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Im posting this reply from my mainstream smartphone: a pocket supercomputer with a 4K 60Hz HDR video camera. I’m chock full of designer vaccines and can watch a

Im posting this reply from my mainstream smartphone: a pocket supercomputer with a 4K 60Hz HDR video camera. I’m chock full of designer vaccines and can watch a catalog of almost all the movies ever made on demand tonight. I listened to an podcast in my EV on the way to work. And SpaceX probably launched 60 satellites this week on the 14th flight of a rocket that flew home afterwards. Things have been moving along. edit: comments are quibbling about the fraction of all movies ever I can see on a paid streaming service. This is like complaining about that the meals and elbow room are not wonderful on a $400 flight from LA to London. It's a goddam miracle and you're still grumbling. Please tell me now how your $12/mo Spotify account doesn't have the June 1972 Grateful Dead New Jersey show your mom was at, and is thus near worthless. I spent $12 in 1980s money on single album in my youth. Let me amend my grossly hyperbolic statement and say I could stream on demand more movies than I could ever watch even if I did nothing else the rest of my life, including many but not all of the good ones. Now the statement is strictly true, but did this make my contribution better?

fnordpiglet 3y ago
And it’s only going to get faster… unless it all ends suddenly.
- a_vanderbilt 3y ago
  I feel we will eventually outpace our own means of destruction. The next big step is getting self-sustaining colonies off Earth, which will do wonders for our ability to survive as a species. The biggest threat is perhaps nuclear weapons and climate change, in my opinion.
  - fnordpiglet 3y ago
    I actually feel like the biggest threat we face is a collapse of world order and another world war, even conventional coupled with a degradation of humanism. These lead to a global decay of basically everything, including our ability to outpace our own means of destruction and an entire inability to address climate change. The global environment becoming increasing toxic to our age’s life, including humans is I think ultimately the end of our line.
  - germinalphrase 3y ago
    We can barely create self sustaining colonies on Earth.
  - Sporktacular 3y ago
    Not our ecosystems' destruction. Let's see how we can get on without those.
  - Zpalmtree 3y ago
    strongly believe humanity will keep innovating out of their problems, as we see time and time again despite the doom and gloom
southernplaces7 3y ago
>can watch a catalog of almost all the movies ever made on demand tonight. You must have one hell of a different streaming services experience from that of most people today if you can pull this off without engaging in a fair bit of torrenting and general piracy.
- Terr_ 3y ago
  Yeah, regular consumer streaming might cover "movies still popular enough but not so new that they're only in theaters." However "all the movies ever made" is a significantly higher bar. Some examples: https://www.yardbarker.com/entertainment/articles/popular_movies_that_arent_available_to_stream_anywhere/s1__34450367 https://www.yardbarker.com/entertainment/articles/popular_mo...
- selcuka 3y ago
  Even with piracy, it wasn't possible a few decades ago.
- shock-value 3y ago
  No you just decide what movie you want to watch and pay $4 to rent it on demand. Very common experience available to anyone with a smart TV or connected streaming device.
  - deleted 3y ago
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techdragon 3y ago
Important correction… the catalog of movies is likely significantly smaller than all the movies ever made… the ongoing removal of new movies for business reasons and the market fragmentation mean that reduced profits are leading to corner cutting with respect to the size of stream catalogs, licenses cost money… pirating via torrents while larger also has diminishing returns as you step outside the mainstream movies, unless your lucky and find someone diligently sharing bandwidth to keep content online happens to share an interest in that niche… we’re rapidly losing access to an entire generation of analog only media as people throw source material into the trash and corporate stewardship of original recordings slowly fails one papercut at a time for the decades it will take for work to enter the public domain and be properly archived by the people trying to hold onto all of this. We could have maglev trains and superconducting supercomputers and copyright will still be deleting our culture to “save money” for corporate copyright owners to increase their profit margins.
- 14 3y ago
  I pay a commercial service for pirated content and have access to over 50,000 movies alone. Then there are tens of thousands of tv shows. I can request shows. It gives me access to all major streaming services content. Anything I have ever searched for is there. Shows from around the world and all around feels like unlimited content. Cheaper then Netflix and I definitely feel I am getting great returns for my money. One day we will look up to pirates for saving our culture.
  - honeybadger1 3y ago
    I too dabble in the dark arts.
  - nicpottier 3y ago
    What's the service? asking for a friend.
    - 14 3y ago
      It is a plex share I don’t really want to draw attention to the company sharing so don’t want to share the site directly but just go to reddit and search for plex share and start looking. Lots of different ones some paid some free. Some tailored to anime some tailored to other genre.
seer 3y ago
The last 10 (20?) years I noticed a notable shift in public consciousness about scientific progress and that we as a species are moving in an upward trajectory towards a brighter feature. One of my favorite movies of all time is “Contact” mainly because of how damn _hopeful_ it portrays humanity. I want to live in that world, not the gloom and doom “we’re ruining everything around us” that is so often shown in recent media. And the whole thing is perplexing to me because as you’ve put it, we _are_ living in the future! There is soo many great things happening around us, but people seem not to notice - not just the technological things you’ve mentioned - but societal too. Like because of recent developments in economy theory, the world altering global shut down due to corona did not end with a great depression like event for the whole world, and that alone to me is simply a miracle. Human longevity studies have now reproducibly able to reverse aging _in primates_ - human trials starting this year! Feminism has become all but mainstream, unlocking like 50% more of human ingenuity. Urbanism studies have finally popularized environments where people can live happily and sustainably their entire lives, while there have always existed places in the world that are “nice” to live in one way or another, we’re kinda getting the science down why, and starting to popularize it a little (strongtowns). Its just a crazy good time to be alive, there are countless problems all around us but they are actually getting solved at least somewhere, instead of banging our collective heads against the wall, one can just look for how it has been successful handled somewhere else and try to replicate!
iaraya19 3y ago
You are just repeating the same incredibly boring 'Tesla fanboy' things that Joe Rogan likes to say every now and then to create the illusion he's smart, up to date and edgy, which is the exact reason you don't sound smart at all.
- Zpalmtree 3y ago
  stop being excited you sound stupid!!! hacker news obsession with doomerism is so boring

fnordpiglet 3y ago

And it’s only going to get faster… unless it all ends suddenly.

a_vanderbilt 3y ago
I feel we will eventually outpace our own means of destruction. The next big step is getting self-sustaining colonies off Earth, which will do wonders for our ability to survive as a species. The biggest threat is perhaps nuclear weapons and climate change, in my opinion.
- fnordpiglet 3y ago
  I actually feel like the biggest threat we face is a collapse of world order and another world war, even conventional coupled with a degradation of humanism. These lead to a global decay of basically everything, including our ability to outpace our own means of destruction and an entire inability to address climate change. The global environment becoming increasing toxic to our age’s life, including humans is I think ultimately the end of our line.
- germinalphrase 3y ago
  We can barely create self sustaining colonies on Earth.
- Sporktacular 3y ago
  Not our ecosystems' destruction. Let's see how we can get on without those.
- Zpalmtree 3y ago
  strongly believe humanity will keep innovating out of their problems, as we see time and time again despite the doom and gloom

southernplaces7 3y ago

>can watch a catalog of almost all the movies ever made on demand tonight. You must have one hell of a different streaming services experience from that of most people today if you can pull this off without engaging in a fair bit of torrenting and general piracy.

Terr_ 3y ago
Yeah, regular consumer streaming might cover "movies still popular enough but not so new that they're only in theaters." However "all the movies ever made" is a significantly higher bar. Some examples: https://www.yardbarker.com/entertainment/articles/popular_movies_that_arent_available_to_stream_anywhere/s1__34450367 https://www.yardbarker.com/entertainment/articles/popular_mo...
selcuka 3y ago
Even with piracy, it wasn't possible a few decades ago.
shock-value 3y ago
No you just decide what movie you want to watch and pay $4 to rent it on demand. Very common experience available to anyone with a smart TV or connected streaming device.
- deleted 3y ago
  [deleted]

techdragon 3y ago

Important correction… the catalog of movies is likely significantly smaller than all the movies ever made… the ongoing removal of new movies for business reasons and the market fragmentation mean that reduced profits are leading to corner cutting with respect to the size of stream catalogs, licenses cost money… pirating via torrents while larger also has diminishing returns as you step outside the mainstream movies, unless your lucky and find someone diligently sharing bandwidth to keep content online happens to share an interest in that niche… we’re rapidly losing access to an entire generation of analog only media as people throw source material into the trash and corporate stewardship of original recordings slowly fails one papercut at a time for the decades it will take for work to enter the public domain and be properly archived by the people trying to hold onto all of this. We could have maglev trains and superconducting supercomputers and copyright will still be deleting our culture to “save money” for corporate copyright owners to increase their profit margins.

14 3y ago
I pay a commercial service for pirated content and have access to over 50,000 movies alone. Then there are tens of thousands of tv shows. I can request shows. It gives me access to all major streaming services content. Anything I have ever searched for is there. Shows from around the world and all around feels like unlimited content. Cheaper then Netflix and I definitely feel I am getting great returns for my money. One day we will look up to pirates for saving our culture.
- honeybadger1 3y ago
  I too dabble in the dark arts.
- nicpottier 3y ago
  What's the service? asking for a friend.
  - 14 3y ago
    It is a plex share I don’t really want to draw attention to the company sharing so don’t want to share the site directly but just go to reddit and search for plex share and start looking. Lots of different ones some paid some free. Some tailored to anime some tailored to other genre.

seer 3y ago

The last 10 (20?) years I noticed a notable shift in public consciousness about scientific progress and that we as a species are moving in an upward trajectory towards a brighter feature. One of my favorite movies of all time is “Contact” mainly because of how damn _hopeful_ it portrays humanity. I want to live in that world, not the gloom and doom “we’re ruining everything around us” that is so often shown in recent media. And the whole thing is perplexing to me because as you’ve put it, we _are_ living in the future! There is soo many great things happening around us, but people seem not to notice - not just the technological things you’ve mentioned - but societal too. Like because of recent developments in economy theory, the world altering global shut down due to corona did not end with a great depression like event for the whole world, and that alone to me is simply a miracle. Human longevity studies have now reproducibly able to reverse aging _in primates_ - human trials starting this year! Feminism has become all but mainstream, unlocking like 50% more of human ingenuity. Urbanism studies have finally popularized environments where people can live happily and sustainably their entire lives, while there have always existed places in the world that are “nice” to live in one way or another, we’re kinda getting the science down why, and starting to popularize it a little (strongtowns). Its just a crazy good time to be alive, there are countless problems all around us but they are actually getting solved at least somewhere, instead of banging our collective heads against the wall, one can just look for how it has been successful handled somewhere else and try to replicate!

iaraya19 3y ago

You are just repeating the same incredibly boring 'Tesla fanboy' things that Joe Rogan likes to say every now and then to create the illusion he's smart, up to date and edgy, which is the exact reason you don't sound smart at all.

Zpalmtree 3y ago
stop being excited you sound stupid!!! hacker news obsession with doomerism is so boring