The biggest reason why I admire SpaceX so much is that they manage to do so much with this hypermoron at the helm. Two other examples besides the hyperloop are the Vegas loop and his vision for neuralink. Apparently, SpaceX has special tactics to stoke his grandiose ego and trick him into giving them the freedom they need.
It's true that most people won't know or care. But the only ones who can make a difference are the ones who understand the situation. We shouldn't assume that nobody will listen to us. If we tell a hundred people, perhaps 5 will listen - and even that's a pessimistic assumption. Even such small changes add up in the long run. The last nail on the coffin of our freedom will be the silence of those with the wisdom to recognize its erosion.
Google has also started delaying the approval of revisions of privacy-related addons. This is an all out war against user privacy. Everyone, please stop using or promoting this Trojan malware called chrome or anything based on it.
I'm all for ad blockers. But this doesn't solve the creators' issue with not getting paid. The internet is a severely underutilized resource. Creators should be able to sell their content directly to us without middlemen like these.
At this point, I think that regulations are useless. Not because these companies aren't harmful. But because they will either convince the government that they'll self-regulate, or they'll use their insane profits to bribe the politicians into castrating the regulatory agencies. I'm convinced that the only way to prevent these greedy scum from harming humanity is to never let them grow that big in the first place. When these companies are big enough to control the government, they should be cut down to size with a healthy margin of safety.
I'm not a doctor, but a technologist. A new diagnostics tool? Good! But I can guarantee that good doctors won't ditch the stethoscope for anything else. No amount of automation can replace the reassurance that your own senses give you.
This is perhaps more true in the case of mechanical engineering. The touch and feel of the machines can be unfamiliar and changing. And the diagnostics tools are more available (because invasive probing is more acceptable). Despite this, I have noticed that myself and others depend on sight, sounds, heat and sometimes even smell to keep a tab on their health. I don't think any professional would consider completely cutting off their own senses.
Honestly, the entire world could have been in a much better situation if we had pushed for renewables a long time ago. The first identification of the global greenhouse effect was in 1892 - more than 130 years ago. There was plenty of time to come up with alternatives, considering how fast technology develops (how many knew mobile phones before 1995?).
We are in a serious mess not for the lack of understanding or resources. Some people wanted to be rich at the expense of the majority of ordinary people, all other species and the entire planetary biome. They made sure that no other technology would challenge the world's dependence on oil. They chose profits over countless lives on the brink of a mass extinction event.
I understand why you feel the need to blame the government. But I can't help but rant about the insatiable greed and the crime that resulted from it on a scale that the planet has never witnessed before (I don't think any species, much less a few individuals, ever caused so much destruction before). And while those criminals (for lack of a better word suitable for their actions) live a life in luxury without consequences, the rest of us are being gaslighted by the same vermin for the damage they caused.
I'm sorry for the lengthy rant. Thank you for understanding!
You can't compare other countries with the likes of Norway or Iceland. For most countries, hydro isn't enough to meet the needs. Not to mention the fact that it isn't truly renewable. What happens when climate change makes water more scarce?
The true renewable production became possible only recently with the advances in PV, wind and battery tech.
I never understand why people choose formats meant for local consumption and then use centralized cloud services to consume it. Podcasts aren't the only example. RSS feed readers and git are others. If you want synchronization across devices, then use either a plain cloud storage or something even better - like syncthing.
Oh! I was not arguing either. I meant 'counter argument' as in justification. Points to argue a case for governments to choose the fediverse. Fediverse has no one other than its devs and users to argue for it.
They haven't been completely honest about their funding and biases. Second, they are trying to say that it's human nature and not the filter bubble that's responsible for things going bad. But those are not independent things. The algorithms created the filter bubble because they are designed to exploit human nature in order to trap human attention. That filter bubble in turn affects human nature in a negative way to cause polarization.
You can find sources to justify any POV - there is no need to misrepresent anything. Something doesn't automatically become right just because there's a research paper on it. In fact, that is one of the tricks big companies use to mislead people and scuttle reforms. Look at the history of the tobacco industry, climate change, lead in gasoline, city planning and zoning, etc. There are countless examples.
These companies dig up everything from a prospective employee's past, starting from childhood. Things that you said come back to bite you, even if you got wiser and changed your stance. But companies get to pull shit like this without consequences.
There should be a public blacklist database with every company and their dirty infractions like these. That way, at least very competent and desirable candidates can avoid them and look for better jobs.
Great! Then I guess they don't mind giving you their bank password, credit card pin, details of all the medicines they take, information from the work they do, their detailed weekly activity schedule, their browser history, their investment portfolio and assets, etc, etc... I'm salivating at the thought of the hundreds of different ways in which I can make money with all that info!
There should be some institution or mechanism to assess the source of funding and possible conflict of interests in every study. We know that big corps regularly fund studies in order to downplay harms they perpetrate, scuttle regulatory proposals, mislead and create confusion about their activities.
I'm starting to think that Kurzgesagt is either paid media and/or propaganda. I really liked their well researched approach. But this one is straight out in your face. They outright deny the filter bubble that each one of us have experienced firsthand on corporate social media - and then blame you for the ill effects. Also, if you look at the imagery - the emoticons and especially the thumbs up symbol, they are trying to invoke memories of specific social media. It feels very much like they're trying to garner sympathy for those antisocial-media.
BTW, this isn't the first time their motives have been called into question. They have in the past, taken money from bigphrama to paint them as benevolent superheroes.
The biggest reason why I admire SpaceX so much is that they manage to do so much with this hypermoron at the helm. Two other examples besides the hyperloop are the Vegas loop and his vision for neuralink. Apparently, SpaceX has special tactics to stoke his grandiose ego and trick him into giving them the freedom they need.