The breakfast kickstarting myth came from research tainted by funding from the breakfast cereal industry. It’s fake, and completely not true. Historically breakfast came from breaking the fast of the day before, which would be around modern lunch time. Eating so early isn’t natural at all, and for people that prefer it, it really is likely only a habit more than anything related to physiology.
Human's have many basic goals that are very dangerous when isolated in that way. It seems to me that nature didn't care (and of course, can't care) if it was dangerous at all when coming up with intelligence. Maybe we shouldn't either if we want to succeed with replicating it.
Worrying about some apocalypse seems counterproductive to me.
“Yes, adding a backdoor increases our collective security because it allows law enforcement to eavesdrop on the bad guys.“ No it does not. By definition if the backdoor exists the bad guys won’t use it. This is clearly an excuse for monitoring all people not just the bad guys, and has little to do with security and everything to do with control. Please stop accepting the argument that collective security is improved with eavesdropping, it really really isn’t.
When you say "our society", do you mean USA? I know the approach to work in France where I live is vastly different. Most people I talk with consider work to be a means to an end, and life being much more about the things you do besides your job.
I can imagine something along the lines of checking whether user interaction was the root cause of getting access to the clipboard as a middle ground... e.g. on web, popup blockers work this way. If a user interacts with a button, and that javascript series of functions opens a popup, it is allowed. If a non user interaction function in javascript, say a running ad, tries to open a popup, it is blocked. Could try the same approach, where only if the user initiated the current running series of functions, would it be allowed to access the clipboard. Or even ask for elevated user interaction functions, so that security teams would have an explicit list of elevated functions that are allowed to access sensitive data, allowing for easier manual checks. Anything else would have the annoying confirmation.
By evolving intelligence that creates computers and models and does that exact simulation, and then modifies the necessary biology to apply the best scenario. Seems to me we’re well on our way there.
For me Brave has incentive problems too. They are aiming to replace the adtech market, but I'd rather a browser was made by someone seeking to abolish rather than replace that broken incentive space.
I can on the bad side from personal experience, but prefer not to talk about it publicly. I’d be ok to say in private, feel free to mail me sheldon.els+psy[at]gmail.com
In crime we call it “organised” crime. I’m banking it’s just “doing business”. Maybe we should make this kind of invention of value out of thin air illegal?
I’d highly recommend fluent forever instead. You’ll actually learn a language instead of thinking you are without making progress. It’s also much much faster.
I’m pretty sure diamonds are expensive due to artificial scarcity introduced by debeers holding on to huge quantities. No need for some fancy ideas there, they should really rename that paradox to some material that wasn’t market manipulated so heavily.
Start with your attention. The impact will be even bigger than your vote. Avoid services altogether that abuse you, even if there’s some benefit you gain out of it.
I agree about usenet, but must admit it’s not very accessible to people unfamiliar with it. I think a good web interface would go a long way to helping adoption. Perhaps one exists and I’m just not aware.
Actually, I think the interpretation of simplicity as ease is an awful thing in the context of programming and should be actively discouraged. Rich Hickey’s talk “simple made easy” is the best explanation I’ve ever seen of this.
Fair enough, indeed I would advise to use with caution around data that needs to be kept safe from deletion. I think of this as a nice idea for experimenting forms of coding like spikes, but wouldn’t run something like this against a production database or my root file system.
I don’t believe that’s true. “Anonymous” tracking cookies are still unique to the individual and such can easily contribute to identifying them, and so are included as personal.
re 1: Slow - compared to google docs? Are you serious?
I can't speak for the poster above yours, but I would be serious. In my experience, on the startup time, google docs way out performs open office. It's open in single digit seconds, open office is 10s+
I still prefer offline software, but the bloat can be awful. At least web tech is designed with web browsing latency expectation. I find most desktop software these days has a much larger start and use latency by far.
That's more likely a lack of hardware acceleration I recently learned, if you're talking about youtube. They use VP9 by default, which isn't hardware accelerated in most cases.