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Yup they really need to be feeding their population the Kardashians, WWE, Alex Jones, super hero movies and space operas the whole day.

The West is over obsessed with over loading their senses.

These kind of descriptions of "experience" you can also see in New York hipster yelp reviews of the 'most amazing' sushi joint or the latest game of thrones episode or whatever bullshit.

What a waste.

In terms of the activity/behaviour generated.

In terms of the skills produced.

In terms of the meaningless randomness of the results that can vary from one day to the next for the same effort.

It's not complicated. Stick to your values. When you work on stuff that you feel ambiguous about, you aren't going to be doing you best work.

Well here's a Google talk from last month https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SJSJx5slLEM

Cut copy paste was best on win phone.

Its not just caching. This stuff seems to survive generations too by some as yet unknown magic. Google "inherited PTSD".

There was already a campaign - humanetech.com started by no suprise a former Googler a while back.

Through internal studies, they already knew quite a few years ago that Google engineers where as likely as to get addicted and waste time on cat videos, the kardashians and whatever else as much as the people the platforms end up hooking. Those results produced some internal 'what about my kids' outrage.

What they then discovered is deaddicting ppl is much more complicated and takes a whole lot longer than getting them to turn into screen touching addicts. It was so complicated not to mention the opposite of what generated rev that it got quietly shelved and ppl left No big diff between Google and Big Tobacco in this regard.

What you are seeing today is them dusting off the cobwebs on that project as the unintended social and psychological consequences are finally taking a serious unignorable toll.

I don't see Google or Facebook contributing to the solution. They will play the same game Exxon Shell Philip Morris et al play. And that game remains empire defense.

It's up to you to keep your kids safe.

They could join Buddhist monasteries. It doesn't have to be sad. Lot of Dalai Lama fans around here I see anyways.

Android is like a run away island of Dr. Moreau. I can't understand why it hasn't imploded yet.

My 6 year old lumias still have better power usage than the latest Samsungs. No cloud AI necessary.

Wow that's some pretty imaginative thinking. Have you tried that on your family?

And that's not going to change is my point.

Well the pressure allows for new models to emerge. It's like a never ending war. The front lines keep moving back and forth between those who put themselves before others and those who don't.

The thing to remember is one side cannot fully ever take out the other.

I once sent a friend a temp Gmail account login to read a doc. Next thing I know most Google apps on their phone is using that login. Search/video search/location history all available without their knowledge.

Which is why it just makes more sense to hire Indian CS students. American univs are never going to match the volumes the Indian system already produces.

Just curious, how these Devs develop immunity to the "plague"?

5 years to count ~.1 to 1% of the stars in 1 galaxy. What ants we are?

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