Are there alternatives, including just don't, with respect to Facebook? Absolutely.
There are much bigger fish to fry in monopolies:
1. Banks 2. Aerospace 3. ISPs 4. News agencies
I suspect Facebook will drift into irrelevancy, not take over the world. And if Facebook somehow corners the market on cat videos, how is that a danger to our society?
In other news, Amazon is using Starbucks as their coffee boy, Seattle City Light as their electricity bitch, and various product manufacturers as their production slaves.
"Frankly, I cannot conceive how any thoughtful man can really be happy. There is really nothing in the universe to live for, and unless one can dismiss thought and speculation from his mind, he is liable to be engulfed by the very immensity of creation. It is vastly better that he should amuse himself with religion, or any other convenient palliative to reality which comes to hand."
â"H.P. Lovercraft in a letter to Kleiner, Cole, and Moe, October 1916 (as quoted in the H.P. Lovecraft facebook feed)
Suddenly, aliens weigh in with knowledge that's a thousand years ahead of yours. So much for your job and your sense of purpose. If humanity is deprived of the opportunity to learn things on its own, much of its impetus for novelty might evaporate.
I think this already happens to all of us when we use knowledge from all the smart *people* before us. Would it be good to isolate a group of people and see if they could rediscover math and science "for themselves"? I think not. If the aliens understand the universe in ways that we are not biologically capable of comprehending, then I guess that's new and different. We can't really measure progress in years. (1,000 years ahead doesn't mean anything if we're not capable of ever understanding.)
We need to be as excited about distracted driving as school shootings.
A) Distracted driving kills far more people B) Individuals CAN immediately affect the safety of the world by doing the right thing.
I think there are things we can do gun safety, too, but darn if we don't focus on the problems that are the most difficult, out of our control and least significant.
It's not really going to be perfect unless there's an abstraction layer (like a JVM or a browser) between the OS and the application. Native support is still important, but clearly less so than it was a decade ago.
Most of trees used for paper ware intentionally grown for that purpose. The alternative is permanent deforestation and the land put into some other use.
I loved the show. A reboot would annoy me. Anything that borrows from the original show's ideas would be better without the baggage of expectations.
Imagine, instead of the original Firefly, Joss Whedon made the Han Solo movie. Would it be better because of the Star Wars franchise? I don't think so.
This always hurts my head a little bit. It seems like being a bank is literally a license to create money. This is ludicrously profitably, right? A bank could borrow $x at i interest from depositors and loan $x at that same i interest to n borrowers.
Slashdot Mirror
Nessie left for outer space to visit the Octopus world. Octopodes are just here until their semester ends.
Do you find that insulting people is persuasive in your day-to-day life?
Based on the reviews, the thesis of The Shallows is that interaction with the internet is generally bad for our thought processes. Do you agree?
If the federal government breaks up Facebook, will this concern be addressed or will there just be two less efficient Facebooxen ?
Well, it's not that complicated.
Are there alternatives, including just don't, with respect to Facebook? Absolutely.
There are much bigger fish to fry in monopolies:
1. Banks
2. Aerospace
3. ISPs
4. News agencies
I suspect Facebook will drift into irrelevancy, not take over the world. And if Facebook somehow corners the market on cat videos, how is that a danger to our society?
The difference between Twitter and Facebook is pretty subtle. It's just the network effect. I don't think the public is served by a break-up.
It's an emergency! Quick, defund NASA!!
Maybe he can hack in and reduce it to 1 misdemeanor?
I like pedantically correcting people, too. It's properly referred to as Solitaire/Windows.
This sounds great. Also, add AI and block-chain technology.
Could Algorithms Be Better at Picking the Next Big Blockbuster Than Studio Execs?
I wasn't aware they were even working on algorithms to pick studio executives.
In other news, Amazon is using Starbucks as their coffee boy, Seattle City Light as their electricity bitch, and various product manufacturers as their production slaves.
I better start cycling to get those credits.
"Frankly, I cannot conceive how any thoughtful man can really be happy. There is really nothing in the universe to live for, and unless one can dismiss thought and speculation from his mind, he is liable to be engulfed by the very immensity of creation. It is vastly better that he should amuse himself with religion, or any other convenient palliative to reality which comes to hand."
â"H.P. Lovercraft in a letter to Kleiner, Cole, and Moe, October 1916
(as quoted in the H.P. Lovecraft facebook feed)
Yeah, that's way more efficient than, you know, not changing.
The sun is at its highest at noon by definition.
Suppose:
1. People like to eat big sandwiches.
2. Sandwiches are 8 inches at Jimmy Johns.
Do we:
A) Make 10 inch sandwiches
B) Keep making 8 inch sandwiches, but redefine inches as 3.75 cm, so that the sandwiches will be bigger
What percent of web traffic is this? Are all these Word Press sites actually visited?
I think this already happens to all of us when we use knowledge from all the smart *people* before us. Would it be good to isolate a group of people and see if they could rediscover math and science "for themselves"? I think not. If the aliens understand the universe in ways that we are not biologically capable of comprehending, then I guess that's new and different. We can't really measure progress in years. (1,000 years ahead doesn't mean anything if we're not capable of ever understanding.)
All the revolutions in history are reality.
We need to be as excited about distracted driving as school shootings.
A) Distracted driving kills far more people
B) Individuals CAN immediately affect the safety of the world by doing the right thing.
I think there are things we can do gun safety, too, but darn if we don't focus on the problems that are the most difficult, out of our control and least significant.
It's not really going to be perfect unless there's an abstraction layer (like a JVM or a browser) between the OS and the application. Native support is still important, but clearly less so than it was a decade ago.
SETI: "We need graphics cards! Please send us graphics cards!"
Aliens: "Sure, pay us 100,000 bit coins"
Most of trees used for paper ware intentionally grown for that purpose. The alternative is permanent deforestation and the land put into some other use.
The storms will happen where God wants to punish gay people and Democrats. Look at all the money we saved.
I loved the show. A reboot would annoy me. Anything that borrows from the original show's ideas would be better without the baggage of expectations.
Imagine, instead of the original Firefly, Joss Whedon made the Han Solo movie. Would it be better because of the Star Wars franchise? I don't think so.
Thanks.
Does the Federal Reserve collect the interest on that debt?
This always hurts my head a little bit. It seems like being a bank is literally a license to create money. This is ludicrously profitably, right? A bank could borrow $x at i interest from depositors and loan $x at that same i interest to n borrowers.
profit = interest collected - interest paid
profit = nix - ix
profit = ix(n-1)