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Do your evidence that this was a murder is limited only to something that even crystal healers would consider crack pot?

I mean not with GitHub but I do the same thing with mega scans. I have a lot of rocks in my collection.

Unfortunately some users are just about bright enough to work that one out.

How much RAM does a time machine require because that seems to be the basic advice here.

Woldlines are a part of physics. Look up light cones.

The West was making real inroads with Russia before Putin came along.

It’s the same with every dictator there has ever been, they have to manufacture a war in order to justify their iron fist.

Capitalism isn’t the best by any stretch but one of the things it’s good at is making people realise that they will be much better off financially cooperating than having a pointless little war. War generates profits for the military industrial complex, but for everyone else they cost money.

My personal feeling about companies like this is that there is very little reason to assume that requesting my information be deleted will result in it actually being deleted. So at best I’m paying to be ignored.

If I could 100% guarantee that my personal information would actually be deleted upon request then sure it would be worth the money. But we all know that companies violate the law on a regular basis and nothing happens to them, especially if they’re US based. So why bother?

All that nonsense can just hit my spam filter like it’s been doing for the past 20 years. It’s not like I answer the phone to unknown numbers either, so I’m not sure what I’m paying for here.

Imagine the motivation you would get if people from the future suddenly started turning up trying to kill you.

“My god, I’m hot shit, I’d better get on with it.”

Then you just start inventing stuff, writing music, starting a political career, and travelling the world desperately trying to figure out what it is that you’re famous for. This results in international fame and fortune, and the attention of lots of women. But suddenly after sleeping around the time travelling assassin stopped coming. And it turns out that you’re the grandfather and their trying to stop you much better protected grandchild.

Once the child is born then they are no longer interested in you.

I like the idea that time machines can only transport people within the time machines own timeline. You can go back in time and see yourself finish the time machine but you can’t go back one second before that.

Like it’s one end of wormhole that gets anchored at a particular point in time and the other end drifts forward through time, you can enter and exit the wormhole at any point in its worldline but only within that limit

It’s still allows for time travel, and explains why no one has ever met a time traveller.

Why even have a QA department if they just release the game anyway?

Yes and the examples you provided are so compelling.

Drones don’t pilot themselves humans do it. You’re not going to want to put on board processing on a drone it’s just going to increase the cost to limited tactical benefit. Plus without oversight you couldn’t take the chance it wouldn’t go completely haywire.

I’m not sure how it’s an arms race given the fact that it can’t do anything remotely useful.

Also for an enormous part of their evolutionary history sharks were prey animals.

So likely immortal snail. Only it’s slower.

The US has absolutely mad road to traffic laws. Zero concept of lane discipline, you driving whatever lane you feel like. Don’t understand roundabouts even though it’s just a curved road, it’s really not that hard. Still don’t have standardised pedestrian crossings even when other countries had them back in the 1920s. A red traffic light only means stop sometimes, but sometimes you can go if you’re turning right. No one obeys the speed limit, people regularly exceed it, and see no problem with that. And of course no one has separate indicator lights and brake lights because when would you ever slow down and go around a corner, definitely no need to engineer for that eventuality.

Yeah the sentence should really be rewritten as “to capture knowledge already accessible on the internet, and repackage it into an utterly pointless hallucinating RAM guzzling money pit”

Trickle down is based on the mistaken assumption that rich people will spend all their money in the local community. When often they don’t spend their money at all and just save it, and when they do spend it it’s on expensive yachts in Monaco. They’re not contributing to the economy in which they live.

The millionaire class were delighted when they saw this idiotic take and pushed its narrative knowing full well that it would be to their advantage.

I don’t think I’ve ever heard it called a trickle up economics but yeah, it would work because most people have no choice but to spend locally. If I got some money from the government I would buy food in the local supermarket or get my house redecorated by a local tradesman.

Various tests of UBI have shown that it doesn’t really increase laziness beyond the base level it was already at, after all it’s mostly the rich who are lazy anyway, as they’re the only ones who have the resources. All it really happens is people want more time off work because they can subsidise their income with UBI, but that is an expected and desired outcome as it means more people will be employed to cover the difference which gets more people in work and therefore paying taxes.

Do they mean latex gloves like you might use in a hospital or do they mean actual rubber gloves you would use for washing up. Need to makes any sense.

I had to send an email telling people that part of the installation process of a new application is that they need to restart the computer. Restarting the computer involves clicking the power button and clicking shutdown, closing the lid and then immediately opening it again is not restarting it.