Have you heard of the musical group Bauhaus? I don't have a specific point, except that my impression is they were pretty theatrical.
Also, I'd observe that a "spiritual successor" to something might have some significant differences?
Anyway, I liked the folding Thinkpad keyboard. If it had been a flimsy malfunctioning attempt at getting attention, it would have been different. But it was very solid, wasn't it?
>Nuclear fusion is a more likely answer to spaceflight and Earth's clean energy problem.
Considering we don't even have fission rockets or airplanes in normal use, making a fusion powerplant that is light enough to get off the ground seems very far fetched.
Even if we eventually use fusion for travel beyond earth orbit, I'd bet chemical rockets would still be in use.
Don't we already have thrusters that are useful in space, but completely unable to support themselves against 1G and so they can't lift off from the ground?
I feel like I've read something that said fusion power would fall in the same category.
You don't know the difference between white and blue for sure until you've seen both. I actually recently had more or less this problem trying to set up my cable modem (maybe it was something like is it blinking, pulsing, or flickering, but anyway).
I try to set an example by providing copious context but I don't feel like others imitate me. Sometimes I think I'm the only one who has a theory of mind.
This is a cliche but it can't possibly be true. I mean, it is extremely expensive to file a lawsuit, you probably lose, and nobody will ever hire you again, because it is public record.
I'm sure someone will tell me why this isn't happening, but I perceive a correlation between anything I type into FB Messenger (or HN) and subsequent ads. And I mean quickly.
So, my question for you is have you been making comments or sending messages online about debt, money, wealth, etc? Then again, maybe Skynet just knows you're unemployed and that's what makes you a target for get-rich-quick.
By the way, don't overestimate the influence of suggestion. Someone who believes in telepathy may simply have experienced it[1] and therefore, as they say, you won't talk them out of what they weren't talked in to.
[1]I'm not implying it's real, just that people experience it exactly as they do real things, like hearing voices.
Sometimes I wonder if there's a parallel between how neurons interact during psychosis and how human minds interact over the internet under conditions of manipulation for engagement. Maybe in both cases, there's some damping/attentional mechanism that is missing/not functioning.
I think it's interesting to consider how consumer electronics (that is, brand name, widely distributed products) share the qualities of a bushel of wheat or barrel of oil. They aren't simple or interchangeable in that there are a vast number of unique types, but they are easily traded online because the important characteristics are all available and can be relied on. They kind of seem like they share salient characteristics with commodities. So are they commodities?
If you have 5-6 year old LED bulbs, then they represent the state of the market 5-6 years ago, and aren't necessarily representative of current quality.
"yet even within each of these in developed economies you'll find grading and quality control"
I think it's an oversight to mention bulk commodities as an exception to the need for quality information. Things are bulk commodities because there are standards and regulations that enable them to be traded easily.
"This is, incidentally, a chief reason why pure market solutions"
Yes, but what is a "pure market"? I like to believe that my local home improvement or grocery store has some kind of concept of their own brand and puts some effort into getting decent products on the shelf, whether store brand or not. So, I hope that their markets are not as "pure" as online sites where anyone can sell.
I just started working for the government, and I got yelled at for sending an email on Saturday. The union contract says we're paid for overtime if we work more than 40 hours, but in turn, we never are supposed to work overtime unless maybe the world is ending.
I used to work for a company that had a departmental phone and we would rotate to a different person each week to be on call. However, waking people was essentially eliminated by adding people on third shift (including me) and in India.
In both cases, I was on a team of about 5-10 in an agency or division of a couple or three hundred, within a much larger organization.
It's pretty common to have one or two episodes of psychosis and then not again. Selection bias and all that. Anyone that doesn't have a severe chronic problem, you're not going to be aware of, but it's reasonable to assume there are more mild cases than severe cases of almost any condition. For that matter, it's a definitional issue - people can appear crazy temporarily for almost infinite reasons, and if it doesn't reoccur, even doctors aren't going to call it schizophrenia. You go into a hospital appearing to be stark raving mad, they are going to test you for drugs and call it "schizophreniform" if they can't find any.
I haven't tried to meditate in a long time, but my understanding of the process was, setting aside mysticism and tradition, you just take a mental concept and you focus on it and every time your mind starts drifting you return to it.
So, I've heard that people make a big deal about choosing a mantra, but my thinking was it can be anything, and somehow I got into the habit of visualizing a blank field of a particular color. The nice thing about focusing on a color was that if my visual imagination distracted me, I could concentrate on "seeing" the color, while if I was imagining words or sounds, I could focus on the name of the color too. So it was like having an object to focus on that had all the different angles available.
I'm not sure I've never experienced synaesthesia, but I'm pretty sure I haven't been perceiving smells or sounds as having color recently.
I know, that's the point; I'm saying that the original criticism was too simplistic.