Creationer's comments

I think we would be certainly better off banning free dating websites and apps. Get people back into the real world where they can see and smell eachother. Heck, even speed dating is better.

The 70c that they would get out of that sale would still be much greater than the current ARPU from ad and microtransaction supported games, and would go some way to encouraging gameplay shifts.

Apple could just increase the minimum charge to $4.99 (or its regional equivalents) if it really wanted to increase quality. A decrease in its exorbitant 30% commission would be suitable as well.

Apple should just go all in:

Disable free to play games targeted at children completely. Require every children's game to have an upfront price (I suppose the $0.99 minimum app charge at least).

This would be great news for the market - game developers would focus on building more rewarding gaming experiences, instead of just endless skinner boxes. It would also help sell Apple devices, since developers would not need to target the lowest-common-denominator for mass advertising appeal.

I have seen Gattaca - the society was able to achieve interstellar colonisation, and the story focuses on one young fraud, who despite health defects, cheats his way into the program. Gattaca presents a Utopian future, not a Dystopian one.

"We" will be in control because embryos cannot be edited without a process that is essentially IVF. If governments are going to force this on women, we have bigger problems to deal with. It will be as straightforward as a couples using the technology to select for and against certain straightforward traits.

What is the problem with gene editing? It will allow us to remove hereditary diseases from the population, and enhance the capabilities of the next generation. Being in control of our own genome seems completely reasonable.

The average IQ in the DPRC is 78. The population has grown from 12 million in 1950 to 87 million today.

You cannot evaluate the actions taking place in that country and then apply them to the rest of the world.

If we want to transition to hybrid planes, or entirely electric planes, these sort of efficiency increases will be very useful. I would consider the '20% efficiency increase' in that context.

When do the DSPs start to vertically integrate - setting up their own dark mega kitchens, with generic styles like 'Pizza', 'Thai', 'Chinese', 'Indian'? These could appear as different restaurants, but in reality operate out of the same facility.

In this way the batching could be done even more efficiently, and orders would be coming from one mega-kitchen, with huge economies of scale.

I think the Apple of old that was willing to make bold decisions, even at the expense of part of its own product range, is gone. Soon Apple will start selling printers again!

Its exactly as Steve Jobs predicted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBma82g3Uag

USB-C/Bluetooth Mouse and Keyboard support, including on extra screens when plugged in, would have been a killer feature.

I guess Apple thought it would cannibalise Mac sales too much?

Which one is 3.6 roentgen, which is not great, not terrible?

AI in an RTS, like Deepmind in Starcraft, can simply issue more commands and react faster than a human - since game information can be gleaned directly from the frame buffer, and instructions issued without going through the analogue of a mouse and keyboard.

Not all cultures and peoples are equal. The inherent and social capability to conduct cutting-edge science is not widespread. Historically it seems that only Europeans, Asians, and for a time Middle Easterners have been able to make significant and lasting contributions.

The notable missing piece here is Africa - which is where a significant part of population growth is occurring.

The rise of EVs also presents the opportunity for generally lighter, smaller, cheaper vehicles.

Already they are very popular in China: https://insideevs.com/news/340006/big-in-china-cheap-tiny-el...

What would a Tesla Model 3 look like if it had half the range, no frunk, and much lower performance? (ie. limited to 120km/h) How light, cheap, and small could we take it without utterly abandoning safety?

Basically, the kind of vehicle designed just for inner-city commutes and picking up goods.

If these vehicles became more common we would see a 'peace dividend' in the car safety wars - the other vehicles on the road would be lighter, so crashes would be less dangerous (maybe combined with automatic crash avoidance as well) and breaking times shorter, so crumple zones and other big heavy features could be reduced.

Pricing like this is not designed so that people actually pay for it.

Instead it creates 'value' which is given away with some other product. For example: Free 5G for all business customers, all customers on an $80 plan or above, etc.

It also helps smooth demand - I don't think Telstra have invested a lot in 5G.

I realise this is satire, but the quality of life of Africans living in the USA now is substantially higher than their ancestral cousins who remained in Africa.

Contrasting against Pigs and Cows:

1. Small animal which requires less bone structure to support (bone scales non-linearly with mass for land animals).

2. Shorter lifespan and use of eggs allows simpler and quicker sexual selection.

3. Less intelligent animal so less energy and nutrition spent on growing the brain and maintaining its function.

Its a smaller animal, basically. Fish and insects are more efficient than chickens.

https://ib.bioninja.com.au/_Media/feed-conversion_med.jpeg

Can be solved with genetic engineering:

https://www.accessscience.com/content/genetic-engineering-of...

Chinese is tonal and cannot be typed into a computer without going through the Pinyin intermediary stage. It is fundamentally ill-suited to being a modern global language.

The cultural, scientific, and commercial works that have been created in English in the past 100 years dwarf anything created in French or Latin by a gigantic order of magnitude.

Why would we possibly switch to anything else, and lose 'access' to all that? All of the greatest movies and TV shows, the millions of scientific articles, the music, the computer code... English will never lose its position because of the amount of value that has been created with it.

How could English ever possibly change (in the way that Latin morphed into the various European languages after the fall of the Roman Empire), when we have access to perfect digital copies of how it is spoken and written?