Where your strategy also breaks, behind not being compatible with human psychology so that were you a policymaker who decided let's not waste resources on fighting Islamic terrorism it would likely cause a level of social paralysis, is that if you do nothing, you invite more and more of them to commit acts of terrorism.
If someone is not acting randomly but is out there to get you, you have to stop them, no matter what the material cost.
Because knowing that you can be blown up to pieces by a deranged zealot whenever you go shopping or watching a movie is worse than knowing that you can die on the highway. The former has a quality of what we call evil and awareness of it becomes persistent in people's minds, unlike statistically random accidents, or even statistically random acts of shooting. You have to know that you or your community or country is fighting that evil or you will not have rest, you won't be able to go on with your life. Psychology matters. You could say it is irrational for people to have PTSD when they are out of harm's way, yet they do, and you have to do something about it.
Michael Crichton was so ahead of his time. The microdrones would need to be replaced with self-assembling nanorobots but still. Even the sound is getting close to that of his "dust devils".
That was then, the world is now a different place, and Apple has too big of a user base to serve to be able to mind details like that. I don't care either way, I'm not an Apple fan or a product user (besides my 4 year old iPhone 4S) but I don't really think they had a choice -- it was either grow insanely to where they are now or be eaten by competition, no middle ground.
... that instagram and the entertainment social networks have peaked and will now start to decline. Unlike past inventions like email, instagram's, and to a lesser degree, facebook's, utility is limited. I have unfollowed almost everyone on my facebook feed and haven't posted on my wall in weeks, although I still occasionally comment on other posts. Having experienced that feeling I don't plan to go ever go back.
A formerly nevertrumper radio host had explained his reasoning for voting Trump this way: "Essentially, I am voting for Trump because of the people who don’t want me to, and I believe I must register my disgust with Hillary Clinton."
They are neighbors. And Europeans emerged from WW1 -- especially militaristic Germans after a crushing defeat -- in madness from the slaughter of the previous war that made the greater madness possible. The conditions between US and China are nothing alike.
Suppose Russians really did it and imagine they even had said in September "hey Americans we hacked your emails and we're releasing them because we hate you." Do you really believe it would have changed what people thought of Clinton and Trump?
And yet Obama said himself in this interview with Trevor Noah two days ago that the hacked emails were "frankly not very interesting", with "nothing explosive" and just "fairly routine stuff". @3:30-4:00 and @5:20 http://www.cc.com/video-clips/...
So Obama makes a public announcement that a "deep dive" secret, covert operation is about to begin, and then one day later the Obama appointed CIA officials conclude that the operation is complete and they know Putin's intent, that he wanted to help Trump get elected by... releasing uninteresting emails.
Every post that *could* be altered. It's the matter of principle -- if you know it happens at all then you know it might happen to the post you're typing right now, and when this constant doubt is present in your mind, no matter how weak, the mood for posting is killed and you go somewhere else.
I don't but I have no reason to suspect, yet. Redditers clearly do. It's that doubt that kills the motivation. If we ever get a proof that it happens here, I'll probably never post again.
It's not minor if you have to wonder with every post if it's going to be altered or hidden or deleted, you'd just take your time elsewhere. E.g. if it were happening here, I wouldn't bother posting.
I'm beginning to think people are feeling more and more miserable and have a stronger need than ever to believe in escapist fantasies that invariably fail to deliver. No Man's Sky comes to mind. I also thought Magic Leap was trying to cash in on that need the moment I saw the first demo.
It's like what Louis CK said, "everything is amazing and nobody's happy." I'll go as far to say that if Magic Leap actually did deliver exactly as promised in their fake demos, few would actually buy it. People need a mirage to go after, once they reach it it no longer works.
Which then follows that ML found the perfect business model, take money from investors to chase an unreachable dream. Reminds me of an analysis how North Korea doesn't want to have nukes, if they do then they are a threat to be dealt with. They just want to be in the process of developing nukes, so they have a negotiating position to potentially benefit from.
That still kills the mood for participating. If you have to fret that your account can be removed even if you posted in good faith because someone overzealous may consider it out of bounds, you may decide it's not worth wasting time. And then all that's left is whack-a-moled trolls and timid or self-censoring posters. Hardly a recipe for something interesting.
Also not standing up to hate speech indicates support for hate speech. Twitter should also ban users who do not publicly condemn tweets containing hate speech. After that, ban those who do not condemn hate speech tweets switftly enough.
"You might charge that this is undemocratic. It is. It was intended to be. The founders did not create a direct democracy for a good reason. It would have prevented the United States from emerging as a stable union. They created a republican form of government based on representation and a federal system based on sovereign states. Because of that, a candidate who ignores or insults the “flyover” states is likely to be writing memoirs instead of governing." from Geopolitical Futures
I saw different news articles on Facebook yesterday about Trump's Thanksgiving message (which I thought was fair and well done). The vast majority of comments even on news from sources who are somewhat neutral (Business Insider), were along the lines of Trump being an idiot, a con man, is going to be impeached etc. If FB were representative of the electorate you'd expect half and half, but obviously most people there think the same. No wonder they were surprised by the outcome.
What he's doing is linear thinking -- belief that what exists today will exist tomorrow, only stronger. It's surprising how few of those CEOs are visionaries.
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Where your strategy also breaks, behind not being compatible with human psychology so that were you a policymaker who decided let's not waste resources on fighting Islamic terrorism it would likely cause a level of social paralysis, is that if you do nothing, you invite more and more of them to commit acts of terrorism.
If someone is not acting randomly but is out there to get you, you have to stop them, no matter what the material cost.
Because knowing that you can be blown up to pieces by a deranged zealot whenever you go shopping or watching a movie is worse than knowing that you can die on the highway. The former has a quality of what we call evil and awareness of it becomes persistent in people's minds, unlike statistically random accidents, or even statistically random acts of shooting. You have to know that you or your community or country is fighting that evil or you will not have rest, you won't be able to go on with your life. Psychology matters. You could say it is irrational for people to have PTSD when they are out of harm's way, yet they do, and you have to do something about it.
Michael Crichton was so ahead of his time. The microdrones would need to be replaced with self-assembling nanorobots but still. Even the sound is getting close to that of his "dust devils".
That was then, the world is now a different place, and Apple has too big of a user base to serve to be able to mind details like that. I don't care either way, I'm not an Apple fan or a product user (besides my 4 year old iPhone 4S) but I don't really think they had a choice -- it was either grow insanely to where they are now or be eaten by competition, no middle ground.
... that instagram and the entertainment social networks have peaked and will now start to decline. Unlike past inventions like email, instagram's, and to a lesser degree, facebook's, utility is limited. I have unfollowed almost everyone on my facebook feed and haven't posted on my wall in weeks, although I still occasionally comment on other posts. Having experienced that feeling I don't plan to go ever go back.
I hear it's good, but the "Sale of Two Titties" by Edmund Wells is supposed to be better.
A formerly nevertrumper radio host had explained his reasoning for voting Trump this way: "Essentially, I am voting for Trump because of the people who don’t want me to, and I believe I must register my disgust with Hillary Clinton."
http://townhall.com/columnists...
They are neighbors. And Europeans emerged from WW1 -- especially militaristic Germans after a crushing defeat -- in madness from the slaughter of the previous war that made the greater madness possible. The conditions between US and China are nothing alike.
No chance. China needs the US to export its goods here. Loss of exports -> unemployment -> social unrest.
Suppose Russians really did it and imagine they even had said in September "hey Americans we hacked your emails and we're releasing them because we hate you." Do you really believe it would have changed what people thought of Clinton and Trump?
And yet Obama said himself in this interview with Trevor Noah two days ago that the hacked emails were "frankly not very interesting", with "nothing explosive" and just "fairly routine stuff". @3:30-4:00 and @5:20
http://www.cc.com/video-clips/...
So Obama makes a public announcement that a "deep dive" secret, covert operation is about to begin, and then one day later the Obama appointed CIA officials conclude that the operation is complete and they know Putin's intent, that he wanted to help Trump get elected by... releasing uninteresting emails.
Every post that *could* be altered. It's the matter of principle -- if you know it happens at all then you know it might happen to the post you're typing right now, and when this constant doubt is present in your mind, no matter how weak, the mood for posting is killed and you go somewhere else.
I don't but I have no reason to suspect, yet. Redditers clearly do. It's that doubt that kills the motivation. If we ever get a proof that it happens here, I'll probably never post again.
That's different. The rules of what happens to your posts are clear and known to all.
It's not minor if you have to wonder with every post if it's going to be altered or hidden or deleted, you'd just take your time elsewhere. E.g. if it were happening here, I wouldn't bother posting.
I'm beginning to think people are feeling more and more miserable and have a stronger need than ever to believe in escapist fantasies that invariably fail to deliver. No Man's Sky comes to mind. I also thought Magic Leap was trying to cash in on that need the moment I saw the first demo.
It's like what Louis CK said, "everything is amazing and nobody's happy." I'll go as far to say that if Magic Leap actually did deliver exactly as promised in their fake demos, few would actually buy it. People need a mirage to go after, once they reach it it no longer works.
Which then follows that ML found the perfect business model, take money from investors to chase an unreachable dream. Reminds me of an analysis how North Korea doesn't want to have nukes, if they do then they are a threat to be dealt with. They just want to be in the process of developing nukes, so they have a negotiating position to potentially benefit from.
That still kills the mood for participating. If you have to fret that your account can be removed even if you posted in good faith because someone overzealous may consider it out of bounds, you may decide it's not worth wasting time. And then all that's left is whack-a-moled trolls and timid or self-censoring posters. Hardly a recipe for something interesting.
Also not standing up to hate speech indicates support for hate speech. Twitter should also ban users who do not publicly condemn tweets containing hate speech. After that, ban those who do not condemn hate speech tweets switftly enough.
"You might charge that this is undemocratic. It is. It was intended to be. The founders did not create a direct democracy for a good reason. It would have prevented the United States from emerging as a stable union. They created a republican form of government based on representation and a federal system based on sovereign states. Because of that, a candidate who ignores or insults the “flyover” states is likely to be writing memoirs instead of governing." from Geopolitical Futures
I saw different news articles on Facebook yesterday about Trump's Thanksgiving message (which I thought was fair and well done). The vast majority of comments even on news from sources who are somewhat neutral (Business Insider), were along the lines of Trump being an idiot, a con man, is going to be impeached etc. If FB were representative of the electorate you'd expect half and half, but obviously most people there think the same. No wonder they were surprised by the outcome.
Michael Moore knew Trump would win. My guess is it's because he actually walks among regular people.
Getting elected is an action that counts. As do cabinet appointments.
Here, of all places. That tells me VR is failing to get traction. What's missing?
Good point. What I should have said is it's surprising how many of those CEOs we expect to be visionaries.
And of course if we expect them to be visionaries they'll play along because they'd look stupid if they don't.
What he's doing is linear thinking -- belief that what exists today will exist tomorrow, only stronger. It's surprising how few of those CEOs are visionaries.