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Must read book : THE ANARCHY: THE RELENTLESS RISE OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY. You wouldn’t believe this part of history


I believe we can safely assume that the systems we can see in public are at least one generation behind what big tech has running internally. ChatGPT and a Bing are so for only influencing its users passively, but when they think overpopulation is an issue, it might add a bias to answers already. Questions is when will we see -or hear- from a first system set lose , able to push active code


I wonder how much of the poverty can be still traced back to the British East India Company


A ton.

My great-grandfather was an indentured laborer in Malaya. My great-great-grandfather's family properties were seized by the British Raj, and many of his relatives and family imprisoned after a rebellion. Our family has not been able to recover from that up until my father's and uncles' generation, when many of them were able to go abroad (mostly the Middle East).

On the other hand, on my mother's side, many of her grandfather's businesses were forcefully nationalized in the few years after Indian independence.

Funnily enough, life has been good so far for our extended family. We have 4 dollar billionaires who have extensive properties in the UK today. And one of them owns a stake in the British EIC.


I also do product safety risk assessments , yet in other industry . But from safety perspective , I cannot come up with any reasoning how touch screens are acceptable . For sure they distract eye from the road when you try to find the right button . In a good car , your hands find the right function without the need to look for them . And not to speak of Tesla tachometer on the touchscreen. To my understanding , this has to be banned . It would’ve been acceptable if the things would drive themselves , yet as this is not in sight , that kind of distraction from the road seems unacceptable . I would never buy a car designed like this just out of safety reasons


Idk my Tesla drives itself 95% of the time. It also drives better than an most of the raging morons on the road.


I guess her test has worked


Out of context but reminds me of the painfully missing feature in outlook to highlight key information . How can this feature be not there ?


Is technology like the webb telescope design , or curiosity design open and public ? I mean eg CAD , components used , other details ?


In general, no. Individual elements of the design might be explained in some articles, and there are some overview articles like e.g. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-012-9892-2 but the actual engineering resources are usually not available to public


I think they keep these from public bc lots of defense contractors are actually involved in this project, too. And it's basically impossible to ask them to release those resources.


What supplements do you take based on your scientific background?


I don't have much knowledge on supplements or even diet - beyond it's intersection with the microbiome. From the microbial perspective I think traditional dietary stuff is enough - eat fibrous plants and legumes and that's all you need to do.


They took the radar out , didn’t they?


Issue is in my opinion that Tesla deliberately doesn’t install features to closely monitor driver‘s attention. In a Mercedes , if you don’t pay attention , multiple systems detect this and system is shutting down auto pilot functions with pre-warning .


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