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You don't need a massive government program for this.

Just post on r/DataHoarder: "Free 16TB NVMe SSD to anyone who indexes and mirrors the entire out-of-print 20th-century physical archive." The problem would be solved by next Tuesday. With probably 10x redundancy and people willing to do it for free for fun.

Realistically the vast majority of those books haven't been touched for half a century and won't ever be read by a human again. It is a price to destroy these, but it's a price I would pay for progressing models towards AGI and the billions of lives it will save.

Ah, yes, because we all know OpenAI and Anthropic are famously just front operations for the high-end antiquarian book trade.

High-end antiquarian book traders is a genuinely hilarious way to describe them and I shall refer to them as such henceforth.

That's an in house operation that benefits them, not a front.

Slack (acquired by Salesforce in 2021 for $27 billion) started out as a chat app built for the devs of a failing online multiplayer video game called Glitch.

I'd forgotten that. I miss Fog Creek Software.

Used Trello a lot before it got sold to, and damaged by contact with, Atlassian. FogBugz looked cool…but I had to use an old version of Bugzilla.

I didn't know Glitch existed until this site had a notice that it Glitch would be shutting down. Surprised me FCS had anything to do with a game, and seems it wasn't a good fit. I like the style though, and downloaded some of the art and variations on the Groddle theme before it died.

you call them stupid questions, but i say these are quite good, trivial-seeming but actually non-trivial questions that lead you to a deeper understanding.

Here's one exactly in this spirit:

"Why can't we just give steroids to people with muscular dystrophy?" [0]

HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28306559

https://trevorklee.com/why-cant-we-just-give-steroids-to-peo...

Yet blocks the internet completely decimating all necessary services for a couple hours for La Liga futbol. Spain is a backwards country

> blocks the internet completely decimating all necessary services

Not really how it works in practice here, some Cloudflare IPs are unavailable for a few hours, everything mostly keeps working as it always is.

It's only Cloudflare IPs, its only the most popular reverse proxy and CDN provider on the internet. Only a mere 20%+ of internet traffic traverses via Cloudflare.

some Cloudflare IPs, not every IP, nor does 20% of what you typically do on the internet go away during these few hours.

Those companies chose to accept cloudflare downtime and blocking as their own downtime.

It's wrong, but also: just stop centralizing on cloudflare. It's just a glorified proxy, do you really need it, or are you marking an enterprise compliance checkbox?

You talk like it's the government who is blocking those ips. It's a stupid right wing judge, friend of La Liga's owner who is allowing such a scheme.

Spanish congress approved recently a way to stop such a thing.

Yeah I don't think Mr. Johnson foresaw TikTok.

This is why coins like Ethereum Classic needs like 50k confirmations which is a 1-2 week waiting period for deposits, since blocks take like 15 seconds to mine and a 51% attack on the ETC network is relatively affordable compared to BTC/ETH, so fake chains sprout up very often and many transactions would be reversed