demonsword

I think most countries spy on their citizens

we should not be OK with that

the man has rarely been proven wrong in anything tech related he has said

cool joystick

Presumably because they haven’t invested in AI.

Presumably is carrying all the weight of your whole post here

Perhaps we could get a non-biased opinion and also from an actual expert rather than some finance ghoul who really doesn’t know anything?

I also hate banks, but usually those guys can sniff out market failures way ahead of the rest of us. All their bacon rides on that, after all

They did an attempt at VR

but it was a me-too attempt, almost a copycat of existing hardware... hardly innovative

Why do you think using energy is bad by itself?

Building infrastructure has an environmental cost. Even if they're building them for themselves, wasting the energy produced on AI and some other bullshit will worse our climate catastrophe while delivering nothing useful in exchange

And he invented JavaScript in a cave, with a box of scraps

Guns have useful legal purposes

Weapons are tools with only one utility, kill people.

I have my doubts about whether it was really a supernatural event

don't worry, it's just a fairy tale

Shit, I remember having to wipe my boss’s computer back in '03 because he clicked on an attachment called something along the lines of “bigtiddies.mpeg.exe” or some shit.

I could almost hear The Office theme song playing while I was reading that

Decentralization is, by definition, censorship-resistant, just hop to another instance.

or roll your own instance, with blackjack and hookers