bitofhope @ bitofhope @awful.systems

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What kind of a cost is low enough that eight billion people can pay it for their legitimate communications without burning the planet too much, but also high enough that a spammer with a botnet won't bother to let other people's machines pay the cost?

I don't think that simile quite lands. Hindenburg worked as expected until its sudden catastrophic demise and hydrogen caused both the function and the failure. Zero knowledge proofs neither make cryptocoins work nor are they the reason why they don't work.

A more apt comparison is something like saying levers are the technology behind this perpetual motion machine.

The design incorporates levers that fail to make the device function, but it's not like levers are useless because of that.

You gotta be careful not to joke in a way that's indistinguishable from real shitcoin spam 🙃

She Licking my County till I back away is this anything?

I just bought a humanoid robot servant! I also got a machine that lets her do chores in my house.

And as the same channel demonstrates, there are ways to fly without any wings at all

Man, it's really true what they say: the West can't meme.

baking a Hear Me Out Cake for Reachy 2

You ever see a random shitpost video, like the backgroud music, look it up and realize you already have the vinyl record? That just happened to me.

Exactly. It's one thing to claim "nice comes from Latin nescius meaning ignorant therefore nice means stupid" and another to say "octopus and helicopter mean the same thing because helicopter comes from helico- meaning helical or spiral and pter meaning wing."

Hehe, Nescius Moldbug.

Ooh, pants-on-head stupid semantics nonsense detected.

First, the government needs to be run top-down from the Oval Office. This is why we call it the “executive” branch. “Executive” is a literal synonym of “monarchical”—from “mono,” meaning “one,” and “archy,” meaning “regime.” “Autocratic” is fine too. The “executive branch” is the “autocratic branch,” or should be if English is English. Libs: if these words don’t mean what they mean, what do they mean?

Executive, as in pertaining to execution. Executing the the duties of a government as defined by legislation. Where the fuck did Curtsy get the impression that "executive" is somehow synonymous with "monarchical"? Did he mix it up with "exclusive"? Even corporations often have multiple executives with different roles.

Mr. Thiel you have so much fucking money couldn't you afford a fascist philosopher king who is more intelligent than this guy who thinks an "executioner" is a guy that makes you a dictator?

It's weird how you can always find autocracy supporters in every era despite the overwhelmingly strong and incredibly obvious counterargument "what if the autocrat wants to do something you don't like"

Excellent primer. It would fit well into this thread if you wanna link it there https://awful.systems/post/3935670

To be fair, the typesetting of the papers is quite pleasant and the pictures are nice.

Wow, these Japanese jet coasters are getting crazier day by day!

Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) 37,108.54 -1,206.32 (-3.15%) As of 9:30:56 AM EDT. Market Open.

lol, lmao, happy Monday everyone

Critical support to comrade Trump in his struggle against AmeriKKKan imp€riali$m. Death to the great SSatan United $naKKKeSS.

Oh, sorry, I got so absorbed into reading the riveting material about features predicting state name tokens to predict state capital tokens I missed that we were quibbling over the word "next". Alright they can predict tokens out of order, too. Very impressive I guess.

Essentially they do not simply predict the next token

looks inside

it's predicting the next token

Alright fair enough. It's an iPhone. All the browsers on this thing are just Safari reskins (i.e. Chromium reskins). No browser add-ons allowed due to Apple's policy. I don't like it and I don't expect my next phone to be an Apple product. DNS based ad blocking helps a little bit.

"Trivially" fits nicely in a margin, too. Suck on that, Andrew and Pierre!

You know what, yeah. It's a Blackberry Mobira Cityman Western Electric Model 500 Nokia 3310 Apple Banana Samsung Galaxy Supernova Explosion iNote Xperia Sidekick N-Gage 3G 4G 5G Pro Max. It's running whatever happens to be the hippest new privacy focused ROM that you haven't used. I need this particular model for my work and to access my bank and if I buy a second phone my dog will die.

If I personally justify to you that I've jumped through as many hoops on my end as possible, will you stop missing the point and realize the onus should not be on each individual end user to partially deshittify the web back into barely usable state?