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To descend the abstractions; to be closer to the bare metal.

You gotta give.

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‘Keeping up with the Cardassians’

Likely because of B2B vs B2C. Individual users can easily switch when a better solution appears on the market. Business use cases tend to involve a little more friction in those decisions.

Parent likely meant a vocal trill, similar to “rolling your r’s”.

Virtue can be practiced and even observed without being signalled.

Would something like this be locally jailbreak-able? Do newer vehicles require a phone-home verification of some sort to function?

If fact, I would argue that the juxtaposition of the main characters being essentially polar opposite’s is what gives the show most of its effective (dark) comedic moments.

It explores both. Some characters are cynical. Others, like (one of) the main characters Huey, is a hopeless romantic who believes in the basic goodness of people and doing the right thing. He also listens to a lot of Billy Joel.

I just read this story for the first time and gathered similar insights on character, intelligence, and personal excellence.

What stood out to me most was that he consistently tried to excel with what he was given. To do better for himself, and to help those around him.

Another point that stood out to me is that from his most gifted vantage point, he correctly identifies the all too human fallibility of his Scientific Observers. Jealousy, greed, and feelings of inferiority.

Agreed. It is more akin to a “live performance DAW” like Ableton Live, without the PC middleman.

I still imagine Seinfeld doing this bit with an increasing intensity and widened eyes as it progresses to infinity.

I’ve always theorized that dreams, or at least the interpretation of them, are primarily emotional states that our minds attempt to backfill with logic or narrative structure upon awakening. Even when attempting to remember the details they seem to slip away and transmutate. However the general “sense” or feeling remains.

I would love to read more about this. Has she published her findings?

Addiction has very little to do with knowledge (or lack thereof), and everything to do with feelings/emotions and their management.

Serious consideration: they are embracing this reality as their primary long-term strategy, anticipating their becoming the defacto “metaverse” virtual world that older people wish to be plugged into. I can clearly see a future in which users can sign over all current and future retirement funds and financial assets, and in exchange be plugged full-time into a “facebook disneyland” to live out the rest of their years in digitally augmented bliss as an avatar alongside friends and family.

I really appreciate this world view. As far as mental models go, it pre-supposes with a curious intent.

Interesting problem space and solution. Question, is there any value in the raw materials contained in the debris? Would it be feasible to aggregate/collect a certain, let’s say, “value threshold” of debris that makes it economically reasonable to return a bulk payload back to earth? Even if the answer is currently “no”, it seems like harvesting essentially free materials and suspending them en masse in a controlled orbit makes a lot of sense. Eventually groups will want to fabricate in space, and you could have the raw materials ready to provide.