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Maybe 500 years by today's behavioral standards. I assume that if people were told you could live ~forever barring an accident leading to your death, many people in society would behave VERY differently. The risk profile of you or me getting in a car to drive to the store is VERY different than someone with age-and-sickness-proof-but-accident-vulnerable immortality.

Could you please elaborate on the distinction that you see between "artificial" intelligence and whatever it is that we as humans possess? Furthermore, what specific aspects of this intelligence are unachievable by an AI? Is it a "human intelligence is non-computational" line of thinking?

Not that you're wrong about US factory farming, but this article (and the photos) are only concerned with Canada. It's, unfortunately, not just a US problem.

Depending on where you are, you can use Curb or something similar to pair with your ride and let the app handle payment. I use it (or just hailing cabs) almost exclusively over Uber/Lyft these days, typically 1/2 the price and the drivers don’t get lost in the city either.

For inputs that are going to get hashed that seems reasonable, as well as for single-purpose systems. On the flipside, this seems like a great way to have unintended consequences downstream in more complex systems. That "out of memory" condition may appear as an ephemeral bug or slowdown that surfaces not at input time but at retrieval by another service.

I think we read the same version. "Verisimilitude" was a new word for me. I'm still trying to find a way to use it in conversation.

I may be able to shed some light on this. During the dyn outage I really wanted to keep listening to soundcloud, so I spent a bit digging up the hostenames/IPs to dump in /etc/hosts. I found that they were fetching data from two different hostnames, cf-media.sndcdn.com and ec-media.sndcdn.com which I'm guessing stand for cloudfront and edgecast. Never dug deep enough to figure out how they sharded the data, and I'm not even sure both were used for songs (maybe one was pictures, one was tracks) but I seem to recall needing both to play all songs consistently.

Oh, great point, I hadn't even considered that. I'm sure creating all those steel/concrete containers isn't the most CO2 friendly activity. AFAIK most plants store onsite so there's no transportation cost at least.

A little over a year ago, I followed a link to Lapham's from HN, and I've been a subscriber and reader ever since. Every magazine is an absolute treat. For those who are already extremely well read it might be review, but I have always felt that my education leaned too far towards STEM and, save for a few electives, not nearly enough towards a true liberal education. FWIW, I think Lapham's has been a great starting point to filling those gaps.