I think a lot of these creators probably could have dealt with the pressure from their audiences (and from themselves) to produce relevant content. But when you add in changing algorithms, changing community guidelines/demonetization, and fewer advertisers who are increasingly critical of where their ads go; then it doesn't surprise me in least bit that many creators are starting to break down. Imagine spending 40-60 hours on a single video, 3-4 years ago you could be safe in knowing that it would bring in a lot of viewers and a lot of ad revenue, but now you have to worry about whether your subs will even see it or if it'll even get recommended. Then you have to worry about whether it'll get demonetized/flagged which requires you to wait to get it manually reviewed. God help you if you made it public immediately because now you are losing ad revenue during the time period when you'd be getting the most views.
When I look at this new environment on YouTube, its hard for me not to believe that YouTube has purposefully 'poisoned the well' in an attempt to drive some of these larger YouTubers out and let the platform get taken over by big media outlets. Just look at Trending, its largely filled with Music videos, late night show clips, and the occasional news clip from like CNN or MSNBC.
The anomaly to me is house appreciation. I was telling a friend, who recently bought a house, how I thought it was weird that everyone [in the US] considers houses to be things that gain value [within reason]. When I look around at everything else though, cars, computers, phones, furniture, appliances; everything loses its value. Some things hold value better, such as a luxury limited edition car, but even those things probably aren't going to resell for more than you paid for it. But houses? Houses/Condos and the property are generally expected to keep their value and go up.
I specified the US, because I know in Japan that most people view houses and condos as places with depreciating value, and its not uncommon for people to simply knock an old house down and rebuild on the land. I really wonder who has the right idea in this case.
When we recognize it, we will first bomb it, and then forbid it or anything like it, out of the most trustful of human traits: fear of change. Then furious secret development will continue, but under under strict military control.
I actually think this won't happen because we will probably all end up with multiple self-aware systems coming online at the same time. A self-aware system is likely to be the result of some new breakthrough/idea in learning systems that accomplishes a lot of tasks really well. One company/university will put the paper/product out and then numerous other entities will immediately start trying to accomplish the same thing as well, that first entity will probably have a self-aware system immediately but the followers will have their own not long after. You'll have to go around bombing or 'quarantining' a number of systems and there are likely to be countries that don't see self-aware systems as that big of a threat.
Sort of as a real world example, consider how Siri spawned Alexa/Google Assistant/Samsung's version and I'm sure China has their own ones as well. Some were better or worse in various ways, but they quickly caught up to Siri.
This is pretty common in Japan and comes in various forms. Back in 2013 the NYT did an article about workers sent to the boredom room. Many of these workers were hired into the company back in the period when lifetime employment was the way things went, so I guess many workers had contracts that made it impossible for them to be laid off. When Sony closed down a number of their older products such as Betamax or the Walkman, they couldn't fire a lot of these old timers that only knew about their specific product, so they stuffed them in 'boredom' rooms where they'd come in every day and read the newspaper or a book, and then go home after 8 hours.
I've also personally experienced similar redundant jobs in Japan. When I went to the city hall to pick up some official tax form information, they had someone that took my request form and handed it to someone who printed out the document. The printer-person confirmed the document, stamped it, and then passed it to the person sitting next to them. This next person looked it over for all of 5 seconds, stamped it and passed it to the person at the head of this block of four desks and he glanced it over and stamped it. Then the person that took my request form took it to another guy sitting in a separate desk about 5ft away ("section chief") and he stamped it and then I got my tax forms. I have no doubt that 2 of the people in this process were completely useless in most of the work they do.
I think the lesson here is that if you want to find pointless jobs, just look in highly bureaucratic systems -- there are bound to be tons.
Pay out on the remainder. If after you apply it to tuition and board you have money left, usually the remainder gets dispersed to you in the form of a check. I had a friend where this happened. He was going to a smaller college and had a student loan. After the tuition was paid for that semester, he had a few hundred bucks left over that the school bursar dispensed to him as a check.
With our launch systems likely to continue to get cheaper and cheaper per kilo, maybe we should start working on a system for refueling and maintenancing some of our current sats in operation. We won't be able to get something in place quick enough for Kepler I imagine, but someone really needs to start thinking about how to address this. Sure we can put up more advanced and brand spanking new sats but the process of fixing something would probably be cheaper in the long run compared to building something new which takes funding, planning, and building; instead, you could launch the equivalent of a space tow-truck to go out and fix it. Send up parts, fuel, and appropriate boost assist to get the "tow-truck" out there and patch it up and then boost back to the "truck garage."
You lose consciousness when you sleep. Beyond the unlikelihood of it being possible [right now], you have no way of knowing if the you that wakes up in the morning is the same you that went to bed. Someone could have sneaked in, gassed your room to keep you knocked out, copied your current brain, removed your knocked out self and put a copy of yourself in the bed. Hell, the copy could even have altered past memories and without the support others and external things (videos, photos, diaries, etc.) you'd have no way of knowing if there is validity in those memories. Gassed "you" could be put in cryo or dropped in a vat of acid, and copy you would continue on thinking everything is business as usual.
I feel too many people view this whole thing from a 3rd person/god perspective, which has complete knowledge, without considering the 1st person perspective experience of being in the "now" with limited knowledge. Its only in the experience of the "now" that you know you are alive, hence why I think loss of consciousness should be viewed as death instead of your heart stopping or your brain being destroyed (which both lead to the state of loss of consciousness).
And when you go to sleep tonight, the you today will be dead. And tomorrow when you sleep, the you tomorrow will be dead.
This is the crux of copied/digital immortality, it seems like death in the "now" because you have to lose consciousness to acquire it, but if that's the main issue then sleep must be 'death' as well. I've realized that within this context immortality is less for your benefit and more for the benefit of others, like your loved ones, friends, and maybe the world. If we can ever engineer humans so they never have to sleep, then we can start talking about whether this still counts as death or not.
As always, the scale of things in space is always nuts, especially when talking about the Sun and Jupiter.
These winds extend nearly 3,000kms into the planet, for comparison, Earth's diameter is roughly 12,700km and Mars is ~6,000km. So the winds extend roughly a 1/4 of the Earth and basically half of mars.
going to take decades to undo the damage this crap causes.
I'd argue it'll never get undone. All of these privatization changes aren't going to get rolled back because they'll be way too expensive to do so. It's easy to sell off public things, hard to maintain, and impossible to buy back. Let's say DC sells off the airports or some of the Interstates to private companies. Companies will bump prices or add tolls in order to cover the costs of fixing up these deteriorating items. Now lets say that 20 years from now the public is frustrated with how the private industry has handled the management of this or how they've nickle-and-dimed them for using it to the point that they want the government to take control again. Now the government has to buy the resource back and they'll have to negotiate the price which is going to be much more expensive than what the government sold it for, which will be it's own barrier for actually being accomplished. In this scenario, the most likely outcome is that the resources remain private but the government simply regulates in order to fix complaints that people have; the government would far rather have some of these things be other peoples problems.
Of the possible failures that could have occurred, this seems like the best one. This was the newest part on the whole 'kit' so it wouldn't surprise me if it was an issue in calculations or some minor mechanical issue that resulted in this. In the end this was still an 80% success and were this a commercial launch, the buyer wouldn't have been overly disappointed since the payload made it into orbit. I have no doubt the next launch will be a complete success with all 3 rockets landing without problem. A big thing I personally took away from this is that SpaceX's iterative development on their launch system (vs scrap the old and build something new) has worked and they'll carry that forward with the R&D for the BFR/BFS.
This is sort of my biggest complaint about YouTube as well: their algorithm sucks. Its way too over-eager when it wants to suggest stuff on the home page and there isn't a quick way to slap the algorithm on the wrist when it comes to correcting the issue. You have to hover over the video link, get the 3 dots, click, say not interested then get the "Why not?" dialog. This takes ~3-4 seconds depending on the responsiveness of the UI and I might have to do this for upwards to 8 videos in the "Recommended" section otherwise I won't get new stuff there. And don't get me started on how they shuffle around the order/layout of the landing page as well, sometimes subs or playlists are at the top and "Recent" or "Recommended" is down at #4 or 5 spot on the page, some times they are at the top.
The thing that blows my mind with YouTube is how little content you can find. One of my favorite Lets Players I've watched for years is only around 200k subs, and there are a few other channels that are similar. So I've realized that you can have good channels with ~100k to 200k people, and yet I'm still shocked at how often I just stumble upon channels with 1~2 million subs just sitting in some corner of YouTube. Just makes me wonder how many 200k channels I might be missing that are decent simply because its impossible to find them because YT is filling my search results with PewDiePie or some late night talk show host's channel.
Average commute time in Japan is about an hour with maybe +/- 30 minute variation for some. I imagine its pretty similar in other mass transit cities as well. On a full charge, you can easily get play time in without needing an outlet. If you don't use it any more during the day, there should still be enough of a charge to use it going home as well and then you charge it at home. If the battery gets a little worse, you should still be able to play going one way and charge at work.
I'm similar though, living in the burbs, but I also lived in Japan for a number of years. People did 1 of 4 things during morning commute on bus or train. Use their smartphone, read a newspaper, play a handheld device (DS/PSP), or sleep.
This sounds a lot like Freenet except they've made cryptocurrency a part of it. Freenet is incredibly slow because hunting down less used resources can take forever or be nigh impossible. They might be able to interest a few people because "CRYPTO!" but once Bitcoin crashes back to reasonable values, most of these digital tokens will shrivel up and leave a lot of these companies struggling. A lot of these tokens are simply ideas tacked onto a coin instead of coins tacked onto an idea; in other words, if the coin dies, the idea dies because the idea was never the real foundation.
The Switch was a brilliant decision as a mobile system. Will you get 8 hours out of it? No, but I think Nintendo went into this with a few assumptions and target markets. First, I think they assumed that most people wouldn't play the Switch in portable mode for more than 2-3 hours and that if most people were going to do that then they would probably have access to a power source while doing so. In the car? Use a power converter. On an airplane? A lot of [long-haul] planes have plugs now and airports have charging locations now. Their target market for the portability mode was clearly with people that commute via mass transit, particularly countries like Japan, South Korea, and maybe some European countries.
One of the biggest cruxes they've had in Japan in the gaming market has been the low installment base for home consoles. The market with the most disposable income (working adults) don't buy those systems that much because [at least in Japan] they aren't at home a lot. Handhelds are a different matter though, the installment rate on the DS and PSP (and Vita to a lesser extent) has traditionally been really good. This wouldn't seem like a problem on the surface but it hurts developers quite often because they have to make a decision between making games for the handheld or making games for the consoles. I'm convinced that the Switch will be heralded in the future as impactful as the Gameboy or the NES.
This comes as no surprise to me really. The Switch bridges the gap that has been hurting consoles in more mobile markets, by giving people a system that can be played on the go and put into a console mode when at home. I suspect they wanted to try this with the Wii U but the tech wasn't quite there yet and instead they ended up with a gimmicky screen controller.
The most shocking part isn't that they tested it on monkeys, its that they originally wanted to run the test on humans. They did still go ahead and do a test where they exposed humans to Nitrogen Dioxide though. The optics of a German company wanting to do gas chamber tests on humans is hilariously bad and one of the top people involved even admitted to it on video.
He says he'll go up 3/8ths of a mile, that's just under 2,000ft. A commercial airline flight goes higher than that, as well as some cheap high altitude balloons. Of course the point of this isn't to prove anything except that this is a publicity stunt.
I don't think we need to be 100% at post-scarcity in order to start experimenting with UBI and the effect it has on the economy.
With how rapidly automation is moving it might be needed temporarily in some cases as a welfare system like Finland is testing. Consider the freighting industry in the US for example, which has almost 1 millions truckers right now. I don't foresee that being automated to the point of 0 humans but I see the industry shrinking drastically. You could see 1 or 2 people acting as lead drivers in a automated truck caravan style (2-3 following trucks) setup. To me this seems highly likely since there still remains a large demand for truck drivers, so this would meet that demand and over time result in the number of needed drivers shrinking. Then there are the taxi services, aeronautical services, etc. Again, most of these will probably maintain some level of human involvement but you will need fewer bodies in place to do it and it might even reach a point where those bodies don't need formal training for some of these jobs.
Some of these current jobs pay well and the smart people will be looking for what they need to learn for the new industry change. The issue is that a subset of these people either won't have the money or the smarts (maybe they believe their job is secure) to train in advance. These people may only get 2-4 years "advance notice" before the market really starts to shift hard and they all start to get their pink slips. At that point, there won't be a lot of jobs around that require their skill set so they'll have to retrain, which I don't see a lot of people in the mid-40s to early 50s doing. This is where UBI/Unemployment programs will step in. Giving these people $600-1k a month to give them breathing room to find a new place to work. If we don't do this, we'll see our economy contract even more.
Being an assclown with opinions that you don't like is not a justification for banning someone. Otherwise the Internet would be quite empty.
Of course its justification enough. r/the_donald does that quite often. Twitter is not beholden to the 1st amendment on their platform. Twitter is a private platform held together by private money. They could ban every politician, government, media outlet, and bureaucrat from Twitter tomorrow and the most that would happen would be a media firestorm and the eventual likely collapse of their company.
deliberately looking for ways to screw over their customers
Considering how many crazy cases we've seen over the years; it's hard to believe anyone wouldn't think a lot of multinational companies are doing this.
Just some examples off the top of my head. General planned obsolescence, Verizion getting caught nickel and diming people in lots of weird hidden fees, ISPs doing all kinds of throttling and misrepresenting speeds, Apple recently admitting they slow phones, computer breaking DRM, and probably some more that I just can't think of. This isn't a "capitalism conspiracy theory" since a lot of these kind of things have resulted in class action lawsuits or very public apologies after the backlash was so great, and this is all just direct action stuff. You could probably include lobbying efforts in DC to change laws around to make it easier to do the 'screwing' legally, such as using the DMCA to make it harder to repair stuff you bought or even own the actual things you paid money for.
This will for the very same reasons no one wants to walk around wearing anything on their faces to live their lives
Weird, I and millions of other people do that every day. They're called glasses, we use them to see the world. You have entire families that buy them for themselves and their kids as well.
Think for a minute why would people want to be tied to a piece of glass to watch tv, read the news, browse the internet, and talk to friends???????
Your counter argument could have just as easily been used in the early days of smartphones and look where we are now. The ML style AR will replace smartphones when its as compact as regular glasses.
The use case for this is to ultimately replace all of your displays. No more phones, no more tablets, no more TVs, or computer monitors. These will be able to project displays into your field of view. They will be able to give you a persistent HUD right in front of you. You'll still have a phone/mobile computer for cellular, wifi, and simple touch controls. Will they be expensive? The initial product will be I'm sure, but they'll probably get down to the price of a regular smartphone in no time.
Once they shrink these to the size of regular glasses, these things will turn into the next tech revolution.
The Obama administration rarely ever addressed the petitions that were on there, and this administration isn't nearly as "We the people" focused, its more focused on what they know is best.
If it comes back, we'll end up stuck with the occasional news cycle and indignation by the left about how the administration has failed to listen to the public about a petition. There are plenty of other things we can waste new cycles on that the administration is doing instead of some internet petition.
All of the claims about "fake news" could come to a head here really soon with more extreme left and right news sites/blogs putting out fake speeches and audio bites that have been created using this new technology. This tech is really going to muddy the waters on social media and will be utilized by movements and countries to spread disinformation. The more legitimate news outlets will spend more time fighting this disinformation instead of reporting on the actual events that are going on.
I think ultimately what we'll see is that other companies will come along offering services that archive and perform various match tests against sound bites and recorded speeches. You'll be able to confirm if the video clip you just saw actually happened and if so, when and where it occurred. Without something like this, we all will be lost in a see of fake speeches and events. I expect the government will get involved in this and the Library of Congress will be tangentially involved in the collection, storage, and verification; but I don't think any of this will be taken seriously until politicians on both sides of the aisle get burned by fake creations.
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I think a lot of these creators probably could have dealt with the pressure from their audiences (and from themselves) to produce relevant content. But when you add in changing algorithms, changing community guidelines/demonetization, and fewer advertisers who are increasingly critical of where their ads go; then it doesn't surprise me in least bit that many creators are starting to break down. Imagine spending 40-60 hours on a single video, 3-4 years ago you could be safe in knowing that it would bring in a lot of viewers and a lot of ad revenue, but now you have to worry about whether your subs will even see it or if it'll even get recommended. Then you have to worry about whether it'll get demonetized/flagged which requires you to wait to get it manually reviewed. God help you if you made it public immediately because now you are losing ad revenue during the time period when you'd be getting the most views.
When I look at this new environment on YouTube, its hard for me not to believe that YouTube has purposefully 'poisoned the well' in an attempt to drive some of these larger YouTubers out and let the platform get taken over by big media outlets. Just look at Trending, its largely filled with Music videos, late night show clips, and the occasional news clip from like CNN or MSNBC.
The anomaly to me is house appreciation. I was telling a friend, who recently bought a house, how I thought it was weird that everyone [in the US] considers houses to be things that gain value [within reason]. When I look around at everything else though, cars, computers, phones, furniture, appliances; everything loses its value. Some things hold value better, such as a luxury limited edition car, but even those things probably aren't going to resell for more than you paid for it. But houses? Houses/Condos and the property are generally expected to keep their value and go up.
I specified the US, because I know in Japan that most people view houses and condos as places with depreciating value, and its not uncommon for people to simply knock an old house down and rebuild on the land. I really wonder who has the right idea in this case.
When we recognize it, we will first bomb it, and then forbid it or anything like it, out of the most trustful of human traits: fear of change. Then furious secret development will continue, but under under strict military control.
I actually think this won't happen because we will probably all end up with multiple self-aware systems coming online at the same time. A self-aware system is likely to be the result of some new breakthrough/idea in learning systems that accomplishes a lot of tasks really well. One company/university will put the paper/product out and then numerous other entities will immediately start trying to accomplish the same thing as well, that first entity will probably have a self-aware system immediately but the followers will have their own not long after. You'll have to go around bombing or 'quarantining' a number of systems and there are likely to be countries that don't see self-aware systems as that big of a threat.
Sort of as a real world example, consider how Siri spawned Alexa/Google Assistant/Samsung's version and I'm sure China has their own ones as well. Some were better or worse in various ways, but they quickly caught up to Siri.
This is pretty common in Japan and comes in various forms. Back in 2013 the NYT did an article about workers sent to the boredom room. Many of these workers were hired into the company back in the period when lifetime employment was the way things went, so I guess many workers had contracts that made it impossible for them to be laid off. When Sony closed down a number of their older products such as Betamax or the Walkman, they couldn't fire a lot of these old timers that only knew about their specific product, so they stuffed them in 'boredom' rooms where they'd come in every day and read the newspaper or a book, and then go home after 8 hours.
I've also personally experienced similar redundant jobs in Japan. When I went to the city hall to pick up some official tax form information, they had someone that took my request form and handed it to someone who printed out the document. The printer-person confirmed the document, stamped it, and then passed it to the person sitting next to them. This next person looked it over for all of 5 seconds, stamped it and passed it to the person at the head of this block of four desks and he glanced it over and stamped it. Then the person that took my request form took it to another guy sitting in a separate desk about 5ft away ("section chief") and he stamped it and then I got my tax forms. I have no doubt that 2 of the people in this process were completely useless in most of the work they do.
I think the lesson here is that if you want to find pointless jobs, just look in highly bureaucratic systems -- there are bound to be tons.
Pay out on the remainder. If after you apply it to tuition and board you have money left, usually the remainder gets dispersed to you in the form of a check. I had a friend where this happened. He was going to a smaller college and had a student loan. After the tuition was paid for that semester, he had a few hundred bucks left over that the school bursar dispensed to him as a check.
With our launch systems likely to continue to get cheaper and cheaper per kilo, maybe we should start working on a system for refueling and maintenancing some of our current sats in operation. We won't be able to get something in place quick enough for Kepler I imagine, but someone really needs to start thinking about how to address this. Sure we can put up more advanced and brand spanking new sats but the process of fixing something would probably be cheaper in the long run compared to building something new which takes funding, planning, and building; instead, you could launch the equivalent of a space tow-truck to go out and fix it. Send up parts, fuel, and appropriate boost assist to get the "tow-truck" out there and patch it up and then boost back to the "truck garage."
You lose consciousness when you sleep. Beyond the unlikelihood of it being possible [right now], you have no way of knowing if the you that wakes up in the morning is the same you that went to bed. Someone could have sneaked in, gassed your room to keep you knocked out, copied your current brain, removed your knocked out self and put a copy of yourself in the bed. Hell, the copy could even have altered past memories and without the support others and external things (videos, photos, diaries, etc.) you'd have no way of knowing if there is validity in those memories. Gassed "you" could be put in cryo or dropped in a vat of acid, and copy you would continue on thinking everything is business as usual.
I feel too many people view this whole thing from a 3rd person/god perspective, which has complete knowledge, without considering the 1st person perspective experience of being in the "now" with limited knowledge. Its only in the experience of the "now" that you know you are alive, hence why I think loss of consciousness should be viewed as death instead of your heart stopping or your brain being destroyed (which both lead to the state of loss of consciousness).
And when you go to sleep tonight, the you today will be dead. And tomorrow when you sleep, the you tomorrow will be dead.
This is the crux of copied/digital immortality, it seems like death in the "now" because you have to lose consciousness to acquire it, but if that's the main issue then sleep must be 'death' as well. I've realized that within this context immortality is less for your benefit and more for the benefit of others, like your loved ones, friends, and maybe the world. If we can ever engineer humans so they never have to sleep, then we can start talking about whether this still counts as death or not.
As always, the scale of things in space is always nuts, especially when talking about the Sun and Jupiter.
These winds extend nearly 3,000kms into the planet, for comparison, Earth's diameter is roughly 12,700km and Mars is ~6,000km. So the winds extend roughly a 1/4 of the Earth and basically half of mars.
going to take decades to undo the damage this crap causes.
I'd argue it'll never get undone. All of these privatization changes aren't going to get rolled back because they'll be way too expensive to do so. It's easy to sell off public things, hard to maintain, and impossible to buy back. Let's say DC sells off the airports or some of the Interstates to private companies. Companies will bump prices or add tolls in order to cover the costs of fixing up these deteriorating items. Now lets say that 20 years from now the public is frustrated with how the private industry has handled the management of this or how they've nickle-and-dimed them for using it to the point that they want the government to take control again. Now the government has to buy the resource back and they'll have to negotiate the price which is going to be much more expensive than what the government sold it for, which will be it's own barrier for actually being accomplished. In this scenario, the most likely outcome is that the resources remain private but the government simply regulates in order to fix complaints that people have; the government would far rather have some of these things be other peoples problems.
Of the possible failures that could have occurred, this seems like the best one. This was the newest part on the whole 'kit' so it wouldn't surprise me if it was an issue in calculations or some minor mechanical issue that resulted in this. In the end this was still an 80% success and were this a commercial launch, the buyer wouldn't have been overly disappointed since the payload made it into orbit. I have no doubt the next launch will be a complete success with all 3 rockets landing without problem. A big thing I personally took away from this is that SpaceX's iterative development on their launch system (vs scrap the old and build something new) has worked and they'll carry that forward with the R&D for the BFR/BFS.
This is sort of my biggest complaint about YouTube as well: their algorithm sucks. Its way too over-eager when it wants to suggest stuff on the home page and there isn't a quick way to slap the algorithm on the wrist when it comes to correcting the issue. You have to hover over the video link, get the 3 dots, click, say not interested then get the "Why not?" dialog. This takes ~3-4 seconds depending on the responsiveness of the UI and I might have to do this for upwards to 8 videos in the "Recommended" section otherwise I won't get new stuff there. And don't get me started on how they shuffle around the order/layout of the landing page as well, sometimes subs or playlists are at the top and "Recent" or "Recommended" is down at #4 or 5 spot on the page, some times they are at the top.
The thing that blows my mind with YouTube is how little content you can find. One of my favorite Lets Players I've watched for years is only around 200k subs, and there are a few other channels that are similar. So I've realized that you can have good channels with ~100k to 200k people, and yet I'm still shocked at how often I just stumble upon channels with 1~2 million subs just sitting in some corner of YouTube. Just makes me wonder how many 200k channels I might be missing that are decent simply because its impossible to find them because YT is filling my search results with PewDiePie or some late night talk show host's channel.
Average commute time in Japan is about an hour with maybe +/- 30 minute variation for some. I imagine its pretty similar in other mass transit cities as well. On a full charge, you can easily get play time in without needing an outlet. If you don't use it any more during the day, there should still be enough of a charge to use it going home as well and then you charge it at home. If the battery gets a little worse, you should still be able to play going one way and charge at work.
I'm similar though, living in the burbs, but I also lived in Japan for a number of years. People did 1 of 4 things during morning commute on bus or train. Use their smartphone, read a newspaper, play a handheld device (DS/PSP), or sleep.
This sounds a lot like Freenet except they've made cryptocurrency a part of it. Freenet is incredibly slow because hunting down less used resources can take forever or be nigh impossible. They might be able to interest a few people because "CRYPTO!" but once Bitcoin crashes back to reasonable values, most of these digital tokens will shrivel up and leave a lot of these companies struggling. A lot of these tokens are simply ideas tacked onto a coin instead of coins tacked onto an idea; in other words, if the coin dies, the idea dies because the idea was never the real foundation.
The Switch was a brilliant decision as a mobile system. Will you get 8 hours out of it? No, but I think Nintendo went into this with a few assumptions and target markets. First, I think they assumed that most people wouldn't play the Switch in portable mode for more than 2-3 hours and that if most people were going to do that then they would probably have access to a power source while doing so. In the car? Use a power converter. On an airplane? A lot of [long-haul] planes have plugs now and airports have charging locations now. Their target market for the portability mode was clearly with people that commute via mass transit, particularly countries like Japan, South Korea, and maybe some European countries.
One of the biggest cruxes they've had in Japan in the gaming market has been the low installment base for home consoles. The market with the most disposable income (working adults) don't buy those systems that much because [at least in Japan] they aren't at home a lot. Handhelds are a different matter though, the installment rate on the DS and PSP (and Vita to a lesser extent) has traditionally been really good. This wouldn't seem like a problem on the surface but it hurts developers quite often because they have to make a decision between making games for the handheld or making games for the consoles. I'm convinced that the Switch will be heralded in the future as impactful as the Gameboy or the NES.
This comes as no surprise to me really. The Switch bridges the gap that has been hurting consoles in more mobile markets, by giving people a system that can be played on the go and put into a console mode when at home. I suspect they wanted to try this with the Wii U but the tech wasn't quite there yet and instead they ended up with a gimmicky screen controller.
The most shocking part isn't that they tested it on monkeys, its that they originally wanted to run the test on humans. They did still go ahead and do a test where they exposed humans to Nitrogen Dioxide though. The optics of a German company wanting to do gas chamber tests on humans is hilariously bad and one of the top people involved even admitted to it on video.
He says he'll go up 3/8ths of a mile, that's just under 2,000ft. A commercial airline flight goes higher than that, as well as some cheap high altitude balloons. Of course the point of this isn't to prove anything except that this is a publicity stunt.
I don't think we need to be 100% at post-scarcity in order to start experimenting with UBI and the effect it has on the economy.
With how rapidly automation is moving it might be needed temporarily in some cases as a welfare system like Finland is testing. Consider the freighting industry in the US for example, which has almost 1 millions truckers right now. I don't foresee that being automated to the point of 0 humans but I see the industry shrinking drastically. You could see 1 or 2 people acting as lead drivers in a automated truck caravan style (2-3 following trucks) setup. To me this seems highly likely since there still remains a large demand for truck drivers, so this would meet that demand and over time result in the number of needed drivers shrinking. Then there are the taxi services, aeronautical services, etc. Again, most of these will probably maintain some level of human involvement but you will need fewer bodies in place to do it and it might even reach a point where those bodies don't need formal training for some of these jobs.
Some of these current jobs pay well and the smart people will be looking for what they need to learn for the new industry change. The issue is that a subset of these people either won't have the money or the smarts (maybe they believe their job is secure) to train in advance. These people may only get 2-4 years "advance notice" before the market really starts to shift hard and they all start to get their pink slips. At that point, there won't be a lot of jobs around that require their skill set so they'll have to retrain, which I don't see a lot of people in the mid-40s to early 50s doing. This is where UBI/Unemployment programs will step in. Giving these people $600-1k a month to give them breathing room to find a new place to work. If we don't do this, we'll see our economy contract even more.
Being an assclown with opinions that you don't like is not a justification for banning someone. Otherwise the Internet would be quite empty.
Of course its justification enough. r/the_donald does that quite often. Twitter is not beholden to the 1st amendment on their platform. Twitter is a private platform held together by private money. They could ban every politician, government, media outlet, and bureaucrat from Twitter tomorrow and the most that would happen would be a media firestorm and the eventual likely collapse of their company.
deliberately looking for ways to screw over their customers
Considering how many crazy cases we've seen over the years; it's hard to believe anyone wouldn't think a lot of multinational companies are doing this.
Just some examples off the top of my head. General planned obsolescence, Verizion getting caught nickel and diming people in lots of weird hidden fees, ISPs doing all kinds of throttling and misrepresenting speeds, Apple recently admitting they slow phones, computer breaking DRM, and probably some more that I just can't think of. This isn't a "capitalism conspiracy theory" since a lot of these kind of things have resulted in class action lawsuits or very public apologies after the backlash was so great, and this is all just direct action stuff. You could probably include lobbying efforts in DC to change laws around to make it easier to do the 'screwing' legally, such as using the DMCA to make it harder to repair stuff you bought or even own the actual things you paid money for.
This will for the very same reasons no one wants to walk around wearing anything on their faces to live their lives
Weird, I and millions of other people do that every day. They're called glasses, we use them to see the world. You have entire families that buy them for themselves and their kids as well.
Think for a minute why would people want to be tied to a piece of glass to watch tv, read the news, browse the internet, and talk to friends???????
Your counter argument could have just as easily been used in the early days of smartphones and look where we are now. The ML style AR will replace smartphones when its as compact as regular glasses.
cant see any use for this in the home
The use case for this is to ultimately replace all of your displays. No more phones, no more tablets, no more TVs, or computer monitors. These will be able to project displays into your field of view. They will be able to give you a persistent HUD right in front of you. You'll still have a phone/mobile computer for cellular, wifi, and simple touch controls. Will they be expensive? The initial product will be I'm sure, but they'll probably get down to the price of a regular smartphone in no time.
Once they shrink these to the size of regular glasses, these things will turn into the next tech revolution.
The Obama administration rarely ever addressed the petitions that were on there, and this administration isn't nearly as "We the people" focused, its more focused on what they know is best.
If it comes back, we'll end up stuck with the occasional news cycle and indignation by the left about how the administration has failed to listen to the public about a petition. There are plenty of other things we can waste new cycles on that the administration is doing instead of some internet petition.
All of the claims about "fake news" could come to a head here really soon with more extreme left and right news sites/blogs putting out fake speeches and audio bites that have been created using this new technology. This tech is really going to muddy the waters on social media and will be utilized by movements and countries to spread disinformation. The more legitimate news outlets will spend more time fighting this disinformation instead of reporting on the actual events that are going on.
I think ultimately what we'll see is that other companies will come along offering services that archive and perform various match tests against sound bites and recorded speeches. You'll be able to confirm if the video clip you just saw actually happened and if so, when and where it occurred. Without something like this, we all will be lost in a see of fake speeches and events. I expect the government will get involved in this and the Library of Congress will be tangentially involved in the collection, storage, and verification; but I don't think any of this will be taken seriously until politicians on both sides of the aisle get burned by fake creations.