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Nailed it.

The original poster has a point. If the government is paying for basic research why would a company disadvantage itself by paying for something your competition can get for free? The counterpoint argument is that there is a lot of research that goes nowhere. Corporations will struggle funding...

This indeed needs regulatory enforcement around well written laws. This is why we need regulatory enforcement around well written laws in the first place. Otherwise its a race to the bottom situation. And then even for a company with people who want to do the right thing, that will only serve...

Well you see all I was sayin' is we could hypothetically pull your license if you PO'd my great uncle Fred and he hypothetically filed a formal complaint which would make Thanksgiving hypothetically awkward for the whole fam. Turns out when I checked with the ole' uncle a little later and he...

Its starting to look like the "precious fluids" scene in Dr Strangelove is not as far fetched as I thought (or hoped).

Evolutionary advantages conferred would be indirect due to the well known "beer goggle" effect.

Outrage over free speech issues has become weaponized through social media. Perhaps it did hit right wing voices harder than left wing voices. Still this would be true public outrage rather than politician outrage. Now a right leaning government has learned how to weaponize politician outrage...

Great Scott imagine what its like for a site/app/os/browser trying to write integration tests for all these different ways of throwing passkeys around?

As if the interlacing vs progressive debates from the late 90s/early 2000s wasn't wonky enough.

Mabey it so smart now it tires of dealing with smelly humans? "You want me to do what? Meh been their done that go away I'm busy"

Can't just turn on a dime for how concrete is made all over the earth, or even within a single large country. There is no one locus of power that could force this to happen. It would be a slow process requiring lots of testing. If there is no economic benefit to doing things the new way...

I bought my wife a used Y back in Jan 2024. Its a fine car. Does what we need it to do. We don't have full self driving other than periodic free trials. I would not pay for FSD right now because its not set and forget. I prefer to actually drive rather than pay constant attention to a car...

The sound team set up shop in the parking lot and listened for the sounds of various coconuts being banged together to create a truly unique experience off only the finest clippity clops.

You are right. And where does it end? Perhaps it comes to a point where any digital source of data can no longer be trusted.

You are correct the constitution says federal government cannot prevent States from passing regulations where the Federal government has not already done so. But they can cut off government funding if a state regulates something in a way that congress does not like. For example, in the 70s and...

Coming in August and Executive Order declaring Taiwan and China to be the 51st and 52nd US states.

Subscription tiers only seem to hold off the inevitable. Core problem is the public company aspect. Go public and you put yourself on a never ending growth treadmill. When you saturate the market you either have to figure out how to make more money from the same number of users or find a...

I wonder the same thing. And the fact that this happens on Earth and before the events of Alien feels like it lowers the stakes for both the prequel and the original.

Perhaps authoritarian State Capitalism may be the real "end stage capitalism" that everyone keeps talking about? I agree with your sentiment that absolutist philosophies don't work when talking about human societies. The benefit to capitalism is a feedback cycle around devoting resources to...

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