When we talk about an artist being overrated, we're talking about whether their works are deserving of the reverence, praise, and patronage that they attract. Its largely subjective — built on interpretation, comparison, retrospection, etc.
Elon Musk is a truly proficient capitalist. Great at creating capital. So, in that sense, no he is not overrated. There is nothing really subjective about capital — you either have it or you don't. And despite all the warning signals, people still heavily invest in his ventures.
But is he overrated as a leader, as a visionary, as a genius — the subjective measures. I'd argue, yes. Doesn't take a genius to create capital. As he's done nothing artistic or altruistic for us to debate the merits of his life, I can't imagine what other criteria he can be evaluated upon.
Firefox — Everyone loves to play armchair CEO and dictate the ills of the company. But I think they do so because Firefox is largely the only independent rendering engine and with Google's foothold on browsers (to protect their ad revenue) I'm nervous about the future of Blink. Independent players are always good for competition.
A novel idea. Once the tumour is gone, I'm curious as to whether any of the C. sporogenes byproducts would be toxic if they were to get into the blood stream (or maybe they'll be in low-enough quantities to not be a problem...)
I almost linked to the linked paper but was afraid people would miss out on the application.
Bacteria aren't entirely singled-celled organisms, in real life they extend their cell walls to form larger biofilms and using quorum sensing to manage their population. The point of the paper was that you could hack that quorum sensing to make them really go to town inside a tumor.
Australia has a system where you are anonymous and can prove that you only voted once:
You have to be registered and must vote within your electorate, so your name appears on a certified list for that electorate and each voting location has that list. When you vote, they strike your name from the list.
After the election, the lists from these locations are compared. Anyone who votes twice has their name struck twice, and are investigated for electoral fraud.
Whether people know if you voted or not is immaterial, as voting is mandatory in Australia.
How does that prove that you only voted once? If I know someone's name and address (and by extension their electorate) I can rock up and vote as as many as I want.
Then you go to jail (penalty is 6 months for impersonating a person and voting on their behalf.) It's not like polling locations don't have cameras.
(A few people voting more than once is unlikely to change the results of an election. If enough fraud is detected to impact the results, they'll run a new election.)
> It's not like polling locations don't have cameras.
Given they are usually random primary schools and churches... do they have cameras?
I think the bigger deterrent is just the risk of claiming to be someone who already got ticked off at the same booth, which would immediately raise suspicions.
There were two reasons the Court of Appeal hearing held that the complaint could be heard in UK courts:
1. They relate to alleged harm caused by decisions and policies made centrally by Dyson UK companies and personnel
2. There was substantial risk that they would not be able to access justice in the Malaysian courts
Both seem reasonable. The UK personnel may have engaged in an activity they knew were illegal. Foreign citizen can generally sue in another country, if they must establish that the court has jurisdiction over the matter -- which they seem to have done.
If anything, it should make the anti-slavery mandates of manufacturers, particularly fashion, sit up straight.
The fashion industry does feel like such a big, endless duality of incredibly wealthy people doing little difficult work and having loads of awards and shows and fun events, and factories full of people in faraway countries barely subsisting.
I'd still lean heavily on Sass for CSS development. Nestled rules is a particularly big feature in Sass, but not the only one which streamlines development and improves quality.
(With Internet Explorer's deprecation, iOS is now the browser which takes the most time for work-arounds and fixes. As you say, it is not ever-green like most modern browsers and its support for modern standards can break between releases. CSS nesting appears to be better supported since 17.2 back in 2023, but I've not tested it specifically, because well, Sass)
> With Internet Explorer's deprecation, iOS is now the browser which takes the most time for work-arounds and fixes.
100% agree with you there. Any time i have a problem that creeps up out of nowhere, it's some arcane thing with safari. At least if you're going to enforce a monopoly, update the damned thing!
Blast from the past — I made the EDuke32 logo when I was teenager back in 2004. (I still have the PSD sitting around somewhere...) Back then there was quite an active community on the now defunct 3drealm's forums and I spent a lot of time contributing icons, logos, or web dev help to different Duke Nukem projects.
I don't think I ever properly played Duke 3D until recently, picking up the "Cursed Randy Version" version on Switch. But as a kid I was hooked on the level editor (and pixelated nudity.) Duke 3D's custom maps scene never eclipsed the popularity and duration of Doom or Quake, but there were some fantastic creations that really stirred the imagination and kept me in that editor for hours.
(There is also a port of the Duke Nukem 64 version, which whilst almost identical, does have a few interesting variations which makes it worth the try for a series fan.)
Probably the best Duke3D ever got was the ROCH series. They really pushed what was possible with the engine, and must've been so slow on the Pentium 100.
(Hard to remember the names from 20 years ago, but that one certainly sticks out.)
Not aging does not mean infinite life.
Not only can you end it whenever you want, but you can still have accidents or win a Darwin Award.
Also, longer lifespans open up space exploration and so much more.
Anyway, I don't know if I want infinite life, but I definitely want us to beat aging, it sucks from every possible point.
Elon Musk is a truly proficient capitalist. Great at creating capital. So, in that sense, no he is not overrated. There is nothing really subjective about capital — you either have it or you don't. And despite all the warning signals, people still heavily invest in his ventures.
But is he overrated as a leader, as a visionary, as a genius — the subjective measures. I'd argue, yes. Doesn't take a genius to create capital. As he's done nothing artistic or altruistic for us to debate the merits of his life, I can't imagine what other criteria he can be evaluated upon.
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