which seems like a decent license idea to me

i wonder if it would have made the trip without that crashing. not that it matters much, but wow. how insanely stupid!

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but the article is about exploding batteries, no?

100%

hernia mesh brother! that’s a great idea, I’m stealing it! my man

yep, same here except i think power-source makes a slight difference to the degree of cyborginess. maybe we need a scale. maybe something like:

1. caveman with tools, self-powered
2. ancient person using naturalistic propulsion methods (wind, animals) for vehicles (ships, chariots) etc
3. engine (steam, electric, gas) powered entities (vehicles, factories, aircraft)
4. direct nervous system integration for thought-based control
5. shared consciousness

Neil Harbisson is the world’s first officially recognised human cyborg

fucking bullshit. stephen hawking couldn’t function or communicate without his chair & computer. you’re gonna say that doesn’t count? then i don’t trust your judgement

those ai projects will be countering the climate change projects! government at its usual

i was trying to find a link to Apache’s chat server that we used to power cruise ship chat applications w/out internet. i didn’t find it but this list i found has some neat projects listed, so i thought i would share that at least: https://medevel.com/26-os-chat-servers/ (no affiliation)

not at all. are you expected to remember it? would it even be possible to memorize for most? not even close to the same thing, passwords have very low entropy which causes all their problems

there’s literally zero technical reason that a user couldn’t reset a private key the same as a password. after all, you just pointed out they are almost the same.

edit: if you’d like to see an example create SSH keys for your GitHub account and then reset them

private keys, etc

passwords were maybe the dumbest idea ever invented

Larry Ellison just gave a big talk on this tech coming to America soon. fuckin billionaires

hey now let’s be fair here, people hate C++ too

seems like not that long ago i would’ve thought that the idea of a PC without any disc drive was insane. i had to help a neighbor kid the other week when forced bitlocker bricked his gaming PC, sure enough it didn’t have any disc drive!

that can’t be real… oh no. wtaf!

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a monopoly patent was literally a government invention. an actual monopoly does require the government. what you are talking about is called a “natural monopoly” in the literature. that would be a situation where there’s only one seller for something like say water in a desert town. in that case you can have price gouging and such.

now, the important bit is the LEGAL ability to prevent competition. if there is a natural monopoly on water, and the seller decided to start charging obscene amounts for water, those extreme profits would normally induce other sellers to enter the market. except when they are legally prohibited, we can expect that a natural monopoly will not last if what we call “monopoly rents” are extracted.

so you see, a true monopoly requires legal force, eg the state.