I don't get it, according to Reddit, Spacex is only successful because Elon musk (the spoilt, lazy billionaire who knows nothing about rockets) hired smart engineers to do the work.

So why didn't Branson (another billionaire) just hire smart people?

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Bipartisan support from the octogenarians that legislate the internet- something that didn't exist until they were retirement age.

Had my first bash at it today. Gotta say, mightily unimpressive.

Such a meme...

Adapt my fellow human

Excerpt from the linked content^1 by Stephanie Dutchen, about research published in Nature:^2

> “We believe we have developed the first technology to design an organism that can’t be infected by any known virus,” said the study’s first author, Akos Nyerges, research fellow in genetics in the lab of George Church in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.

>The work also provides the first built-in safety measure that prevents modified genetic material from being incorporated into natural cells, he said.

>“We can’t say it’s fully virus-resistant, but so far, based on extensive laboratory experiments and computational analysis, we haven’t found a virus that can break it,” Nyerges said.

>The authors said their work suggests a general method for making any organism immune to viruses and preventing gene flow into and out of genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

>Such biocontainment strategies are of increasing interest as groups explore the safe deployment of GMOs for growing crops, reducing disease spread, generating biofuels, and removing pollutants from open environments.

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>The work incorporates two separate safeguards.

>The first protects against horizontal gene transfer, a constantly occurring phenomenon in which snippets of genetic code and their accompanying traits, such as antibiotic resistance, get transferred from one organism to another.

>For the second fail-safe, the team designed the bacteria themselves to be unable to live outside a controlled environment.

>Therefore, no humans or other creatures are at risk of getting infected by “superbacteria,” Nyerges emphasized.

^1 Stephanie Dutchen, Harvard Medical School, 15 Mar. 2023, https://hms.harvard.edu/news/designing-more-useful-bacteria

^2 Nyerges, A., Vinke, S., Flynn, R. et al. A swapped genetic code prevents viral infections and gene transfer. Nature 615, 720–727 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05824-z

I don't think Google can just pull up and buy the remaining 51%

Except it’s probably more about blocking out competitors which certainly was also a consideration in China

Surface has been great. It’s just been pretty safe with the latest yearly refreshes.

Windows 11 is also a hot mess albeit serviceable.

Xbox / games division is on fire (the good kind).

Bing might become a thing with chatgpt integration. I’ve been using it more and more over google lately.

Chromium edge has been my browser of choice for a while now.

elonisadouche wouldnt use gmail bro

(Emphasis mine:)

> The subpoena specifically requires GitHub to disclose the name, address, telephone number, email address, social media profile information, and IP address of any user associated with the account that uploaded the code, which goes by the username “FreeSpeechEnthusiast”— perhaps a nod to Elon Musk’s fallible attempts at being a “free speech absolutist.” GitHub must also provide Twitter with the same information of anyone who downloaded the code from FreeSpeechEnthusiast’s posting.

LOL idiots you don't need to log into GH to download...

That makes no sense at all.

ChatGPT is built using Google technology (transformers) and was trained by crawling the same sorts of public data sources that Google has direct access to.

People think Google is playing catch-up but the situation is very much reversed. ChatGPT just jumped ahead on monetization.

Because in a free society, the citizens can decide for themselves to use or not. You are welcome to boycott any app you want.

The biggest issue is that all the worries would be solved with mirroring the GDRP in Europe. Instead of passing a bill that protects its citizens from all the awful privacy issues from both Chinese and American apps, they chose to mirror China in a police state authoritarian approach.

Reasons I am so glad I didn’t wind up having to intern with a particular congressman from my state 101

Plot twist, it was Elon doing it to get money from insurance or something.

Pasty Satan gets his source code.. can now go back to the sunless underworld he came from

EL5

What the RESTRICT Act creates, in a massive overreaction to concerns about Chinese-based companies, is a system for the US to create its own Great Firewall. Our attempt at pushing back on China only serves to make the US more like China, and stupidly bless their repressive and illiberal approach to banning foreign companies. Warner, in fact, more or less admits all of this in an interview he gave to Russell Brandom at Rest of World. Brandom highlights just how anti-open internet and illiberal all of this is, and Warner’s response is basically “but China made us do it”:

• But for me, it comes back to the hypocrisy of the Chinese government. China has prohibited American apps like Facebook and Google from their market for years. The Chinese version of Twitter is completely censored by the Chinese government.

So, because China takes a dictatorial, authoritarian, illiberal approach to the internet, so must the US?

Dropping like flies

The RESTRICT act is disguised as an attack on tiktok but it is really an attack on all Americans freedom of internet and privacy... the real motive is to ban VPNs and moderate content

If you don't need photorealistic pictures leonardo.ai is fantastic too, and you can generate 150 pictures for free each day. Has a waitlist but I got in after a couple hours.

I just went for the gangbang

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>I don't see how they can be called the best space company when SpaceX exists.

If "the market" in "the best company on the market" refers to the stock market, then it makes some sense. SpaceX isn't publicly traded.

I would be reluctant to invest into any of those "new space" companies myself though. First, space is hard - so many of those who only started out now are likely run out of funding before they make a single cent of profit on their launches. Second: SpaceX is the industry's mad titan. So much of the space industry now exists in the realm of "SpaceX hasn't gotten around to killing them yet".

And here I was thinking the resource wars would happen before the AI wars.