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"terror attack"

What would be a safe way to opt out, though? One that people can't easily be tricked into taking, to installalwate? I don't think Doctorow has thought that through.

That's what banks are for. If you have the talent, you can convince somebody to lend you money for your education.

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But colder winter could be correlated with asthma because colder winter lead to more gas heating.

What is "exploitative" about the mix it up poster? I know people like that. Have they no right to exist?

Sure, it is not desirable, but what if it is what is needed to suceed? Complaining about bad management doesn't finish anything. Hopefully the compensation was OK, at least.

The proper response to helping those people is to create more jobs, so that they have alternative choices. It is not Amazon's fault that these people are low skilled and hungry. Am…

Don't know about rhe US, but in my country, unions abs their members get special rights (afaik). So it wouldn't simply be a matter of rejecting the contract if Amazon doesn't like …

There is no law that says you have to enter a contract that only gives you the minimum requirements of the law. (ianal, though). If you are unhappy with a contract, don't sign it.

It definitely is the culture of some of them. I'm in a country with social security, but there are groups of them in organized begging (also stealing by word of shop owners, but th…

Are they the ones who received one billion eur from the EU? Holy cow...

So how much does broadband cost in the US? I'd like to compare. Also, what about 5g?

How do you create such conditions if you are not the government? Who does the creating?

I think they made the discovery that infectious diseases exist.

Just a reminder that even before social media, people sometimes became hateful towards each other, belueved conspiracy theories, and even started wars and revolutions. I'm not conv…

What does "embodied in the world as a living organism" even mean? Being embodied as a machine wouldn't be sufficient? Living organisms are "just" machines. I also don't see any rea…

I don't feel answering your questions would help much in making progress towards creating intelligent machines. Being able to create machines with human level intelligence would be…

There are of course people who believe something supernatural (a soul) is involved.

We know that machines with AGI are possible - humans are such machines. Maybe you could discuss whether classical computers could achieve AGI, but I think overall the quest is to b…

Except the DAO wasn't shady, it was just buggy and got hacked. If having bugs is shady, we live in a dark world indeed.

Production costs may be liw, but you have to factor returns into the equation. It is very misleading to judge only by production costs. Not saying it is not a racket, but would nee…

I wonder how much of it is just society bot being accommodating for high IQ kids. Like school can be a hellish experience of boredom and being an outsider, that could set the mood …

Tsundoku sounds related to Tsunami. I guess if you pile up too many books, it may result in a book tsunami.

Wish he would elaborate. I don't really know what he means. What did Bitcoin do to reduce the pressure?