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hagakure0c··on By installing NAT, MIT stifles innovation
Its called progression, long time since the Trojan room coffee pot.
hagakure0c··on Facebook exposed identities of moderators to suspected terrorists
Facebook is like a Bentham construction from the outside. No one wants to get in.
hagakure0c··on How MIT OpenCourseWare transformed a learner's life
Hope he makes it at Google with only a pdf where most hold a Phd or at least a double Msc.
hagakure0c··on In 1957, Five Men Agreed to Stand Under an Exploding Nuclear Bomb (2012)
Same kind of people playing around with weaponized AI today, what could possibly go wrong.
hagakure0c··on Python For Finance: Algorithmic Trading
I use R for almost all quantitative tasks but not as a trading platform. It's great for research and testing though.
hagakure0c··on Google starts tracking what people buy in physical stores
Sooner or later people will start to revolt and either go back to use semi-anonymous cash or truly anonymous payment systems like bitcoin. Google and advertising will then be in the dark.
hagakure0c··on Last major primeval forest in Europe on 'brink of collapse'
We can also use hemp for nutrition, clothing, building materials, paper among many other things. Yes, grow this plant on an industrial scale all over the planet.
hagakure0c··on At Google, an Employee-Run Email List Tracks Harassment and Bias Complaints
It's a Bentham construction inside Big Brother, how quaint.
hagakure0c··on Last major primeval forest in Europe on 'brink of collapse'
We should grow hemp all over the planet, industrial scale, low THC grade of course. From space we can look at our blue and green hemp planet.
hagakure0c··on [dead]
Would like to add the following snippet from Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. "The really hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. "Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does." They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted, still cherish "the illusion of individuality," but in fact they have been to a great extent de-individualized. Their conformity is developing into something like uniformity. But "uniformity and freedom are incompatible. Uniformity and mental health are incompatible too. . . . Man is not made to be an automaton, and if he becomes one, the basis for mental health is destroyed."
hagakure0c··on Google in, Google out
Sure, my concern are all the bad things that will happen when all collected data ends up in the hands of a future totalitarian state. Do you know if there is a kill switch in place ?

https://www.wired.com/2017/05/googles-perfect-future-will-al...

hagakure0c··on Google in, Google out
What we need more of is something like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Regulation (EU) 2016/679). Right now, Google, Facebook et al are luring their users deeper and deeper into their ecosystem by promising them a better future, which will never happen, the only thing that is happening are consumers handing over more of their personal data hoping tech will make good on that promise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...

hagakure0c··on Robots that learn
Waiting for the first IKEA assembly robot that will follow you home, setup your new furniture and then return to base.