zbyte64

Being a billionaire is like staying alive long enough to be a villain. They were great at something but nothing justifies holding that much power for so long.

Also introduced voucher schools because he didn't want teachers telling him laptops won't solve education

Was the paper optimizing for multiple objectives? Sounds like this project is pursuing some features that haven't been proven

It's important to understand that any argument against improving one's material conditions is going to be rightfully ignored. Better to point out that without removing the yoke of power, any concessions can be easily removed.

Yet roads and lines of communication make a socialist transition more likely. Almost like the material conditions matter, regardless of the political context.

Cool, now do public education and public roads.

IDK about "white knight"; I first heard the phrase "dangerous by default" from a black man recounting how he got nervous being on an elevator with a white woman.

"Dangerous by default" is one hell of a thing to internalize 😞

I lived through those times, this is different. The punishment for false hope is the lesson that things can always get worse.

We're cooked because our leaders are pumping the AI bubble while crashing the rest of the economy. When that bubble pops those programmers are going to have to find a job in a nuclear sized crater of where the economy used to be.

When asked why such basic tasks are impractical they will say "just look at how incompetent we are!"

Well now I feel like an asshole for telling my wife it wasn't her fault for being let go.