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I really enjoy the data addons for IPad and Apple Watch because they allow me to be connected without having a phone in my pocket. What I desire is connectivity (be able to see messages, make calls, etc), but iPhone often encourages disconnection via mindless scrolling. I enjoy the times I can get away from my iPhone, and I am not excited about this hub future you describe.

I would argue that Apple has fewer cloud products, but most of their cloud products are very good. Amazon and Google have many cloud products of varying degrees of quality.

I think CheapProcessedVeganFood (Big Soy, and food processors downstream of Big Soy) is being more opportunistic then causing. The case against meat is very wide and much of it is based on more solid science then the anti-fat science 50 years ago. I suspect in the next decade we’ll see a very clear connection between lower meat/dairy consumption and better gut health, which will explain most of the health benefits we see in a plant based diet.

We either need a much lower standard for anti-trust breakups or we will reach the day where corporations are more powerful than national governments. Tech gets a lot of the focus on anti-trust concerns, but we have similar threats almost every industry.

Consumer ignorance is not an excuse for a crappy market. Consumers should have access to advice from a third party.

When I want finical advice I hire an expert that gets paid the same no matter where I invest my money, because his incentive is to give me the best advice so I stick with him. If I get finical advice from someone that gets commission based on selling specific investments then the advice is more likely to be less than the best.

The healthcare system is not a free market.

1. It’s very hard to shop around to find better prices or better service.

2. People often make choices like “Do you want this expensive life saving procedure or not?”

3. The average person isn’t informed enough to understand what their medical treatment needs are. Patients ask doctors what their recommendation is. Doctors often have an incentive to sell the most healthcare they reasonably can.

4. My ability to pay for healthcare is directly tied to my employer. There simply are less jobs that provide good healthcare than people that would like them. My ability to change positions in society is limited by my desire to continue to have access to affordable healthcare. This is practically a freedom limiting mechanism.

5. I’m limited in my choice of which healthcare to purchase based on my Insurance policy. My choice in insurance policy is similar to a suburbanite’s choice in an ISP. I have very few choices.

The current homicide clearance rate is 61.4% (That’s only arrest, not a conviction).

If resolving the adversarial relationship between citizens and police would improve that then it’s something we should explore. Right now I’m not sure how that could happen, given the deep problems with American Law Enforcement, Correctional, and Justice systems.

> Furthermore, the media doesn't certify which vaccines are safe.

The media plays a critical role in encouraging people to get a vaccine.

I think the current situation where a herd of deplatformed white supremacist and conspiracy theorist cultist can hijack your community is dystopian. Leaders in a community should be given the power to determine who is and isn’t a part of it.

This highlights a need in the market for tools to help moderate a community. Imagine a tool that automatically detects hate speech and either auto-deletes or brings it to a moderator’s attention. Certain communities are being highjacked by extremist, racist, and simply malicious actors. The current method of reading chat and banning users doesn’t scale when sudden growth occurs.

If effective moderation can occur at smaller levels, like discord channels or subreddits, then those communities won’t been to be removed by the larger platform. This would also be helpful for startup social media platforms that have yet to bring enough revenue to afford a facebook sized moderation team.

Technically speaking it can do things like:

* Flag posts that contain a blacklist of words, including non-obvious spellings of said word (using non-standard Unicode characters in place of letters)

* Cross reference IP addresses or user names with banned users in other communities

* Notify moderators of trending slogans, phrases, or hashtags that have non-obvious extremist roots.

* Identify images containing extremist/hateful content

* Flag content that contains any political discussion for communities that want to be completely apolitical.

* Flag pornography

EDIT: To be clear, the target audience for this would be community moderators/admins or startup social networks that haven’t built their own moderation infrastructure.

The problem with adulterated products is that they are inconsistent. It’s adulterated with both active and inactive compounds, and the strength varies significantly. There are overdoses related to “hotspots” of fentanyl.

Yeah, an opiate addiction now is ~10x the cost of prerolled cigarettes addiction. It it was closer to 1x then the property crimes and desperation associated with it would be significantly decreased. In the book Cherry by Nico Walker the author writes about his experience of robbing banks in order to fund he and his wife’s heroin addiction.

Seattle and SF are examples of what happens when concentrations of homeless people appear in an urban environment.

A significant portion of the risk of using opiates recreationally comes directly with interacting with the black market. Opiates sold ‘on the streets’ are more expensive, adulterated, and inconsistent. The risks of taking opiates with access to a safe, affordable, unadulterated, and consistent supply are significantly more manageable than the current state of affairs in the US.

What is the rate of data processing of a human’s sensory organs? Until VR output data at that rate to every human sense being in VR will be less stimulating than being in real space. I think this is especially true of social environments, were subtle body language, facial movements, touch and smell are critically important.

Being around a group of people is easily 20x more stimulating to me than any VR experience I’ve had, and I’ve experience the state of the art in VR. Spending day after day, year after year, going to classes with the same group of peers was very socially validating and helped me be more engaged with my time at school.

> Government regulations setting limits on the powers attached to AI might.

This only works if all governments agree on this rule. AI is an economic competitive advantage, and it’s in every countries best interest that advances in AI are developed in their borders.

I think over the next 10 years governments, scientists, and businesses are going to be asking themselves how they can be prepared for the next pandemic. This will make governments more likely to approve a fast track for the mRNA platform, and popular support more likely to sway in favor of this.

If we had generic facilities that could produce any mRNA vaccines, and an mRNA vaccine approval process that takes 30 days then we could have had covid vaccines ready to go before March 2020, and those whole story looks very different.

Would he have gotten so far in politics without Twitter? Trump’s style of direct communication is very powerful for maintaining the attention of a passionate base which is the source of his political power.

This is an incredibly sort timeframe to expect someone to be able to migrate off AWS. If there infrastructure is docker, or K8 than they can move quickly, but if they are tied into more than a couple of AWS specific services like Route 53 or Lambda then a migration is a big ask.

Using a decentralized social network is currently like using email without a spam filter.

I have an idea of creating a plugin to a decentralized social network that acts as a moderator. The plugin will work on behalf of the user, compared to current moderation which acts on behalf of the platform. Different users can select either different moderators or different settings for the same moderators. Moderating could be a mix of AI and human flagging. Moderating could also include more editorial work such as suggesting people to follow.

I think the firms do not want to be held responsible for hosting discussions that lead to violence during the transition of power. January 6th made organized violence look like a more real possibility.

Tuesday’s election was called on Wednesday, which is part of the events I was referencing.

Maybe, but it’s also possible that these are all responses to the events of Wednesday, and responses to other’s responses to Wednesday.

Can someone explain what the XX century is?

Yeah. Red/white looks like the pool of possible patterns might be relatively small, and you can carry 50+ rolls of retro reflective tape in a backpack. If you knew every variation it would be easy to carry them to an event, and then apply the correct one there.

This seems highly counterfeitable, not to mention a hostile person in plainclothes could pick up a gun marked as friendly from a dead security agent.

This tactic would best be against a force that doesn’t know about it, or an organized force.

I consider an air gap to be a computer that is not connected to the internet, and is not networked with another device that connects to the internet.

A robotic tape library might fit that definition, and it might not.

An air gap would significantly increase security, but it would also significantly increase the cost of reviewing the sealed documents. I’m unsure how frequently those files should be read, but an air gapped disk storage would make sense for highly sensitive or rarely accessed and sensitive documents.

Really? It’s so much cheaper to maintain digital documents than paper copies.

I think if you are someone’s emergency contact than leaving your phone in a kitchen safe is irresponsible. My strategy for fighting phone addiction always allows me to hear and answer a phone call because it’s the defacto method of communication during emergencies.

Processing a transaction might be a carbon negative interaction with this company. That is a noteworthy innovation.