Coffeewine

Because we were all sold on the obviously naïve promise of techno utopianism which argued that via technology, we would all live in a more pleasant verdant and equitable world. Obviously, this has not been the case.

While the reasoning behind this is dumb and it is unfortunate that the screening is mandatory for over 30s and not voluntary, I guess I can’t hate that some people will have the choice of receiving a treatment they may want.

Seems like just a matter of time until this logic extends to mandatory HGH and anabolic steroids for all soldiers or something.

Every time someone DIYs one of these guys the internet at large lambasts them as fire risk death traps. Fairly curious if these are any different, certainly looks like they’re much the same from the photos.

I mean, god willing, but it'll be just as likely that we'll blissfully consume 100 million token contexts in that case.

As they saying goes, you have to dodge the trap every time, they only have to get you once. Sooner or later we all will slip up if we’re subjected to endless con attempts.

If Trump and Rubio are not credible, then there is no way to determine the intent of any military action, so the bet is impossible to evaluate.

That’s pretty funny.

Heh, it’s impossible for me to look at these without hearing the launch theme from Apollo 13 in my head. Such a glorious programme.

I think this sums it up pretty well.

"When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles,"

I guess they can try, but in this era of ubiquitous surveillance it’s hard to imagine they would succeed in secretly entering a home.

Isn’t this more that they’re buying a part of an upstream supplier than a client?

I suppose the hope is that they don’t, and we wind up with commodity frontier models from multiple providers at market rates.

I guess these things aren’t literally exclusive, but it’s pretty amusing that elsewhere the rebuttal argues that we’re deep in a great stagnation which we need space exploration to pull us out of. (In the bit where he is arguing against the idea that we should wait a century and then maybe try to colonize space with greater technology)

> The slowdown in GDP growth is not mere paranoia, but an economic fact. Part of the problem with seeing clearly the stagnation all around us is that we need to compare ourselves to what might have been, not to the 1950s as the authors do.