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Mate, where do I even begin here.

1. People have different opinions.

2. AI can make horrifying mistakes and still on average do its intended purpose. If you catch 90% murderers and 10% innocents, that is apparently good enough for quite a few governments.

Both of these things can be true. It still works if it occasionally throws a few innocents in front of the bus.

I genuinely had no idea how people could misunderstand the movie, until I met such people. It is weird.

First: The book does not glorify historically existing fascism, no.

But I believe that it is at least a half-serious argument, that Heinlein actually believes that a society like the one in the book wouldn’t be the worst.

I don’t believe that Heinlein supported racism or the oppression of “lesser” people. He made that point pretty clear, in interviews, life choices, other stories or by famously revealing (iirc) that Ricoh was brown-skinned.

But the militarism, united humanity in a hostile universe, the weird ideas about authority and merit, and the per aspera ad astra part? I do believe that he’s at least in part making a sincere argument, wrapped in an action story as a vehicle. The world he creates resonates too well with Heinlein’s biography, imho.

I have to admit, the book makes a great argument for “fascism” / military meritocracy, plus it’s just a easy to read action book.

I still think the argument is very flawed, and it’s a good thing that Heinlein (iirc) never had children to raise.

But do read it, it’s a decent book with an interesting argument.

Why? I have plenty of disk space, a few unused binaries wont hurt me

It is total BS. Offline vacuum cleaners do mapping and localisation just fine. It is just an excuse to spy on your home.

To be fair, I think it is okay to ask for a one-time fee for something you’ve developed. You want to use this $tech that I made? Sure, pay me 10 ct for every device you put it in.

I disagree on one point: the job of the education system is not to produce new workers, but to produce citizens. If I were I charge, I would force all stem students to take humanities courses. We have enough narrow-minded tech Bros.

Man, wifi is black magic. Not the nice kind that draws kittens out of hats, but that one that need a blood sacrifice to work

This is the correct answer. Modern x86 (x64) is a RISC CPU with a decoder that can decode a cisc isa.

Works quite well. Scrcpy is some great “just works” piece of software. I use it for all kinds of stuff, from typing with my PCs screen and keyboard in android apps, to remotely connecting to phones hooked up in a lab (using adb over SSH port forwarding, plus reverse forwarding whatevet 27… port scrcpy uses)

There is a difference between an asshole and an idiot.

Honestly? Cool that you are asking, but I just want a coffee, not a conversation.

Yes, I’m German, how could you tell?

It is more about being able to constantly spy on everyone. Funny how this exact sentence would have labeled one as a conspiracy nut not too long ago.

Constantly online means constant (more or less) analytics, means constant data to throw in the big computer to make you buy more shit or vote for the shit party.

I am outside of the US, and I do care. Biggest army and economy and so on. Even if not, I would not want to be associated with, idk, Australian wannabe tyrants either.

I’d like to point out that it is only one single proposal. If this does not get shut down, then it is time to be worried. But for now, it might just be one glue-sniffing Congressperson sniffing the wrong kind of glue one morning.

I think a lot of them, actually. Germany certainly does.

My condolences for moving to Crackfurt.