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SuperFerret

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SuperFerret··on The cognitive costs of air pollution
Rural America says Hi!
SuperFerret··on Court: Suspicionless Searches of Travelers’ Phones and Laptops Unconstitutional
It's bad because it doesn't work. Your hypothetical is just that, hypothetical. Doesn't work in practice. Also, violated due process.
SuperFerret··on Some Blizzard employees are dreading BlizzCon
Yes bad ideas are criticized and good ideas are celebrated. That's the way it's supposed to be.
SuperFerret··on In 2019, multiple open source companies changed course
You can ask to be paid to make the soup and then let others take it for free. Or to make it more apt. I can ask for money to build an unlimited soup dispenser and then let others take soup from it for free.
SuperFerret··on Protester shot in chest by live police round during Hong Kong protests
> Imagine if the US suddenly had a dictator

Not so hard to imagine these days.

SuperFerret··on Facebook to Exempt Opinion and Satire from Fact-Checking
They have 5 good minutes per day.
SuperFerret··on The Dark Side of Techno-Utopianism
In principal you're right. People can also use technology to manipulate others. So we could create technology to encourage and manipulate being mindful and having empathy.
SuperFerret··on How Long Before These Salmon Are Gone? ‘Maybe 20 Years’
There is no such thing as an unlimited supply of fish. Even if there were as many fish in the middle of the ocean as near the shore we would deplete it quickly.
SuperFerret··on The American Brain
The "artificially generated speech" is really interesting. There's no reason why it can't happen on the other side of of the bell curve. Global right wing movements are a good example.
SuperFerret··on New Query Language for Graph Databases to Become International Standard
GraphQL has nothing to do with graph databases.