Chozo

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Mozilla Foundation (the non-profit) and Mozilla Corporation (the for-profit) are two different entities under the Mozilla umbrella, so their staffing may be reported differently depending where you look and how they're counting it.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 21 hours ago (6 children)

Mozilla is a small company

I'm surprised that people consider a ~2000-person company that revenues about a half billion a year to be "small". Mozilla is a profit-driven corporation, far separated from the vision of the hobbyist coders who founded it decades ago. The only reason they're shutting down their Mastodon server is because it's not making them money, not because they lack the resources to support it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

In the fine print, you'll see it says "wheel is for illustrative purposes only, all users will receive the best prize".

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Perfect, just in time to stop Russia from meddling with the 2016 election!

[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 days ago (8 children)

I'm sure absolutely nobody will confuse this with Tildes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Nah he's just always had no self awareness when it comes to the noises he makes. Lots of loud chewing while you're trying to eat, grunting and snorting in the middle of a conversation, full-volume "whispering" in movie theaters, etc. He's not even hard of hearing or anything (dude hears like a bat, honestly), he's just a very loud guy lmao

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago (2 children)

My stepdad would eat bananas with his mouth wide open as he chewed. And he'd chew each bite for a solid minute before swallowing. Even though it's a banana and you can literally just mash it agains the roof of your mouth with your tongue. He would do this as he was driving, so I think he'd just get distracted and forget that he was still chewing food. But it made every ride to school in the morning an absolute living hell.

So I'm gonna go with bananas.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Outside of our very small internet bubble, yes that's an incredibly unpopular opinion. By and large, people love Twitter, as evidenced by it still being one of the most-used platforms around.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

All the more reason it doesn't need to be on the internet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

From my bedroom, right this moment, there are four unsecured networks I can connect to, which I do not own or control.

This is not an uncommon scenario.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Neighbors, bro. You can't control networks you don't own.

Are you really this obtuse, or is this just an act?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Some people live in apartments.

 

Roko's basilisk is a thought experiment which states that an otherwise benevolent artificial superintelligence (AI) in the future would be incentivized to create a virtual reality simulation to torture anyone who knew of its potential existence but did not directly contribute to its advancement or development, in order to incentivize said advancement.It originated in a 2010 post at discussion board LessWrong, a technical forum focused on analytical rational enquiry. The thought experiment's name derives from the poster of the article (Roko) and the basilisk, a mythical creature capable of destroying enemies with its stare.

While the theory was initially dismissed as nothing but conjecture or speculation by many LessWrong users, LessWrong co-founder Eliezer Yudkowsky reported users who panicked upon reading the theory, due to its stipulation that knowing about the theory and its basilisk made one vulnerable to the basilisk itself. This led to discussion of the basilisk on the site being banned for five years. However, these reports were later dismissed as being exaggerations or inconsequential, and the theory itself was dismissed as nonsense, including by Yudkowsky himself. Even after the post's discreditation, it is still used as an example of principles such as Bayesian probability and implicit religion. It is also regarded as a simplified, derivative version of Pascal's wager.

Found out about this after stumbling upon this Kyle Hill video on the subject. It reminds me a little bit of "The Game".

 
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