That sounds like Frederick Pohl's Gateway series, of which I've only read the first. Very 70s.
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Ah yes the famous trial where HRC was prosecuted and convicted, I remember that, very analogous to Trump’s case, yes.
Big Yud has been huffing AI farts for so long he’s starting to hallucinate like one!
edit the replies once again prove that a blue check is an instant -10 point to credibility.
OK, I didn't know that (mslty because I don't follow PC news, it's aggressively boring). FWIW the only tech podcast I do follow (all mac people) did single out this release as "this time MSFT proabbly got it right" - but they're mostly interested in Apple getting some competition.
This might be the case, but at least the first I heard about the Copilot+ launch was that it was finally a "Macbook Air" killer - which I suspect would already be a strong selling point (at least if MSFT solved the backwards compatibility issue). Yet right after they announced the Recall stuff, and at least from what I have read it was received very negatively. So now they have the story that if you want the latest fast, efficient windows machine, you need to allow it to spy on your screen. Not the best marketing imo.
It's not a HN thread about a controversial new MSFT feature without some complaining about how nerds running Android are discriminated against in the dating market:
"Deter sneerers and critics with this simply JS trick!"
Obviously the arse end.
It's ironic that there is a "good old days" of (state) Communism, seeing that it was supposed to be the end of history.
(side note, back in HS I saw a graph illustrating the Marxist theory that successive revolutions lifted human civilization up a series of stairs (pastoralism -> city states -> feudalism -> centralized kingdoms -> bourgeois capitalism) up until Communism where these steps became an ascending straight line... and I though "hey, why does the line straighten out just there???")
I think a big part of Marx' appeal back in the day was that he was fully slotted into the rationalist milieu of the time. Identifying an impersonal, inevitable "march of progress" that wasn't religious was a powerful idea for some people.
(btw the Communist Manifesto is 150 years old and could have been written yesterday, at least the first part)
By all accounts, postwar Soviet union was a pretty sexist and racist place. It's no wonder the "old guard" communists look at today's blue-haired leftists and sound just like crusty old fascists.
Yeah I'm kinda familiar with the realities of drug development and testing, which is why I prefaced my comments with the solution being essentially magic. If we find hte magic bullet for cancer I expect it will be a slow grind and a lot of trial and error, so the wealth will be diluted across many entities. Not to mention the current business of cancer care might try hard to stop it...
Let's put it to the test:
That said, I'm mildly curious as to what influence if any the Collinses have on "real", religious fascist pro-natalists, but not enough to go spelunking in the sewers to find out.
Straight line on a lin-log chart, getting crypto flashbacks.