Well I would agree with that except for one thing, the Amazon tablets are still the only product on the market that actually has usable parental controls.

I’m not saying I’ll ever trust Amazon, or ever have. But the fact is they had the only usable product on the market, if I had other options I’d use them.

And before anyone says “what happened to just teaching your kids good behavioral expectations?” Let me just say that this isn’t always possible. Some kids have developmental challenges or behavioral disorders that make this an impractical expectation. Sometimes you just need parental controls.

You’re running off the assumption that the survivors know useful information and that theyre also able to utilize that useful information plus be able to source needed materials since they wont have travel

I think we’re assuming books will continue to exist.

I think one of the real marvels of civilization is the redundancy of information. For every college course you’ve taken there’s a text book, and there may have been dozens of physical copies of that book used in your class, but also for many other classes at other schools that taught that same subject. There may have been 10,000 copies of that book in circulation across the globe, in many different countries.

It’s not impossible to lose information forever, but we’ve put in some really strong defenses against that really happening. There are a lot of libraries in coastal areas which could flood, or big cities that could burn after wars or riots. But there are also plenty of libraries in small towns, and at high elevations. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe Aspen has a public library for instance, and so do some of the small towns nearby that you don’t know the name of.

I mean, why do you say that? I don’t know if any other species that lives in a greater variety of environments. There are humans living on every continent, including Antarctica. There are humans living with support in space and under the sea.

We have migrated, to everywhere. And we can adapt, to almost anything.

And to clarify, I don’t think we’ll all survive, but I highly doubt we’d all die.

Amazon apk store shuts down August 20th.

Huh… This sounds like a huge pain in my ass. What happens to Kindle fire tablets, that you know heavily rely on that functionality?

I can guess what happens to any of us that use that store on other devices (I think it’s safe to say we’re fucked).

I basically only ever used it because it gave away free apps, but man, the DRM put into those apps was so aggressive and annoying.

This was a really interesting reply, thanks. I’d leave a longer response, but honestly I really need to be asleep right now.

If $120,000 is a bit much for you (it’s still far less than would be required for a Bitcoin mining farm)

I will say though, even today the barrier for entry is lower than that for bitcoin mining. You can definitely get started for $1000. I wouldn’t really recommend Bitcoin mining as a hobby at this point, but that’s basically the low end for a single machine.

Personally, that’s about as much as I ever spent on mining equipment, and it was fun, I learned a lot, and it was even lucrative in the end.

Yes, Etherium is very cool and it can do a whole bunch of really cool things! But on the other hand, it can’t replace Bitcoin. It’s too heavy, transactions are too large, the network can’t hope to handle the number transactions per minute that Bitcoin does. I think most people agree that the two systems compliment each other, they each work well in their niche, but couldn’t do the others’ job.

So yeah, I don’t see Etherium replacing Bitcoin. Perhaps a layer-2 could, but I have yet to see any that offer the kind of tangible improvements that would really make it stand out.

You know, I doubt I’ve seen any movie over 10 times, at least not since I was a kid watching the same vhs over and over. But I’ve probably seen office space more than any other and I’ve definitely never noticed that. Good eye.

So you’re the guy who liked that movie!

I think it’s early to call Bitcoin obsolete, it is still after all the dominant cryptocurrency by every measure.

Other blockchains have continued moving on.

So which systems do you see as offering real utility or innovation? Obviously there’s etherium, and it has its own issues, but what else out there do you think is really more than a just gimmick or a scheme?

Proof of work is inherently ecologically flawed, but proof of stake is inherently socially flawed. It’s literally “the people with the most money get to make the rules”. While it’s undeniably better for the environment, it doesn’t seem like an improvement to me. If anything, it undermines crypto’s greatest strengths, decentralization and equal access.

No, people can absolutely be stolen, when those people are already slaves. In fact that is often the language used, stolen or taken. “Kidnapped” is reserved for free people.

Well he’s telling the story this way because it still sounds better than the reality, which is probably more like “yes, I willingly supplied underaged women for Epstein to rape. Actually, we both raped them, a bunch”.

Oh man, I hate the whole git system so much, it was like the worst part of coding.

i’d bet any list with more than 10 entries would include metropolis, nosferatu, citizen kane and star wars,

I’d add the Shawshank Redemption to that list as well, and probably the Godfather part 2.

Oh… You’d notice it pretty quick when all the radioactive remnants from the bomb are vaporized into fine dust and spread out into the ocean in a constantly spreading plume.

I bet people would notice real quick.

Edit: autocorrect had turned “vaporized” into “baptized”, that made for a real confusing sentence… 🙄

Heh, maybe the problem started when they changed their name. They aren’t “Apple Computer” any more, they’re just “Apple”. That must have happened somewhere around 2005.

It’s true, there’s always the exceptions, the edge cases. But if I’m thinking about this statistically, who’s likely to breach this first? How many hackers from column A are hammering on this, how many from column B? I just think state actors and corporate interests are in fact the thing to watch out for. There just seem to be much fewer gen z computer geeks than there were millennials.

Have you been spying on me while I do tech support?

Oh… They might log into their account for the remote piloting app, making the drone deploy within 15 seconds.

But then they have to navigate the school manually and find the shooter. But have you ever tried to navigate a high school you’ve never set foot in before?

The main building has three flores (2, 3 and 4), between 1990-2015 they added the A, B and C buildings. A and B are on a hill, so A only has floors 1 & 2, B has floors 3 & 4. You have to go through the science building to get to the C building. Last year they added the L building next to the track. Weirdly L is right next to A (but it’s shaped like an L) also it’s not physically connected to the rest of the buildings, you have to cross the courtyard. The science building doesn’t have a letter, but it’s next to the gym, you can’t miss it.

Alright pilots, the shooter is in the M building pop up extension. Go get em.

And a short 45 minutes it’s all over…

prevent law enforcement from entering schools in a timely manner

But law enforcement doesn’t enter schools with active shooters. It turns out, law enforcement doesn’t have any obligation to protect the public at all (legally).