I'm 5'10", 190lbs and I look half his size. There's no way in hell Musk is anywhere south of 250
As depressing as it sounds, I think it might be time to add a new entry to possible Drake Equation solutions:
"Stupid people stuck in a loop of hatred, bigotry and scientific denial kept society from moving forward fast enough to prevent destruction by climate change, conflict or lack of resources." And that's why we haven't seen any evidence of alien life. But societal evolution always follows that path.
Love it. Feel home.
People really love to hate, don't they?
Christ on a cracker! When Reddit went tits up greedy, Sync's developer worked his or her ASS off to bring us what we have now. They deserve compensation. Just because they made an ultra tier and made it a subscription, some idiots in this thread IMMEDIATELY start talking about them like they're no better than Spez.
FFS, you people all want your good things for free, don't you?
Either pay for something that you think has value, or shut the fuck up when the developer has to seek compensation some other way.
You people are the worst.
I can no longer even imagine my phone without Niagara.
IMO the developer managed to capture exactly how a phone should work while mostly staying out of the way.
Well yes... technically. But honestly the question of "is it a currency" is moot. The ACTUAL question, and where Crypto fails is "Is it WORTH anything as a currency?"
Two people can decide rocks with holes in them is still a currency all they want. And yes... technically that would be true. But a currency only accepted by two parties is by definition worthless.
Crypto is worthless as a currency. Not because of anything in Crypto technology itself, but because the only people who seemingly want it to be are tech bros.
Without MUCH wider support in the real world that doesn't revolve around computer code, replacing thousands of years of accepted practice that already works (imperfectly... but it works) Crypto will always be a niche for a small subset of people.
Saying that Crypto is a currency because some tech bros SAY it is, is TECHNICALLY true. But by that definition, MTG cards, beanie babies, and POGs all qualify too.
Ah yes, the tried and true "I'm rubber you're glue" strategy. Classic Putin.
I'm learning a crazy amount. Which actually increases the time, since I'm going back and correcting/redoing things as I learn better ways of working or get good enough to get better results.
As for being done, I find it amazing that three months had already passed. The challenging part is yet to come (programming the more complicated systems and making it perform like a commander.)
My goal is six months development time...so another three months to get something out that I'm proud of. Whether that will be a polished finished product or just a public beta at that point, I'll see as the date gets closer.
Alexandra is responsible for the line in the movie that most cracks me up every...single...time.
"Holy shit that girls got a skunk on her head! Oh...that's just your hair. But seriously...that's messed up."
Josie and the Pussycats.
It was so far ahead of its time that critics just didn't get it because the world they were satirizing was still about a decade away. (Instagram, fame, product placement, fanboyism...)
Also, bonus answer. The Big Hit. Because fuck it. Lou Diamond Phillips knew exactly what kind of shclock movie he was in and chewed the scenery fantastically.
To be fair, unless you're using some incredibly obscure phone, chances are a ROM exists to keep it up to date long after the manufacturer has walked away from it.
I realize not everyone has the know how to install one, but if they're concerned, it's not hard to find someone who does. (we've all got techie friends, and if you don't, that means it's YOU).
Heck, my pixel 2XL was updated to the newest Android version up to last year thanks to the Pixel Experience ROM. Would likely still be updated if I hadn't finally upgraded.
Because once a corporation increases prices due to "supply and demand" or whatever bullshit reason they make up that week, those prices never go back down if the reason changes. conveniently.
Every corporation will say "we need to increase the price on "x" because the primary supplier in Bolivia is facing economic turmoil...blah blah blah." But once that turmoil is over and supply returns to normal, they don't bother taking the prices back down and rely on the fact that modern society is too distracted by their "conveniences" to care.
"The people will not revolt. They will not look up from their screens." -- a stage play based on George Orwell's 1984
They (the super-rich) have created a class of people beneath them who don't notice or care that they're being fucked over so long as they are provided with more and more vapid content to consume.
As a freelance writer, I write an article for a respected tech website. That article gets views, which in part determines if I get any sort of a performance bonus.
Along comes an AI that scrapes my content, so that when someone asks it a question about how to do "x" on Mac, it spits out an answer based on what it learned from MY article, sometimes regurgitating it word for word, and in doing so deprives me and my publisher of a much need page view.
It affects their revenue, since it affects ad views. It affects my performance bonus.
This isn't about big tech being "bad". It's about writers and other artists not being credited or paid for their work.