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I assume you would want the computer to be locked if the watch signal dropped and being concerned enough to desire the feature in question. I'm doubtful one's heart rate isn't increasing in an event of theft and where it wouldn't lock a person out in time before for a person significantly uses the device. There are multiple variables but I can also see the wired approach being futile in situations where a person is pinned down by multiple people.

The heart rate of your examples are somewhat different compared to an active threat for most people I assume from being in a situation when a crime is taking place. Although, I would be curious to view trials of each situation showing the heart rate measurement with the statistical average result.

I'm sure with encryption there shouldn't be much worry. I think currently apple watches allow users to unlock their computers when returning.

Maybe a smartwatch reading the heart rate of the owner and noticing stimulation could trigger the same functionality as well.

Kids getting abused to the point they run away. I wonder what the percentage of the returning kids (by Greyhound bus) wouldn't use the service if they could start their own life anew and in an economy that would actually allow them that opportunity. I assume from how the economy is shifting to needing a degree for competitive entry. The ones abused by their parents are staying even longer with them and until their degree is finished to afford the whole process.

I’m under the impression that the market will grow with time. The product happens to be great enough for my standards. The obvious downside is the requirement from a person needing to explore the dosage intake themselves and contrary to how everyone can dive into coffee for a different type of high. I’m skeptical of the price being where it should be because I think it’s too high resulting in the profits being worse then what could be achieved. Interestingly all the high THC strains are usually all sold out online in my province’s store but I think most people that would enjoy the benefits from the high would prefer a low to medium THC or even CBD strain. Edibles are in my opinion dangerous and I’m curious to see how that will likely make no difference in sales. I think what needs to happen is the ability to micro dose safely without any unpleasantness and be affordable. Vaping can make it affordable but dosing isn’t as accurate as I believe it should be.

This kind of topic comes up in transgender communities and what you're proposing is offensive. People get really offended when the name assigned at birth (matching one's birth sex which doesn't align with one's identity) is kept attached to their life as a constant reminder.

The most respectful is #3 and my view is from being transgender myself with knowledge of what others similar like me would desire as respect. Similar problems happen when a transgender person is murdered and the authority finds it by arguable belief that it’s necessary to report the birth sex for trying to catch the murder. One of the reasons I hope assisted suicide becomes legal for anyone.

I don't think I can agree. Sure, something like the plague or an asteroid impact has considerable unknowns and thus considered unfixable/dangerous/worrisome. My scepticism is from observing society, seeing tremendous problems never fixed and when people with authority are aware of it.

I think greed, selfishness and people truly inconsiderate happens on a greater scale than what we imagine with factoring into as an issue with the problem of global warming. I guess my scepticism is from considering the forgoing, before thinking of global warming and then thinking of other problems humanity faced (where people are concerned with their daily lifestyle continuing or improving).

Global warming is somewhat unique in the list of known problems when I think about it. I assume it will be too late, before people start being truly effected and to the point they act on something other than promoting public awareness. I've been living a lifestyle where I always walk to work & back. I don't own a car and I somewhat imagine similar steps need to be taken on a larger scale. I'm doubtful people will go from being knowledgable to acting. I have less faith on corporations and laws changing so they must act if they even care about being fined.

That's a lot of optimism from labeling a problem as known vs unknown. I'm hesitant thinking there is logic from assuming a problem known will be fixed. Also it's not too far fetched to think climate change can snowball while being irreversible.

> They’ll be graduating into the strongest economy in American history. They’ll be just fine.

How are you forecasting that future? Seems strange to read it with what you see now and as you phrase the lost generation that's struggling from inflation & low wages..

I'm skeptical but I think the worst is yet to come for the next generations. Unless all the young adults that are struggling don't just all commit suicide in the years to follow. It's going to be a disaster when time comes and they need to retire but cannot. The burden will go on the young even more so than what we can imagine today.

I enjoyed Western Chinese food growing up as a kid. Sadly it seems for me that a specific dish can really taste different depending on which restaurant you pick for the day. It can actually be disappointing when ordering a certain dish and the taste isn't similar as another restaurant.

I find it odd that people get most excited when thoughts of AI are aimed towards education in the classroom as the research hinted. I've always thought the most exciting thing about AI would be making robots that can cover the work needed so all human beings get to focus on what's meaningful for them. The interest as hinted from the article makes me question where peoples priorities are when it comes to the next generation getting to live life.

I view humans in a universe like a computer program that brute-forces to find a better solution. You can have some people do everything right and nothing ever works out for them. While you can have the opposite happen. The anomalies/survivorship bias gets the most media attention and keeps the rat race going. Sometimes this makes me think the universe is just the outcome of brute-forcing as well.

30% makes it a common misconception? I did find this part interesting because I can relate somewhat to it. A good portion of the population isn't getting the necessary support in their upbringing is what I get from it. Although much of the self reported data seems to suggest they just cannot afford a home.

> survey data reveal that young people who identify as LGBTQ+ represent up to 40% of the approximately 550,000 unaccompanied youth and young adults experiencing homelessness in the United States. It is estimated that 12% of SanFrancisco’s population identifies as LGBTQ+; 27% of survey respondents identified as LGBTQ+. Among survey respondents identifying as LGBTQ+, 55% identified as gay, lesbian, or same-gender loving; 29% as bisexual; 13% as transgender; 3% as genderqueer/gender non-conforming; and 5% as questioning. Compared to respondents who did not identify as LGBTQ+, respondents who identified as LGBTQ+ were more likely to report having experienced domestic violence (48% compared to 27%). Respondents who identified as LGBTQ+ also reported a higher incidence of HIV or AIDS related illness (14% compared to 4%). LGBTQ+ respondents were also more likely to report first experiencing homelessness as a youth or young adult than non-LGBTQ+ survey respondents (58% and 40%, respectively).

I'm not from California but a lot of homeless people navigate to California from elsewhere. Homelessness is on the rise in general. Religious ideology creates thinking patterns of the blame is on the victim and not from the system they reside in being unfavourable with the person's genetics & environmental upbringing.

The United States is barbaric when it comes to social support systems.

I used to live in the States and I'm happy to now be in Canada for moral reasons. I can only speculate from my experience (when I went through hard times as a student working on my CS degree with unsupportive family "me being lgbt and they being religious conservatives") and trying to navigate what was available in my area while living in the USA.

I've come to the conclusion that religious ideology is to blame, as similar to rising cost of homes & tuition, and not enough jobs for everyone (when you consider most people have low skillsets); while considering not everyone can become a programmer or whatever in-demand profession because most people just don't have what it takes with age making it increasingly difficult to get into a skilled field with health factoring into the equation.

I think homelessness is rarely the outcome of drug abuse. People aren't going to drugs in a great life for no particular reason. In any case deciding to do drugs with life then spiralling downhill to where they're homeless is just ridiculous to assume is the cause. The idea that people do it to themselves is nonsensical. We're living in a harder time than the 90s, 80s, 70s, for the less privileged and the system needs to be revamped to get people into homes that don't cost them anything if they cannot pay for it.

Thanks for replying with that research. I'll check it out and I'm not sure why my comment is being downvoted for curiosity.

The piece is built for fear mongering but I'm curious how the developing brain of an adolescent will be changed from constant marijuana use and compared to if it had never happened. I'm guessing how the drug is used would also be important in the longterm outcome because someone using it to help with anxiety might benefit compared to a developing brain under a lot of anxiety.

Superdeterminism isn't a radically different way of thinking about experimental results as a determinist.

> To continue with the coin flip analogy, consider a classical world where a coin flip is perfectly deterministic, given the initial conditions. In the usual way we think about determinism, it's still possible to test whether a coin is fair. Just flip it a bunch of times, a little differently each time, and see if you get a ratio close to 50/50. That's standard science.

Every person understanding determinism will assert if you can repeat the same conditions of a previous coin flip, you will get the same outcome of the previous coin flip (for the next flip) and until the conditions are altered to make it so. The "conditions" being all the "external forces" acting upon the coin as it flips and lands.

We all understand a coin flip is 50/50 for us, since we're not perfect machines at replication. We would need to be able to analysis how to flip a coin the same as a previous flip and manipulate the environment of the coin flip to the previous flip if required.

The foregoing understanding is beneficial for scientists when it comes to experimentation. I understand why people can assume "God/Nature did it" would be worrisome. I still think you're making a big leap with what you originally asserted.

> Then I have to reconsider why is there even the illusion of choice. Why should I even write this comment.

I think the answer is society conditions us to assume we have choice by how society is structured and how society functions. You writing the comment is just me being an external force upon you and triggering it from all the previous external forces that made you eventually react the way you did. Even if everything isn't random, a lot of what people like to wish for & believe, can in fact come true but it's hard for me to rationalize it. Other than an outside our universe deterministic observer needing to exist.

Your example given with the conclusion to follow doesn't make sense. I'm a hard determinist, I've known others like myself and nobody leaps to the thought, "the initial conditions of the universe means this is all meaningless" and we do try to observe every possibility such as the game being rigged. I don't necessarily think superdeterminism can explain literally anything or that if it did explain something there would be no gain of insight. That just seems like you're postulating.

How so, can you expand on what would be terrifying on a personal and existential level for you?

I've encountered a few people that will cite quantum theory when it comes to discussions about questioning if one has free will. I cannot even imagine how quantum theory gives a us true free will and without one's will just being the outcome of the system we reside in.

I think it would be great if people were required to answer a questionnaire with even a psych evaluation in person for wanting to end life.

I don’t think any person should ever be refused their request to die. I just think the information is valuable to obtain for going forward by designing society to be more favorable for people to want to live. Currently a lot of people with tremendous psychological pain are being forced to continue being in pain because people don’t want to let them end their life. People with depression should be able to have free will over their own life.

Thanks, never saw this before about Hinduism.

I get the eastern religions that reference karma but the part I'm interested in is from "it's not a stretch that Earth is a hell for those people, and we're supposed to be the demons that make life miserable for them" and because I haven't seen that expressed before. It would be nice to know the specific names that share that ideology of others being demons for some that are destined to experience a bad life this time around.

> I suppose you could argue that religion is harmful.. but even as an atheist, that’s a stretch for me to agree with.

How is that a stretch for you? Have you ever heard of conversion therapy. Do you know how that came to be and similar to slavery. I know a lot of LGBT+ friends that had religious parents throw them on the streets because of God wouldn't make them not be normal.

I think the reason religious organizations have a good hold on running charities is because they have big enough places to host them. I'm guessing the administration task of hosting a charity is a hurdle unless you have big enough buildings already for it and where you know when it will be used compared to nobody using it.

> My understanding is that in some religions, we are living today in the "afterlife" of a previous life, and subject to karma based on what we've done. If one has bad karma that has put one in an undesirable social position, it's not a stretch that Earth is a hell for those people, and we're supposed to be the demons that make life miserable for them.

Can you name those religions for me. I view everything as deterministic and see the world as either heaven/hell. Although the idea of karma doesn't make sense when understanding determinism. Since everyone is destined to do bad or good depending on the life they're born into.

edit: whoever downvoted me, I'm asking a simple question and stating what I observe. Please let me know why you find the need to downvote for that.

How great is the 32 GB of ram? I have a 2017 macbook pro. I don't ever develop on a desktop machine to be able to know what I'm missing out on by only having 16 GB.