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> the person you're responding to has provided a valid counter example of what life can be like without such stress Their counter example: "I am rich"

> The AI is no longer “other” > My AI is a natural extension of me. It feels like a sixth sense and another limb. I wonder about a problem, feel as though I’m literally surfing the…

The two are not unrelated, and perhaps the inventiveness and energy of the latter could be applied to affecting the outcomes of the former.

Derivatives trading is a net negative upon society and this florid prose is just one more ghastly effluvium from the sarcophagus

Fair point! Some of them are certainly more legible than others. I thought the vending machine one was brilliant. But for instance the one with the slices of pizza... does get a li…

Fantastic infographics!

"reality has a well-known liberal bias" -Stephen Colbert

I'm very curious as to what places of the world that would be.

For some reason when I opened this the sound of a helicopter hovering shook the walls. > Come September, he will have to walk across town to school on his own. *THE HORROR* > But i…

Another novel approach to saving money: stop fighting Israel's wars

As Benn Jordan pointed out, imagine what a hacker group or ICE could do with this. Fun times!

All for this. Micropayments have been tried so many times before, but they all relied on user opt-in and never reached any sort of critical mass. Someone of Cloudflare's scale coul…

I am very curious- what state?

Yeah, this is amazing and should be submitted here on its own if it hasn't already. I just found that one of my reps got an absurd amount of money from some shadowy group called "T…

That would be "wrongly"

> No him/her. Uh. What?

> Unlike infrastructure projects in Britain or America, which are heavily reliant on external consultants to handle all stages of the project, this group of well-paid in-house engi…

No, but what are the odds of the robust welfare state that would be required to actually enable some sort of post-work society taking shape here in America? I'd truly like to be op…

> Despite all of the skepticism, a whole lot of Americans also report using AI in their daily lives on an increasingly regular basis. About a quarter of Americans say they use AI c…

> Are you saying that you think the US government is unpredictable and arbitrary, but that the People’s Republic of China is not? Why not both? That seems the crux of the state we'…

> The Veritas Villages claim to have an education and health-care charity called Help Them Help Themselves. These people could not be more comically despicable if they tried. Also …

The one thing I appreciate about smart glasses is that it broadcasts the wearer's terrible personality loud and clear and I can thus avoid them.

You're conflating two different categories of product and their targets. Copper is a fungicide, which is a category of product that both chemical ("conventional") and organic farme…

These two substances are used at entirely different times, for entirely different purposes, in entirely different manners, with different levels of persistence in both the environm…