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Won’t speak for the poster, but in my experience the incompetence of the average person is only exceeded by the incompetence of the ownership class. The people Ayn Rand lauded are usually the largest obstacle to actually Getting Shit Done.

I am from the US and the headline is accurate. Not “the largest,” but “one of the largest.” We’ve been here before. The question is does it get kneecapped or does it spin out of control?

I am a gamer who has played around with private servers and emulators to revisit my gaming past - one thing I wonder about is how laws would handle game-changing updates? World of Warcraft famously does major renovations to game mechanics each expansion and minor changes each patch. What is to prevent a company from releasing an “update patch” that essentially cripples the game, then shutting down the game at that point and releasing the crippled code as the only available version?

Not unless he's using TCP/IP over Ouija board...

Those who would ask you to trade your privacy for security don’t have your security in mind.

“Gomi” is the Japanese word for garbage. Gotta wonder if someone has a sense of humor…

Yeah, if you watched Obama’s energy he had kind of a “Thanks guys, but why?” air about him through the whole thing.

Let me know when we have actual AI and we can get right on it.

At the time I read the story, Economics 2.0 and its effect on humans that installed the upgrade paralleled with some stuff I had read about sociopathic behavior. Stross later wrote about the same ideas in Rule 34.

He did, but he was such a stickler for accuracy that he insisted they shoot on location.

‘Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage,’ he said.

- Terry Pratchett

The poor have ethics just like the rest of us. They just can’t afford to keep it.

I suspect that this might not ship given the recent dramatic change in memory prices.

With the added fun of nuclear weapons!

For the duration of gaben’s life, to be fair. Beyond that there be dragons.

They didn't buy DDR5 - they bought raw wafer capacity and a ton of it at that.