Computer Infatuation

> Could you take a moment to check it Google Books search still exists?

If only it still worked well enough to use. I use to use it every day, but how the mighty have fallen.

Fascinating

If sentience is your litmus test, how do you define it? Do you recognize partial sentience? The struggle of all life to survive and reproduce? Animals with social hierarchy, tool use, problem solving or math skills? Where is your line? You might enjoy the philosophy of Peter Singer if you extend this line of reasoning. He's a bit too radical for me however.

A ship was lost at sea. The people were angry, so the monarch sentenced the sea to fifty lashes and stoning for the sailors lost at sea. The Monarch's guard applied the lashes, and the people stoned the sea. The people were appeased to the last.

"Only sociopaths, engineers, and scientists use more than 4 digits of pi. Which one are you?"

The majority of acquisitions and mergers fail. It should come to no surprise for those whose company or employer is acquired that the acquisition will fail as well.

> That was a fun finding out…

Not my idea of a good time, but whatever floats your boat. Hopefully you had a backup?

> People have been capable of educating each other and watching children without full-time school for thousands of years, it's only recently that westerners completely forgot how to do it.

You sound ignorant of how western society works. Cost of living has increased significantly in the west and globally so that both parents must work to provide for children, especially in urban areas. Work opportunities are often only to be found in urban areas away from grandparents and other potential caretakers. You should reexamine your priors, assumptions, and unnecessary biases. Or, have you completely forgotten how to learn?

Iceland has huge greenhouses. Norway is exporting their indoor aquaculture expertise and investments to other countries. We're getting there but not quickly enough.

Basically you're saying that Nuclear energy bad. No fix. Trust me.

You can extend your rail network overtime, a few stops at a time.

You forgot entertainment and accounting.

> Food is not a limiting factor.

Food and more importantly, as you would know if you googled depleted aquifer, water are limiting factors. Always. You will always need those two. Most of our agricultural practices are unsustainable across multiple measures, especially water.

> China is a net exporter of food in a country of 1.4 billion on about 1.1 million km^2 of arable land.

Saudi Arabia used to be a net exporter of wheat until about 5 years ago. Our arable land, the topsoil so vital to it, and the fresh water we overuse so much faster than it can be replenished worldwide are all hitting bottlenecks in the coming years. Egypt and Jourdan are fighting over the Nile. The Sahar and deserts in China are expanding despite great efforts otherwise. China is imposing its will in Thailand and Vietnam over their control of the headwaters of the Mekong. The Europeans are worried about the Po and Rhine being lower than usual with glacier meltwater being depleted faster and faster with rising temps and milder winters. Aquifers built over thousands or millions of years are being pumped at rates unrecorded for agriculture and residential use. Ogalalla and western US aquifers are sinking the land and running out. Encroachment of freshwater systems by erosion and saltwater from rising sea levels and fierce storm surges are threatening ecosystems and coastal farming. A pernicious side effect of a hotter atmosphere is increased vaporization of water from lake reservoirs causing water loss exceeding water use of cities and populations. The outlook and ongoing crises in places like California are grim, but there's a lot we can do. Price water more closely to its real cost. Build desalination plants. Implement water saving tech into manufacturing and households. Water loss from reservoirs and recording depletion rates of aquifers can give us better data of the scale and rate of the depletion to inform the urgency. More data can be collected. Swale water runoff and improve land management techniques to retain water. Implement drip irrigation and water efficient and drought resistant crops. Build cisterns and modify reservoirs to improve water storage and retention. Chinampas can be built. Many other efforts and policies can be implemented, but they are all costly and take time. Perhaps that's why this issued has been ignored for so long, because we turn on the tap and the water always comes out. Until it doesn't anymore. We've certainly been warned. Hydrologists have been warning about this for almost a century.

> End all wars. Bring all troops home. Close all foreign bases.

It's a nice sound bite, but it doesn't work that way does it?

I blame tanning beds in part. My cousin and I are the same age, but they used tanning beds quite heavily whereas I have not. They look significantly older than I do now and they're more at risk for skin cancer as we have genetic factors at play.

There're some similarities in how the viruses work, so the vaccine does confer some immunity. The US has maintained this stockpile in case of biological warfare. We might as well use it.

Let me fix this for you.

> I think we forget over time and become complacent to the strong possibility that the US maintaining its economic and defense hegemony has generally resulted in fewer non-American people doing bad things.

American hegemony is mostly good for the US. Let's not lie about doing 'good' elsewhere. American actions have destabilized many countries and governments to secure and advance American interests. Have American citizens benefited? Probably.

> So you go from a generation who used the military might to stop literal Nazis and effectively save the world. Follow that up with generations of overthrowing democratically elected governments and fostering civil wars globally.

> to more of a lull where people forget that and start calling for a removal of all foreign bases and a reduction in might, to being smacked by the reality again that bad people predictably do bad things, such as russias invasion of ukraine.

I don't think people want a removal of all naval bases or military presence, just enough to pay for fucking healthcare, teachers, food, bridges, and housing. You know the usual basic necessities for life. I guess killing and maiming people around the world is just easier to do.

> it’s good overall that we have this military might, even if not everyone appreciates it. That remains to be seen. Tell me that in a few years when we have more guns than food and water.

As always, unless you're colorblind, the world exists in color, not black and white.

> The advantage of crypto over cash.

Let me stop you there. There is no advantage. Cryptocurrency is a scam. I've been burned. Many others have been burned recently. Go back to the drawing board and come back in a few years with a valid use and tell me it's still useful for something other than skirting the financial regulations and scams.

Is Atlassian just another yahoo though?