I assume he’s white, because otherwise he probably would have had his head truncheoned-in.

If I ever get married that is definitely making an appearance at the reception.

The problems being solved by blockchain can almost exclusively be solved in better ways using a different distributed technology. Blockchain is pretty much the definition of a solution seeking a problem.

dumb expensive JPEGs

Maybe anywhere there is a drunk Torch is the Overrider Bar.

snapped back to reality

It’s a really tough sell that the Republicans use a dirtier rulebook than the Democrats.

It’s a good thing they spun off LiveWire as a separate business then. ;-)

On this site I’m torn as to whether that’s a commentary on the human race or just bad math.

One of the best things I ever did in my software career was go to customer sites and help out with deployments of our product. It was incredibly embarrassing, but eye-opening, how much really obvious stuff we had overlooked because we never actually interacted with the product outside of a development capacity.

Yes and no. It’s true that some number of traffic fatalities are inevitable at this point, but that hasn’t stopped us from trying to reduce them. After seat belts, air bags, etc. were invented we didn’t throw up our hands and say “Good enough!” like they are in this video.

Of the three, fusion power is the one I’m rooting the hardest for.

Not remotely comparable. Chess and Go are both games with well-defined rules. There may be an enormous number of possible moves, but at the end of the day there are limits on what you may be presented with.

Gah, I’ve seen Animal House. How did I not know this?!

“People are too stupid to know the difference” is perhaps the laziest response to being called out for printing factually incorrect information ever.

I really hope Moonfall doesn’t suck. I used to love Emmerich movies, but the quality has been headed in the wrong direction for the past decade or so.

Now I want to know what movie that’s from

In Wisconsin he’d get a warning and an admonishment to never do it again.

Is the tech cool? Undoubtedly. Does that excuse anyone pretending things it does are things we’re somehow actively struggling against without it, like that?

There’s an unfortunately large and vocal part of the human population these days that is all about normalizing death. :-(