doesn't support hidden volumes.

This is assuming you a) have a mouse, and b) want to use it. Some people are keyboard-oriented, and find the mouse too slow and/or inaccurate.

How do you move or copy blocks of text, images, or lists of items?

Agreed, I like being able to cut or copy text into the clipboard, undo a few recent edits (Ctrl/Cmd+Z), then paste the contents of the clipboard in a new spot. The author's proposa…

> People capable of liking some paintings or prints or whatever can rarely do so without knowing something about the artist. Every day thousands of people visit museums and galleri…

I did this in 1989, as if C had been written by the folks who brought you COBOL: #include #define OpenBrace { #define CloseBrace } #define OpenBracket [ #define CloseBracket ] #def…

If your body is in shape, you can socialize, and you're good at your job that pays you well, you can still suffer from depression.

Can you provide some insight into a) how you know somebody else should take a given drug, without having examined that person yourself, and b) whether you're qualified to prescribe…

Yet another reason for Windows 10 users to not upgrade.

https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/monday-july...

Especially because some of us used Kagi back when it was an e-commerce payment processor, and that's what comes to mind whenever I see the name.