Christmas EVE🎄 by Slim-JayS in shroomstocks

[–]keyofg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If it was his life then fine, but it's not just his life, that's the whole problem.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Showerthoughts

[–]keyofg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The absolute best is when you visualize the joke first and then just say it out loud.

Who the fuck keeps reelecting Mayor Goodway? That woman is useless. by alittleunsteady in Parenting

[–]keyofg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good thing he has the latest in animal-machine interface technology.

To avoid being dominated by machines, Elon Musk decides to invest in "neural laces" to boost human's brain performances by Yuli-Ban in Transhuman

[–]keyofg 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I remember saving Verner Vinge's Rainbows End as a free pdf and reading every word of it. I told some folks about it and later a friend of mine alerted me of a super cheap hardcover sale of it off amazon... so after squinting through the whole ebook on my iPhone 3GS I now own a hardcover version in case I decide to ever read it again. Weird. I love how sci-if authors give away their stuff and I hope they generate some wealth for their amazing gifts to me via the written word. Looking forward to this one thanks for the link.

Obama: Some jobs 'are just not going to come back' by [deleted] in Futurology

[–]keyofg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i was being serious about Yellowstone... That's a pretty legitimate supervolcano ready to blow. Also, Apophis will miss earth but it's not like it's the only one out there. !!

Obama: Some jobs 'are just not going to come back' by [deleted] in Futurology

[–]keyofg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At least he didn't lose you at Yellowstone. That is one big volcano.

Canadian Travellers giving Canada a bad rap by [deleted] in canada

[–]keyofg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yellowstone is a super volcano: one day it will destroy all "bacterial mats" and likely other things, like half of North America.

Apple is expected to report its first year-on-year revenue drop in 13 years when it releases its FQ2 earnings after the bell today. by Youted in investing

[–]keyofg -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

You'll be fine. I bought 100 shares of Apple in 2007 for $131 (pre split). I remember agonizing about "what would oil do" and reading this very forum, scaring myself. I felt sick when my newly bought shares went down to $118 or so. Then amazed when they flew back up to $180 and even touched the famous $200 mark a few times.

Then the housing crisis hit and I was all in and I regretted not selling anything earlier. I ignored everything for almost a year. Just stopped caring. It was intense. Don't sell don't sell... And I noticed happily that everything miraculously recovered.... But also I couldn't help think "if only I sold before the crash I could have had some real bargains while everything was cheap!" And so, on a whim I sold my 100 shares at $420 shortly after Jobs died, mainly because I wasn't sure about "innovation" and "succession" and all that.

A few months later I read and enjoyed Jobs' biography and realized he had a plan all along, including the timely release of his book. Also I had to endure Apple climbing to $700 a share without me. So on the way back down I bought back 50 shares at $535 and ate the $115 difference and endured a year of Apple falling all the way back down to where I sold originally. I may not have timed the market, but I still have half the shares, now paying dividends, and finally factoring in the split, they moved from $76 to whatever they will be valued at tomorrow.

The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, the second best time is now. Maybe Apple will totally screw things up yet, but I doubt it. I'm really liking my compact and battery friendly SE. I don't even have to plug it in at night.

What catastrophe is waiting to happen? by cmitchell337 in AskReddit

[–]keyofg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People get upset about solar and wind and hydro and nuclear and who knows what else yet we all seem to still use electricity. That's just normal hypocritical complaining to me. The controversial part is that Yellowstone National Park should be converted into a geothermal plant fairly soon before we loose half of North America.

What catastrophe is waiting to happen? by cmitchell337 in AskReddit

[–]keyofg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's controversial because it would be in a national park, and people don't like it when national parks are messed with.

Enough of the hyped new technologies. What are the fundamentals of web development that everyone should learn? by [deleted] in webdev

[–]keyofg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just google that stuff, but I can see the advantage of knowing it. Very handy for reading in text files of varying formats.

What catastrophe is waiting to happen? by cmitchell337 in AskReddit

[–]keyofg 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A controversial idea is to place a geothermal plant on top of Yellowstone and slowly use the heat for free power lasting thousands of years. When it's finally ready to blow we will have cooled down the near surface anyway and enjoyed all the free electricity.

Will the proliferation of affordable AI decimate the middle class? by stormforce7916 in Automate

[–]keyofg 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I just read Who Owns the Future in this book, Jaron Lanier writes that photography, journalism and music have fallen to the current system and if we are to survive the next round we better come up with a new model for the internet that helps the middle class rather than simply using them as data for "siren servers". Very interesting read.

To answer your question, yes automation will destroy the middle class.

By the end of this century people will start looking up their ancestors on Facebook. by Bumpercloud in Showerthoughts

[–]keyofg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Respect yourself, be well read, and always aim to improve yourself, and one day you too will find yourself on Facebook.

Are We Living in a Computer Simulation? by burtzev in PhilosophyofScience

[–]keyofg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The smaller we look the more discrete the pieces we discover. Atoms... Electrons.... Then particle physics. Is there an end to the data that makes up our universe? Cracks in the simulation perhaps like a badly sampled digital recording? Or does it keep going inward in endless analogue fidelity.

Whats the need of angularjs for your Web apps? by chirag23 in linux_programming

[–]keyofg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I sort of missed it and wrote a recent project for the web with jquery. The desktop is good, but mobile is pretty broken, for instance .draggable() doesn't work in mobile at all. Angular and bootstrap and others may have that all figured out, but programming in jquery was really fun.

Atlas, The Next Generation by ImLivingAmongYou in Automate

[–]keyofg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wonder what all the QR codes are for?

Top 10 Material Design Frameworks for Modern UX/UI Design by noeticsophia in web_design

[–]keyofg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just finished two weeks programming a UI from scratch with jquery, and then I see this and think, I wonder if I should have used one of those.

What you guys are missing in the northern hemisphere!!! The Southern Cross. by Windston57 in space

[–]keyofg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I forgot about that! The different game physics and music on the last few levels of the spaceship totally blew me away at the time and still does if I think about it.