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The problem with the peace prize is it seems like its given out to people who they hope will bring peace instead of people who actually have brought peace.

We don't award the chemistry one to people with a promising research program, we award it to people who actually have discovered things that we actually know changed the field. If we awarded the peace prize based on actual accomishments judged with the benefit of hindsight instead of expected accomplishments, it would work a lot better.


They didn't give it to Machado hoping she would bring peace. In fact, they did it for the opposite reason. They awarded it at the height of tension and build-up of US forces outside Venezuela, while they were blowing up boats in the Carribean, to encourage Trump to go even further. Something btw which Machado wholeheartedly supported and encouraged.

I suspect the fun is playing against real people and the unexpected things they do. Just because the AI can beat you does not necessarily make it fun. People still play chess despite stock fish existing.

Honestly i thought the AI would do better then what is described. RCT is pretty simple when it comes to things like what to set ride price to. I think the game has a straightforward formula for how guests respond to prices.

Why would you want a search UI for a rainbow table? That makes no sense.

A.

That's the most likely use case for anyone. You want the one-offs when cracking, and not a compressed 2GB blob of data that may or may not have your answer.

B. The king of search has held the goal of organizing and making information useful and searchable since dinosaurs roamed the WWW.

https://www.google.com/intl/en_us/search/howsearchworks/our-...

C. It's just lazy and shows that they don't actually care anymore. Making a custom search has been their bread and butter for decades. The last step is the easiest but they could not be bothered.


Plenty of protocols used by google over the years have been deprecated. The difference being that google actually stops using insecure protocols when they are discovered to be insecure instead of trying to sweep things under the rug.

Keep in mind we are talking about a protocol from 1987. How many protocols from 1987 is google currently using?


Google does whatever is convenient and makes them money. Altruism was never part of the equation.

Sure. Not being hacked is good for business.

Keep in mind that google is primarily a cloud business. That means that they take on a lot more of a risk, as when they are hacked its a them problem vs traditional software where its much more the customer's problem. Security is very much about incentives, and the incentives line up better for google to do the right thing.


It's more about when Google assumed full control of the cloud, the browser, the OS, and everything in between they self-appointed themselves as the unelected standards board of the Internet, and forced everyone else to follow their whims and timelines. Some of which are completely insane.

What are the policies you view as "completely insane"? I have some I disagree with like how they've handled things like Manifest v3 in the browsers, however there are still alternatives like Firefox anyway. However I think in terms of web standards some of the things they have pushed are also helpful. It's been much nicer having a much more consistent web browsing experience with less things like "You must use Internet Explorer on this site".

I feel like web browser and website standards are one of the main areas Google has a lot more control of policies. Is there somewhere else they have much control of for standards?


>It's been much nicer having a much more consistent web browsing experience with less things like "You must use Internet Explorer on this site".

What browser do you use?

Because I've definitely run into this but s/ie/chrome/ but with no helpful message. You just have to guess that that's why it's broken


Re: the IE thing. Only Apple's insistence on Safari in iOS is stopping sites from basically being chrome only.

And you‘re implying making Windows networks less insecure is completely insane?

This is such a negative reading of the situation. You’re talking about something that has been compromised for TWO DECADES.

At least now nobody can pretend.

I for one hope that this hastens the demise of every remaining use.


I guess we are still tarrifing solar panels though :(

I can easily imagine a high end catered party costing that much.

I don't think there is an upper limit on how much hosting a party costs. You can always go fancier if you have money to burn.


What's wrong with it?

I guess too many links at the beginning, but other than that it looks like your average website, just RTL.



Honestly, most of the other projects get almost none of the resources (other then maybe wikidata and commons, but both of those are directly used by wikipedia)

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