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I wish it had a d-pad rather than the left trackpad, but otherwise yeah

If only mine weren't broken 🥲

Facebook type posting

Do you count the Byzantine as separate or the same as Rome?

Your talking about structures comprising huge numbers of people across multiple generations. There is no clear "death". Just the gradual shifting from one set of conditions to another. Pick any line in the sand, declare it to be the "end" of an empire, and you'll still find people living under its rules, speaking the language, and using the currency well afterward.

Hell, look at Britain. No longer the globe-strangling power that they were, but it's still the same country with the same rules and government and money.

I liked the bit at the end where the therapist calls him out.

It's when you start including structures within cells that the complexity moves beyond anything we're currently capable of computing.

Self Driving is only safer than people in absolutely pristine road conditions with no inclement weather and no construction. As soon as anything disrupts "normal" road conditions, self driving becomes significantly more dangerous than a human driving.

Terrorism is internationally recognized as when a group or organization unaffiliated with a recognized government uses violence to achieve a political goal. "Terrorist state" is a contradiction in terms.

Netanyahu is leading a genocide and starting wars, all to avoid the regular democratic and legal process of Israel. Why are you carrying water for him?

What they mean is that before Turing, "computer" was literally a person's job description. You hand a professional a stack of calculations with some typos, part of the job is correcting those out. Newfangled machine comes along with the same name as the job, among the first thing people are gonna ask about is where it fall short.

Like, if I made a machine called "assistant", it'd be natural for people to point out and ask about all the things a person can do that a machine just never could.

imagine how many more rockets we could reuse if the NASA subdivision formerly known as SpaceX did literally any of the standard, rigorous fault-checks.

throw in a smattering of aristocratic titles, and yeah that describes UK politics.

it depends on your flavor of flat-earther. for the religious types, the firmament is supposed to be in the way. for secular flat-earthers, I think they just like being contrary?

The issue is the price gouging still exists for everyone who isn't on Medicare. You have to either be old enough, or prove to the government that you fit their criteria for disabled before you get the reasonable price.