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We will need some sort of truth and reconciliation process after this is all over if we are ever going to move on. That means accountability for the people participating in this state sanctioned violence.


Agreed, it's one of the only ways forward I can think of while still maintaining markets in some part of the economy...that is, if you care about the human condition at all. Plenty of these tech leaders seem to want to replace humanity though, so this will be an uphill battle.


It's a nice fantasy but completely contrary to human nature.


What is your alternative, when the price humans can sell their labor at dips below what is necessary for them to survive? All these takes about "UBI will demolish the human spirit" or whatever are just ridiculous when the alternative is "starve to death".


Just doing nothing isn't great for the "human spirit", but UBI doesn't mean people can't find their own goals to pursue. The idea of something where people are not longer required to work to survive is hard to accept since many people haven't seriously considered how they could meaning outside of their careers


I could ask every one of my coworkers what they would do and they would have a realistic answer.

I don't really have sympathy for people attached to their careers. They did that to themselves.


counterpoint : my father had realistic expectations for what he wanted to do post-retirement.

what actually happened was that he sat around purposeless because it turns out that the motivation of producing a paycheck or product was actually the reason he did things. He stopped showering, became depressed, and neglected his health.

And this isn't an uncommon reaction to the open-ended 'free-form' life post-retirement. Some people very realistically need to have some level of structure imposed on their life or otherwise be taught how to create that structure themselves. I think this will be a very real problem whenever UBI gets closer to reality.


I see two alternatives, one that people find new ways to do productive work with or in the presence of LLM, or massive social unrest, rebellion, war and/or starving to death, followed by a reset. I.e. the way human nature has responded to similar imbalances in the past.


So, you have no actual thoughts on this topic other than "UBI is bad" is what I hear.


My thoughts are that UBI is not compatible with human nature. It cannot work at societal scale. I'm not sure how I can state it more simply.


You were asked for alternatives, and said essentially "UBI bad, keep doing what we've been doing". Sorry, that seems lazy and uninteresting to me.


Glad to hear you've isolated the UBI-incompatibility (UBII) gene. Could you present your findings for the rest of us?


So is a compiler. Humanity is the conscious altering of nature.


be real it's just going to be slavery and murder of anyone who disagrees


I'd argue you need the infrastructure to recover from loss of a host regardless if you have backups setup properly.

Using EBS seems like a total anti-pattern for DB workloads.


You are now often debugging problems directly in an LLM context window, providing back console output, error logs, etc. there is an absolute mountain of data to mine from developer chat logs.


I'm not GP, but I think that it really doesn't matter if Intel is able to sell this process to other companies. But if they're only producing their own chips on it, that's quite a valid criticism.


And for the fourth time, it may be a valid "criticism" in the sense of "Does Intel Suck or Rule?". It does not validate the idea that this product release, which introduces the most competitive process from this company in over a decade, is merely a "cost reduction" change.


It's only as exciting as a cost reduction because they're playing catch-up by trying to not need to outsource their highest performance silicon. Let me know when Intel gets perf/watt to be high enough to be of interest to Apple, gamers, or anyone who isn't just buying a basic PC because their old one died, or an Intel server because that's what they've always had.

Every single performance figure in TFA is compared to their own older generations, not to competitors.


You took a joke about the NA LoL teams being so bad compared to the other regions that it was considered a "free win", and turned it into a critique of Europe. Good job...


It's the internals.

He is training up people to work on new features for existing databases, or build new ones.

Not application developers on how to use a database.

Knowing some of the internals can help application developers make better decisions when it comes to using databases though.


Here is the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSE8ODhjZXjYMAgsGH-Gt...

You can tell from the topics, it's related to building databases, not using them.


Clicked on the link and got stopped by cloudflare. Guess I won't be giving them any more traffic either.


I am 95% convinced he was caught because we live in a surveillance panopticon.

The McDonald's kiosks could very easily be sharing data with other private companies (e.g. Palantir) who the government contracts with. There are so many other companies jumping in on sharing data like this, why would a company like McDonald's care about selling out customer privacy in exchange for a better bottom line for investors?


He got caught because someone recognized his uniquely bushy eyebrows from the wanted photos. This is all documented, no need for advanced theorizing.


> This is all documented, no need for advanced theorizing.

Something being documented doesn't make it true:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction


The woman who reported his location said that.


>I am 95% convinced he was caught because we live in a surveillance panopticon.

I'm sure this is unpopular opinion but I'm glad we can catch murderers quickly which technology. The flip side is worse.

Note: This has nothing to do with the reasons for murdering which I'm not going to debate.


> I'm glad we can catch murderers quickly which technology.

According to whom? Homicide clearance rates in the US have been getting worse for decades [1][2]. The same is true in the UK, another surveillance state, where only 10% of violent offenses get solved [3].

This promise of a crime-free utopia has been nothing but a deceptive manipulation of the public and the scary part is that it keeps working.

[1] https://www.murderdata.org/p/reported-homicide-clearance-rat...

[2] https://www.npr.org/2023/04/29/1172775448/people-murder-unso...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jan/13/most-violent...


Java does similar. Confusing for beginners who run into it for the first time for sure.


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