Readit Newsmpsprd commented on Rue de l'Avenir en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rue... · Posted by u/benbreen
Are you sure it wasn't The Caves of Steel?
I think you're right, I misremembered the source. Reading online it's called the "robot series" and Asimov says he borrowed it from Heinlein.
Heinlein's "The Roads Must Roll" posits a network of very fast, very long moving walkways which could be used for mass transit (you'd ramp up speed on slower ones then hop over to a fast one). Wikipedia says that moving walkways had been in sf for decades by that point, but Heinlein also almost incidentally invents the Segway in the story -- just a little treat.
I love peoplemovers (like the Hong Kong Central-Mid Level escalators and the delightfully bouncy SFO walkways) and always wondered what would have to be different for us to get super-fast ones for transit.
In Boston, IMO they would be at least as good as the Green Line :)
Asimov introduced me to this concept in I robot.
In his version there were multiple levels of speed for entry/exit of transit so the main highways were going really fast.
IIRC it required some dexterity to use and sounded a bit dangerous...
I wonder how it works from the business perspective. There is an adverse-selection argument against introducing ad-free versions of an ad-supported service: the people who are most likely to pay for an ad-free experience are also the same people who are most valuable to advertisers. So if that group is gone, the remaining users could either command less ad revenue, or be shown higher CPM ads (e.g. ads for prescription drugs, not available in EU; or ads for adult content, incompatible with a family-friendly platform). How would this work? Or maybe the adverse selection assumption is faulty? Or maybe this choice could help avoid an EU fine of some sort?
To me your selection is reversed.
If you hate ads so much you're prepared to pay fb to get rid of it, I don't believe you're one to click on them.
mpsprd commented on The Enhanced Game – Sports, without drug testing enhanced.org/... · Posted by u/xvirk
Yep but that's true of many sports. In fact most sports at high levels involve a heightened risk of life-changing injury. It's a difference of degree rather than type.
Not that that invalidates your criticism but it does require it to be formulated in a more nuanced way.
I agree with you, the higher the level, the more athletes will destroy their bodies in the process.
My critism is about actively encouraging said destruction via promotion of stimulants. It's already bad as it is.
mpsprd commented on The Enhanced Game – Sports, without drug testing enhanced.org/... · Posted by u/xvirk
This website ignores the big problem with enhancement medication: the health of participants.
A future where there is an incentive to juice up athletes as much as possible is a recipe for disaster.
mpsprd commented on Using Goatse to Stop App Theft joshcsimmons.com/post/H4s... · Posted by u/joshcsimmons
Ah, I had a similar idea. There were too many bots or vulnerability scanners hitting /wp-admin.php on my blog. It was flooding my access logs with 404s because I don't rock wordpress. Irksome stuff.
So I threw up a little 'surprise' for the ahem penetration testers ahem, if you feel brave: https://www.thran.uk/wp-login.php
This made me nostalgic of the old ytmnd days
Can this tool help to simplify self hosting implems? K3s was recommended to me to replace my personal pile of systemd units starting docker compose configs and manual reverse proxy configs.
Im am completely oblivious to how k8s works.
mpsprd commented on How China's “debt traps” work noahpinion.blog/p/how-chi... · Posted by u/paulpauper
This article makes me think about "tofu-dreg projects" [0]
Poor quality construction work prevalent in mainland china. If you look for content with this keyword, you will find jaw dropping videos of constructions workers bending or breaking "rebar" with their hands, Owners chipping away concrete in high-rise buildings like its sand, etc.
Of course some of this can be propaganda, but considering it has a local name, there must be truth to it.
I remember this being "exposed" in the Tate modern in London.
This piece of art is the one that made me acknowledge and appreciate modern art. It really makes you undestand the value of context and performance.