They’re just trying to get clicks. It’s attention seeking behavior, not real concern for public policy.
FIRE has always been a corporate friendly libertarian-right organization. They post this stuff because they need to appear relevant to their sponsors.
Eh. Depending on where those parts were sourced…
Or it wasn’t. Very possible he was simply gifted the NFT and lied about the price.
A bunch of the early 20s NFT sales were wash sales
I’m afraid it will lead to a cessation of anti-pollution efforts
The bacteria release carbon during the decomposition process. So this isn’t a “solution” in any meaningful respect. It’s an instance of evolution at work, as a surplus resource becomes a food source for innovative organisms.
Also, we look at this as some kind of “clean-up”. In reality, this is a threat to one of our most useful durable materials. It’ll likely lead to the development of antiseptics to kill these bacteria colonies, as the last thing anyone with a hard plastic shell on their vehicle or appliance or equipment wants is a colony of plastic-eaters deteriorating it.
Who is going to remove it? Trump’s friend Tim Cook? Trump’s friend Jeff Bezos? Trump’s friend Sundar Pichai? Or Trump’s friend Satya Nadella?
What, no Microslop?
No way this runs on Windows. It’s Linux or bust.
They trained a tiny patch of neurons to respond to low-voltage electric impulses. The cells don’t know they’re playing Doom. They don’t have any kind of social context or even video feedback.
Imagine if I stuck you in a sensory deprivation chamber, handed you an NES controller, and asked you to hit the buttons. Then, periodically, I said “Yes” or “No” based on the buttons you pressed. And when I pulled you out of the tube at the end of an hour, I told you “the yes and no messages were intended to encourage you to correctly navigate Mario through the first level of the original game.” What if, instead of Mario, I’d been telling you how to play Street Fighter?
It doesn’t matter if its Doom. They likely picked Doom because the I/O is so rudimentary that you can install the game on practically anything. The cellular matter has no idea what it’s doing beyond the “Yes/No” signaling.
I mean, I wish that were actually true.
One of the bleakest turns of the post-war Eastern Bloc was the speed at which they re-incorporated ex-Nazi officers into the Stasi. I’d have to dig it up, but there’s a whole line about a German describing his career as roughly “First I worked for the monarchy to suppress fascism, then I worked for the fascists to suppress communism, then I worked for the communists to suppress capitalism, and now that the communists lost I’m old enough to retire.”
Person: “Vegans won’t shut up about being vegan”
Vegan: embarrassed sigh
Person: “They’re constantly telling me about it.”
Vegan: hiding behind something
Person: “I just don’t get it! They’ve got leather clothes. Where do they think wool comes from? Protein is nutrious! Are they too good for eggs?!”
Vegan: Slinking out the back door
Built to Fail: The story of 21st century consumer technology.
where they spoke about the “high-tech arsenal of the United States” during the operation in Iran, they used video of the Ukrainian interceptor drone STING from the manufacturer “Wild Hornets”.
Was genuinely skeptical of this being a pure Ukrainian invention, given how much tech has been crossing the border from the NATO states. But… fuck me, I can’t find anything to suggest this isn’t 100% home grown. I’m sure if you got your hands on the tech specs, you’d find some kind of cross-over (not like Ukrainians invented VR googles or remote telemetry and I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if folks outside Ukraine were involved in the design). Past that…
I do wonder how secure this technology is, if its something you can gin up with a 3D printer. Like, are there Sting specs out in the wild at this point? Or is this something they keep under lock and key?
That’s the one.
“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
Wind is a highly cost-efficient and abundant form of electricity generation.
And Communism Doesn’t Work
Ergo, the Communist Chinese could have never built wind farms.
QED
Why is he getting involved?
I hate to defend a chud Senator, but it kinda looks like the marine has his hand trapped in the door and Sheehy’s trying to get him loose before the cops do further harm. Really hard to say from the shakey camera angle. But it looks like the security goons were going to happily tear his arm straight off if someone hadn’t stepped in.
There is no reason for a civilian to help in this situation.
To help the cops? No. To help the marine? There absolutely was.
You’ll need Congress to earmark the refund. Not bullish on this, given who is currently in charge.
Ooo! Ooo!
Why is this allowed?
It’s a private company operating under a contract that affords representatives ability to deny you payment for care on conditions that favor the company.
Why would it not be allowed?
I mean… you want to refuse business but you don’t want to be refused business?
How does that work?