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Nobody is going to turn down getting their eyes scanned by a chrome orb, that is just science. Oh a guy is building a superintelligent AI and also compiling a permanent electronic identification database of all humans, that’s great, that’s not an alarming science-fiction premise at all. I feel like if you made that movie you’d have to have some plausible back story about how the AI convinced people to hand over their iris scans to the AI, but in the real world you don’t.
Money Stuff: The Moon Emoji Is Securities Fraud
Matt Levine
Organizing into services taught teams not to trust each other in most of the same ways they're not supposed to trust external developers.
Stevey's Google Platforms Rant · GitHub
Gist
The engineers that spec out the heating and cooling systems for buildings (known as HVAC, for "heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning") use the term "design days" for the hottest or coldest days of the year, the days that demand the most of building systems, and they are usually design days for the underlying infrastructural utilities, too.
How Infrastructure Works
Deb Chachra
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