Ok sure, but how much of the game will actually be generated by dolphins?
This will probably be just another example of HUMAN appropriation when plenty of dolphin developers are struggling to even find work in this industry. Maybe when dolphins are literally the subject matter of the game we could consider inclusivity in its development?
It's like a big business facing the threat of changing times, with newer, younger competitors taking a bite out of their profits. Do they try to shift their whole business model, try to pivot their whole behemoth operation? No. It's much more cost effective to hire lobbyists and buy senators, to pass legislation to kill their competition. Even if they spend millions on this endeavor, it's much cheaper and safer than actually changing their business.
Likewise, Russia has realized that fucking with the US directly is tricky, so they found a lever. They built huge troll farms, they launched a monumental propaganda campaign they developed new software and technologies for coordinating this propaganda. This was a huge investment, likely more than any country has ever spent on propaganda. But it was effective, it put an easy to manipulate psychopath who doesn't care about the United States into the White House. While the price to accomplish the feat was high, the payoff was probably better.
Well, we wouldn't be the first people to consider that question. This is basically why life insurance policies don't cover suicide.
You might be surprised at how low the number is for a lot of people. What's perhaps sadder, is that due to exchange rates, lives are worth more in some countries (some currencies) than others.
I guess my only point is that yes, some people can put a price on human life, even their own - and so probably others as well.
So, as much as it is a symbol of balance, it's also historically a tool used by Christians (or more accurately their kings) to paint their targets as 'evil' or 'demonic'.
Honestly, this is a really important takeaway. A whole lot of satanism/demon worshipping fears come down to this: rather than being a legitimate concern, it's largely just a tool used to villianize others and play on the preconceptions of Christians.
I'm surprised to learn that the CEO is not Moxie Marlinspike, my understanding is that he created the signal protocol. Perhaps he has nothing to do with the apps that implement signal?
Marlinspike is a well known name in the cryptography community, the guy knows his stuff.
I mean, the supply is pretty large for that. You'd think that electrical grid rollout in developing nations would have a higher impact than all the ram in the world.
I have to agree. I mean come on, cpu coolers? There's nothing proprietary about them, nothing particularly high tech or difficult to produce, it's a heat sink and a fan... Fancy ones may have a coolant loop, but still... I just can't see any reason that prices would go up noticeably for such easy to manufacturer, commodity parts.
I'm just saying, it seems a little early to start screaming "the sky is falling".
I don't know, it sounds like a pretty convincing argument to me.
It's a strange take to say "you're wasting your time trying to get legislation passed" I mean, that's one of the primary ways you change anything in a country...
And it's plain stupid to say the only solution to a problem is the "complete abolition of capitalism" and then the next moment, suggest someone else is asking the impossible by trying to get some minor policy changed... That's just bonkers. I mean, that simply destroys your credibility for the rest of the conversation, it's gone.
Having seen the video, I'm so fucking impressed with that guy! I mean, the brass balls to stand up to that many border patrol agents staring down at him and say "no! Show me your id mother fucker!".
And honestly, what could be better proof that he's an American than that, exercising his free speech right in the authorities' tactical masked faces. That dude is a grade-A badass American hero as far as I'm concerned. This man, Ahmed Bin Hassan is a perfect representation of the America I want to believe in.
You could say that of any infrastructure. Bridges are expenses, ongoing maintenance for them is a burden our children will have to bear. But I expect they'll be willing to do it.
The fact is, most of what we do affects the next generation, we just don't think about it, or can't quantify it. The only difference with nuclear is that we can quantify it.
This is true, the waste issue is different with these two technologies, but I don't think it's all that significant in either case.
Fission produces some awful waste, but what I like to point out is just how little it produces. My favorite example is nuclear submarines. Nuke subs have to come to port every so often for food, equipment, supplies, etc, but not because they're low on fuel. They don't carry a lot, about 500kg (half ton) and that lasts them a very long time. So how often do they need to be refueled? Once, most subs are refueled just once in their ~30 year lifetime. Some subs will be decommissioned before ever refuelling, using just one set of uranium fuel rods for their whole life.
Edit: I wanted to visualize how much 500kg is, and I know uranium is heavy but I really didn't have any idea what a half ton would look like. Turns out, it's about 26 liters, 1 cubic foot. (Though, ideally your uranium wouldn't be measured in either of those units, you really don't want liters of liquid uranium, and that's exactly where a solid cube is headed too...)
Given the tiny volume of waste produced over such a long time... We can figure out the storage. Even if the solution is costly, there's really not much to store, this is very manageable.
So yeah, I'm not saying waste isn't an issue for nuclear power, it is. But I think it's not the biggest drawback, it seems like the overall cost is still the bigger problem in operating a plant.
When you're watching a dramatic cutscene, but then someone needs your attention, so you hit esc... which skips the cutscenes instead of pausing?! What the actual fuck? The button that pauses the game in every other context now (surprise!) skips the cutscene? Why would you do that?!
I gotta be honest, as amazing as the promise of limitless fusion energy is, I'm really not optimistic that it'll be a major or even an important technology for the energy sector, at least for the next 200 or so years.
The thing is, we already have fission power and we're struggling to use it right now. The biggest hurdle for fission is the upfront costs of building a plant, the time needed to build a plant (construction can take up to a decade), and ongoing costs. While nuclear power is probably one of man's greatest achievements, it's also generally pretty expensive. And fusion has almost all the same strengths and drawbacks, but bigger. I do believe we will achieve sustainable fusion, probably soon. But I'm certain that while it will "work", it will also prove to be the most expensive form of power generation with the largest upfront costs that the world has ever seen. And I don't expect those prices to come down for a very long time.
Personally, I think anyone who expects fusion to be some kind of miracle technology is kidding themselves. And if people really want a miracle technology in the energy sector, keep your eyes geothermal, that's the only tech I see that has any potential to become cheap, limitless, and constant.
I do think fusion will have good applications, but it will likely remain niche for a while. I definitely look forward to seeing spacecraft propelled by ion drives and powered by fusion, it would be amazing to be able to get to Jupiter and back on one tank of (xenon) gas.
No no, quantum computing is more about using the quantum properties of particles to do computing in ways that you simply can't with traditional computers. If you write your program to accommodate this kind of computing, you can essentially design programs to test all possible outputs simultaneously - a pretty neat trick.
Right now we're talking about photonic computing, simply using photons as the circuitry within a processor rather than electronic circuits using elections.
Though I'm not an expert on either, so I'm probably the wrong person to ask for more information on the subject.
Ok sure, but how much of the game will actually be generated by dolphins?
This will probably be just another example of HUMAN appropriation when plenty of dolphin developers are struggling to even find work in this industry. Maybe when dolphins are literally the subject matter of the game we could consider inclusivity in its development?
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