"You can't really do anything else. You don't have a social life. You don't really want to interact with family and friends because there's just not much context for them. Your world revolves around your startup..."
This is an inherently unhealthy lifestyle, it's hardly any surprise it leads to unhealthy results. Doesn't matter what the business is, a poor integration of your work life into the rest of your life will cause problems.
Sure, technology could bring the 'singularity' and 20 billion people could live here comfortably.
But... I'm not betting on it. Global warming was caused by a simple thing: too damned many people consuming energy on this rock, and it gets worse every year. Unfortunately, when betting on the future I have to like the odds of Stand On Zanzibar way more than Star Trek. (And let's remember that the Star Trek society only came about after a global thermonuclear war drastically reduced Earth's population.)
And really, congratulations to them and to you for that genetic legacy. On the other hand, I don't know of a male relative on my father's side that made it to 70. Dad dropped within 5 years of early retirement. And watching the agonizing, emasculating way that death took him told me (a) don't wait until too late to retire, and (b) don't fight for that last extra year if it's going to be the most painful, unproductive year of your life.
I've had a great life, but I'm only going to keep clinging to it while it's a life worth living. Could be 65, could be 85, but there will be a point when the advantages of keeping this body moving through the days do not outweigh the disadvantages.
But keep in mind that in a world of finite resources, the longer you live the more resource you are using up. The old must at some point die simply to make way for the young, or there will be 40 billion people living an impoverished lifestyle on this planet.
But those are things you should be doing for your quality of life, today. They don't guarantee anything about longevity.
If I'm mentally sharp, pain free and mobile at age 80, I'm down for living to 80.... but all of those are quite unlikely in my case without some pretty dramatic scientific breakthroughs, so I'm not counting on it, and not worrying about it.
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma -- a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."
Umberto Eco
Snowden and Greenwald's self-serving statements about motive I pretty much ignore. Let's hear the testimony under oath, subject to cross examination.
It appears (and I hate to pre-judge) that by his own admission he is a thief on a massive scale, a breaker of oaths, and a naive idiot. Maybe he's also a traitor in the pay of one or more foreign governments. TBD, let's have the trial.
What's right with us? We're not the 'rape culture' where you're getting gang raped just for getting on the bus alone or honor-murdered on courthouse steps because you went off and married somebody daddy didn't approve of.
Are bachelor male primates that are frustrated in their sexual desires dangerous? Well yeah, watch some bachelor chimps commit infanticide to get access to breeding females sometime, primates are damned dangerous beasts.
But mostly we're much better than that... just not entirely. Is our mental health system a shadow of what it should be? Are we miles short of where we could be in equal rights and equal respect? Sure. But you don't have to look very far to see how much worse it could be, and is, in much of the world, so forgive my slowness to engage in the tabloid media's flagellation of the country over every psychotic's rampage... in a country of 330 million, we're going to produce several.
" Interesting technical features include being able to detect whether the ANTVR wearer steps forward, backwards, to the left or to the right, and also whether the wearer believes in Tibetan independence, free trade unions, or an honest examination of the events at Tienanmen."
Nothing persuades technically competent people like an argument that something is true because you "really feel that way" based on no empirical data at all.
Bloomberg would really have a point if everybody at a tech company wrote code.
But the bigger the company gets, the lower the % of engineers and the higher the % of non-engineering staff.
Can you teach a coal miner to work in a shipping warehouse or to handle support calls? Maybe Bloomberg doesn't think so, looking down upon working drones as one trick ponies, but that's not my experience.
Didn't the South Africans come up with an anti-carjacking system a couple years ago that put a flamethrower under the car to roast the ankles of anyone threatening you from outside the car?
Seems like Smart needs another security system option added to anti-theft. 'Tipping passes 5 degrees, engage flamethrower.'
Expecting Congress to do its job under our constitution and fix bad laws. Everything should be by decree from the White House, that should really protect our liberties alrighty....
No execution as a traitor... unless that's sworn testimony at trial establishes that he was one, of course.
A long, dark time in a SuperMax hole should be sufficient for his crimes he already admitted to.
" 'The development of a lunar base could be a catalyst for lowering our launch cost to space and accelerating the development of automation and robotics."
So, we're going to make things eventually cheaper by spending a whole lot of money we can't actually afford now....
Yeah, I bet a lot of people have ingenious plans for doing that, but it's a tough sell today.
But tastes vary. Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Sydney, Singapore, Seattle... take your pick. Calling one 'the best' like this is simply a reflection of one author's personal tastes.
As with so many Snowden "revelations," the security community can only shake their heads at the general illiteracy of the popular press and say "Yeah... who didn't know this?"
The NSA discovered that botnets are powerful infection mechanisms? They'd have to be as illiterate as the average blogger to NOT have figured that out by now, wouldn't they?
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I mean, look at what happens on election day ... and people are surprised that critical thinking skills are in short supply?
"You can't really do anything else. You don't have a social life. You don't really want to interact with family and friends because there's just not much context for them. Your world revolves around your startup ..."
This is an inherently unhealthy lifestyle, it's hardly any surprise it leads to unhealthy results. Doesn't matter what the business is, a poor integration of your work life into the rest of your life will cause problems.
Well, he married a 35 year old when he was 73, so we have a clue on his theories about remaining young.
Sure, technology could bring the 'singularity' and 20 billion people could live here comfortably. But ... I'm not betting on it. Global warming was caused by a simple thing: too damned many people consuming energy on this rock, and it gets worse every year. Unfortunately, when betting on the future I have to like the odds of Stand On Zanzibar way more than Star Trek. (And let's remember that the Star Trek society only came about after a global thermonuclear war drastically reduced Earth's population.)
And really, congratulations to them and to you for that genetic legacy. On the other hand, I don't know of a male relative on my father's side that made it to 70. Dad dropped within 5 years of early retirement. And watching the agonizing, emasculating way that death took him told me (a) don't wait until too late to retire, and (b) don't fight for that last extra year if it's going to be the most painful, unproductive year of your life. I've had a great life, but I'm only going to keep clinging to it while it's a life worth living. Could be 65, could be 85, but there will be a point when the advantages of keeping this body moving through the days do not outweigh the disadvantages.
But keep in mind that in a world of finite resources, the longer you live the more resource you are using up. The old must at some point die simply to make way for the young, or there will be 40 billion people living an impoverished lifestyle on this planet.
But those are things you should be doing for your quality of life, today. They don't guarantee anything about longevity. If I'm mentally sharp, pain free and mobile at age 80, I'm down for living to 80 .... but all of those are quite unlikely in my case without some pretty dramatic scientific breakthroughs, so I'm not counting on it, and not worrying about it.
"I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them." Ian Fleming, author of James Bond
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma -- a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." Umberto Eco
So basically what facial recognition did here was provide an excellent lead on a suspect, not convict the guy.
Snowden and Greenwald's self-serving statements about motive I pretty much ignore. Let's hear the testimony under oath, subject to cross examination. It appears (and I hate to pre-judge) that by his own admission he is a thief on a massive scale, a breaker of oaths, and a naive idiot. Maybe he's also a traitor in the pay of one or more foreign governments. TBD, let's have the trial.
What's right with us? We're not the 'rape culture' where you're getting gang raped just for getting on the bus alone or honor-murdered on courthouse steps because you went off and married somebody daddy didn't approve of.
Are bachelor male primates that are frustrated in their sexual desires dangerous? Well yeah, watch some bachelor chimps commit infanticide to get access to breeding females sometime, primates are damned dangerous beasts.
But mostly we're much better than that ... just not entirely. Is our mental health system a shadow of what it should be? Are we miles short of where we could be in equal rights and equal respect? Sure. But you don't have to look very far to see how much worse it could be, and is, in much of the world, so forgive my slowness to engage in the tabloid media's flagellation of the country over every psychotic's rampage ... in a country of 330 million, we're going to produce several.
" Interesting technical features include being able to detect whether the ANTVR wearer steps forward, backwards, to the left or to the right, and also whether the wearer believes in Tibetan independence, free trade unions, or an honest examination of the events at Tienanmen."
That guy talks and I hear a creepy little woman saying "All are welcome, all are welcome ... come into the light!"
Nothing persuades technically competent people like an argument that something is true because you "really feel that way" based on no empirical data at all.
Bloomberg would really have a point if everybody at a tech company wrote code. But the bigger the company gets, the lower the % of engineers and the higher the % of non-engineering staff. Can you teach a coal miner to work in a shipping warehouse or to handle support calls? Maybe Bloomberg doesn't think so, looking down upon working drones as one trick ponies, but that's not my experience.
Only one kind of person messes with another person's car.
Didn't the South Africans come up with an anti-carjacking system a couple years ago that put a flamethrower under the car to roast the ankles of anyone threatening you from outside the car? Seems like Smart needs another security system option added to anti-theft. 'Tipping passes 5 degrees, engage flamethrower.'
Expecting Congress to do its job under our constitution and fix bad laws. Everything should be by decree from the White House, that should really protect our liberties alrighty ....
No execution as a traitor ... unless that's sworn testimony at trial establishes that he was one, of course.
A long, dark time in a SuperMax hole should be sufficient for his crimes he already admitted to.
" 'The development of a lunar base could be a catalyst for lowering our launch cost to space and accelerating the development of automation and robotics." So, we're going to make things eventually cheaper by spending a whole lot of money we can't actually afford now ....
Yeah, I bet a lot of people have ingenious plans for doing that, but it's a tough sell today.
So ... how exactly does Earth owe you any of those things, in the precise location of your choosing?
But tastes vary. Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Sydney, Singapore, Seattle ... take your pick. Calling one 'the best' like this is simply a reflection of one author's personal tastes.
Sure, I come up with all sorts of great ways for other people to spend their money .... generally they aren't interested. Either.
As with so many Snowden "revelations," the security community can only shake their heads at the general illiteracy of the popular press and say "Yeah ... who didn't know this?"
The NSA discovered that botnets are powerful infection mechanisms? They'd have to be as illiterate as the average blogger to NOT have figured that out by now, wouldn't they?