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I was forced to log in to Sengled just to turn on my lights after it auto-logged me out. IoT is garbage.

It's not a fault at all. If you're going to spend more time watching videos if you're recommended stuff Youtube knows you already like, that's what it's going to do. Youtube just wants you to watch more videos. They don't care whether you are exposed to a variety of content.

What's good for you is not the same as what's good for Youtube. Youtube wants to maximize watch time at all costs. Their algorithms is probably very good at that.

> When I use FB or whatever, I want to be completely anonymous.

Keep in mind it's already against the FB terms of service to use it anonymously. You're supposed to use your real full name.

> With requiring payment comes the ability to trace where the money came from.

One possible solution could be bitcoin. I'd be more worried about where the money is going, though. Do modern democracies need to be collecting even more money from us, to do god knows what with? Would this new tax come with a decrease in other taxes? Probably not.

I think disincentivizing social media is a good idea, but a social media tax isn't the right move. Brainstorming some other ways of doing so:

- Ban certain social media Skinner-box features like endless scrolling, recommendation algorithms, likes, whatever. This is more likely to get to the heart of the problem, but gives the government more control over the internet, private businesses, etc.

- Create alternative social media platforms which don't use the same rage-inducing and addicting mechanisms. These will fail because they are by definition less addicting than the alternative.

- Make current social media unusable by flooding it with spam. This could be accomplished "extra-legally", preferably using AI to make spam hard to detect. This is already being done to an extent by bad actors (Chinese Communist Party, though you don't need AI when you have over a billion cheap workers), but could be done on a larger scale not to sway opinion, but to ruin the platforms altogether.

- Social media companies could use semantic analysis to downrank rage-bait and negativity and up-rank positivity and thoughtful discourse (though hopefully not that hollow "you go girl!!!" faux-positivity you sometimes see on social media). This is uncomfortable because it means social media companies get to engineer our conversations to be whatever they want, but they are already doing this, they're just doing it in a malevolent way.

- Somehow educate the entire population on the dangers of social media the same way we did with cigarettes. Whether through a public information campaign, or by generally getting people to meditate and realize the true important things in life. This is a terrible solution, and obviously social media companies would fight it tooth and nail, but I only mention it because I've heard it seriously proposed too many times. If your solution is "educate everybody", but everybody is currently hooked up to disinformation machines, you're screwed.

That's all I've got. Anyone else have any ideas?

I think it's a bit different than the butterfly effect. When a major event affects everyone somewhat, it's like billions of chances for a butterfly effect all happening simultaneously. An aggregate butterfly effect where major change is practically guaranteed.

Dropping the 'f' is actually a way of reducing the filesize of the website, which is very important for the Tinycore project.

I agree about Linux, but I disagree about Debian. It's too easy to create a new distro which is mostly compatible with everything. But to create a new OS, you are expecting everyone to rewrite all their software for the now OS.

As for common lisp, it's not even popular now, so I wouldn't expect it to suddenly become popular in 100 years.

How to use Windows on my laptop:

- Just use it.

How to use Linux on my laptop:

- Spend several weeks debugging everything you could imagine. Find a file posted by one of the laptop engineers to a random forum, which you need for internet to work on the laptop at all. Give up on things like getting the touch screen working properly. Give up on using the laptop and spend most of your time on your desktop.

More like, "The not-yet centuries old science they constantly tell you about on Hacker News."

Solution: You can set a maximum number of reviews per day in the deck settings.

Every language will eventually become a subset of C++, and they will all compile to javascript.

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IQ tests don't even attempt to measure any knowledge or skill domains at all. I don't think you understand what an IQ test even measures.

IQ tests are universally accepted in psychology as the most robust psychometric ever developed. The idea that IQ tests are "bullshit" is nonsense pop psychology. Some people might try to over-interpret IQ tests as meaning more than what they do, but they are very good at measuring what they measure, and they predict a lot of things.

That said, I agree if you brag about your IQ you're a moron.

> Linux runs better on both new and older hardware. Better as in programs open faster, the file manager opens faster, the task manager opens faster. Everything uses less memory and less CPU cycles. Everything is snappier.

Unless "hardware" is many laptops or all tablets, which effectively can't run Linux (unless Android etc.)

I always hit one button multiple times, so I'd hit 99. Infinitesimally faster than hitting two buttons once.

Who needs more than 10 minutes to press one button besides someone who is currently having a stroke?

What if it was like a sliding door which treadmilled into the side of the microwave?

They keep the water warm indefinitely, apparently.

Good luck making Breaking Bad with a permissive license.

> Baseball bats, Umbrellas, Pieces of wood, Bricks, lumps of metal.

That's a good list of items less deadly than a knife.

> Seat belt wearing is rarely enforced anywhere

Maybe where you live. Everybody wears one here.

> Knives are a safe way of cutting things. Billions of people use them everyday without issue.

You probably missed the part where I said we would only outlaw knives if we had a safer way of cutting things (reliably).

*By humans

Forced autonomous cars: Yes, once they are good enough. We make people wear seat-belts. Same thing.

Stopping selling of knives: Yes, once we have a safer way of cutting things. Though the real problem is probably people cutting each other on purpose, rather than themselves by accident.

"Every doctor" would be wrong. The guy from the Fat Head documentary showed that you can lose weight and become healthier on an all-McDonalds diet.

Also, the food pyramid (which, admittedly, is so incorrect that it should cause you to question any healthcare professional who quotes it) does include a small layer for fat, oil, sugar, and sweets, implying you can have them as an occasional treat but not all the time. No doctor is going to tell you to never eat at McDonalds, only to make it a rare treat.

Pedantic.

If your goal is to get rich, you need to be comfortable with doing what it takes depending on the economic environment.

McReal Burger

1. Olive oil, red meat, avocado, beans, nuts.

2. There are no unhealthy foods, only unhealthy diets. Even a bowl of ice cream isn't unhealthy if you're getting all your nutrients and not eating too many calories.

In what ways is the social credit system not a "tool for comprehensive government surveillance and for suppression of dissent from the Communist Party of China", as Wikipedia puts it?