Exactly. This is why I am pro exploration but not colonization. At least not until we can terraform. Colonizing mars now would be a huge waste of resources.
Depending on the definition of colonizing, however. Does sending 100 scientists there count as exploration or colonization? I'd be in favor because the discoveries they'd make about the history of life on Mars would radically weaken mythological stories of religion, it'd be a death-blow that would advance Enlightenment another notch, after the work of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, and Einstein.
I’m a datacenter tech. The amount of dongles and outdated drivers required for simple serial connections or vga connections wastes tons of time. Licensing out the M1 would allow for a company to make a MacBook like laptop with every port! Perfect for technicians.
Just beings a devils advocate for a second - People exposing personal details to the public can be very bad and make them victims of untold numbers of what should be crimes. We know this from just the data and privacy nightmare unfolding before us. It's normal to romanticism the past, but there's a certain comfort in security with less of clear open blogs.
Certainly for some people. But for many who are on the web professionally, it can be hard to separate professional and personal identities. And especially once people are public in other ways, such as by owning homes and, at least until recently (sometimes) having a landline, it doesn't take a private investigator to link some facts about someone to a great deal of information--at least some of which is often public by law.
A great deal of the mainstream Internet was not anonymous/pseudonymous.
I see an opportunity here… in the days of multiterrabyte hard drives, why not make an extension that simply saves the HTML and images for every site you visit? Maybe not appropriate for a phone, but perhaps there could be an option to sync browser activity…
It’s a compromise. You can’t have your cake and eat it too. If we are to make life easier in some respect, we suffer in another. Over time we might find solutions which will only yield alternative compromises.
I like coffee but it yellows my teeth. Wah wah wah…
They do a lot of good bringing people together, but it’s a double edged sword with massive potential for abuse. It’s not up for debate that Facebook causes harm. The only question is how much is too much? At what point do we step in, tell them their mitigations are ineffective, and break up or regulate their systems?
The question is how many alternative systems and services people could use to keep touch with their loved ones Facebook steamrolledby network effect and questionable business practices.
Services that might not require you to expose your real identity to the whole internet, that might not exfiltrate your full contact list from your phone or would not apply questionable morals and censorship on the content you exchange with your loved ones.
My parents ans I live on different continents and we still manage to speak regularly, share pictures, etc. All of that without any of us having a Facebook account.
All of which have enabled many abuses such as financial fraud, terrorists being able to communicate, pedophiles sharing pictures, etc. Ban phones and email. They're too dangerous.
I can manage fine by seeing friends and family in person. If you can't, maybe you just don't care enough?
A messenger app brings people together. Such an app doesn't need an algorithmic feed to hook people on junk/harmful content. That was added for one reason, money.
This is just for elected officials or for any government employee? Or is it also open to staff, faculty and students at any US postsecondary institution?
I work at a major research university as a software dev in a unit that is all about public opinion and such. I am well qualified to drop names, and think my opinion about ‘should this be a prop or a state in React?’ is well-informed but I make a point not to say anything online which anyone might interpret as having to do with domain expertise for my unit.
That is, I have no special qualification and neither do undergraduate students, alumni, food service workers, fitness instructors and many other people who are blessed with an .edu address.
Sometimes it is frightening how much you can find out about somebody online. I'm pretty glad that people who try to look me up online might confuse me with some others with the same name such as a neurosurgeon with a hole in his head from Hyannis, MA and a bodybuilder from Toronto, a motorcycle assassin from Quebec, etc.
