trashb

E.g. I'm sure we are generally less skilled in mental arithmetic since the advent of the calculator, but it has allowed us to solve vastly more complex problems in the end.

This is like saying we have been getting a lot worse at walking since the advent of the car but it has allowed us to practice global trade in the end.

Yes cars are a part of the solution but there are a lot more factors at play.

A calculator does not do math, a calculator (and computer) calculates or computes. The math is the study and understanding of the problem space (and the problem solving) that the human is doing behind the calculator.

"solve vastly more complex problems" the calculator has accelerated this but it is not really a cause effect relation. The advancements in the understanding of the complex problems could've also happened without calculators and the computation could have been done instead (for example) with 1000 people in a bunker.

From what I can gather from the linked discussion it was started as a pull request or a issue and was transferred to a discussion later. Perhaps some data was lost there? If you expand the comments fully there is also mention of a nuked merge request, I assume it was related to this text.

Edit it was not visible from the discussion link but it is visible from the issue link below. Also it seems to be transferred over from a totally different repo?

https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-doc-technic...

Additionally there was a leak of the personal information of covid patients, the official tracking app was not affected as far as I can tell.

However even if the app is secure the storage and handling of the information is a different matter and it has been shown that care is not always taken.

"if you do not have an app from Google store, you are excluded from society"

It would be a difficult choice but would it really be so bad to be excluded from such a society? Don't a lot of people from silicon valley dream to be farmers in the wildlands?

Don't worry the focus is on the youth with this legislation. I have the suspicion it's about indoctrination of surveillance as normal.

Additionally the amount of elderly that don't have or can't use a phone or don't have anyone that can help them with it will decrease rapidly anyway. In my experience it's mostly the same generation as the people that remember WWII.

  And yet, strangely, Americans are probably reading more words than ever before. 

People do read more than ever. But we don't recognize it as such. We read on our phone while intermittently reading subtitles of Netflix in the background. We read every time we look at a computer, phone, advertisement etc. But we only count reading paper as "real reading".

The shape of reading is changing yes. I think the "deep" thinking associated with reading has always been a bit of an elitist idea. Why would reading 1000 words of a great philosopher be any different from reading 1000 words of smut online. In some way losing this kind of stigma will make reading more accessible.

Writing and publishing is dying first. And that has to go long before reading dies anyway.

One bug found is a testament to the great diligence and culture around security of OpenBSD. Especially if you take into account the amount of resources they have been able to achieve this with.

The new player experience is quite nice now a days. The PvE campaigns has also been improved over the last few years.

To go deep into it I feel like social gameplay is required but there are plenty of opportunities to consume Eve Online in short bursts. Even when connected with a Corp or other player organizations like Red vs Blue. I found there is also a lot of mechanics that can be enjoyed solo or with light socialization.

To anyone considering it: I would encourage you to jump in with a free account and try it out! and fly safe!

To me it seems like the engine (and the mechanics) are focused on being an MMO first and a "simulation" second. From their website "EVE Online is a community-driven spaceship MMORPG where players can play free, choosing their own path from countless options."

There are concepts in the game that would be unlikely in a simulation game but are common in MMO's. Think of fast travel, instance dungeons and more.

One of Eve Online's strengths is that it conforms gameplay to the MMO setting. That is one of the main driving factors in it's design and allows for example for Time dilation, huge battles and continuous universe and economy that it is famous for.

This is different from for example World of Warcraft, in my view that is a RPG first MMO second. That is one of the reasons it has sharding and smaller pvp battles.

Would something like E/OS be considered a Official or Unofficial builds? I suppose Unofficial since it is a fork?

but what do people actually use carplay for? Navigation, music and calls?

I suspect that 90% of the people that "need" carplay are actually just using it as a bluetooth speaker and would be fine with a good phoneholder and bluetooth/aux connection.

I always feel strange connecting to someone else their carlpay or to a rental car.

people never hold their cameras upside down

I'm not to sure about that. I rarely keep my camera (close to) fully horizontal.

Sadly Discord and to a certain extent Reddit is seen as a alternative for forums now a days. I like forums because it feels like a small community sure. But also because they are ACHIEVABLE!

I can't count the amount of times that I was looking for a solution to a problem and I found it on a 7/10yo forum post.

Google has been nuking accounts since their inception.

I have seen people being locked out as early as 2011 of accounts that could only be unlocked by sending a copy of an ID. Due to regulatory change of saving of information based on age (first 13 and above was ok, then became 16 and above).

I'm not a fan of age checks. There is a reason Google is offering this (for free).

As always with tracking, the value is in the metadata.

The knowledge if you are or are not above a certain age is already privacy invasive but not that relevant for tracking or ads.

But with ZKP at least you won't need to send your creditcard, copy of ID and address to the 3rd party to verify.

I like the idea of separating the frontend and backend of a graphical app. But I feel like this is hardly a novel idea, maybe I'm missing something.

I take it you don't know about "X11Forwarding yes" or "html5 web app"

  For browsers, capabilities like connecting to Unix sockets have been dismissed as extremely niche

I hate this phrase, it is not a good analog for the situation and it slanders piracy. I understand the idea behind it and I hate the streaming/renting/digital purchase model as much as the next guy.

If you don't want to pay for streaming own up to it, buy it on physical or steal it (make an illegitimate copy). But don't pretend you would pay for it if it was delivered in a different agreement.

Do you expect to keep driving a rented car forever? Even if the car is only available through rent?

A lot of countries have limits on how long CCTV footage may be stored (often there is a minimum and maximum limit). I believe in the US it is regulated on a per state level.

No it's like the publisher of the adult content magazine being liable if an underage person buys the magazine. And due to burden of proof they require all stores that sell their magazine to make a copy of your ID and send it to them along with a recording of you providing the ID at the counter, some stores may require your address, iris or fingerprint scan.

Actually not to them through them to one of the few ID verifier 3rd parties that now receives a big portion of the records of anyone that buys adult content in any store with any publisher.

Isn't knowing if someone is above or below a certain age already privacy invasive if one chooses they don't want to share that? At least under GDPR age is protected as an indirect identifier.

De-fund education and encouraged so called "laptop classes", also mandated online classes in the covid-period.

btw, what have governments done in the past 2 decades to improve children's mental health?

there is a reason the gambling regulations are being eased up on and polymarket is so popular. Gambling addiction is notably harder to get rid of the earlier you acquire it.

Instead of social media we should focus on other things that happened in that same 20-year period, which probably have a bigger effect on mental health.

For example in the country I live in psychiatric help has been systematically de-funded during that period as well as support for sports, education and more.

who decides what are bad/problematic/unacceptable books?

Lower levels, you'd need duplicate hardware specifically for kids, which couldn't connect to the adult's internet.

This would also breed more interest in hardware modifications and thus leading more kids into the technical field. Sounds like a win win situation.

I didn't compare the Americas and Britain.

  The americas are really big

  Grouping every person "pre columbus" into a single bucket is wrong

No i don't know who that is.

Can you provide another source for that?

  There are two threads in the ancient accounts: one depicting the struggle as one for Roman citizenship and another as one against Roman domination.

The following two articles barely mention religious status.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_citizenship

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_class_in_ancient_Rome

I think there is no denying that religion was important in Rome. However what I can gather the Military was more important for citizenship and status.

Military service was one of the main ways to upgrade your social status.

  For non-citizens, the reward of Roman citizenship after 25 years' military service offered social transformation, not only for themselves, but their families too.

  You seem to be taking ethnicity pretty serious for a guy who says it should be avoided in serious debate.

  For example, the genetic line of what your calling the clearly Native Americans traces back to Asia. You've arbitrarily decided that their ethnicity is defined at a certain time in their lineage. Why aren't they Asians or even Africans?

Ethnicity is arbitrary precisely because it is not clear what the boundaries of it are. I used Native Americans as an example, we all trace back to a few individuals in Africa. However Ethnicity is not just the genetics, it also includes culture, language, history, traditions and more. and it includes a component over time for example: "They have been living like this for x amount of years"(since after a war or similar displacement event) can be a divide in ethnicity.

You could subdivide ethnicity all the way until you reach the lineage and environment of a single individual. There are lots of ethnic differences between Native American tribes for example.