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Another MiSTer FPGA clone ($300):


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If you're a fan of cables and history, maybe you like to watch a video with some of the creators of the 10BaseT standard:



Same channel has a video on setting up an ISP in the 80's.
 
@TeDaDeS Almost two-thirds of the body's copper is located in the skeleton and muscle [1,3].
We're on a list now, right? Just by watching the video?

I suspect the bucket goes up because the water (which is being pushed outwards), is holding on to the inside of the bucket, while going up (path of least resistance), dragging the bucket with it.

Looking at the paper: So this is how psychology pictures are made! (but why not a paper with the magnesium/aluminum?)
 
This interview clearly states why tech fell in favor of Trump.



Makes sense to me.

Mm... Well. I hardly stayed awake, because I'm not that interested in the USA, But it kind of says some of the startuper children who grew up to be rich (nobody asks all the many others who went bloke), without ever caring about politics, have discovered once they're rich that they are right wing and want political power because they don't like to be controlled by whatever the majority of the population thinks it's fair. So they use their economical power to influence the population to vote for leaders that will basically dismantle the government and give more power to powerful individuals.
News at eleven ? or eleventh century ? or eleven lakh years ago ? I'd bet one day they'll find the same story painted in some paleolithic cave. Plain people who used to say they were left wing become right wing once they get rich or powerful.

What I find kind of new is that they're so ignorant of politics that they don't understand how government works, not just they dislike the current way government works, but they even haven't thought what way should a government work, they're just more anarcocapitalists than they themselves can chew. They probably will kill one another and disappear with all sorts of collateral damage, but if they manage to screw everything up just the way they dream to do, then they'll find out they like it even less than what they had and blame anyone else.
 
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The salient point to me was the Biden administration wanted the state to monopolize AI through regulation. They wanted to prohibit AI startups.

Also Andreesen started relatively poor then made it rich. How can you criticise that?
 
The salient point to me was the Biden administration wanted the state to monopolize AI through regulation. They wanted to prohibit AI startups.
Well, since corporations were using AI to evade all kind of laws and regulations (privacy, copyright, slander, liability, power demand and sustainability...) it isn't surprising.
AI is less powerful than it is advertised, but it's still powerful and disturbing, and any power will try to keep control and don't let others become more powerful. Government power too.
Government regulates nukes, weapons, finance, transport, customs, and lots of things. Why shouldn't it regulate AI? Just try to set up a startup to smuggle things into the country,
or refine uranium, or sell securities, or deploy a railway, and you'll see the government prohibiting you a lot of things.

The thing here is that IT in general grew a lot in a lowly regulated world, and it made sense while it affected mostly unmaterial things, but then came online commerce for physical objects,
exorbitant electricity use, accumulation of capital and therefore gentrification, and economic power, etc.

If Andreesen would have got rich in aeronauticcs, building or law, he would be more used to a playing field fenced by regulations. But he wasn't. So at a certain point
he went "how comes I can't do what I please with my money and my business! Help! Freedom for me!".

I'm more worried about prohibiting free software collaboration across countries because of sanctions than about regulating AI.

Also Andreesen started relatively poor then made it rich. How can you criticise that?
I don't criticise it. He was born in a born witth capitalistic rules, and whether he liked them or not at the beginning (I think he never thought too much about that) he played by the rules and sort of won, so
it's unsurprising that he ended up loving capitalism. Other tried and failed, so they maybe don't like capitalism now. But as long as we focus in one of the ones that "succeeded", then we may observe
a change of politics after a change of social class.

I don't say that's wrong in itself, just that it's unsurprising. Wrong would be to generalise his views and think they are better than anyone else's.
 
As whe are living on the "Border" of French (there is no Border anymore thanks to Schengen) , and whe have in the Saarland a good connection in our Hearth to French and Belgium, i did decide this morning to get me a good amount of Asterix Digital Comics to my Ipad Mini, the first 10..
As the Mini is my Pocket E-Reading Device its fits perfectly ..

Ditnt read anything yet as im at work, but it should work quite fine ..

The last Comic Series i did read on this thing where "The Stand", Stephen Kings Apocalyptic Epos and it did also work quite good..
 
Well, since corporations were using AI to evade all kind of laws and regulations
Actually they were trying to make money
exorbitant electricity use, accumulation of capital and therefore gentrification, and economic power, etc
Don't forget political power. If these things are bad the government should take action.
I'm more worried about prohibiting free software collaboration across countries because of sanctions than about regulating AI.
And putting an end to academic research.

Basically, Andreesen states the government fears AI because it will make them weaker, like social media and cryptocurrencies have, so wanted to bring it in-house. That would mean the end of innovation.
 
so wanted to bring it in-house. That would mean the end of innovation.
You are aware that you're not talking about some world government, right? Even if they had stifled innovation in the US, that might mean whatever, but sure as hell not the end of innovation.
 
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