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New comment by glorkk in "Carlo Rovelli on the ‘greatest remaining mystery’: The nature of time"

glorkk — Sat, 23 Jun 2018 06:01:17 +0000

> Minds get eroded by technology by heavily relying on it

This has been said for thousands of years. Socrates/Plato was complaining about how writing weakens the human memory.

We need to accept that human minds are limited and technology is meant to extend them. Science has advanced considerably due to computers despite the appearances.

The way out of the current “impasse” is through even more technology. We might not be able to solve all the mysteries of the universe without intelligence augmentation or superintelligent AI.

New comment by glorkk in "Keyboard Service Program for MacBook and MacBook Pro"

glorkk — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 23:00:51 +0000

What is an iLamp?

New comment by glorkk in "European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrous’ copyright bill"

glorkk — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 13:01:04 +0000

It is very easy to make unenforceable laws. Actually blocking VPNs would require something akin to the great firewall of China, which I don't see the EU building in the near future.

Criminalizing something means nothing if the laws can't be enforced. Torrenting copyrighted works is a criminal act, and yet torrenting has never been easier after years of efforts to shut it down from all sides.

New comment by glorkk in "Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US"

glorkk — Wed, 30 May 2018 19:14:52 +0000

Isn’t this just the byproduct of the karma/voting system? Content voted by the majority of users is going to have higher visibility, it’s pretty difficult to get around that without fundamentally changing the way the website works.

New comment by glorkk in "Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US"

glorkk — Wed, 30 May 2018 18:47:31 +0000

I’m really surprised Yahoo is #7, I thought Yahoo was all but dead.

New comment by glorkk in "MIT severs ties to company promoting fatal brain uploading"

glorkk — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 18:17:54 +0000

> “Fundamentally, the company is based on a proposition that is just false. It is something that just can’t happen,” says Sten Linnarsson of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.

That sounds a lot like the "heavier than air flight is impossible" quote from 1895.

New comment by glorkk in "Generating $32,000 in 30 days selling a crypto-filled USB stick"

glorkk — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 17:52:52 +0000

Is this just a clever way to dodge regulations?

New comment by glorkk in "Learning to program is getting harder"

glorkk — Sat, 17 Feb 2018 19:33:08 +0000

Please don’t hijack the horizontal swipe. It is for going back/forward in navigation histoey, not switching between articles on your website.

New comment by glorkk in "How much did you save by nót buying Bitcoins? ;)"

glorkk — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 14:41:55 +0000

Not really... I’ve been holding a small amount of crypto since 2013. It’s still about 10x the (small) amount of money I put in.

New comment by glorkk in "How much did you save by nót buying Bitcoins? ;)"

glorkk — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 13:11:35 +0000

Good for you and your nephew

New comment by glorkk in "Leap: An Online Community for Women"

glorkk — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 18:26:38 +0000

> the measurable advantage men have in the tech community

I’m sure if it is “measurable” you can provide some numbers?

New comment by glorkk in "Leap: An Online Community for Women"

glorkk — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 18:23:31 +0000

A group does not “want” anything. Innovation comes from exchange of ideas between individuals, not from arbitrary groups living behind walled gardens.

New comment by glorkk in "Leap: An Online Community for Women"

glorkk — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 18:07:48 +0000

A sizeable and growing portion of the population refuses to have any dealing with this shady corporation. Facebook is not a universal authentication platform and never will be.

New comment by glorkk in "Any phone but iPhone X, according to this Sprint salesman"

glorkk — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 22:06:03 +0000

Another website that obnoxiously interrupts my music to autoplay a video ad. Last time I open a link from “cnet.com”

New comment by glorkk in "South Korea considers cryptocurrency tax"

glorkk — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 14:57:59 +0000

> Bitcoin and cryptos ought to be banned for good.

Serious question: how would you go about “banning” cryotocurrencies? The most you can do is close exchanges which would make crypto harder to acquire and liquidate.

New comment by glorkk in "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System (2008) [pdf]"

glorkk — Sat, 09 Dec 2017 01:13:14 +0000

Why these two governments in particular?

New comment by glorkk in "On the origin of modern humans: Asian perspectives"

glorkk — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 18:17:46 +0000

A paywalled article is completely useless for most people.

New comment by glorkk in "Scientists 'Inject' Information into Monkeys’ Brains"

glorkk — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 05:58:14 +0000

> Science should foremost follow a moral and ethical attitude

And who should be the arbiter of what constitutes a “moral and ethical attitude”? You?

New comment by glorkk in "Coinbase down for maintenance"

glorkk — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 18:44:53 +0000

Not really... websites regularly go down when they are under a load they cannot handle

New comment by glorkk in "Millions Are Hounded for Debt They Don’t Owe. One Victim Fought Back"

glorkk — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 18:25:05 +0000

You realize that national debt, corporate debt and personal debt don’t work the same right? Countries can go on paying only the interest on their debt forever. And how would the US finance this massive debt repayment? The only ways are to sell state assets, cut services and raise taxes. I’m not sure the population will be happy with these measures.