If buying is not owning, copying is not stealing. Simple as that.

The human brain uses about 20W. Maybe AI needs to be more efficient instead?

Reality is woke

I sometimes listen to Russian radio and run it through Google translate. It's endless pseudo-philosophy that just goes on for hours and hours. Feels like it's a trope in the Russian world.

Sorry, Earth is only for billionaires now. Proles get to live in space tubes.

Would be great if the tax write-off would require the work to enter the public domain immediately.

Crash the housing market to save the office building market

Spoilers for a 59 year old book

Calcium is a metal. We have metal bones.

I've used Linux since 1996 and don't recommend it to anyone. They might want help with something.

From the beginning of the 2009 Dunning-Kruger paper Unskilled and unaware of it:

In 1995, McArthur Wheeler walked into two Pittsburgh banks and robbed them in broad daylight, with no visible attempt at disguise. He was arrested later that night, less than an hour after videotapes of him taken from surveillance cameras were broadcast on the 11 o'clock news. When police later showed him the surveillance tapes, Mr. Wheeler stared in incredulity. “But I wore the juice,” he mumbled. Apparently, Mr. Wheeler was under the impression that rubbing one's face with lemon juice rendered it invisible to videotape cameras (Fuocco, 1996).

I've seen that film

If we keep beating it for long enough, thermodynamics says it might spontaneously turn back into a horse.

Sign theft, maybe

If your business model needs undercover advocates to fake grassroots legitimacy you may have a problem.

Hungary metres from leaving

I wish reporting would challenge the lords and peasants assertion. Workplaces with collective agreements don't require union membership, but all workers benefit from the collectively bargained terms of employment.

Sync for Reddit pro cost me €2.69 in 2015. €23 is a bit of a step up.

Recently I've started to think that these and other similar battles are lost.

3 months later; privacy lock company is breached