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Bought a 3 bedroom house for $75k because I work remotely. There are cheap places to live in America, you don't have to fly out of country.
> you don't have to fly out of country is not an answer to "I want to travel" or "I happen to be born in the 'wrong' country and now I'm not allowed to travel"
You could do something like meshing with HAM or other radios (or combine a lot of messing networks together depending on the hop distance). We can already communicate globally with HAM.
The question to me is how do we advance this more for higher reliability, better speeds, and create tools that everyone can use (essentially a zero, or low, knowledge system, like a cellphone). The major factor I see is reliability, so that it is difficult for an oppressive regime to shut it down (would also serve as an extremely reliable method when other systems fail during things like natural disasters. You can probably see more advantages to this backbone network). So we could have an open alternative to the segmenting internet that is currently happening. I honestly believe global communication is one of the fundamental necessities to achieving a more peaceful world.
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Bought a 3 bedroom house for $75k because I work remotely. There are cheap places to live in America, you don't have to fly out of country.
That's a valid choice, but it isn't for everyone for a variety of reasons (perhaps they like the amenities a city offers, perhaps they have family nearby and don't want to move away). Point is, cities could be building a lot more housing, but typically can't because of zoning regulations and NIMBY activism. It's a shame.
I much prefer it out here.
Short-haul and medium-haul and long-haul conventional take-off electric aircraft. There's a lot of work on VTOL electric aircraft and hybrid aircraft. There's a lot of capturing low-hanging fruit by trying to electrify existing airframes. On the higher end, there's a lot of work on enabling lithium-air or lithium-sulfur or solid state lithium or metal electrode lithium ion batteries. However, there's not a lot of wor…
People with different viewpoints can't talk to each other. Or rather, on several important topics, too many people can't or won't talk to people with different views.
The assumption here is that viewpoints have an equivalent value. That assumption is probably the most toxic element contributing to the demise of intelligent public discourse and disagreement in the last decade. I see no problem in refusing to argue with someone who is ranting against established science and refuses to look at the evidence or to reproduce the scientific results themselves.
And, in fact, someone who genuinely considers that all viewpoints have equivalent value should be more willing to consider different viewpoints, not less.
So many — here are a few large scale problems I think about lately. * Trustworthiness of content (text and soon photo and video) is and will be a fundamental problem. This is the basic attack vector for national and global politics in the last few years. Anyone with a good solution would help the world immeasurably and have their pick of customers. * fall out from monetary policy in the us and Europe: take your pick,…
I don't buy this. Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc. are all beholden to a constant growth model - just like every other traded company that's responsible to their own board.
Even in ecommerce (which is primarily my background) the players that "complain" about bots actually love the hell out of them because they eat up risk... I'm thinking about companies like Ticketmaster, Supreme, Nike, etc. They implement anti-bot measures "up to a point", which typically is a breakable CAPTCHA and validating purchase quantities to shipping addresses/payment methods (ex: only allow 4 of this hot item to be purchased with this CC number/shipping addr).
These big players are where the bulk of the misinformation campaigns are happening and they've been effectively sitting on their hands because if they started booting off bad actors (bots, propagandaists, people sharing factually false information) it would hurt their new account sign-up/content creation/interaction numbers, which will eventually hurt the stock price.
Here's why I say all of this... As someone who has done large-scale bot work I feel like there's a huge disconnect with things like Facebook account sign-up where it's effectively always open for someone with the basic capability to bypass a CAPTCHA. Given their resources, I absolutely believe they could easily have a higher barrier of entry when it comes to keeping people with my skillset out - they're just not interested in blocking automated sign-ups and the like.
I'm convinced that the big "FAANG", or "GAFA", or whatever players can't really solve this problem because it'd probably hurt their business to cannibalize their own numbers... even if it's the right thing to do. Leadership would get kicked from boards and stuff. Ergo, the problem keeps on truckin' =(
People with different viewpoints can't talk to each other. Or rather, on several important topics, too many people can't or won't talk to people with different views.
The assumption here is that viewpoints have an equivalent value. That assumption is probably the most toxic element contributing to the demise of intelligent public discourse and disagreement in the last decade. I see no problem in refusing to argue with someone who is ranting against established science and refuses to look at the evidence or to reproduce the scientific results themselves.
I.e. climate denialism is usually an expression of anti-establishmentarianism married with a fear of downward mobility.
Short-haul and medium-haul and long-haul conventional take-off electric aircraft. There's a lot of work on VTOL electric aircraft and hybrid aircraft. There's a lot of capturing low-hanging fruit by trying to electrify existing airframes. On the higher end, there's a lot of work on enabling lithium-air or lithium-sulfur or solid state lithium or metal electrode lithium ion batteries. However, there's not a lot of wor…
What is holding up the price of level 2 outlets? I would imagine there are several options for level 2 outlets and chargers. Of course, it looks like they're pretty expensive, but the question is why?
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> Trustworthiness of content (text and soon photo and video) is and will be a fundamental problem. This is the basic attack vector for national and global politics in the last few years. Anyone with a good solution would help the world immeasurably and have their pick of customers. SOS HN: Set up live early warning system for spoofed/deep fake news feeds https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20748195
This would help, but it would be nice if there was a way to somehow verify a chain of custody of media where each modification somehow added to the chain and could be independently verified. I don't really see how that could be done but it would be really amazing.
Thinking of the latter instead of the former often results in "playing house" ideas that sound like startup ideas but aren't actually. At least this is what happens to me when I follow the thought process you are laying out.