> "Turn's Out..."

There's been a psycho cabal of the idiot wealthy trying to run the world since the invention of currency...

Before that, there was a murderous cabal of warlords. They haven't gone away, they've just been joined by the idiot wealthy...

I fired them years ago, and not just the kitchen countertop puck, every service they offer. Yes, that's right, I don't watch youboob, or use their search or gmail!

And you shouldn't either!

I discovered it for myself some years ago, when I wanted to make simple network test scripts run without depending on curl or telnet, or other executables outside of bash.

For dipshits who think aggregating ad-based websites, and hate filled doom-loop algorithmic feeds, are "the web", this may be true.

But the rest of us, who aren't part of this "we", will still be here...

See the post above, where I criticize him and am being downvoted into oblivion...

Someone who lays bricks, "earns" their income; someone who's wealth increases as a bricklaying company's value increases, does not.

In this sense, it is indeed impossible to "earn" a billion dollars...

People should use alcohol, tobacco and firearms, like the little baby jesus intended...

Once you take the leap of believing there is some big invisible guy in outerspace, pretty much any belief is possible after that...

Shouldn't human-made exclude injection molding, or CNC metalwork?

Or maybe this is for people who think software is everything?

Sadly many recent electrical engineering grads also have this perspective...

There are more articles in the HN feed on AI than any other topic, by far.

A certain amount of the push back is just because of how much it displaces all other subjects.

Another amount is just trying to overcome explicit fan-boi-ism. A year and a half ago, I was a total skeptic. The tech has evolved considerably since then. Now I find it has very strong results in some applications. But there are still certain demographics who want to believe its great at everything, which is just not true.

One thing that I think is commonly misstated though, is that this period was one of "peace".

When viewed from the elite perspective, the power struggles between daimyo in the Warring States Era had subsided, but for the common people, the Edo Period was anything but peaceful.

The samurai class could chop up any commoner at any time, for any reason, or no reason. Sometimes just to "test" a new sword, or because their "honor" had been challenged (maybe the person didn't get out of the way and bow fast enough).

https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/what-is-desalination-de...

I've never seen a place throw away more plastics than in Japan.

If the current oil situation forces a reworking of this system, I'd say all in all, that's an upside.

But I've always used SSH port forwarding to access everything except pages intended for public viewing...