While I understand the point of the treaty, do you think it will have any teeth once private companies are able to provide their own infrastructure? Just out of curiosity (due to my own lack of legal knowledge in this area), how is it that a treaty that a) is for another plant, solar system, celebration body etc and b) if I didn’t personally sign or recognize this treaty then how can this treaty apply to me, a citizen of a non-space power?
Do you have any similar books that you would recommend? I am always looking for good marketing books but these days it's all some guru trying to sell their book so hard to identify the solid through the noise.
I’m not sure if the two are linked. There is a service that exists to ensure anyone sending you a message on LinkedIn requires a payment of some sort to prevent spam. It was popular in the ICO days.
Not only that but does anyone actually believe they only kept two weeks of logs? I find it very suspect that the company known for amassing data only keeps some data for two weeks. How convienent for them.
Reading this makes me understand the decision about them licking down on repairs a little more. If a Mac won’t boot because of tampering (repairing) then it essentially solves this problem. I’m a little conflicted if it’s the case as I think we have the right to repair our own devices but distrust of any state actors (locally and internationally) is also pretty high.
On the other side of the coin, it’s possible that they have a vested interest in keep in this quiet as it would bring attention to their own practices.
Happened to me as well. I was always curious about that because it was clearly another cell number. I did try and text that number once and give that person a heads up but no response back. I’d really like to know what that was because my thinking is that if that is indeed someone else’s cell, then your number is appearing elsewhere too. The strange thing is it wasn’t a number that I’ve ever associated with so then populating it with a “best guess” isn’t even true.
After Workd War 2 the US was in the unique situation of not being completely decimated by the war. They used this leverage to craft trade policies to benefit the US economy by relying on their weight. To say that the US growth was purely organic is not quite hitting the mark. By all intents, it was forced to a large degree and perhaps with even more bloodshed than we’d like to admit. With that being said, the US growth model is not the only model that exists, it just so happens it was the most recent and most successful to date. But I would say that the rate of growth in a China is unparalleled, especially in the last 30 years. Going from one of the poorest countries in the world to what they are today is mind boggling. The growth itself is unsustainable unless they take forced measures of building the infrastructure out to allow the growth to spread out. It’s going to be interesting to see how this all plays out and even more so with the current political climate in the west. I imagine the US isn’t just going to roll over and let it’s dominant position be taken from it so easily but we have to remember, there hasn’t been a single empire in history that has stood the test of time. The way China is approaching things might not be the best way to do it but we won’t know the true cost of today for another 30 years down the line.
Crow attacks generally only happen for a few weeks every spring as the young has left the nest and is still too young to fly. It's a known issue here and not really anything to worry about.
I read somewhere about training crows to pickup cigarette butts in exchange food. I’ve always wondered if it would be possible to train a crow to pick up loose coins for food. I imagine the actual machine would be fairly easy to build but the most difficult part would be keeping the coin pathway free of non-coins as the crows are likely to pick up bottle caps, key rings and other junk. The other problem would be dealing with your neighbours as there would always be crows hanging around.
Side note: All the crows in Vancouver roost on a single street. Every day around sundown there are 10s of thousands of crows flying east and creating a chaotic scene at times. I’ve seen hundreds of crows ripping up a lawn looking for worms once and it felt like a scene from a movie. Here is a video of all the crows causing ruckus: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_QuEjaG4Ghs
Also we have one crow here in Vancouver who was raised by a human so he is essentially part of the population. He takes the sktrain, walks into McDonald’s and even stole a knife from a crime scene once. It’s an absolute hoot. He even has his own Instagram page: https://instagram.com/canuckthecrow
The strains are harder to find as they are considered premium strains these days with the rise of CBD but an easy replacement would be to consume your regular cannabis and then take a CBD pill immediately afterwards. It won’t be exact 1:1 but you can play around with it to get the effect you desire.
And it would mainly be a guess on the Doctor’s part as there isn’t enough science either way. Expect that to change in the next 10-20 years but at this point, your doctor, even with all the medical degrees behind them, know just as much as the bud tender behind the counter. Compound that with the fact that cannabis affects everyone differently then it all becomes a subjective mess.
It’s getting cheaper and cheaper to produce videos these days though. We’re kind of in the place that graphic design was in 10 years ago. As the equipment gets better, software more powerful, and generations of younger folks with substantial knowledge in the subject, the costs are going to go way down.
Rationality only works if you’re true motivation is financial. I suspect that anyone with the means to achieve a 51% majority is playing a different game than you or I. At that level power becomes the motivation and the power to crash it all on a whims notice is infinitely more valuable than any profit obtained. That scenario is heaps more frightening to me as bitcoin (and other blockchain coins who make it through the inevitable great cryptocurrency filter) become more popular, we may see a power struggle between nations and individual high level players. Who knows though, it’s all fascinating to watch either way. There are smarter people than me studying this every day and it really does feel like we are on the dawn of some societal breakthroughs.
Most of these pages won’t be so forthcoming in their desire to influence. The idea for these ads is to pay for reach and credibility. Send it out there and hope that it goes viral. After which you’ve gathered a whole new army of people who have liked your seemingly innocent page. After that it’s just a matter controlling the tone on that page using bots to create a false narrative. As humans, we are so used to be told what to do that it becomes easy to follow the general flow of your social circle. If everybody you hang out with hates one politician, then the chances that you’re also going to hate that politician is high. So by creating pockets of people who are all there on the page because they have something in common, you can control it and therefore controlling the direction of their thoughts by manipulating their peer circles.
I agree with you on that. A service such as social media (the connecting part, not the advertising part) could easily be seen as a necessary service being that we are all social creatures by design. But at this point in time it’s a massive Wild West where the laws haven’t been able to keep up with the advances in tech. So now we are stuck in this situation where every step you take is one in which you have to be very careful if you don’t want to have your personal habits exploited against you. The truth is I have been doing my best to educate the people close to me but up until very recently, with the Facebook scandals, it all fell on deaf ears. And maybe that’s another reason why I do find it so unnerving, as people are aware of these things going on but either don’t care enough and in some cases fully support their extremely private data being used on them for advertising. It’s also very conflicting because in this day and age of big data, real change could be made but all we seem to hear and experience is the opposite of positive change in this era. (I’m not normally this much of a negative guy but this topic specifically makes me feel very powerless)
Engineers in other disciplines are held liable for their mistakes. Imagine a civil engineer signing off on a building and then having it collapse. If it was found that the engineer was negligent then you can bet your ass there will be reprucussions. As an engineer, you are the top of your field and with that comes a professional responsibility that is important to fully realize. Mistakes are mistakes sure, but if those mistakes end up being responsible for criminal activity then you’re fully responsible. It’s why the chain of command exists.
I’m just so done with Facebook. I know this is said time and time again here on HN but Facebook (and google) provide a lot of stress to me for little value in return. The majority of the stress comes from always having to be “on” and watching for some ambiguously worded pop up, or constantly changing privacy settings, or tracking pixels around the net. I spend more energy trying to run away from fb and google then I so using their service. It’s constant and fatiguing.
I’ve used the odd vape here and there to stop smoking and I 100% agree with you that it’s safer than cigarettes but it’s way to early to say that it’s wholly “safe”. The problem is that if you declare it safe then everyone and their dog will start vaping, (which then amplifies any outlier problems as there are more data sources. Aka teens). The unfortunate thing is we likely won’t see any declarations one way or another for a few years now. The only way to see the true costs associated with vaping is to let time take its course. 15 years from now we will have a better idea of what daily vaping does to the human body and how safe it really is.
While I see where you’re coming from, there is nothing sad about it at all. It’s actually quite beautiful that our world just keeps moving on. Impermanence is the only constant here and while I t is important to honour our history as humans, at what point do we draw the line between preservation and progress? Also, it’s a parking lot now but won’t always be a parking lot. 50,100 or even 1000 years from now, this same spot could become abandoned and overgrown with trees and nature (a random example scenario). Therefore coming full circle.
Honestly, this was to be expected. I believe that crypto-currency has some massive potential but at this state in the game, there’s limited things you can use your coins for. Bitcoin, being the biggest and most notable, is still absolutely a pain to a convert in and out of fiat. Especially for newbies just learning about the technology (after hearing about all the guys making a killing and assuming the trend will continue no doubt). Bitcoin’s usefulness is near useless at this point and so it’s only value is as a speculative investment. Initially, there was a variety of reasons why Bitcoin and blockchain was attractive. For me it was the noble idea that Bitcoin could be used to liberate a whole portion of the world economy from oppressive governments or broken financial systems but I’ve noticed that people don’t talk about that anymore. The new marketing speak for bitcoin is that it’s a “store of value” which is bs if you consider the fact that the value you’re trying to store is now worth much much less than it was a few months ago. I cashed out of 90% of my holdings in December before the huge run up because it was like people got hit with a spell and were foaming at the mouth for it. I did feel a bit of FOMO of course as most of my colleagues were buying property and fancy ass cars afterwards but the stress just wasn’t worth it. As soon as I saw a nail salon advertising a “become a bitcoin millionaire today!” ad which sent me to a affiliate link, I realized that we were at peak ridiculousness. The unfortunate thing is that a lot of people got burnt the last few months. Largely innocent bystanders whose naivety and unfamiliarness with the technology used against them in an exploitive way(not really an excuse for bad investment decisions though, most of that still falls on the “investor”). It will make things harder to get people to adopt useful coins or applications of blockchain once the kinks are worked out in the future. But then again, maybe that’s what we need. More caution and less hysteria. I see a future where more than likely you will have no idea whether the application you’re using is on a blockchain or not. A technology layer in which being on a blockchain isn’t hyped up for marketing speech, just as we don’t hype up other layers which keep our modern world functioning and instead just offers users an intuitive UI with as little steps as possible to do what you’re trying to do.