Ozumandias | 6 years ago | on: Goodbye, New York, California and Illinois – Hello where?
After you, sir.
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Ozumandias | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?
The entire LBJ series and The Power Broker? Ambitious! Caro has a fantastic voice in his writing but by golly he sure does know how to fill a thousand pages!
Ozumandias | 6 years ago | on: Tesla's Cybertruck Approach on Auto Manufacturing and Engineering
Imagine deployable solar canvases! Similar to how satellites collect power. In the past two decades, I think this could have been useful. The US deployments were in the middle east (plenty of sunshine) and were mostly fought without a frontline through patrol missions out of bases (plenty of sitting around waiting for something to happen).
Ozumandias | 6 years ago | on: Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook
"Say I read an anti-Semitic leaflet and then perform a hate crime. How much of the responsibility do I bare and how much does the writer of the leaflet? And how much does the printing press?"
Here is where this line of doesn't work too well with what Baron Cohen is saying: Facebook/Twitter/etc are centralized publishers. He is arguing they are equivalent to Random House, NBC, or TIME. If a hate group owns its own printing press, it's not the press' fault because they are a publisher of the organization. But if Random House prints and publishes works of a fringe group, do you think there would be push back? Why are they giving this group legitimacy? It legitimizes them if they are published by the same entity as works of literature. Sacha is saying that by allowing hate groups and non-hate groups the same publishing capability, Facebook is legitimizing them.
Ozumandias | 6 years ago | on: Deepfakes: MIT brings Nixon's Apollo disaster speech to life
In a thread full of awful futures, I find this one to be the most depressing.
Ozumandias | 6 years ago | on: Differences between expert and novice brains in mice: study
Love it. Reads like a country version of the Serenity Prayer.
"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to know the difference."
Ozumandias | 6 years ago | on: Tesla's Cybertruck Approach on Auto Manufacturing and Engineering
The fact that the truck looks like a Warthog from the Halo video games aside, I feel that this truck is destined for the defense market.
Overly sturdy frame, bulletproof windows, no gasoline.
Electric vehicles that can self-charge through solar seem to be a massive logistical advantage. You can reduce the need for fuel supply lines.
Ozumandias | 6 years ago | on: A Cybersecurity Firm’s Sharp Rise and Stunning Collapse
Yeah, people on here don't seem to understand that you read the New Yorker for narrative and literary craft, not for getting information as fast as possible.
Ozumandias | 6 years ago | on: On ‘Island’ in Russian Arctic, Arrival of Fast Internet Shakes Political Calm
Come experience the world famous staycations of Norilsk. People travel from around the world to staycate here.
Ozumandias | 6 years ago | on: Disney Bans Netflix Ads as Streaming’s Marketing Wars Intensify
There's been one great outcome of this: me discovering my city's library. It has an incredible film and tv collection. Anything newer than 2016 is also on Blu Ray. If you're a big cinephile like me, having thousands of free rentals at you're disposal is like being a kid in a candy store. Plus, hundreds of Criterion Collection editions for us film buffs.
Ozumandias | 6 years ago | on: China laying tracks for 1,000km/h maglev trains
Despite what the rest of the US may think, San Francisco is not a centrally planned Communist city. You can't just take land.
Ozumandias | 6 years ago | on: Parthia: Rome's Ablest Competitor
I have to be careful reading articles like this. I have hundreds of hours logged in 2004's Rome Total War. All it takes is reading some interesting fact about Rome's military or one of their enemies and I can find myself losing a day or two in a new campaign. Even though the first Rome Total War came out 15 years ago, it is still the pinnacle of historical simulation video games to me. Simple yet endless replay value in trying out new tactics and strategies.
Ozumandias | 6 years ago | on: I used to fear being a nobody, then I left social media
I feel similar. Years ago, I used to be very into YouTube. I followed the channels I loved closely and loved discovering new channels. It felt like I could search for any topic I was interested in and find a small, cool channel about it.
Then yesterday for example I was reading an article about tornado alley and wanted to watch some storm chasing videos on Youtube. My searches just turned up page after page of "Family Vlog" clickbait, with people using their frightened kids as the thumbnail picture. Was so off-putting that it killed my interest.
Ozumandias | 6 years ago | on: Protester shot in chest by live police round during Hong Kong protests
Or rely on wars on other continents to drag their opponent's attention away?
Ozumandias | 6 years ago | on: WeWork says will file to withdraw IPO
Your first paragraph reminds me of the "Go Fever" phenomenon associated with the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster[1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_fever
Ozumandias | 6 years ago | on: Trump Will End California’s Authority to Set Stricter Auto Emissions Rules
That's how it's sold. It's really payback-politics. Obama admin did this? Don't care what it is, revoke it.
Ozumandias | 6 years ago | on: Don’t Trust Facebook with Your Love Life
If you are working in tech and can't think of anyone that big tech has spurned, you need to think about how it's changed the lives of most Americans in the past two decades.
Cab drivers: Uber. Small businesses: Amazon. Marketing: Instagram. Hospitality: AirBnB. Restaurateurs: Yelp. Teachers: Moodle/Blackboard. Journalists: Facebook.
Really can't think of anyone who might appreciate an anti-tech message?
These professions have been forced to abide by the new rules that tech has enabled. You can't intervene into people's lives massively and not expect them to push back.
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