I generally dislike self-censorship & other compliance in advance with authoritarianism, but people calling pædophiles “PDF files” is great as an insult to the format. Donald Trump is a PDF file, and I mean that as an insult to PDF files!
The oldest fossils known are stromatolite fossils from 3.48 billion years ago. There are living stromatolites today. They predate Earth having significant oxygen in its atmosphere, because the cyanobacteria that formed them created the oxygen gas through photosynthesis from carbon dioxide. They’ve orbited the galaxy over fifteen times.
End-to-end encryption is the one of the most basic requirements for a communication system to be secure. Endpoint authentication is another. Message authentication is the third. After those 3 are fulfilled, further requirements can vary from system to system.
It’s like electrical or building code. Just because it’s compliant doesn’t mean it’s safe, but if it’s not compliant it’s almost certainly not safe. Necessary, not sufficient!
It can be fine if (and ONLY IF) the NPC matches your speed. There are other ways for it to be annoying, but that’s the easiest one to fix & the source of most of the annoyance IMO.
It’s only mostly methane. There are other gases, like ethane. Ethane clogs up power plants & furnaces, so it has to be separated out from the methane. It gets used to make PETE (#1), HDPE (#2), & LDPE (#4) plastics. Natural gas extraction produces so much waste ethane that it’s currently economically unviable to recycle those plastics, since it’s cheaper to make new. Even if sent to a recycling facility they almost entirely get landfilled or incinerated. :(
Focalboard. FOSS.
What if we only kill non-rich people?
The “AI safety” field is about two things: marketing AIs as so powerful that they’re risky to use but riskier to get left behind by competitors using, and keeping AIs from doing so much brand damage that stock price suffers. This story is about marketing an AI as powerful.
Yeah, there’s never a hard dividing line between a species and its immediate predecessor. Merely a gradual chain of mutations that eventually results in distinct populations. If those populations can’t successfully interbreed even if transported to meet, they’re different species. The definitions for asexually reproducing organisms are even more fuzzy. This concept that taxonomy doesn’t have fixed divisions confuses a lot of anti-evolutionists.
The proto-chicken was a mutant Red Junglefowl. Just like a proto-dog was a mutant wolf.
The US has no national ID system.
The business is genociding the out-group. It is just the cost of doing business to them.
It’s never been SemVer.
I think it depends on why you all meet for the first time.
You’ve all seen an “adventurers wanted” poster, gone to the listed address, passed the interview, and been hired? Fine.
You all randomly meet in a tavern, hear a rumor from one of the locals, and decide to work together with complete strangers? Stupid.
You’re all agents of the authoritarian wizard king “Friend Wizard”, assigned to enforce their authority. You’re also all members of different prohibited secret societies with secret missions to steal from & sabotage Friend Wizard. If you die Friend Wizard will resurrect you, the first 6 resurrections are free and more 6-packs can be purchased. Your DM is running Paranoia in D&D, wacky hijinks will ensue. Silly.
Any game that’s “best with a controller”. I’ve never liked a controller, and I’ve tried those of the SNES, Sega Genesis, GameCube, PS1, PS2, XBox, XBox360, XBox1, Wii, & PS5. They’re all trash.