Yeah, if you watched Obama’s energy he had kind of a “Thanks guys, but why?” air about him through the whole thing.

Let me know when we have actual AI and we can get right on it.

At the time I read the story, Economics 2.0 and its effect on humans that installed the upgrade paralleled with some stuff I had read about sociopathic behavior. Stross later wrote about the same ideas in Rule 34.

He did, but he was such a stickler for accuracy that he insisted they shoot on location.

https://youtu.be/P6MOnehCOUw (Mitchell and Webb's take on the fake moon landing.)

The CIA didn't read his contract carefully enough. He snuck it into one of the rider clauses.

It's very explanatory of his fear of flying.

‘Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage,’ he said.

- Terry Pratchett

The poor have ethics just like the rest of us. They just can’t afford to keep it.

Pratchett goes into it more when talking about the “proud” poor - which is a real subset of the population.

You can see an example in the rural poor who refuse to take “government cheese”.

I suspect that this might not ship given the recent dramatic change in memory prices.

With the added fun of nuclear weapons!

For the duration of gaben’s life, to be fair. Beyond that there be dragons.

They didn't buy DDR5 - they bought raw wafer capacity and a ton of it at that.

I know they (Ars Technica) do A/B title tests sometimes from discussion with one of the people who works there.