I could cite dozens of times a society has gone 80 years (4-5 generations) without serious threat from foreign parties. How is our case unlike those?

The entire world has seen greater technical advances in the past 80 years than any time before, but zero percent of that is related to the politics of any one nation: either causally or effectually.

Also, democracy let vote for dictatorship that killed most people in human history. It's harder to implement ideologies in decentralised society.

Is the last sentence satire? I can't really tell. Literally entire fields of study are dedicated to this, including one at Harvard. https://sts.hks.harvard.edu/about/whatissts.html

My first thought might be to put together a report showing the cost that the cheaper insurance would impose upon the organization which the more expensive up-front option is saving you. Perhaps even serve that up as a cost-savings the finance department is free to then take credit for, I'unno. :P

> to handle deployments and upgrade windows transparently

GP might have meant "upgrade: Windows(tm)", or he might have meant "windows of time which we have allocated to upgrading the server", and on my first reading I interpreted the second without a single shred of thought towards the possibility of the first.

If you make that cloud exist in a high enough number of dimensions you'll find yourself emulating a machine learning language model. :)

By fancy unicode characters he probably means HN won't allow them in comments.

Said responsibility can remain the choice of the consumer: producer must accept repair/replacement if consumer brings it back to them, but consumer is not forced to bring it back to them if anything goes wrong. Consumer may also choose to self-repair, sell, etc. Perhaps consumer must bring it back to dispose of it though, as nobody benefits from hucking it directly into a landfill.

The other difference between "renting" from the producer is that the producer isn't collecting any rent, only initial purchase.. and that producer cannot claim the item back whenever they please.

So renting, but with only the negative parts for the company

Put it this way: robots will be every bit as susceptible to social engineering attacks as humans are (at BEST!), not due to any flaw in the robots but due to the flaw in ambiguousness of the specification of the laws. An adversary can trick an agent into not classifying a certain being as "human", for example. Or not classifying a certain outcome as a "harm".

It doesn't help that humans have had such a poor track record on those exact same topics for so many centuries, now. "Well they don't count, they're foreigners/a different race/a different gender/a different religion/criminals/barbarians/homeless/deviant/poor/listen to Nickelback etc". "Well, that's not a harm, it's an inconvenience/an earned outcome/a privilege/loss of a privilege/what do they expect, they should toughen up/not as bad as X/it'll heal/not my fault/not my concern etc".

Maybe they're not doing Scrum?

His point isn't "network/hardware is fast, so let's be inefficient": it is the opposite. "network/hardware is fast, so why is the page still slow?". On lower powered devices and slower networks, it's even more vital to author lean applications and web pages — but "things are slow even when the hardware and network are fast" is a simple canary that we are swimming through some problems.

To me it just sounds like awkward product placement. Trade out "with your favorite AI agent" with "while chowing down on Doritos(tm) Cool Ranch(R) Tortilla Chips".