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I've said this before, software & tech companies are enabling this sort of authoritarian transition in countries and enabling the powerful to stifle voices of dissent.

It is more than likely that the connected world wide web will fraction itself off into regional entities soon enough. With things like data analytics and AI, controlling populations is even easier. The Chinese model will succeed.

In India, a Russian style klepto-plutocracy is slowly taking over. It's only natural that they would want this transition kept hidden.

I am going back to using Lynx next.

All saudi women should get out of the country and solve the problem. No women, no new generation, and end of said practice.

Alert: Crazy page hijacks your back button with page loads. Getting back here was a pain. Why do websites do this?

You should use the whitelist options.

Are we inside one of these things as well?

Dual nic PIs welcome. Need a cheap router.

This is a terrible example to set. It's like taking a blow torch to a candle and boasting about the mess in the end. What's going wrong with the world's working hours? Add commute times to this and this is slavery.

I predict that the Chinese style of governance will eventually succeed and will be improved upon by others. They seem to be able to get away with everything. Chinese style data oriented micromanagement of populations is likely to be the norm for the future. You cannot escape algorithms judging you and placing you in a category. The "category" that will define your experience of the world from then on. Western tech companies are complicit in all of this.

As people in the field, we need to resist this at every turn but the money is just too great of a lure for now.

>good handshake - warm, dry, and politely firm

Anyone else suffer from seasonal (autumn, spring) palm sweat? This is like my single biggest issue during these periods.

Am I the only one who doesn't want this? I am spammed enough as it is.

Not sure why so many people here are surprised that benefits of efficiency accrue to the owners of capital. That's the basic premise of capitalism in a way.

Profits float upwards, hard negotiation pushes downwards on actual workers and managements try as much as possible to reduce what's owed to actual "doers" of work.

Cool sci-fi idea would be to try doing this and suddenly discover that there is already some "other" information there.

Users. The critical mass of users that's required for this to happen comes once in a rare while.

More MBAs in management maybe.

Didn't Musk talk about something like this in the Rogan interview recently?

When the alternative is death and suffering, yes. Governments should simply adopt the policy of least resistance and stop enforcing patent walls for companies that do this type of price gouging.

>Who else dislikes this sort of pop-science writing?

I love pop science writing. The thing is that this easy imagination helps a lot of people access hitherto unknowable principles of science. If you are science oriented or enquiry minded but do not have a background in the extreme detail required to access the specific subject/topic, you would have very likely never learnt anything about it given the arcane approach road to it. Popular science writing makes those spaces accessible, marks the roads, explains the possibilities and allows one to think through those abstractions. Then if you are sufficiently interested, you actually get into the hairy details of the actual science. But for most of us who are actually just traveling and understanding, this sort of writing gives us a grip of the "lay of the land."

I look at such writing as maps of knowledge, not the actual thing, but sufficiently detailed and made interesting to give people a sense of where they are. It's a jungle gym for the thinking mind.

At this point, I am beginning to believe this might be a non-problem for the vast majority being framed as a problem for google to milk it somehow. We haven't connected the dots yet.

>Not the biometrics.

What use is biometrics when I can update the actual record itself?

>And the leaked information doesn't allow one to impersonate someone.

Thats because the biometrics doesnt work for anyone 60-70% of the time.

Apart from being technically bogus, access to the entire database is/was available for 500 rupees. The quality of the bureaucrats running it, the opaque way the government pushing it, the lack of actual data to support the IDs, the deaths of people due to denial of life sustaining rations, and the lack of recourse to hold people responsible for life, monetary, and ID theft related losses makes it punishing for people who aren't connected to people in power. Aadhaar cannot be sued for anything!

To add insult to the injury, Aadhaar officially allows people in the upper crust and political class to avoid it entirely insulating them from the potential damages of an experimental system. To add even more insult to injury, the UIDAI goes after people who point out the flaws in their "scheme."

The only winners seem to be tech providers, contractors, some bureaucrats, and the IT contractors who seem to be making loads of good money on this.

This is strange. I run a 6 year old PC with win 10 on it. It has 4GB of RAM. I use an SSD and an M.2 drive. The thing is snappy as hell. I face zero lags, jitters, or switching delays at all. I get the feeling that writing things to disk is causing delays.

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The USA is effectively becoming an innovation black hole from all angles of late. I predict people moving away until only the ultra right remains.

I think the big issue really for me personally has been that I know that these interfaces are clunky/inaccurate and I don't want to be talking out loud and giving out info in public spaces etc.

If there is an option to type, I got for it the first thing. Anything else feels gimmicky.

With an appropriately fashionable president as well. Brawndo, the thirst mutilator!

Which is why they didn't invent the internet.

I get the feeling we have pointless products more often than not these days. All these advances, just to create a speaker that listens to you and helps you shop. And now this, there is going to be a whole lot more e-waste in the coming years because of manufacturer antics like this.

Looks like he is enthusiastic about other people working for his money.