According to someone else in this thread it was written by the founder and owner, as well. You can still publish weird predatory shit about a tween now, although you’d probably try to stay anonymous.

Sure. We’re talking about kids playing here, though. Looking at that and saying it’s basically wife beating would sound hysterical.

Oh okay. But the point that it sure has grown stands.

Really young kids don’t care and mingle freely. It’s a learned thing; the latter. Although “oppressive” might be a bit on the strong side.

Sure, they’re okay. Honestly we might be a bit too strict about avoiding them, at this point.

Where it becomes a problem is if you’d like to join whatever group, but the only one available is not open to you. Which happened a lot historically, but is rarer now.

I think their claim is nonsense, grossly exaggerated at best.

Can confirm, in my experience the problem with mancaves is that you pretty quickly want to let women in. There’s no tradeoff, we can not talk about our feelings and make a mess in a mixed gender crowd, too.

Sure?

We both agreed that the late 20th century – broadly, the period from the early 1990s onward for a decade or so – had mostly been one of fairly steady improvement.

Ah yes, a famously bubble-free period. /s

Talking to old-timers, and reading history, it sounds more like revolving hype cycles have been around for the whole industrial age. TBF they do touch on that timeline later and correct themselves a bit.

Some were dumber than others. Foo-as-a-service wasn’t even a new concept, that’s just called renting shit out!

That’s good of you. I can’t imagine every accountant is so flexible. Lawyers straight up have to charge most of the time, I think.

It could also be a technical expert, or the government (in which case, refer to the lawyer).

I haven’t seen gourmet yet.

TBH if that was the tagline I’d be impressed.

Anybody could be a bastard, but that takes a very rich bastard.

The irony is that there’s two kinds of consumers here. Either it’s a rich yoga lady buying from an influencer, or it’s, like, an African person buying from another African person. Anyone in the middle just enjoys the wonders of industry.

Yeah, the euphemism treadmill has gotten that one. Now you want select, legacy, platinum or some jumble of similar words.

Yeah, when I’ve heard that my immediate thought is “welp, guess I’m on my own”.

But it’s actually grown. It fully didn’t exist 70 years ago.

LLMs don’t just memorise their training data, though.

Ah. Yeah, that’s not a sure thing, but progress has been very, very encouraging lately, and there’s no obvious fundamental limit, either. Advancement in the error correcting codes has even happened, which was unexpected when the big push to build a QC began.

(FWIW, Grover’s search algorithm is more of a toy than anything. You’re getting a quadratic speedup on exponentially hard problems, which leaves them still exponentially hard)

There is a tendency for some people to think anyone who’s not exactly like them is bad. If they’re saying that about centrists, it probably extends to anyone actually on their side of center but not in the right way, as well.

Depends what you’re ascribing to it.

Will it break encryption? Yes. That’s been well understood since the 90’s.

Will it help solve certain specific physics problems, including practical ones? Also yes.

Will it do literally anything else? Maybe, maybe not. Honestly, even calling it a “computer” is misleading unless you’re an expert. For layman purposes it’s more like an electron microscope or ultracentrifuge. Very useful for a very narrow set of tasks.

Quantum computing will eventually make specifically Bitcoin worthless. Eth at least gets upgrades, so it might survive.

I always thing about this as I hear my clothes bouncing around in there. I wonder how long one of those drying closets would take to earn itself back vs. a tumble dryer.