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The problem is greed, not money in itself. And you can't eliminate greed. You can make it harder to be greedy but greed always finds a way to corrode any constraints you build into the system. Greed is necessary but it is not good if not channeled to push the lever of economic activity rather than left in its free, destructive form. Hmm.

In the formal setting of an educational institution you get to engage your mind in analytical and creative thinking in a variety of subjects and on daily basis. Such a consistent process does broaden the mind, for sure, but maybe not every mind and not under some circumstances.

The title comes across as controversial subjectivism for the sake of attracting attention.

Maybe the cache should be made using Silicon on Sapphire for radiation hardening? But I am not sure if multi-process silicon fabrication is viable.

They allowed corporations to vote with their money and buy candidates. Undermined our ”By the People. For the People” fantasy.

Live and learn!

What you describe is not Autonomous AI that is driven by a dynamic mission, as the military AI will be. An AI killer bot can be developed that not only tries to achieve the goal specified by the mission but also alter the mission as needed to achieve a higher level goal, and the higher you go up in the goal specification the more autonomy you're giving to the machine.

The right to bear arms was given to humans who happen to live in this so-called freedom loving country. It was never given to autonomous non-human entities. So while the military may develop robotic kill squads their non-military use is illegal. Unless the treasonous Supreme Court doubles down on their treason and give the right to bear arms to AI, by considering AI to be a digital person with rights. It could happen. The Supreme Court judges have already shown that they're fully capable of making decisions that favor big corporations over us the people. Why not autonomous bots? After all, big enough corporations are pretty much autonomous (as they follow profit above all and do so regardless of who is in charge of them).

With a Lamport Clock (counter, logical clock) you could end up with the following due to dependence on conflict resolution aka optimistic MVCC rather than Wall Time (copies do from another HN):

“it is possible for a transaction C to be aborted because it conflicts with another transaction B, but transaction B is also aborted because it conflicts with A (on another resolver), so C "could have" been committed. When Alec Grieser was an intern at FoundationDB he did some simulations showing that in horrible worst cases this inaccuracy could significantly hurt performance. But in practice I don't think there have been a lot of complaints about it.”

How does FDB compare to Spanner as far as the Consistency model and trade offs?

Common sense says that since FB owns WhatsApp no one should trust it. It's no different than if China owned WhatsApp. I mean WeChat. Just common sense.

That’s what happens when you think with your brain as opposed to feel with your heart.

Sarcastically speaking, it all started with the division of labor between hunters and gatherers. If hunters had to gather too they wouldn't have had developed a specialization for killing other beings, and many of them would have preferred gathering to hunting due to the risk involved in the latter, so hunting would have been a fringe activity, not an institutionalized part of society (aka armies) Also, women and men who are not so driven by testosterone most likely gravitated toward gathering rather than killing, and so there we have the roots of sexism and machoism, with the assholes doing the killing and normal human beings relegated to "less strong" gatherers. And I believe natural hormones in meat affected the hunters own hormonal balance and pushed them toward more aggression, and the act of killing became normalized. Then we have technology being developed to increase the efficiency of killing other beings and eventually to increase the efficiency of killing other people. The tribes that engaged less in killing and more in gathering got wiped out by the ones that engaged more in killing than gathering. The End.

You can have multiple tenants per low cost edge device. ARM servers are finding so many such applications. Not sure what is the hang up?

First it was the Chinese motherboard implants and now visions of a great war. What's their agenda? Does Bloomberg news represent Michael Bloomberg's agenda/views/paranoia in any way?