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Following that reasoning, Musk's mental capacity has been disrupted ever since he called Tesla's driving assist "Autopilot".

I'm portuguese and had never heard of it. That TV show is from 2001, so already a bit old. Otherwise it's not a very talked-about story.

Our scientifically-centered world has its disadvantages. That is one of them.

Relevant song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGpoEPcmOK4

How is repeat-voting stopped?

European here. Can't they just use national ID card like social security number?

Here, every national has a unique citizen card, but in the US it's stranger, using driver's license since there's no citizen ID...

This is full-on dystopia. I'm shocked this isn't fiction.

Kind of agree, but it's still sad to see authoritarian China take Hong Kong by force, against their will, while other nations stay deaf to their cries for help.

At least some serious sanctions / embargo on some chinese industries as a direct result of their actions in Hong Kong would be good.

Weak legs

> The government should be our client, not our ruler

Unfortunately, that has never happened in history.

It must be. It is way too hard to prevent humans from using an AI. Some chess services try to check if you're playing "too perfect", but in poker that's harder to do, and there's way more money on the line.

Actually, wearing eyeglasses is sometimes perceived as unattractive, causing lower chances of offspring.

Underneath any society there is violence. If you don't pay your taxes, eventually they will forcefully put you to jail.

Now, the default is not violence. These protests started peacefully. But when they are ignored, violence becomes necessary. We are all animals after all, and as such we don't go down without a fight.

> Even non-technical users can be convinced to click on a different icon to access the Internet

Google put a lot of effort in convincing those users, by plastering Chrome icons in their products and saying it was the supposed way to access the internet "safely".

It's not as easy for others to do the same.

Thanks for this comment. I had once reached this conclusion (everything is meaningless anyway, stop worrying about being single&lonely), but had forgotten it.

This is not being talked about enough.

Have people already forgot about The Fappening?

It was one of the nastiest privacy failures for tech companies. I'm impressed with how fast public opinion can change.

I also ctrl-f'ed Airtable. It's the first one that came to my mind, the article should have mentioned it.

I was finishing a university assignment with the deadline 90mins away.

I wanted to upload a video of the project to YouTube and add a link to it in the report. YouTube takes a long time to process the video, and then says it's unavailable.

I go to Vimeo: it's down.

I upload the video to Dropbox, and copy its link to the report.

But my report was a Google doc. And when I tried to export it as PDF (which I had not done yet) it couldn't do it. I never hated google more.

Eventually the video went through to YouTube, and I could export the PDF on the third try, but this really made me conscious of my dependance on Google.

> much better data collection on how people use video games and internet services [...] people optimize for overall time used instead of the quality of the experience

That's it. There is a lot of data about people's habits, and that enables companies to tune digital products right into people's gratification systems. It's a psychological hack. Even when you're aware of it, it's hard to resist video games / facebook / twitter / hackernews cravings.

But these addiction issues are being talked about more, and people are becoming more aware and starting to self-control, so I don't think a catastrophic mind-control scenario will happen soon (except in dictatorships like China, but that's another story).

Ice Lake's Wikipedia page mentions that Intel is adding hardware mitigations to Spectre and Meltdown.

It's not hypocrisy, it's playing by the same rules: China bans US tech companies, US bans a China equipment company.

My mother is a nursing assistant at a hospital. She's in the gastro wing where they do endoscopies and colonoscopies, most times with propofol sedation.

This stuff is true. She tells me people often experience discomfort and pain, and even complain during the examination (they don't go completely unconscious), but after they've woken up, they don't remember it! They may have some lingering pain, but they don't feel bad about the examination. The doctors say it went well, and they believe it.

If I'm not wrong, these are kernel patches. Intel is adding hardware (they call it in-silicon) mitigations to Meltdown (in Coffee Lake [1]) and Spectre (in Ice Lake[2]).

This should help increase performance again, right? I'm actually waiting for Ice Lake before buying a new laptop.

[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-9th-generation-coffe... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Lake_(microarchitecture)

This is gorgeous. It gives me a sense of joy and power when creating the vortices. The white glow seems to burn my eyes, even when I know my screen is not that bright. Feels like I'm a wizard.

Thanks to the creator.

> sizable tent in the revenue.

I'm sorry. http://imageenvision.com/450/24542-clip-art-graphic-of-a-fla...

FWIW, I never noticed the connection until now. I guess AVI has been 'gone' for too long, and it's not in most people's minds anymore.

That part makes me less scared of dementia. The fact that I'll not even realize I have it, and will just feel confused about who people are and where I am... Kind of like when I was a little child.

I think it's important to show our governments that we're worried about this influence. Hopefully they'll react to that and move closer to the people's wants (you know, like democracies are supposed to work)

Again?

I bought it before I committed to this decision, and as others have said it's nearly impossible to avoid Made In China products completely, but here goes:

USA companies: Corsair - case, PSU; Intel - CPU; Razer (also has HQ in HongKong/Singapore) - mouse;

Taiwanese companies: MSI - motherboard and GPU; ASUS - monitor; CoolerMaster - keyboard;

Of course most of them buy stuff from Chinese suppliers, but you can only do so much.

I have personally decided to avoid buying 'Made in China' products whenever it's possible. It's hard, but I don't want to support their work conditions or predatory geoeconomics in any way.