Viruses do not multiply endlessly. Most viruses exist in stable ecological cycles.

Most viruses are beneficial to life. We complain about the few (and tiny minority of viruses) that infect humans and we do so from a selfish perspective, but forget about all the other that make life and evolution possible.

As a matter of fact evolution favors reduced lethality in many cases because wiping out hosts is bad for viral survival.

Agent Smith is way off on this one ...

I find it deeply ironic that the author can't even produce readable text, while complaining about other, much more complex tasks not working.

The author refuses to take minimal, common-sense measures to make the text more readable.

Here is one empirical data point.

I switched over to Firefox this morning and will advocate for it.

I've considered it for a while, but I never felt motivated to make the switch. It took me a good half hour to set it up the way I like it.

1. Big words at the start - pretending to hack at a problem so big that just swinging the axe is a major undertaking

2. The prose slowly drifts to make less and less sense; words have no practical meaning anymore.

3. Simplistic images galore. Various plots via cellular automata and "pretty" images show things that have nothing to do with the topic and are only distant metaphors at best. Yet these images are the proof that it all "works."

4. A nothingburger by the end. Leaves you wondering, why did I read all this?

Every essay by Wolfram is the same.

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The donkey, feeling unappreciated, approaches God with a heavy heart.

"Dear God," says the donkey, "why is it that all the other animals mock me, belittle me, and hold me in contempt?"

God listens patiently and replies, "My dear donkey, I understand your pain, but there's nothing I can do."

Surprised, the donkey responds, "But you are God! The all-powerful, creator of all things. Surely you can help?"

God smiles gently and says, "I may have created the world, but even I cannot change public opinion."

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Matt Mullenweg might feel like God and might be among the most influential and richest people on the planet. But they won't be able to change public opinion, which is without a doubt against them.

I would advise stopping the madness before it is too late.

Sadly, instead of supporting open source with $5 million, they each will spend 10 million on lawyers.

The Shameful Defenestration of Tim

https://chrismcdonough.substack.com/p/the-shameful-defenestr...

A credit card balance during the grace period is not a debt - it is no different than paying by check - it is not more than a delay between a purchase being reflected on an account. That's all.

Only the balance after the grace period should be counted as a debt if we are using that term to talk about a population being more or less indebted than say X number of years ago etc.

A credit card balance is simply a form of bank account for large number of people.

I think that statement can't be true.

Detailed measurements exists for less than a hundred years - yet the WWA is cock sure this is the highest rainfall ever. It goes to the credibility.

Countless prior models were completely off, but this one is suddenly correct and needs to be treated as a reliable predictor.

The problem is that if you dare to question the accuracy, you are immediately labeled a "denier." The only acceptable answer is that no matter what the prediction is, if it is alarmist, it is correct.

I don't know about others, but I always float thousands on my balance and pay it off by the end of the month; the payment is all automatic. Often, for large sums, I pay it off online right away when I get home.

In my opinion, this is not debt—as long as you have the money, don't overspend, and pay it off within the grace period of 30 days, as long you are using the credit card as an intermediary for convenience and as a service that gives you various protections. There is benefit to the customer.

That is the main attraction of Pyhon.

To stay on the topic of drones, Skydio is an example of a US startup that produced drones in the US, and for some applications, it produced better drones than an established and sophisticated competitor. Is every component in Skydio manufactured in the US, very unlikely ...

I am no DJI hater, I have owned multiple of their drones and I think their products are awesome of extremely high quality. That being said, a SkyDio was light-years ahead of them when it came to high-speed object avoidance.

SkyDio, a US startup, entered the market producing drones with object avoidance so advanced that it was far beyond what DJI offered.

Their consumer pricing was quite competitive ~ 1000, the drone was by far the best in the market. Nothing was even remotely as good as a Skydio at high-speed object avoidance!

It seems like the US government became interested and probably funded them in some capacity, and with that, they exited the consumer domain. They only sell drones to governmental agencies now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skydio

> In March 2021, the company became a unicorn, becoming the first US company that both manufactures and sells its own drones to exceed $1 billion in value

Saying that that no one can compete with DJI is simply not true. You can't compete with these companies because each are probably heavily subsidized.

Drone technology, like chip technology is a national security issue.

Loan forgiveness ... in essence, a form of vote-buying ... vote for me, and we'll forgive your loan (aka someone else will pay the loan).

If there is a chance that, at some point, we forgive loans - why would the cost of education ever decrease?