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OpticalWindows··on All Telegram servers are down
Who uses Telegram?
OpticalWindows··on Facebook sues two Chrome extension makers for scraping user data
This might end poorly for Facebook.
OpticalWindows··on Social Cooling (2017)
> When you think privacy of in in the terms of 'social cooling', or consider things like China's 'social credit' system, I can't help be think we are much closer to the world depicted in the last season of Westworld than we might want to admit.

We were 'almost' there 20 years ago. We are firmly near Westworld (everything outside of androids).

OpticalWindows··on Privacy is the most important concept of our time
Yes but most influencers gain an audience through social networking.
OpticalWindows··on Privacy is the most important concept of our time
Targeted disinformation.

Imagine being able to compile the cheapest pressure point for everyone in the world using surveillance and then exploiting it on a industrial scale. Most modern surveillance is in a legally ambiguous area of the law.

In theory you can target anyone with habitual use of a computer or with friends who use computers a lot for very cheap.

OpticalWindows··on Using lasers to reduce drag in hypersonic weapons
To be fair to them it is a bit hard to fix the levers of control from their observation post. Orange man did humanity a solid from what I understand.
OpticalWindows··on Law firms pay Supreme Court clerks $400k bonuses – what are they buying?
> What are they buying?

part of the system?

In their profession they are equipt with a lot of power and influence because of the money and the instituiton they inhabit. They do eye watering hard work but at the same time many are questioning how the system works when it is unpopular or fails.

OpticalWindows··on Someone has stolen my Instagram account
other than the leading title, interesting post.
OpticalWindows··on After simple dental surgery, a man lost his ability to form new memories
I'm more surprised he can navigate a smart phone with memory from 2005
OpticalWindows··on What Is the Sound of Thought?
Mi na du wanya wa robot fo du wating mi enjoy
OpticalWindows··on Indoor CO2 may reach levels harmful to cognition by the end of this century
I do think we should think about passing out personal CO2 alarms now and in the future. The problem would be calibration like you said and cost for a new unit.
OpticalWindows··on Dust May Have Controlled Ancient Human Civilization
I wonder what effect dust created from fire has on soils over large periods of time.
OpticalWindows··on U.S. Orders Al Jazeera to Register as a Foreign Agent
I suppose I was in the minority watching it. I could see even then that al jazeera (uk) was superior to al jazeera (us) in both content and slant.
OpticalWindows··on Bastion Fort
Not pedantic at all and I would probably benefit from your knowledge. Interesting, I've never read Clausewitz.

So you're from SA eh? Always wanted to visit but no idea where to go.

I love all windows equally

OpticalWindows··on Ex-Google boss Eric Schmidt: US 'dropped the ball' on innovation
Well said
OpticalWindows··on Ex-Google boss Eric Schmidt: US 'dropped the ball' on innovation
I would agree with that but limit the qualification to rich eurozone countries. Especially considering the inter-EU, middle east brain drain.
OpticalWindows··on Ex-Google boss Eric Schmidt: US 'dropped the ball' on innovation
Beyond this blip in politics I dont see how any of your arguments has any foothold.

And again you're blaming Intel for not being a monopoly.

OpticalWindows··on Bastion Fort
I should have qualified it with *the beginning of the american revolution

I dont think many of the points you brought up refute guerlla warfare should not be compared to total war. I do think it's interesting to note that almot every country will continue guerlla warfare to wear down their friends and enemies. Iraq is a good example of this.

I'm curious what country you're from since you're using the apostrophy for the decimal separator "2'400"

OpticalWindows··on SoftBank set to sell UK’s Arm Holdings to Nvidia for $40B
SoftBank really really needs that money
OpticalWindows··on Bastion Fort
>Arguably, guerilla warfare has given defense an edge again. It's a defense based on hiding and disappearing into the general population, but a defense nevertheless.

Guerilla warfare has a different purpose than total war and it should not be compared. Guerilla warfare basically happened in the american revolution.

OpticalWindows··on New Hubble data suggests an ingredient missing from current dark matter theories
Will the James Webb telescope help detail such phenomenon better than the hubble?
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