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by buboard 7y ago
> but do you believe the solution is (solely) technological? Largely yes. Technological solutions are definite and verifiable. Political solutions (behavioral coercion) is rarely so, you never know the adverse effects of pushing people t
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by buboard 7y ago
the opposite would be also described as terrifying: machine learning making up the future of humanity. I m not sure if the author's point is particularly important. ML learns from the past, it doesn't have enough personality or &#
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by buboard 7y ago
it would be naive/foolish to expect that the enormous technological progress and overpopulation by humans would not affect the environment. The question is how fast can people and ecosystems adapt. This is not the first nor the biggest
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by buboard 7y ago
Do you accept bitcoin credit from the Bank of Pirates of Pluto?
815.
by buboard 7y ago
or a presidential candidacy
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by buboard 7y ago
not op, but i think nurses will be able to subsitute doctors in many cases where the diagnosis comes from a fully-automated AI system. E.g. a CT scanner or blood test that prints out full diagnosis, prescription and procedure etc at the pre
817.
by buboard 7y ago
well that sounds reasonable. where should i invest my money?
818.
by buboard 7y ago
people tend to make optimistic predictions. A lot of predictions were correct, and many of them were right on subject, but predicted the positive instead of the negative turn of things. Interesting views regardless, but i cant help to noti
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by buboard 7y ago
thats a good band name
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by buboard 7y ago
- A.Yang becomes US president - A deal between US & China destabilizes china. The UK wants into the deal. EU wants another part - A military insurgence in an african country establishes a free-trade zone. a part of the world's manu
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by buboard 7y ago
one of the most telling failures when using google is the "google tax" ads that people are forced to pay when someone is searching for their own brand. it's simply unethical that google does that, it shows contempt for their
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by buboard 7y ago
perhaps because micro$oft's stock has not been benefiting a lot from creating a perception of no evil. If anything they used to be the devil incarnate for most of us
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by buboard 7y ago
i wonder how advertisers feel about their products being advertised through google these days
824.
by buboard 7y ago
what is better for equality? ultra wealthy charity or relaxing copyright laws?
825.
by buboard 7y ago
regulated work hours are not the solution. the change of paradigm should be - people being paid for outcomes, not for hours sitting in a chair. To do that, govts would have to create (or allow creation of) the infrastructure for freelancin
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Surveillance Self-Defense: Year in Review 2019(eff.org)
3 points by buboard 7y ago|0 comments
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by buboard 7y ago
> VR hardware has the greatest possible leverage and impact Highfidelity tried to do that and it failed miserably. I think their major problem were the controls - they refused to add text chat and people felt incapacitated in a social e
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by buboard 7y ago
with prices of huge tv screens dropping , what about 3d projection rooms like this? https://prodisplay.com/wp-content/uploads/cave-projection-sc...
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by buboard 7y ago
yeah i m talking more generally about their full list here: https://www.apache.org/
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by buboard 7y ago
Why is apache developing all those servers that are only useful to a handful of companies that are rich enough to build them themselves? How about building something that individuals can use, like, i dunno, apache server itself?
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by buboard 7y ago
> more liberal and free I think you 're confusing "alive" with "free". Merely surviving in a world of surveillance is not a life worth living.
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by buboard 7y ago
> authoritarian or democratic does not make a difference? You think it it does? Democracy without freedom is an empty shell. And surveillance is antithetical to freedom
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by buboard 7y ago
while voters are busy arguing online about their "free speech" , their leaders are busy controlling every other aspect of their lives. We live in a world of extensive transit control, capital flow controls, commodities control, ba
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by buboard 7y ago
When is the movie out?
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by buboard 7y ago
tracking everything
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by buboard 7y ago
damn. windows 95 was indeed 13 floppy disks. amazing to think about. So what is in these huge downloads? Layers upon layers of virtual machines?
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by buboard 7y ago
if webdev is going to go through all the iterations of GUI development ... oh boy , there are decades of frameworks ahead
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by buboard 7y ago
He talks about major companies though
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by buboard 7y ago
Then again , you could embed those as space heaters, or cooking machines, since they dont need portability
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by buboard 7y ago
I agree but apparently the number is not very big - computing is max 8% perhaps of electricity usage. But it still feels so wasteful, and also wasteful of people’s time.

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