I would much rather live in a perfectly controlled greenhouse with a whitelist of useful species and perfectly controlled processes, than out in the wilderness to be eaten by bugs or bears or what have you. I don't care if it's on Earth or the Moon or an orbital station, I live in a warm country and spend way too much money coping with hordes of mosquitos and cockroaches.
That's absurd. I see ads for basic stuff like jackets, because i've been dying to replace my aging overcoat and have searched for alternatives. Nobody ever told me the jacket would make me sexy, the ads have a picture of a jacket and a price.
A Half adder consists of TWO logic gates, a full adder can be 5. Bees have approximately one million neurons. Fuck's sake, we should be able to run far more complex computations on it.
Whoever you add on Whatsapp will almost immediately show up on your Facebook friend suggestions, it would be extremely stupid of them to spend billions buying Whatsapp and not mine that data. Pretty sure everything you say on Whatsapp is already tracked by Facebook
You're forgetting about the anthropic principle... the fact is that we are here to watch and inquire, and there are so many other stages of evolution and civilization, it doesn't make sense that all possible life should evolve to a very high stage of development. It takes a special one to even ask themselves about alien life.
I don't know about you but most people are totally cool with adding me on Facebook as opposed to giving me their phone number... whatsapp is highly primitive, doesn't do anything I couldn't do with ICQ 20 years ago. I seriously don't get wtf is wrong with these people creating new IM programs all the time.
We've been making fibrous food for centuries, it's called noodles. Surely you can "print" a vegan-friendly steak-like material in mere seconds using the same method. 100 grams every 30 minutes will never sell, my family would need to have a 3d printer working on this for 16 hours a day to survive off of this "meat", and we would most definitely not prefer vegan "steak" unless it's substantially cheaper.
My experience with having once lived in a smaller and more conservative town is that word travels fast and everybody "tracks" you, as in, gossips... since when has humanity revolved around privacy instead of rampant gossiping? Surely the people who can achieve some level of privacy have a very enlightened and polite circle of friends in a very large city... my life experience consists of being judged and having stories made up about me. And of course the grocer would also be happy to upsell you some new items related to the ones you purchase...
I think you probably realize that lot of people in their 40s generally expect to move on with their lives and don't spend their whole day coding or otherwise burning up what little neurons they have left with anything complicated or time-consuming.
I can't for the life of me imagine a society being optimized towards allowing a random weirdo search for something obscure. Try living like a normal person and the system will work fine for you.
I tried using DuckDuckGo for a while since it doesn't track me like Google does, omg, it's fucking impossible to find anything with that damn thing. If I search for something, I expect the result to be a website in my own country or even a website targeting people in my city and my group of interests specifically. Not a website on the other side of the world. I love the fact that Google knows what language I develop in when I search for a function. Any language could have the same function, but Google always shows me exactly what i'm looking for without extra effort. And I love targeting. Do you want to watch ads for tampons if you're a male? Or do you want to quickly find out about a cool new game similar to another one you might be interested in? Oh man, I couldn't function in society were it not for tracking... besides, before Google, "in the good old days" all your neighborhood stores "tracked" your grandparents... the grocer knew what to keep in stock for them, and it was good. It was called personal service, and was desireable. Would people quit getting their panties in a knot because of automated statistics? Nobody gives a fuck what type of porn you watch...
Because glaciers flow faster when they're not pushing against a massive floating ice shelf. And ice shelves melt faster when they're not surrounded by floating ice. And so on and so forth.
Back when I was last unemployed, I had severe issues managing my time to fit in interviews with everyone. I would sometimes get 3 in a day, and you know, there's traffic, or people are stuck in another interview which is taking a lot longer than expected and can't simply text or call the next recruiter in the middle of an interview where they're being bothered with college-level exercises after a 15 year career. Recruiters are often like mosquitoes, they seem to have interview targets where they have to interview X number of people for each position, or per month, or whatever. They are a waste of my time. They are sales people, after all, who have to pursue leads aggressively in order to triumph. Their career, as with any sales person, consists of bothering people. I will often get a 6-month cycle of the same recruiter asking me for an updated resume and if I want to come in for an interview for yet another generic developer position offering the same pay. They don't even bother reading my resume and offer me bullshit unrelated to my career. No, sorry, I will not suddenly change my mind and find another job, I have a wife and two kids to feed thank you very much. Oh, and they will often lie about the details of a position making it seem more interesting than it actually is. I was once offered a leadership position and the actual work was more of a junior level thing where you just pick up tasks and have no input or anyone to mentor and supervise. I have managed 30 people in the past thank you very much, I would like to get out of coding, not be stuck in your fucking code sweatshop consulting agency where people are so densely packed they can smell each other's farts, forced to type until they get RSI.
Man I am really looking forward to living until 125, that just means I have to ahem save up TWICE than I make over the course of a 30 year career, to have a shot at supporting myself in my old age? Or become an unsustainable burden on an already bankrupt social security. Breed like rabbits in order to be supported by my kids like in a third world country? WTF would you even DO with that much time, in your frail body full of pain. Have those scientists ever seen people grow old, suffer needlessly for decades and die?:) I've buried nearly all my relatives, thank you very much, I would be very happy if people didn't live so long.
Because if you drink 20 cups of coffee per day you're probably self-medicating for ADHD or depression, and suffering from massive side effect such as anxiety and insomnia.
I was very poor as a kid, and now I'm a successful IT professional. As soon as vintage games became available on GOG and Steam I started adding them all to my collection. I don't really have time to play a lot of computer games but I like being able to imbibe the occasional dose of nostalgia, and the fuzzy feeling of doing what's right.
It's not hard to put a PC game in a folder that otherwise consists of 67 GB of ROMs. I imagine a Japanese game collection could mostly consist of old-school console ROMs with some PC games in the mix.
We had freebie face replacement apps bundled with our webcams like 20 years ago, wtf. We could use them with Skype or anything else because they worked on the driver level.
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Makes perfect sense to have lots of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, violence but have no tolerance for nipples.
I would much rather live in a perfectly controlled greenhouse with a whitelist of useful species and perfectly controlled processes, than out in the wilderness to be eaten by bugs or bears or what have you. I don't care if it's on Earth or the Moon or an orbital station, I live in a warm country and spend way too much money coping with hordes of mosquitos and cockroaches.
That's absurd. I see ads for basic stuff like jackets, because i've been dying to replace my aging overcoat and have searched for alternatives. Nobody ever told me the jacket would make me sexy, the ads have a picture of a jacket and a price.
A Half adder consists of TWO logic gates, a full adder can be 5.
Bees have approximately one million neurons. Fuck's sake, we should be able to run far more complex computations on it.
Whoever you add on Whatsapp will almost immediately show up on your Facebook friend suggestions, it would be extremely stupid of them to spend billions buying Whatsapp and not mine that data. Pretty sure everything you say on Whatsapp is already tracked by Facebook
You're forgetting about the anthropic principle... the fact is that we are here to watch and inquire, and there are so many other stages of evolution and civilization, it doesn't make sense that all possible life should evolve to a very high stage of development. It takes a special one to even ask themselves about alien life.
I don't know about you but most people are totally cool with adding me on Facebook as opposed to giving me their phone number... whatsapp is highly primitive, doesn't do anything I couldn't do with ICQ 20 years ago. I seriously don't get wtf is wrong with these people creating new IM programs all the time.
So basically you shouldnt worry too much about what happens 100 million years ago, civilization will not last 100 thousand XD
For the conservative half of America being gay is indecent. Everything is relative. What we hold as sacred will be demonized by our neighbor.
We've been making fibrous food for centuries, it's called noodles. Surely you can "print" a vegan-friendly steak-like material in mere seconds using the same method.
100 grams every 30 minutes will never sell, my family would need to have a 3d printer working on this for 16 hours a day to survive off of this "meat", and we would most definitely not prefer vegan "steak" unless it's substantially cheaper.
I'm sure they would be thrilled to eat some other kind of mosquito that does not spread malaria. Biodiversity needn't include horrific parasites.
The real world is toxic to introverts and bullies them into oblivion.
My experience with having once lived in a smaller and more conservative town is that word travels fast and everybody "tracks" you, as in, gossips... since when has humanity revolved around privacy instead of rampant gossiping? Surely the people who can achieve some level of privacy have a very enlightened and polite circle of friends in a very large city... my life experience consists of being judged and having stories made up about me. And of course the grocer would also be happy to upsell you some new items related to the ones you purchase...
I think you probably realize that lot of people in their 40s generally expect to move on with their lives and don't spend their whole day coding or otherwise burning up what little neurons they have left with anything complicated or time-consuming.
I can't for the life of me imagine a society being optimized towards allowing a random weirdo search for something obscure. Try living like a normal person and the system will work fine for you.
I tried using DuckDuckGo for a while since it doesn't track me like Google does, omg, it's fucking impossible to find anything with that damn thing. If I search for something, I expect the result to be a website in my own country or even a website targeting people in my city and my group of interests specifically. Not a website on the other side of the world. I love the fact that Google knows what language I develop in when I search for a function. Any language could have the same function, but Google always shows me exactly what i'm looking for without extra effort. And I love targeting. Do you want to watch ads for tampons if you're a male? Or do you want to quickly find out about a cool new game similar to another one you might be interested in? Oh man, I couldn't function in society were it not for tracking... besides, before Google, "in the good old days" all your neighborhood stores "tracked" your grandparents... the grocer knew what to keep in stock for them, and it was good. It was called personal service, and was desireable. Would people quit getting their panties in a knot because of automated statistics? Nobody gives a fuck what type of porn you watch...
Millions of people enjoyed playing the default solitaire under Windows 3.1, why would you complain about games in the default install?
Because glaciers flow faster when they're not pushing against a massive floating ice shelf. And ice shelves melt faster when they're not surrounded by floating ice. And so on and so forth.
Back when I was last unemployed, I had severe issues managing my time to fit in interviews with everyone. I would sometimes get 3 in a day, and you know, there's traffic, or people are stuck in another interview which is taking a lot longer than expected and can't simply text or call the next recruiter in the middle of an interview where they're being bothered with college-level exercises after a 15 year career.
Recruiters are often like mosquitoes, they seem to have interview targets where they have to interview X number of people for each position, or per month, or whatever. They are a waste of my time. They are sales people, after all, who have to pursue leads aggressively in order to triumph. Their career, as with any sales person, consists of bothering people. I will often get a 6-month cycle of the same recruiter asking me for an updated resume and if I want to come in for an interview for yet another generic developer position offering the same pay. They don't even bother reading my resume and offer me bullshit unrelated to my career. No, sorry, I will not suddenly change my mind and find another job, I have a wife and two kids to feed thank you very much. Oh, and they will often lie about the details of a position making it seem more interesting than it actually is. I was once offered a leadership position and the actual work was more of a junior level thing where you just pick up tasks and have no input or anyone to mentor and supervise. I have managed 30 people in the past thank you very much, I would like to get out of coding, not be stuck in your fucking code sweatshop consulting agency where people are so densely packed they can smell each other's farts, forced to type until they get RSI.
Man I am really looking forward to living until 125, that just means I have to ahem save up TWICE than I make over the course of a 30 year career, to have a shot at supporting myself in my old age? Or become an unsustainable burden on an already bankrupt social security. Breed like rabbits in order to be supported by my kids like in a third world country? :)
WTF would you even DO with that much time, in your frail body full of pain. Have those scientists ever seen people grow old, suffer needlessly for decades and die?
I've buried nearly all my relatives, thank you very much, I would be very happy if people didn't live so long.
We have birth records online, why don't you?
I guess the lack of a highly centralized government makes it hard to coordinate anything.
Because if you drink 20 cups of coffee per day you're probably self-medicating for ADHD or depression, and suffering from massive side effect such as anxiety and insomnia.
I was very poor as a kid, and now I'm a successful IT professional. As soon as vintage games became available on GOG and Steam I started adding them all to my collection. I don't really have time to play a lot of computer games but I like being able to imbibe the occasional dose of nostalgia, and the fuzzy feeling of doing what's right.
It's not hard to put a PC game in a folder that otherwise consists of 67 GB of ROMs. I imagine a Japanese game collection could mostly consist of old-school console ROMs with some PC games in the mix.
We had freebie face replacement apps bundled with our webcams like 20 years ago, wtf. We could use them with Skype or anything else because they worked on the driver level.