Genuine question : does an inverse ETF replicating the opposite (shorting) of Softbanks investments exist?
Because it seems Masayoshi Son always indicates South...
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Because it seems Masayoshi Son always indicates South...
Their audience doesn't care about alternative facts.
Why bother improving a method that is inherently flawed? You can chose 50 candidates but they are all stupid and corrupt that makes no difference.
Why not make the system more robust and go with liquid democracy [1] ? (yes, I know, many technical/security challenges to overcome, first)
You're postulating many things that are not necessarily true (by definition) : - that massive immigration to the EU will succeed - that EU needs more unskilled labor
So "serious" politicians shouldn't promise one thing or its opposite but have a global view of the best interests of THEIR electors and act accordingly.
I will hence have to take the antithesis to balance it overall : - with automation and the current unemployed people ("natives" or not) already in the EU, more unskilled labor is not what is needed - a cohesive society is not solely based on its productive capacity
Of course most things are done because they procure some type of pleasure/enjoyment. That doesn't mean that everything is entertainment...
It's like having to go to a well to get water vs tap water : it's a reliable and easy way to get infinite source of (passive) entertainment, but not only.
But the excesses you mention are pathological : most people don't have trouble allocating enough time to the "physical world".
And to counterbalance this negative view : a "higher" form of stimuli also allows higher possibilities. Like cave painting and face to face communication offer inferior possibilities than more modern vectors.
They don't hide that in order to save resources and deal with climate change, renting (& circular economy in general) should become the norm whenever possible.
Another thing this article touches but without digging deeper : not all subscription-based things are bad. It depends of the product and the benefits to the user : Spotify's subscription is more about being able to use their algorithm (I guess?) than storing songs ; a car manufacturer's subscription to be able to use your car is stupid.
- for software : balabolka (free, portable, customizable, tons of functions). Also DSpeech. But then you need to find the voices depending on the languages you need (some are free and/or already part of windows)
- chrome based browsers can do it through javascript and many voices are available (example from [1]) :
function speak(text) { var msg = new SpeechSynthesisUtterance(); var voices = speechSynthesis.getVoices(); msg.voice = voices[10]; msg.voiceURI = 'native'; msg.volume = 1; msg.rate = 1; msg.pitch = 2; msg.text = text; msg.lang = 'en-US';
speechSynthesis.speak(msg);speak('Short text');
speak('Collaboratively administrate empowered markets via plug-and-play networks. Dynamically procrastinate B2C users after installed base benefits. Dramatically visualize customer directed convergence without revolutionary ROI. Efficiently unleash cross-media information without cross-media value. Quickly maximize timely deliverables for real-time schemas. Dramatically maintain clicks-and-mortar solutions without functional solutions.');
speak('Another short text');
Then you can make a "Bookmarklets" to read aloud whatever you selected, for example.
[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21947730/chrome-speech-s...
Wisdom is linked to a life-long experienced person. No one can be said to be "wise" at 15.
And doing random things expecting to get "wise" is like moving frantically and randomly your limbs & expecting to learn kung fu.... Time has to make things decant.
The article keeps the dichotomy you/your digital copy while, by definition, if you upload your mind your physical body will be either gone or "hibernating". No one expects to be interacting with his digital copy like in a mirror and even less make it some slave/assistant...
I was more against this current "let it be" mindset that leads to all those buggy and low-quality things. But even more about in daily life, with people embracing their "mediocre-self".
But would you have found the same proportion of books or articles promoting what seems counter-intuitive behaviors/mindsets just for the contradiction itself?
I think the authors just need to find an easy way to say something new, and what is more easy than going against something "common"?
In the 80s/90s there was this constant fear about cholesterol and eggs (perhaps promoted by the cereals lobby?) : did people's habits change? If yes, it was probably because of the monopoly of TV as the main source of "information". Nowadays with internet, every one follows his own little bubble of information.
Now, like everything : no one will get a new limb if he knows a corp will make him a slave for life. So for these companies to succeed they must guarantee peace of mind to their users. You don't fear getting addicted to aspirin every time u take it. Perhaps open-sourced with generics parts.
On a more philosophical note, car makers gave us more freedom by transcending our biological limitations (higher speed, no tiredness) but in exchange of some loss of freedom (loan, accessible areas, time lost finding a parking spot, etc). Nothing comes without a cost.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG_oThcYsn0 [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW1V1HQ5PDE
For a tribe in the Amazon forest, Shanghai or Tokyo could be from a scifi movie set 500 years in their future. For a villager in a small-sized town in Belgium perhaps only 5 or 10yrs in the future.
So transhumanism is not something that will be : it always was and currently is. It just a word for a mindset that embraces these changes and want them to happen faster and sooner.
What you mean by that? Except for "mind uploading" I don't see what you referring to...
Like the Iron Age didn't succeed the Bronze Age in one night there is nothing to understand or to prepare to pass into a "transhumanist society"... because we already are...or even we always were.
Glasses, prosthesis, eye surgery, ... : all are the start of what is called transhumanism. That's why I think it should be used rather as a mindset than as a social goal.
Then you know all that is to be known about what an human is.
You don't need to understand "dolphin-ness" to know that by enabling a dolphin to talk or fly you created a post-dolphin.
Post/Transhumanism is not just about physical changes. Those changes , of course, will create/lead to philosophical/metaphysical questions, but no one understands transhumanism as a "branch of philosophy that questions itself about ...."
What are you talking about ? You mention your engineering degree and experience to give you some authority but then you ruin this by saying what a 5yrs old kid could have said (sorry if it's harsh).
Humanity won't "pump the brakes" because it never did it & never will. No one wants to go live back in caves. Do you really imagine 1000 yrs from now technology staying at its current level? Would it be a nice thing ? No. Not for me.
I don't see mankind as beavers : we can and should aim for the highest achievements and progress. If in the way damages are made, they will be repaired later on. That's my view.
Of course, during this journey, the less damage made the better. But this kind of Luddite mentality is only seen in privileged western societies.
But about, as the parent pointed, improvement. Even in a transhumanist society, someone with eyes on its feet or a mechanical arm without any usefulness would be regarded as stupid or mentally ill.
Not all modifications are good &/or transhumanists.
Put it such extreme and dishonest way, reducing sugar in food it an attempt to eliminate obese people... No , the attribute is not the object.
> indeed, entire state governments in the US—are “against trans people”.
So you deny the rights of a community of people to decide what they deem legal or illegal ? All this for the personal benefit of a (literal) couple of people ?
Should they also be carried in Ferraris to their treatment place?
Moreover, everyone knows twitter is not exactly the place with the healthiest representative sample of mankind...
Well it seems you're the one trolling here.
If you deny the right to people to have opinions and judgments based on their beliefs about anything they wish, you're doing worse than you complain about.
And they have the nerve to beg for money in a very obtrusive way.
Good riddance.
> “If you only focus on instances in which the NSA violated those laws, you’re missing the forest for the trees,” he said. “The bigger concern is not with willful violations of the law but rather with what the law itself allows.”
Totally agree.
I am against the modern hedonistic zeitgeist and, on the contrary, think a lot of current social issues could be mitigated by more discipline and "hard work".
On a side note : am I the only one who is tired of the current (decade(s)-long...) trend in blogs/articles of "deconstructing" positive/common-sense behaviors? "The dangers of tidiness", "Embrace your bipolarity", "Why I stopped aiming for excellence" etc... (I am not denying the risks of being too extreme and I understand the "click-bait" need of those writers, but still, it is very telling...)