Eyght

I vaguely remember an index for the number of earthmoving machines per capita for a given country. It was a really good indicator for productivity. It doesn't seem like industrial robots have the same level of correlation. At least not yet.

I'm in the accelerated testing group and I was moved from Mail to the new Outlook a couple of months ago. It's better than Mail for Windows in my subjective opinion, but it was a bit weird to switch just when Mail had gotten the last missing basic features, like signatures etc.

I guess at some point we should expect a Sony SpaceStation.

Does the EULA cover leaving a 1 star review? It's a kind of retaliation.

It can be lucrative and fun, until you're confronted with the trail of human wreckage in its wake.

In e-commerce I've noticed that customers that request to be removed from the mailinglist and/or to have their info/account be deleted often forget about ever using the site. Then a few months later they order something and sign up for the newsletter again. When they receive their "first" newsletter they recognize the style and remember that they requested it to be cancelled, which leads to many angry emails and spam reports.

An order form with no pre-selected "join newsletter" option doesn't seem to mitigate this problem. The obvious soloution is to save the customer's email in the mailinglist as unsubscribed, but afaik that's not legal if they request an account deletion.

You can mitigate planned obsolescense with recurrent billing, like monthly fees.

I would love to use this for pairing a product with the correct image by decoding barcodes in the image.

The contention that mice are the most intelligent beings on the planet seems more plausible every year.

Sites could provide a cookies-manifest.json with the entities they provide data to. Then the browser could show a standardized cookie banner, if needed. The user could also disable the cookie banner completely, if they so desire.

My mind immediately went to the artificial 4-year lifespan of the Nexus-6 replicants in Blade Runner.

This makes me curious of how the gradual change from gas- to charging stations will affect these places. I could see clusters of charging stations gathering in the same place and causing a resurgence of shopping centers, maybe even malls, in those areas.

I'm thinking that it could work as an emergency rectal oxygen enema for astronauts in distress. It ought to be very compact compared to pressured gas. Just push 'oxyjet' and don't forget to clench after.

Governments and central banks are doing it to try to continue the cash economy, which has been slowly dying for some time now (a death recently sped up by the pandemic). Cash has some unique benefits over numbers in an account, the primary perhaps being that it's independent of banks.

Hello cm2187 what's happening. I'm gonna need you to go ahead and not recommend movies while at work. So if you could go ahead and get back to it.. that'd be great.

When we pay with physical dollar bills, it's an exchange of unique notes with their own serialnumber. A digital currency would be the same thing, but electronic.

Imagine using GIT for accounting.

The current system just keeps track of inventory. Like when a warehouse inventory system says "15 Honda Civics currently in stock" it doesn't mean digital cars.

A digital currency system would make a digital representation of the actual money that could contain a bunch of information, like unique serialnumbers, creation date, expiration date, physical equivalent etc.

This is usually what's missing from people criticizing Curtis. It's a form of superficiality where people feel that they don't need to look further into the subjects before drawing fundamental conclusions. I've spoken to so many people that loudly proclaim that Curtis' work is just conspiracy theory, totally oblivious of the instagram level of depth such a conclusion requires.

It would be great with a solid text to go along his films. For now I would urge everyone who get that uncanny feeling after watching Curtis' work to read up on the subjects covered. I promise you that feeling will go away!

One thing to keep in mind is that birds generally don't follow human law, and will certainly find creative ways to source materials from stores, people's pockets, cars, homes etc.

I have YouTube premium too. Even though I probably watch more Twitch streams than YouTube, I still wouldn't consider paying for the Twitch equivalent because YouTube has so many useful videos (tutorials, lectures, historical photage, interviews, seminars etc.), while Twitch is 99.99% entertainment. I use the ads on Twitch as deterrence to get me back to watching something of substance instead.

Here is an image that shows how the cosmic web is usually illustrated:

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/5mBKPZgrdD6ebdRtV8NEDZ-970...

Unboxing comes to mind. It seems manufacturers are putting an astounding amount of effort into making the ritual of opening the packaging for your new gadget a long series of satisfying unfolds, slides and surprises.

This made me curious about how a business can defend itself if a competitor hires people to leave negative reviews.

I tested the phrase "go to kyle's channel on twitch" and it actually went to twitch.tv/kyle - which I found impressive.

Snowpiercer

Most people see this movie as a very on-the-nose example of class struggle. But I see it as a commentary on how we humans build and interact with the very system that we collectively create to sustain ourselves as a species. The system always has its apologists, supporters and opposition, but deep down all but the most extreme zealots understand that the system has to change with time or fail, and the longer it takes for change to occur, the worse the inevitable failure will be. It ties in nicely with what Nassim Taleb says about fragility of rigid systems.

In the movie the system is represented by the train and its architect. All people on the train are grateful for what the train has provided them: safety from certain death outside. The poor at the back of the train are constantly threatened and preached to by the train loyalists how important it is for everything to stay as it is, that the train is eternal and will be there forever as long as they obey and believe. But as it becomes apparent that the loyalists are lying and things don't seem all that rosy with the train, the poor start to push forward, for information, and ultimately, change. As they go forward in the train they discover that the wealthy passengers have fallen into either hypernormalisation or a drug fueled apathy. They either believe so much in the train that they can't see how it could ever fail, or they know that it will inevitably fail but have given up hope to do anythin about it - perhaps facilitated by their own relative comfort (why jeopardize such comfort for an uncertain, risky change?).

After watching the movie, it struck me how we're perpetually living in an unsustainable system, but we avoid the abyss by constantly changing from one unsustainable system to another.

I feel like the Chinese style social score system won't have enough support in government for most countries, but we'll receive a decentralized version anyway through corporate overreach.

Also, it's always amusing to arrive at an article about data collection and be greeted by this: https://i.imgur.com/d4Z4sdd.png

One of the classics. Gasoline - This is my life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jqd-JcjQo8I

> The need to be “in the know” was powerful, but I realized that I was consuming vast amounts of shallow information that resulted in shallow, uninformed opinions.

I'd like to applaud you for admitting this to yourself. I feel like a vital part of successfully navigating the internet age is to realize this very fact.

Watch the same people that spread dangerous misinformation turn around and blame someone else when the consequences of their actions comes back to bite them.

The software would have to make a claim. For example, improve your posture.