The second one, because if a centaur is already half horse and half human, a half-human half-centaur would be 3/4 human and 1/4 horse.

I think satyrs are goat/humans and centaurs are horse/humans, but that’s probably racist somehow.

I’m thinking you would have human arms and run upright on two horsey hind legs.

Half man, half bear, half pig.

Like a 1/4 centaur, so maybe walking upright on horsey hind legs with a human torso and head?

Yes, where “process” means measuring instantaneous changes in airflow as the user inhales (or doesn’t), and regulating a heating coil accordingly by running actual program code - which requires a controller to run it and memory to store it in. I mean when you click “Reply” on this page all it has to do is process one button, but that involves a lot.

It makes you feel dirty, but the question is do you still do it anyway - and if the answer is yes, that’s the problem. because that’s what drives the whole industry.

Just a small memory - I never thought Nancy was all that funny, but she wasn’t in our newspaper comics so it was always a treat to read, like maybe at the dentist’s office in Highlights, or at another kid’s house where they took a different paper.

I don’t know specifically, but there were thousands of startups that used computers, so when they went belly up one would assume they liquidated their assets. /edit: checking, yes according to google it did result in billions in liquidated or abandoned computer hardware.

It actually is if the gift is conditional on a specified use - in writing of course.

Shoulda got that in writing I guess.

Ok hear me out: Roller laser tag!

An era of cheap used hardware? I would guess probably like whatever happened after the dotcom bubble in the late 90s.

I wonder how much they spend for every $0 I pay them.

Cuba has developed a rich, mature DIY culture after several generations of trade isolation by the US and the collapse of the USSR. With a very limited inflow of tech goods, they basically don’t throw away anything. People cobble together all kinds of machines from pieces of other machines, The maker culture is much more than a hobby, it’s the predominent way of thinking.

Thinking now of the old SNL sketch where John Candy has a repair shop for fixing things most people throw away. Two women come in with a piece of toast they dropped that landed butter-side down on the rug. He decides to freeze it down in some liquid nitrogen and take off the fuzzy side with a belt-sander. Missin’ you, Johnny boy!

Ok here’s my billion dollar idea: vapes that already are web servers!

Then the old “It’s not <xyz> when WE do it!” always enters the chat.

Leemy seems full of young westerners with a strong attitude that used to be called “anti-establishment”. I think this comes out a lot as overall negativity to the western world, which is seen as authoritative. colonialist, environmentally destructive, and pretty much on the wrong side of any argument by default.

Ok, point by point: First, government corruption isn’t a function of capitalism. Officials in every system find ways to sell favors. I personally knew Russians who bribed their way out of the USSR, which was almost laughably corrupt. Secondly, the AI industry can’t “position” its own value - it is what it is, and as an industry it simply isn’t “too big to fail.” Thirdly, Google (founded in 1998) was still a startup during the dotcom bubble, not a “large player”. We have no “huge players” in AI yet - as I mentioned, the biggest AI company only has 8000 employees.

Based on all this I assume the prediction that the government will use retirement account stock market exposure as an excuse to bail out AI companies is something you heard or read - if you gave a link to that I’d be happy to look at the reasoning.