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If it were superintelligent and hyperaware, how would you question it?

One of the theoretical reverse time travel machines I read about in the past involved stabilizing a wormhole first and then dragging it somewhere else, like to the future relative to current time by traveling near light speed with it, so you could get back to the earlier time.

Kip Thorne wrote of something that involved an extreme amount of mass in a spinning cylinder. That kind of mass was imagined to be at a huge scale like harnessing a number of stars and compressing them, iirc.

A device theorized or implemented by Salvatore Pais involves use of superconductors and microwaves to create an effective vacuum, like dragging part of spacetime. It could allow FTL relocation without actual speed. This could also create an area of effectively high masses that could allow time travel, even eventually reverse time travel, under theoretical conditions.

It’s very good though.

To really throw it off and make it stay underwater or hop around, you must be quick to reduce the points and create negative areas via crossover.

But it’s impressive how it lets you draw beyond the boundaries and reacts reasonably.

Best iceberg simulator I’ve ever used. I had fun playing with it for at least ten minutes. I’d go so far as to recommend it for education.

Would anyone suspect that an AI set her up? One could be fully capable of that.

This whole thing may be ironic- in more than one sense.

I’m kidding of course... or am I?

Are hording and depression related, aside from the Great Depression, which is unrelated?

I don’t think it’s cheap advice. He may have spent a lot of time writing it.

The only thing I read that was humorous and slightly wrong was the interesting take on meditation: getting bored more often.

I enjoy quiet, so I’d be a “zen master” according to the post, at least for some minutes each day. But those who know me would not confuse me with a zen master.

This. One million times this.

I’ve been developing for more years than dime if you have lived, and the best thing I’ve heard in years was that Google interviews were requiring developers to understand the overhead of requests.

In addition, they should require understanding of design complexity of asynchronous queues, needing and suffering from management overhead of dead letter, scaling by sharding queues if it makes more sense vs decentralizing and having to have non-transactionality unless it’s absolutely needed.

But not just Google- everyone. Thanks, Mr. Fowler for bringing this into the open.

While slinging a cat has always been a disturbing analogy to me, in this case I think it’s appropriate; you can’t sling a cat without it hitting a popular rockstar that did heroin or similar at small or varying doses, was convinced they had it under control, and their careers slowly and then quickly tanked. I also have friends and acquaintances whose lives were ruined by it or they died early because of it.

I’m glad this made it front page news given that the northwest coast of US now gets hard drugs, so maybe one of them will think twice about being a full-on grade A dumbass.

Also remember: with legality especially in a rich entrepreneurial country comes business which lobbies, funds studies, etc. Pot strived for many years for legitimacy, and once they got it, it exploded all over the US.

Bitcoin still feels like a house of cards. Does anyone remember what happened after everyone said “buy gold”?

I couldn’t read all of it or scroll, so I skipped this. Maybe someone could post the content here?

If you’re into Apple, why not apply to the Genius Bar?

> Perhaps Corp-Tech should move to employee share buy back where employees must sacrifice some of their salary for equity or change equity to vest by a product related metric to connect the teams performance with the employee returns.

This doesn’t work all that well in my experience.

Employees focus in the stock which is not in line with the success of the product.

ESPPs aren’t bad. They’re seen as a bonus by most employees and some get excited watching the stock climb. Some may try to use that as a motivator.

But it’s more like watching your favorite team on TV that you’ve bet on with no control. That doesn’t inspire the right behavior.

Vesting stock based on some product metric would still be hindered by the futility of attempting to tie stock price to the actual success of the product.