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In what world are landowners not hurt the most by SF turning into cyberpunk bedlam?

They got sold by the original owner(the guy who did the North Korea doc). He went to hang out on Rogan and then faded into the background.

To who?

When its Americans, its 'reputation' when its anyone else its 'stereotyping'.

But how would that be accomplished? (Genuinely asking, not doubting) For all of the cynicism, security theatre does serve an actual non-inane purpose.

Would the world be better off without MAD?

The tech hardware industry generally has terrible marketing. Look at laptop SKUs. None of them are effective at delineating product tiers in an easy to understand way. Even Apple post-Jobs is bad at this: wtf is an air vs pro vs just 'mac' or 'macbook'? What in the hell is an ultra max?

As someone who keeps tabs on the products I can pretty quickly get an intuition for what they mean, but the semantics do no favors. They're just placeholders for 'better' and 'best' when used in various combinations. But once you stop labeling the base model (such as plainly 'Macbook') you're not qualifying what the marketing term is trying to convey (what is it 'better' than?). 'Air' as opposed to...? 'Pro' compared to...a product you no longer sell? 'Ultra' or 'Plus' for phones but 'Pro' for desktop OSs?

If you tried to chart out the marketing terms used in the tech hardware industry it would look like the Always Sunny Charlie Conspiracy meme.

Its a lot like movie studios making sequels without subtext or numbers to have a 'cleaner' title.

Really bizarre practice that doesn't actually make it easier for the consumer, as the year of release becomes the number instead.

Could it be a result of the manufacturing process? To my layman understanding, not all silicon is created equal.

There has been an increasing laymanization of philosophy by academics who should know better. Harari is teleological technobabble personified.

Because it does the opposite. PFAS leeching into us and groundwater is exponentially worse than inert plastic straws.

"Trump is <thing I look down upon>" but you inadvertently put a guy who was born into wealth in the same economic category as people who were born poor. Under what semantic regime is this possible? Lol

What are 'new' rights? They're not technological.

The Constitution draws its concept of rights from philosophy surrounding natural rights. If you're not using the word in that context you're talking about something else.

The Monty Python corpo raiders scene plays in my head while I read this.

Well done!

I experienced this method in a public high school I went to. It was actually an awesome model and schooldays were 4 hours. The unfortunate thing about high school is the actual materials are really low quality.

Looking back, only math is a useful class in high school (of which I only liked Geometry at the time). The other classes are too low res to be deeply engaging if you're really curious.

Traditional schooling also has a terrible model of punishing curiosity in that if you demonstrate a passion for the material it likely just ends up with more work/homework (AP classes, special credit) instead of acceleration to the next tier of education on that topic. The grade school education system does nothing to reward academic excellence, literally nothing. If you get an A then thats it. You're still locked in with everyone else, so whats the point?