I'd like to cordially invite more folks to leave New York to make room (and depressed housing prices) for the rest of us. Thanks in advance!
After you, sir.
Readit NewsOzumandias commented on Goodbye, New York, California and Illinois – Hello where? bloomberg.com/opinion/art... · Posted by u/nishantvyas
I'm hoping to tackle this list in 2020, I've been wanting to read Caro's LBJ series for a while now.
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Robert Caro - Lyndon B. Johnson series & The Power Broker
S.C Gwynne - Empire of the Summer Moon
Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Black Swan & Antifragile
Graham Hancock - America Before
Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs and Steel
Safi Bahcall - Loonshots
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 commented on Tesla's Cybertruck Approach on Auto Manufacturing and Engineering motortrend.com/news/tesla... · Posted by u/fumar
It could recharge through solar in a day or two, if you have a house's worth of panels, and the clouds cooperate.
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).
This talk touches the very fundamental question of attribution of blame. 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?
First off, there is a very strong axiom here that "the masses" are extremely malleable and incapable of critical thinking. So, just like with children, it's the responsibility of the "influencer" to control the audience "properly". This is a very strong axiom that, while I personally agree with it, I'm guessing most people wouldn't when presented explicitly. This axiom has far reaching consequences for Free Speech as Free Speech only works when personal responsibility is a given. This is a classic "you can't have it both ways" situation.
But assuming this axiom and its implications (that people are not 100% responsible for their actions), the next question is how much of the external responsibility does the metaphorical printing press have? Is it ok for my OS to allow me to type "kill jews"? Is it ok for your browser to render said text? Should Microsoft censor the content of Word documents so they can't be used to spread hate speech? (this is not so far fetched: Photoshop blocks attempts to edit images of money bills for fear of being a tool for counterfeiting) Is it ok for a CDN (like Cloudflare) to decline services to websites based on their content (like 8chan and Daily Stormer)? If yes, must they decline and actively police the content of all "19 million Internet properties that use Cloudflare's service"? Should Google not deliver emails based on their content? etc.
How much do we want Facebook/Twitter to bare responsibility for the content of users and advertisers and thus actively censor based on their own criteria? What should be this criteria be?
"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 commented on Deepfakes: MIT brings Nixon's Apollo disaster speech to life wbur.org/news/2019/11/22/... · Posted by u/jbredeche
Make-A-Wish Foundation can really benefit from this technology by sending these "heartfelt" deepfake videos of famous celebrities and idols to dying kids, hoping to cheer them up. Is it an ethical thing to do? You be the judge!
In a thread full of awful futures, I find this one to be the most depressing.
Ozumandias commented on Differences between expert and novice brains in mice: study cshl.edu/the-difference-b... · Posted by u/known
When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'That knowledge is for me alone.' So I said, 'God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.' Then God said, 'Well George, that's more nearly your size.' And he told me.
-George Washington Carver
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 commented on Tesla's Cybertruck Approach on Auto Manufacturing and Engineering motortrend.com/news/tesla... · Posted by u/fumar
Why would you need bulletproof glass?
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 commented on A Cybersecurity Firm’s Sharp Rise and Stunning Collapse newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/jontaydev
Whilst theregister.co.uk does get straight to the point. the newyorker article tells a very interesting story about his work in hacking P2P, working with the secret service, trying to sell his software to the FBI, GPS tracking his mates cheating wife etc.
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.
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Come experience the world famous staycations of Norilsk. People travel from around the world to staycate here.
Ozumandias commented on Disney Bans Netflix Ads as Streaming’s Marketing Wars Intensify wsj.com/articles/disney-b... · Posted by u/AznHisoka
It just feels like the various streaming services are morphing into everything that we hated about cable television.
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.