Indeed, but the way the math for expansion works is that there is something called a Hubble horizon and that makes it impossible to ever reach the edge, since it is moving away from us faster than light. (The limit doesn’t apply to the expansion of space-time).
Quite a nifty solution by the Supreme Programmer to avoid us hitting the limits of the simulation. I couldn’t have designed it better.
That’s why I don’t keep my brushes in the same room as my toilet.
So touching dead skin cells with my skin is supposed to be a biohazard?
First time I hear that.
I guess I also shouldn’t shake hands anymore.
How so? I’m not coughing or spitting on the desk.
Dead skin cells, sure, but that’s not a biohazard.
That’s how they always do it.
It’s usually terrorism, sometimes treason. But there is always an unproven accusation of some heinous crime, which is why most people will just accept it, because “it only affects the criminals”. And it is also how they motivate their henchmen to do the dirty work.
Communists and Jews in Nazi-Germany were accused of causing millions of Germans to die in WW1 and of causing poverty in the depression through exploitation. And this is why the Nazi henchmen worked diligently to get rid of the Jews, because they had lost family members in WW1 and lived through Depression poverty and they wanted to help their country become great again by getting rid of all the undesirables.
The gunk is just compacted dust from the desk surfaces.
Perhaps a bit gross, but it’s mostly stuff you’re breathing in daily, just now visible due to being compacted.
Super gross to me would imply something like bodily fluids or other biohazard.
Am I missing something?
Of course, I totally agree with that
If that email needs to go to a client or stakeholder, then our culture won’t accept just the prompt.
Where it really shines is translation, transcription and coding.
Programmers can easily double their productivity and increase the quality of their code, tests and documentation while reducing bugs.
Translation is basically perfect. Human translators aren’t needed. At most they can review, but it’s basically errorless, so they won’t really change the outcome.
Transcribing meetings also works very well. No typos or grammar errors, only sometimes issues with acronyms and technical terms, but those are easy to spot and correct.
It is definitely here to stay, but the hype of AGI being just around the corner is definitely not believable. And a lot of the billions being invested in AI will never return a profit.
AI is already a commodity. People will be paying $10/month at max for general AI. Whether Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Llama, ChatGPT, copilot or Deepseek. People will just have one cheap plan that covers anything an ordinary person would need. Most people might even limit themselves to free plans supported by advertisements.
These companies aren’t going to be able to extract revenues in the $20-$100/month from the general population, which is what they need to recoup their investments.
Specialized implementations for law firms, medical field, etc will be able to charge more per seat, but their user base will be small. And even they will face stiff competition.
I do believe AI can mostly solve quite a few of the problems of an aging society, by making the smaller pool of workers significantly more productive. But it will not be able to fully replace humans any time soon.
It’s kinda like email or the web. You can make money using these technologies, but by itself it’s not a big money maker.
I’m talking about long-term non-US centric policy.
I don’t mean to imply that this is a priority for the short term in the US.
Nothing in this world is free. The US tax rate isn’t high. The issue is, you don’t get a good value back.
You can’t have strong unions without money for unions.
Organizing people costs money.
Union dues tend to be in the $10-50 per month range, while unions easily increase wages by hundreds a month through collective bargaining.
Most of the unions costs are fixed, so if everyone is a member the average due can easily be on the lower end ($10-20).
If you have a problem with that, then that’s exactly why you don’t have strong unions.
Also, a lot of people, myself included, make it a point to go to the bathroom before swimming.
And I don’t usually consume food or drinks until I am (almost) done with swimming. A four hour stretch of just recreational swimming and chilling is easy without food or drink.
I fully agree.
Also, one thing that Unions always have trouble with is that there is no individual benefit to joining a union, only a cost, so you get a prisoners dilemma type situation.
Even in Scandinavian countries, union membership is on the decline.
Personally, I think the solution should be that union dues are paid by a small tax, making it ‘free’ to join a union. And the unions can provide free benefits to their members, such as legal advice and representation. This will make it attractive to join a union.
It supports encryption. I think encryption is only forbidden when using ham radio
Upvote cause good point, but I have to really mention that OpSec is a black and white thing.
You make one OpSec mistake and you’re cooked. Look how they got Ross Ulbricht.
Meshtastic seems to me to be easiest to have good OpSec at the moment and I really hope we can develop it further.
Yeah, I agree.
On reddit it seems the remaining human commentators are those who have taken over the mannerisms of the bots and adjusted to talking to the bots.
And you always get stuck in these endless loops of hostile disagreement.
That’s just not how normal humans argue. Even on the internet.
Normal humans either agree to disagree or just give up. In both cases ending the conversation after all useful things have been said.
I agree. Very much like Reddit in the early days.
Also, the level of civility and intellect in the comments is relatively high.
That’s what they’re trying to do.
It makes most sense to switch the email+office users to Linux and reserve MacOs and Windows for users who really need to run specific applications.
More or less, yes.
Germany and France have been trying this for more than two decades.
But every time, there is pressure from the US government (the stick) and Microsoft arranges a short-term deal to make Windows cheaper than the cost of transitioning (the carrot).
But this time, the EU is serious about decoupling from the US, so I think it will actually happen.
Yeah, I think their CEO might have QNAP stock or something.
It’s hilarious how dumb this is.