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His actions are definitely of someone who is strongly connected to reality.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Scott_Adams

(Of particular note: the "Predictions from a stable genius" where he goes truly off the deep end.)


Some of those quotes...

"But if you take away my access to hugging, I will probably start killing, just to feel something"


I hope only financial ruin for everyone involved in a crypto mining operation using fossil fuel. For fuck's sake, the world is burning.


Just wait until they take this to the SCOTUS and have the climate authority of NY not being able to enforce this too.


Supreme Court will tell us we have no right to survival


Only the right to birth is specified in the constitution. Clean air, livable temperature, conserved sea levels, etc. are not protected by the constitution, is not in our country's history and traditions, etc....


At birth you're handed a gun. The air, water and food are poisoned. Armed militias roam the destroyed landscape. /s


The article makes it sound like they've already broken even. Shut 'em down, nobody loses.


If you had to choose between the wars brought on by a degenerate financial system pursuing fossil fuels, or fossil fuel powered deflationary assets for longer term global wealth storage - which would you pick?


Deflationary assets can also be used to start wars for fossil fuels. Since Bitcoin makes the energy problem worse, it leads to more such wars.


Absolutely disingenuous.

Bitcoin does not make the "energy problem" worse - the opposite is true in most cases. Here's a good example; it pushes the excess energy waste coming off of fossil fuel plants into a stable financial exchange system instead of bleeding it off for no reason.

Bitcoin is also not just a "deflationary asset" - the entire point is that you now have an instantaneous transfer financial backbone as opposed to needing a central bank's money printer to back your country so before another country decides they need your natural resources, you can actually purchase infrastructure and participate in the global economy and profit off of what you have instead.

What happens to countries that hold US dollar when the banks start printing? Where do they want to purchase assets, and who divests from their domestic assets?

What an absolutely unread take on it - and what a great representative of the closest approximation to average research done on the topic.


From the about page:

"Q: Why is nothing from the Windows XP source code leak added?

A: Even though Microsoft has only taken down a few Windows modifications, they will most definitely take Windows XP Delta Edition down if there is a reference to the source code inside it. The Windows XP source code is illegal to download, fork, and redistribute, so nothing from it will ever be added."


Only $10 a month to rack up dozens of license violations? What a deal.


A Hitman-esque stealth hacking game with real VMs running real software would be cool to see.


Agreed that Chess is mostly about memorization, even at a high level - opening theory has only gotten deeper with the invention of computer analysis. If you're looking for a game that fits that criteria (deterministic but strategic), Go is probably the answer. The possibility space expands so rapidly due to the size of the board that you just can't have deep memorization beyond a few moves.


It's not exactly the same, but in Japan a few capsule net cafes opened up that sound similar to what you're talking about:

https://youtu.be/HkNzjvueJm8


Thanks that's almost what exactly I want. I don't need the computer though so that's a difference. I also want chairs. But that's what I have in mind.


A space where you can work? Potentially with spaces with others. With break out spaces for working with others, with a few perks thrown in? Call it WeWork?


Tesla also fired a union organizer (while tweeting about how they are free to join a union) [0], banned a journalist from buying a Tesla[1], threatened to sue another journalist[2], and tried to destroy the life of a whistleblower[3].

[0]https://labortribune.com/tesla-found-guilty-of-union-busting... [1]https://medium.com/@salsop/banned-by-tesla-8d1f3249b9fb [2]https://www.fastcompany.com/90208132/elon-musk-allegedly-sil... [3]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-13/when-elon...


Retro forums that focus on specific systems (eg, C64 development, NES development, DOS development...) tend to be pretty good as they draw people who are interested in developing for more limited hardware and as such don't mind going deep on technical topics. For more up to date discourse I'm not too sure. Maybe TIGSource forums?


What exactly makes you comment as if woman gaining equality means men have lost something? Surely, in an even society, this is a good headline, unless you're pining for more patriarchal days.


Equal opportunity (not equal outcome) is good. What I'm worried about is that this correlates with the wider societal trend of positive discrimination in favor of women (hence discrimination against men) and dismissal of men and their issues.


You should explore why you personally are worried about this speculative scenario happening. It could be a symptom of a deeper psychological issue.


If men graduating from college at a higher rate than women, or men earning more than women, is indicative of lack of equality, then wouldn't the opposite hold true - women graduating from college at a higher rate than men, or women earning more than men is indicative of lack of equality?


But it specifically isn't equality, even though there is a narrative that it is. A similar issue is present with kids where boys, who already tend to struggle at school more than girls, aren't encouraged as much and end up not trying as much as the girls do. You can see this in the gender discrepancy of college graduation rates


Equality would be “young women earn the same as young men”.

Unless you are banking on some cities favoring women while others favor men long term.


Which begs the question, why not bank on the current reality where some jobs favor women and some favor men, due to conscious personal choices made by those men and women?


To be fair, true preference (with true equality of opportunity) is hard to measure.


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