So if you decided to go in 2017 with all that happened since, your moral compass was already broken with google's. Snowden already revealed what all that data was used for with program like PRISM. You already seen the total lack of interest in preventing scams in their ads as long as it brings money. You've seen the antitrust fines. The tax avoidance schemes. The election influence concerns over youtube content.

What I read is "I know have made enough money from Google immorality, I can virtue signal by taking an early retirement and pretend I'm a great person".

But that stuff, I didn't know how it really tasted before trying the OG thing.

Globalisation gave us the illusion of experiencing the world.

Banking credit score only affect your ability to get a loan. You sleep with a banker sister, and... they can't do shit because there is no money trail and you can apply for a loan elsewhere. You will only be rejected for a loan if fail to pay some of your existing loans. Reasonable.

Which is an answer to guy saying people idealize china these days, thanks to effective propaganda from the regime.

Want to criticize the US? Go for it. That's just not the topic.

And until you can wear a Tiananmen Square t-shirt in a public street in Beijin, any good thing China is doing is moot for its population. It's still in a dictatorship.

We were discussing cancer, and instead of talking about it, you tried to avoid saying bad things about it and answered "isn't diabetes bad as well?".

I assume now you are a China propaganda account and will stop answering to you.

But also some are just real people from HN that are the worst kind of dumb : uneducated but smart, so they think their opinion is valid.

This is where the "history at schoolis useless" people show their true color.

The fact you are casually talking about it is infuriating.

It's like taking about the yellow star and stay "isn't it like the pins in the US".

But worse because here we are talking deep human topics.

Such long period of peace made people forget about how the world work. And clearly studing history in school ks not working. I guess in the US they are getting a new shot right now to remember.

It will be in the history books.

Personally, when anger is justified, I feel more comfortable with people who clearly and openly express it.

I find them more reliable, more honest, and usually better people to be around.

By my standards, I'd even consider the style very mild, considering a life is on the line.

I would also consider it normal to be on the receiving end of such language if my own work resulted in such a situation. That would cause me to pause and reflect.

The intensity of feedback is information. If everything is bland, it's harder to know how important something is or not. Logic has a limit because you don't have all the parameters from the other side.

It works the other way around. The overuse of superlatives and day-to-day outrage is equally unproductive.

This is not the case here, IMO.

I do.

People usually need to have a purpose, but it doesn't need to be a job.

But it's not AI related, it's true every time the eich and powerful privatize benefits while making the costs and risks to society.

It's a more global and important problem.

We do have to spent a bit of each for any new tech advancement, but the alarmist, disproportionate claim you make is really not helping.

ArcelorMittal Dunkirk rolling & steel complex alone is ~450–550 hectares (more than colussus) and consume 2.23 TWh/year (colussus is ~2.6 TWh/year at 300 MW continuous load) and of course, water consumption for metal working is gigantic.

That's just ONE single facility in France.

I don't think anybody who understands the basics of civilization would want to go back before the Industrial Revolution.

Tech has a cost, and you usually pay a lot more at the begining of creating it.

Does it cause problems? Sure. Should we take it very seriously? Definitely.

But just repeating internet outrage is not a way to make good decisions.