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GrandpaPants posted:Something about the way Elon Musk does things reminds me of kids playing in the backyard with all the enthusiasm afforded by imagination without the constraints of reality and practicalities. Also the part where he got married and divorced twice to the same woman and first attempted to date Amber Heard by emailing the director of a film she was acting in...while he was going through that second marriage (to the same woman; it was technically his third marriage total).
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blowfish posted:and it's good
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cheese posted:Ya I mean, if the alternative is Gates and Zuck using their massive wealth to slowly devolve public k-12 education into a for-profit scheme, then I will take zany rocket building and curiously implausible infrastructure projects any day. What if Musk came up with a scheme encouraging STEM education by kids "volunteering" to "intern" at his "space
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Lol I'm sure the NSA will be extremely cool about the rando company digging holes underneath their campus.
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A Man With A Plan posted:Lol I'm sure the NSA will be extremely cool about the rando company digging holes underneath their campus. National security is ripe for disruption.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:National security is ripe for disruption. Thiel's already workin on it
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Absurd Alhazred posted:National security is ripe for disruption. Surveillr Rndrer Intrrogtr
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Weatherman posted:Surveillr Palantir is already a thing, unfortunately.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Palantir is already a thing, unfortunately. But Panopticon is still available!
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Curvature of Earth posted:But Panopticon is still available! PanoptiCan - like Alexa, but somehow more Orwellian! 
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Palantir is already a thing, unfortunately. Ugh, I had managed to forget.
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WrenP-Complete posted:Ugh, I had managed to forget. The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
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Curvature of Earth posted:But Panopticon is still available! Panopto, my campus' website, has always struck me as weirdly named for a lecture recording service.
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If the hyper loop tunnels go bust can they be repurposed as a subway? Edit. I just had an unicorn idea. A service that sends currated coupons for $3 a month. The real money would be if they can track the coupon usage, demographic info, and then sell the data. RandomPauI fucked around with this message at 13:37 on Oct 21, 2017 |
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Absurd Alhazred posted:The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. 2spooky4me
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Weatherman posted:Surveillr Torturing people to death has already been privatised quote:Guardian
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RandomPauI posted:If the hyper loop tunnels go bust can they be repurposed as a subway?
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RandomPauI posted:Edit. I just had an unicorn idea. A service that sends currated coupons for $3 a month. The real money would be if they can track the coupon usage, demographic info, and then sell the data. I'm pretty sure grocery store savings cards already do this for free.
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Doggles posted:Meanwhile Uber is starting to ask drivers to gamble with their earnings: ahahahaha what in the gently caress, are all of uber's management decisions made by one guy panickedly pushing every button he can see hoping the thing doesn't crash
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Shugojin posted:ahahahaha what in the gently caress, are all of uber's management decisions made by one guy panickedly pushing every button he can see hoping the thing doesn't crash
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Arsenic Lupin posted:It's evil people all the way down. You have to accept the Dark Mark when you sign on. Dark Mark is how the Facebook Inner Circle call him.
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sinky posted:Torturing people to death has already been privatised
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MikeCrotch posted:Well they also have their not-at-all sinister anti-ageing biotech company Calico which is notoriously silent about what the hell they are actually up to Verily, their medical devices company, seems to be on track to produce actually useful, transformative tech.
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RandomPauI posted:If the hyper loop tunnels go bust can they be repurposed as a subway? The hyperloop tunnels are meant to be very long stretches of a rather narrow tube, in order that maintaining the partial vacuum is easier. You'd need to expand them greatly to turn them into viable long distance real train tunnels, in order to fit things like full size railcars and the associated infrastructure. And while you could make London Underground-style rather cramped subway usage out of them without expanding, you'd still need to carve out spaces every so often for stations to make those usable as a subway. A separate issue is that for the West Coast proposals, most of the time the hyperloop is supposed to be on slightly elevated tracks that don't really need to be tunnels, but then a lot of the route is punching right through mountains on very long tunnels, and in some cases staying underground through populated areas just to keep a relatively level grade. And on the East Coast proposals, the tunnels would be rather deep underground to seek to ensure both relatively level grade on long stretches and avoid existing infrastructure in the cities which is often quite a ways underground already - existing tunnels in NYC that were built to have plenty of space to avoid hitting anything are themselves as much as 180 feet underground. So a lot of the lines will require very deep digging to add on a usable passenger stop that wasn't built with the system, especially on the east, but also for a fairly decent amount of the west route.
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Anyway that's all moot, because by the time we get functional Hyperloops Elon Musk, perched upon his Golden Throne will have already stolen the patent from the BrundleFly IPO to develop teleportation technology to solve our transport needs* *God-Emperor Musk is not liable for Cronenberg-level DNA merging accidents involved in telepod travel BrundleFly! Disrupting DNA transport one ATCG sequence at a time!
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Absurd Alhazred posted:The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. 
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Twitter is finally promising to do *something* about revenge porn, hate speech, hidden upskirt cams, sexual harassment and organized calls for violence: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/twitter-has-a-timeline-for-stamping-out-revenge-porn-violent-tweets/ quote:Here are some key dates on Twitter's safety timeline:
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Not too thrilled about that 11/3 item. What constitutes an "organization or group"? "Advocate" where, in what manner? "Violence" even in direct self-defense? It's big enough to drive a Panzer through.
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Will be interesting to see if a Swastika falls under 12/14 terms!
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Gazpacho posted:Not too thrilled about that 11/3 item. What constitutes an "organization or group"? "Advocate" where, in what manner? "Violence" even in direct self-defense? It's big enough to drive a Panzer through. I can 110% guarantee that BDS gets banned the moment this hits.
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They've already given 12-hour bans to people who post things like "gently caress white men."
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Notorious R.I.M. posted:Will be interesting to see if a Swastika falls under 12/14 terms! I mean it very definitely falls under 11/3? I wonder if they'll count those loving frog emojis under that too.
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Shugojin posted:I mean it very definitely falls under 11/3? I wonder if they'll count those loving frog emojis under that too. Probably not for frog emojis. I fully expect neonazis to double down on misappropriating benign symbols like the ok hand. If you ban those, you have to take a legitimate symbol out alongside it.
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Trabisnikof posted:Twitter is finally promising to do *something* about revenge porn, hate speech, hidden upskirt cams, sexual harassment and organized calls for violence: I bet Donald Trump is still exempt tho.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:They've already given 12-hour bans to people who post things like "gently caress white men." You mean they've actually taken a stance against racism, not just minority racism? That's pretty rare these days.
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Trabisnikof posted:Twitter is finally promising to do *something* about revenge porn, hate speech, hidden upskirt cams, sexual harassment and organized calls for violence: quote:10/27: Non-consensual nudity like upskirt photos and hidden webcams will be banned. How on loving earth was this ever allowed to begin with? 
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Rhesus Pieces posted:How on loving earth was this ever allowed to begin with? Previously only the person who is in the illegal upskirt or revenge porn could demand it be taken down, now twitter will take down any illegal upskirts or revenge porn they see.
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baquerd posted:You mean they've actually taken a stance against racism, not just minority racism? That's pretty rare these days. They aren't banning "racism". They're banning "hate speech". I distinguish between "gently caress X" and "Xs should die".
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