Historically, quarantine happened typically at national borders. Is there a point at which quarantine becomes an unacceptably restrictive policy in your view? Travelling within ones own country is apparently acceptable grounds for quarantine if you cross a provincial border. How about a city border? How about leaving your house? How about changing rooms in the same house? How about crossing the same room in the same house?
Not that it matters, authoritarianism won. Hard. So any discussion is academic.
Not that it matters, authoritarianism won. Hard. So any discussion is academic.
I'm an old guy at this point. My first PC was an 8088, and I would tie up the phone line to dial into text based services, and later I would tie up the phone line to dial into the Internet and stick around for hours waiting for crappy websites to load.
I inadvertently predicted the explosive potential of smart phones around 2002 when I conceived of a device you could carry around with you and bring the Internet with you, and that if such a thing existed a lot of people who were tethered to a desk would go out and do things since they could just use the Internet as required on the go. The important thing here isn't that I predicted the entirely predictable, it's the reason why I thought such a thing would be a game changer: Smart phones get you away from the computer, away from the land line, and you can go out into the world and participate in life without being tethered do your technology. It would give you the power of the Internet on the go. I ended up being very correct when smart phones came around, providing the full Internet on the go. It was revolutionary and changed society, not entirely for the better.
By contrast, VR by definition tethers you to the device. You end up giving up your vision, your hearing, and you look kind of silly. You won't be playing VR and going for a drive, or going to the store, or riding a bike, or going to the club. You can't quickly flip between having a conversation and being in VR. you can't eat and be in VR. If you're in your VR world, that's all you're doing, and that's why it can't really be the next big thing the way some people imagine.
Now, even though Google gave up on it, I do think there's potential in wearable Augmented Reality technology. Unlike VR which locks you away in an alternate world, wearable AR could let you engage in reality while having some additional connection to the virtual world.
I think the future of revolutionary technologies will be ones that bring people back into the real world instead of drawing them deeper into virtual ones.
I inadvertently predicted the explosive potential of smart phones around 2002 when I conceived of a device you could carry around with you and bring the Internet with you, and that if such a thing existed a lot of people who were tethered to a desk would go out and do things since they could just use the Internet as required on the go. The important thing here isn't that I predicted the entirely predictable, it's the reason why I thought such a thing would be a game changer: Smart phones get you away from the computer, away from the land line, and you can go out into the world and participate in life without being tethered do your technology. It would give you the power of the Internet on the go. I ended up being very correct when smart phones came around, providing the full Internet on the go. It was revolutionary and changed society, not entirely for the better.
By contrast, VR by definition tethers you to the device. You end up giving up your vision, your hearing, and you look kind of silly. You won't be playing VR and going for a drive, or going to the store, or riding a bike, or going to the club. You can't quickly flip between having a conversation and being in VR. you can't eat and be in VR. If you're in your VR world, that's all you're doing, and that's why it can't really be the next big thing the way some people imagine.
Now, even though Google gave up on it, I do think there's potential in wearable Augmented Reality technology. Unlike VR which locks you away in an alternate world, wearable AR could let you engage in reality while having some additional connection to the virtual world.
I think the future of revolutionary technologies will be ones that bring people back into the real world instead of drawing them deeper into virtual ones.
Imprisonment isn't acceptable in a free and democratic society except under a limited number of circumstances as prescribed by law. You can't imprison everyone everywhere for no reason, for example.
The worst violations of basic human rights in the past 30 years including torture and kidnapping were done in the name of safety. If we're ok with just giving up on basic human rights in the name of safety I guess how things are, but we can't go around calling ourselves free and democratic anymore. Since 9/11 we've slowly allowed ourselves to become something else.
The worst violations of basic human rights in the past 30 years including torture and kidnapping were done in the name of safety. If we're ok with just giving up on basic human rights in the name of safety I guess how things are, but we can't go around calling ourselves free and democratic anymore. Since 9/11 we've slowly allowed ourselves to become something else.
Has anyone else sort of felt like 2020 and 2021 and most of 2022 were just like folded together? People go "2019" and I'm like "oh, you mean last year?"
"'Humans breathe air and die if they don't breathe' is an antisemitic far-right conspiracy theory with no basis in fact." - Politifact or USA Today probably
I've been on a reading kick the last couple years, and there's two things I particularly like: First, the book can really slow down and focus on details that a realtime tv show of any kind can't. And second, when there's a part I really want to get past (often annoying scenes where people have misunderstandings or stupid humor sections that are making me cringe) I can just get past it instead of sitting there for minutes waiting for the show to finish playing out the part I don't like.
That's awesome. I know you can just sail the seven seas, but I've got pretty much all the megaman collections so far.
A lot of currencies are reserve currencies, from the euro to the yen to the Australian dollar. Even if the US dollar was used half as much, it'd still be close to the top currency, so even if there's a currency crisis and a sovereign debts crisis it won't be going away from being a reserve currency, though perhaps not the dominant one.
I can see for actual authoritarian central planning states where it's politician all the way down, mind you. (Oh look at who is saying it)
Don't even stop selling stuff to America, just stop using dollars to sell to other countries that aren't America.
Fair enough. Without a massive corporate sponsor to act as everyone's dad for them though, I think figuring out how to coexist with prats is part of the experience. Sort of a cathedral and bazaar social experience. For those who require a professional referee, that might be a problem and openness might not be a good choice.
On the other hand, I strongly believe that the same closed and proprietary algorithm that pretends to shut down hate (too much acceptable hate on mainstream platforms for me to think they actually do) will happily connect people who hate each other to drive engagement. "Hey Mr. Jew! Let me connect you directly with Mr. Actual 1945 non-meme Nazi! One of eight on the platform but you seem to loooove content like this so we'll give you lots!"
On the other hand, I strongly believe that the same closed and proprietary algorithm that pretends to shut down hate (too much acceptable hate on mainstream platforms for me to think they actually do) will happily connect people who hate each other to drive engagement. "Hey Mr. Jew! Let me connect you directly with Mr. Actual 1945 non-meme Nazi! One of eight on the platform but you seem to loooove content like this so we'll give you lots!"
My inner 12 year old is rooting for you to get the 4090 running on your raspberry pi.
England could have a relationship with northern Ireland like America has with other slightly different America.
Who wouldn't want that?
Who wouldn't want that?
The business suit is considered a symbol of high class today, but it was a working class dress before, and people wore fancy pants and ruffly shirts when they were high class. It was a certain politician who decided to wear the working man's suit that started the tradition.
It's an interesting thing that often the rich or powerful try to look like the common classes because while there's power in being set apart as special and high class, there's also power in being considered more down to earth and in it with the common man.
From this historical perspective, billionaires wearing common garb makes a lot of sense. They want you to think they're down there stuffing boxes themselves and not snorting coke in the penthouse corner office.
It's an interesting thing that often the rich or powerful try to look like the common classes because while there's power in being set apart as special and high class, there's also power in being considered more down to earth and in it with the common man.
From this historical perspective, billionaires wearing common garb makes a lot of sense. They want you to think they're down there stuffing boxes themselves and not snorting coke in the penthouse corner office.