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Lol. This isnt for everyone. This is for the rich. They are going to sell these things for personal use, for installation in homes. Take the top 100,000 familie

Lol. This isnt for everyone. This is for the rich. They are going to sell these things for personal use, for installation in homes. Take the top 100,000 families in the US, those that can afford a home unit. Scans then become as normal as taking a bath. We are well on our way to that classic scifi trope of the villian being introduced as they soak a special tub of goop. (Dune, GOTG, Star Wars)

tptacek 4mo ago
It's really not OK to victimize the rich like this either.
- ttoinou 4mo ago
  Poor good. Rich bad. Good stuff should go directly to poor good people, never go to rich bad people. But that thing is for rich so by definition it is bad and not for the poor
- Paracompact 4mo ago
  Rich people have a phobia of death, unlike the rest of us for whom depression, disease, and injustice have really removed the sting of death and turned it more into "eh, if it happens it happens." So worry not: The rich wasting their money on biohacking fads are not being scammed, they are being consoled.
  - kelseyfrog 4mo ago
    Isn't therapy or enlightenment ultimately cheaper?
    - cindyllm 4mo ago
      [dead]
- verandaguy 4mo ago
  Hot take: the rich (especially the upper strata of the rich) are perfectly comfortable victimizing the non-rich in some material ways (from monopolistic practices, to lobbying against labour interests and union busting, to regulatory capture, to name a few). To the extent you can really call pointing their behaviour out as victimizing them, I would consider bad PR to be a fair tradeoff.
- lovich 4mo ago
  I can’t tell if this is serious or a top tier joke.
xboxnolifes 4mo ago
The top 100,000 families taking this scan every day would still put them 2 magnitudes below the target.
- sandworm101 4mo ago
  A Ferarri can do 200mph, but almost never does. Rolex watches come with helium valves, not that anyone understands what they are for let alone uses them. Luxury goods are always about untapped capacity.
  - xboxnolifes 4mo ago
    What? This comment chain is specifically about the target of a billion full-body scans a month using 50,000 units. That's about 1 scan per unit, every 2 minutes, 24/7.
    - scopicaudio 4mo ago
      50,000 hypochondriacs could pull that off easily

tptacek 4mo ago

It's really not OK to victimize the rich like this either.

ttoinou 4mo ago
Poor good. Rich bad. Good stuff should go directly to poor good people, never go to rich bad people. But that thing is for rich so by definition it is bad and not for the poor
Paracompact 4mo ago
Rich people have a phobia of death, unlike the rest of us for whom depression, disease, and injustice have really removed the sting of death and turned it more into "eh, if it happens it happens." So worry not: The rich wasting their money on biohacking fads are not being scammed, they are being consoled.
- kelseyfrog 4mo ago
  Isn't therapy or enlightenment ultimately cheaper?
  - cindyllm 4mo ago
    [dead]
verandaguy 4mo ago
Hot take: the rich (especially the upper strata of the rich) are perfectly comfortable victimizing the non-rich in some material ways (from monopolistic practices, to lobbying against labour interests and union busting, to regulatory capture, to name a few). To the extent you can really call pointing their behaviour out as victimizing them, I would consider bad PR to be a fair tradeoff.
lovich 4mo ago
I can’t tell if this is serious or a top tier joke.

xboxnolifes 4mo ago

The top 100,000 families taking this scan every day would still put them 2 magnitudes below the target.

sandworm101 4mo ago
A Ferarri can do 200mph, but almost never does. Rolex watches come with helium valves, not that anyone understands what they are for let alone uses them. Luxury goods are always about untapped capacity.
- xboxnolifes 4mo ago
  What? This comment chain is specifically about the target of a billion full-body scans a month using 50,000 units. That's about 1 scan per unit, every 2 minutes, 24/7.
  - scopicaudio 4mo ago
    50,000 hypochondriacs could pull that off easily