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Earthquake/fire/electrical regulations might not seem valuable until your entire house/city is in ruins.

I find it noteworthy that crypto-currencies are treated as investments and 'bets' which would seems to imply instability or a design feature of fluctuating value.

Almost as if a primary motive behind designing crypto "currency" protocols is not a stable value exchange medium, but rather instead an investment system for early adopters to exploit late adopter buyers?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geSnkE4EOqs

I would much rather have an affordable public transit system built than another airport.

Humans are more complex than flies and social atmosphere would need to be healthy relative to dramatic population sizes.

John B. Calhorn's mouse utopia experiments give some indication of complexity in large communities beyond food resources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Calhoun#Mouse_experime...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z760XNy4VM

  There was no shortage of food or water or nesting 
  material. There were no predators. The only adversity was 
  the limit on space.


  Initially the population grew rapidly, doubling every 55 
  days. The population reached 620 by day 315, after which 
  the population growth dropped markedly. The last 
  surviving birth was on day 600. This period between day 
  315 and day 600 saw a breakdown in social structure and 
  in normal social behavior. Among the aberrations in 
  behavior were the following: expulsion of young before 
  weaning was complete, wounding of young, increase in  
  homosexual behavior, inability of dominant males to 
  maintain the defense of their territory and females, 
  aggressive behavior of females, passivity of non-dominant 
  males with increased attacks on each other which were 
  not  defended against.[2] After day 600, the social 
  breakdown continued and the population declined toward 
  extinction. During this period females ceased to 
  reproduce. Their male counterparts withdrew completely, 
  never engaging in courtship or fighting. They ate, drank, 
  slept, and groomed themselves – all solitary pursuits. 
  Sleek, healthy coats and an absence of scars 
  characterized these males. They were dubbed “the 
  beautiful ones.” Breeding never resumed and behavior 
  patterns were permanently changed.

It's too late for that now, for now.

We can't all be plants and fungus.

Animation isn't subject to camera blurs, but since mechanically precise movement is so boring to watch animators have always utilized motion and frame blurs as stylistic expressiveness.

http://animationsmears.tumblr.com/archive

Given how cumbersome and glitchy Adobe's 'content awareness' algorhythm is, there's not much help for animators via software tools for that type of motion (in 2D, for 3D the general trend seems to be realism but 3D animation software has more than enough options for stylistic choices of surreal motion).

Hmm.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

Niche subcultures thrive on the internet. Friendships take an amount of effort and a reasonable level of sacrifice to maintain. The internet also makes it easy to ignore other people and spend time on consuming media instead of creating and sharing experiences alongside other people. I assume this might be why let's play videos and spectator video gaming seems to be gaining in popularity.

  This is fixed by removing the central authority monopoly 
  over the printing of money and/or make them actually 
  print the money.

Why would I want to buy a loaf of bread from you today for 200 BTC when I assume next year I should be able to buy that loaf of bread for 0.01 BTC?

You're making an assumption that the makers of crypto-currencies intend to produce "better" economy-exchange-token systems rather than pump-and-dump systems.

Why would I want to spend a limited edition BTC™ if I know the system that produces bitcoins is going to stop producing the coins? Adding the assumption that as the 'bitcoin economy' grows, so too will demand for bitcoins thus further increasing demand on the limited supply of bitcoins. So all signs point to never spend your bitcoins unless you want to 'bet' against the bitcoin ecosystem by spending your BTC tokens.

BTC is art.

http://i.imgur.com/P7ylLkD.jpg

  in a system when you generate currency from nothing, this 
  is true. But if you use currency as an actual IOUs, you 
  would need to generate value to generate currency, and 
  thus, if you were to hoard currency, you are providing 
  value to the economy for nothing in return, which is a 
  good thing.

The "Genesis" BTC blockchain seems to have its fate sealed.

Elements of a genius ponzi scheme mixed with psychology of the limited edition beanie baby craze and enough allure of "technology is magic" created a "valuable" cyber diamond to send hordes of processing power to "mine" and sell off like hot potato stocks.

As we begin seeing more viable altcoin systems with practical improvements, "investors" and processing power will jump ship to the improved cryptocoin protocols. Bitcoin and the bandwaggon of investing in a BTC as a currency which inherently encourages not spending that currency (deflation as a fundamental design) is such a paradoxical mind fuck it's one of the most brilliant pieces of art I could imagine.

Inflation is incredibly healthy for an economy because it creates an incentive to invest money into new businesses and real goods and services instead of being buried outside of the system where it does no good. The trick is to prevent hyper inflation - and in BTC or other arbitrarily produced currency systems, there should be mechanisms in place to avoid the abuse of the fabrication of the money tokens.

What happens if no internet connection is available?

As if industrial workers give any thought to fashion hype over utility and tools..?

as if

Mostly local red tape, zoning laws, and NIMBYism

"Koyaanisqatsi" director Godfrey Reggio made a film using just the blank gazes of kids watching TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuI_nCADnW0

When people talk about how kids are spending too much time on their smart phones or internet, at least it's interactive and participatory where as TV is a bizarre receptive one way experience.

This is cool, thanks for curating all these services into one spot.

I like searching for (FOSS) software via http://alternativeto.net/

This is a big issue in Vancouver, British Columbia.

http://www.theprovince.com/business/Vancouver+critical+money...

Odd,

  In Manhattan, the initiative requires buyers in sales of 
  more than $3 million to be reported; in Miami-Dade 
  County, it requires reporting on sales of more than $1 
  million. In Manhattan, 1,045 residential sales cost more 
  than $3 million in the second half of 2015, worth some 
 $6.5 billion in aggregate, according to PropertyShark, a 
  real estate data company.

  In its investigation, The Times found that nearly half of 
  homes nationwide worth at least $5 million are purchased 
  using shell companies. In Manhattan and Los Angeles, the 
  figure is higher.

The reason you and others feel the unreality of reality is likely the excessive exposure to media and the facade of unrealities presented to us as "reality"

News is crafted more like entertainment rather than investigating facts. The trend with cinema seems to be realism of fantasy and fiction. Reality TV is presented to us as if it were documenting "Reality" when it's actually a team of writers and producers carefully designing a planned narrative.

We sit at computers reading social media posts of friends and strangers presenting their own selective narratives to their "life" which is more or less a facade that omits the mundane or "real" aspects that we would encounter and be aware of were we not all so far removed and isolated by otherwise anonymous apartment complexes, neighborhoods, and (sub)urban typologies.

Personally, I would not desire any sort of luddite reversion of technology and entertainment. I do believe there is a concerning trend of detachment from reality born out of cultural habits, that is largely derived from mass media.

Evolve the idea of what a home is.

Elio motors is offering a small 84MPG vehicle for $6,800. 30 year old Volkswagen Westfalia Campers maintain a high resale value to this very day. Why are all mobile homes so huge? How much money do people spend on rent, leases, mortgages, and buying homes?

I'm sure college students would love a compact mobile home vehicle. Developing countries would likely eat such a thing up.

The CEO of Zappos lives in a trailer park of Airstream trailers and Tumbleweed tiny mobile houses with a shared kitchen, living room and other common areas designed to encourage a true neighborhood / community.

  Or just consider a house as infrastructure. 
  Real estate is assumed to be limited, but that's mostly 
  the result of nimbyism and the gaming of developments 
  sold off on the real estate market as "investments". The 
  whole trend of gentrification will likely play out in 
  less expensive regions of North America and developing 
  countries, and presumably there will be large dense 
  affordable housing somewhere someday and these areas tend 
  to be fertile for creative businesses and cultural 
  experimentation. New York is long stagnate, and it's 
  amazing how much San Fransisco suffers from real estate 
  leaching off of the working population and tech economy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac