• carry objects around
• can actually lift meaningful amounts of weight
• probably has fingers and can rotate screws in etc.
• can probably operate tools that require fingers with more precision than mini-helicopters?

realistically, yes, at least in america. the reason is simple: it makes the economy go up. if people have more money to spend -> more consumption -> more revenue for companies -> more profit -> higher stock valuations. it’s very simple actually. it’s very much in the interest of the state and everyone in power to do exactly that.

rather than getting essential services

UBI says income, not money. resources and services provided to you would still be income.

can confirm. same second. thanks!

people routinely choke on their own saliva too …

there i fixed it for you (removed the stupid watermark):

nah i think that the storage requirement grows approximately linear with the number of users, and maybe in the worst case quadratically; but the typical case should be linear.

depends … what are you interested in? why do you want to learn things in the first place?

it would be cool if i (or any user) could just contribute a part of their storage space / network connection to the video platform. something like “i store this video (that i just watched) for a month sothat others can see it too”.

unfortunately, as i understand it, there’s both technical and legal hurdles.

• technical hurdle: this doesn’t work for mobile, where network traffic is often limited. e.g. if i pay $10 for 50 GB upload/download capacity per month, then i don’t want 49 GB of those to be sucked up by other people’s video watching behavior.
• legal hurdle: what if some of the content is accidentally illegal? then i would be distributing illegal material, which can quickly become a problem for myself … (seeing how it is illegal in many countries to distribute copyrighted material, but not to watch it oneself).

how so?

the way i imagine it:

• as long as it’s american companies running everything, it’s “fair” and “free market”.
• as long as some company from abroad manages to do things better and more efficient, and american companies come under pressure, we’ll suddenly erect trade barriers and market hurdles to “protect american values”, “for our national security” or sth else. i’ve seen this soo many times. people who “just follow the rules” as long as the rules benefit them. as soon as the same rules start biting them in their own ass, suddenly for some reason they say that we need to change the rules.

As long as you keep your crimes to an extent that it doesn’t cause a massive backlash on large swaths of the country, it’s a different ballgame.

actually that does sound kinda reasonable. what is a crime, if not defined by its negative consequences for the rest of the population?

No this was capitalism in action. Capitalism bred the innovation in TRON.

Governments getting involved and putting their thumb on the scales to control the economy is the opposite of capitalism.

did you read the article? TRON was heavily backed by the japanese government.

what counts as an “operating system”? is it enough to just create another linux distro? is it enough to just fork the distro and add a new visual design to it?

as a hobby game dev (i made this game), i can confirm that most indie games do not reach the stage where they would be enjoyable by other players.

And yet nobody would ever argue that store A is a better store.

apple begs to differ

nah i think the purple thing is the filter … the smoke goes through it and acquires scent that way.

lots of food products taste boring in the west because

• we’ve been told that stuff that tastes good is probably full of additives and therefore bad for your health (think of all the chemicals!)
• and because of the same christian mindset that got us the cornflakes:

Cereal would create fortunes and create multinational companies that we still know today. But Dr. John Harvey Kellogg , the inventor of corn flakes, did not care about profits. For him, cereal was not just a health food because it would improve Americans digestion. He believed a diet centered on bland foods like cereal would lead Americans away from sin. One very specific sin: masturbation.

it’s very well comprehensible if you’re good with numbers.

thank you!